I've always struggled with my ear and I have to say, jusy a few minutes every day with this method for the last week and already I can hit any note and sing fifths, fourths, and thirds all the way through the cycle. Just gotta work in the other intervals!
It all takes time. If I can dispel one thing for you, it would be this: You've heard these things all of your life; but now you're assigning a *name* to what you've already heard. Now you're analyzing what you sing/play. Once you've gotten the concept down, you will be that much more powerful in not only knowledge, but you will be able to build on that foundation. I am talking from almost 60 years on this planet, and it really does take time. And just like physical training, you are training your ear. Keep at it -- you'll do just fine!
In addition to the helpful comments above, I'd add: this is *ear training* 101, not music theory 101. 55 years on planet and I'd like to emphasise the comments above: true genius and talent is exceptionally rare; for the rest of us poor schmucks practice is the only path to greatness, or even moderate competence. Keep at it! Build up to an hour a day and keep it there until you stop progressing.
@@lambdaman3228 Rick is the kind of person who _deserves_ to have a bit of an ego and yet he remains open minded and aware. It was similar to a "faith in humanity restored" moment where you tear up a little rather than full on bawling.
This is one of THE MOST important lesson of my modest musical life. Had I learned this early on, I can only imagine where I'd be today. Thanks. I know incorporate this DAILY!
I'm a junior undergrad theory major. The ear training was kicking my butt! This has unlocked something in my brain and things are clicking finally. Thanks!
This. Is. Fantastic. I love the idea of practicing based around a symmetrically made chord, and I love the idea of learning the melodic and harmonic sounds together his way. It's like a twofer. Thanks as always, Rick.
As a performance major at CCM, this ear training and method of practice is so much better than what my school offers. Thanks for your insightful approach, I will put this to the practice room, and I can't wait to show it off in class on Tuesday!
Learning these from a guitar POV right now, and this was amazing! Take a step back and think about them from a piano perspective and attack the ascending/descending simultaneously. Thank you!!!
Cool In addition I'd play random tones from different octaves and then sing them in the same octave. For example, C2 (~65Hz) and D5 (~587Hz) to -> C3 (~131Hz) and D3 (~147Hz) Squeezing the tones as close as possible.
Wow, I like this method as you are using the augmented triad to find both the upper and lower of the same interval-genius and because we know our triads we can check ourselves for correctness. Thank you!
"Fifths are tricky for people especially descending fifths. I'm not sure why, probably from not practicing." OKAY OKAY I'LL PRACTICE MORE *runs away sobbing*
They're easy for me because I grew up in a place where polka is popular. That polka bass line is always alternating fifths. Same with most rockabilly, old school country, etc.
Domoarogato Mr. Beato... I never thought of this before. I struggled for years with ear training, only got marginally better... I think this idea of using symmetrical chords to train 3rds is genius.. I'm going to start trying to train my ears again.
Thanks, Rick! But about those songs -- I'm old so they might help me! ;-) A really cool idea might be to call on your many followers to make suggestions and put together a list. There might be dozens of examples for every interval -- sometimes old ones, sometimes new ones, some from jazz standards or Broadway, some from Blues standards, some from classic rock, some from '80s new-wave pop or grunge rock or metal. That way students can look at the list and pick out the ones they know.
thank you for this advice. i am in my first year at university and this part of theory class always gets me. i have a hard time distinguishing the 4’s and 6’s. i will try to train with this method and practice more.
This is amazing Rick! In my experience the fifth and the fourth are the easiest for people, and they struggle with the thirds. Also the octave gets the student confused a lot, I don't know why!
Great video lesson, i think this method is similar to the David Lucas Burge relative pitch. I gonna try for a year and see my results. You are great Rick thank you! I’m learning music from you, but also i’m learning english too. Saludos desde Mexico.
I seem to have hit a brick wall at harmonic thirds. I thought I was making progress, then make several mistakes. I did well with 2nds. I came here for help and will try this while continuing with the Beato ear training. Practice, practice practice.
I definitely know what you mean about developing a weakness on the descending side. When I hear a descending interval, I often have to reverse it in order to determine the interval. I hope this exercise helps with that.
Great method. There's a simple brilliance in the practicing of basic intervals, M2's/M3's/etc. by having an above and below note, and moving in whole notes. You're learning basic intervals, from both sides, while also exposing your ear to the more "dissonant," exotic, and advanced sounds of the whole tone scale, diminished chords, augmented chords, quartal and quintal stacks, clusters, etc.
Hello Rick. I'm so glad I found your channel a week ago. your videos are well made and the content is great. Are there any videos for learning music theory basics, like from the really beginning? Keep up the great work :)
A little trick that will help is to find song snippets that contain the intervals. For example: P4 asc: "Here Comes" the Bride, Min7 asc: Have you driven "a Ford" lately, etc...
i was having a hard time with m6 m7 M6 M7 but after doing this exercise daily for a week i can hear the difference 90 percent of the time. Of course I do a lot of other ear training but seemed to take me over a speed up. and the super charge one but not as often as i used to. thanks man for the knowledge
@@diegopalominoss hey sorry for the late response I wasn't notified. I do interval test or quizzes. do interval test. dude I started off hearing every note almost the same. i do this video's regime but a full session on my keyboard or for warm up too. When I practice interval training as warm up I can hit notes a lot better. It's weird man I don't know how to tap into it. But there have been a couple times that things just came out so effortlessly like fluidity. And I also noticed my adhd medication really helps too I can hear the distance between notes much more clearly
Hey Rick nice and helpful video! at 8:27 you said people have a harder time hearing a descending fifth, but for me it's easier because in my ear it's an obvious perfect cadence and helps to hear a nice resolution. Conversely the same with an ascending fourth sounding like a perfect cadence as well. Is this a bad way to train my ear though?
for those who don't know augmented chords , half diminished and full diminished chords: augmented chords is simply an angry plunk on piano sounding big chord. a full diminished is a train sounding toddler on piano like cluster chord. half diminished is only present when at least a 4 note chord... pretty sure.
I am in the process of finally training my ear after many years of playing guitar, maybe I'm alone in this but I personally find b2 and 7 to be the easiest intervals to hear, its usually 3's and 6's I struggle with the most.
Hi Rick, I have a question, Will you make a video in the future about use of melodic minor scale, in classical way (ascending, descending) as well as only using ascending? I cannot find any good video on yt about it and your videos are always very clear and useful.
Great lesson, I should practise this stuff more. One thing that is never mentioned here though: how do I reliably recognise the interval within the context of a tonality? I can usually tell the basic intervals when isolated but when it's not the major/minor tonic my ears seem to get fooled, even into mistaking major chords for minor in some cases. But I guess I should really work on getting all of this right on its own before I have any chances of using it in a more complex scenario.
After you hit the chords on augments and diminished; do you hit the middle note and go up then hit the middle and go lower or do you play the chord and let it ring and play the upper and lower. This is revolutionary to me.
Major 3rd - 1:03
Minor 3rd - 2:45
Major 2nd - 3:55
Minor 2nd - 5:40
Perfect 5ths - 6:55
Perfect 4ths - 8:35
Major 6ths - 10:00
Minor 6ths - 11:50
Major 7ths - 14:15
Minor 7ths - 15:15
Tritone - 16:15
you mixed up major and minor 6ths
I've always struggled with my ear and I have to say, jusy a few minutes every day with this method for the last week and already I can hit any note and sing fifths, fourths, and thirds all the way through the cycle. Just gotta work in the other intervals!
Well this is encouraging!!!
You have no idea how much I love your channel.
If this is 101, I need a 001 course.
It all takes time. If I can dispel one thing for you, it would be this: You've heard these things all of your life; but now you're assigning a *name* to what you've already heard. Now you're analyzing what you sing/play. Once you've gotten the concept down, you will be that much more powerful in not only knowledge, but you will be able to build on that foundation. I am talking from almost 60 years on this planet, and it really does take time. And just like physical training, you are training your ear. Keep at it -- you'll do just fine!
@@snickpickle Thanks!
@@snickpickle Great insight
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In addition to the helpful comments above, I'd add: this is *ear training* 101, not music theory 101. 55 years on planet and I'd like to emphasise the comments above: true genius and talent is exceptionally rare; for the rest of us poor schmucks practice is the only path to greatness, or even moderate competence. Keep at it! Build up to an hour a day and keep it there until you stop progressing.
I started crying when I realized how balanced your ego is for someone of your mastery.
You make the world a little less cynical
he is a professor
He's a gentleman genius :)
He's Rick Beato
You literally cried? Because someone was balanced? That's bizarre.
@@lambdaman3228 Rick is the kind of person who _deserves_ to have a bit of an ego and yet he remains open minded and aware.
It was similar to a "faith in humanity restored" moment where you tear up a little rather than full on bawling.
The clearest intervals class EVER.
Thank you so much for all your videos, Rick.
You are beyond awesome!
This was the best method I've ever seen! I will put in practice right now!
This is one of THE MOST important lesson of my modest musical life. Had I learned this early on, I can only imagine where I'd be today. Thanks. I know incorporate this DAILY!
how did it help you since this video?
This lesson is priceless.
So glad I chose Rick Beato as my guide in music.
Gotta enroll to Beato's ear training program for sure.
I'm a junior undergrad theory major. The ear training was kicking my butt! This has unlocked something in my brain and things are clicking finally. Thanks!
great info. I've never heard anyone explain it like that. you're the man!
this has been REALLY helpful. thank you so much, please keep doing whatever you're doing. it's helping us so much!
This. Is. Fantastic. I love the idea of practicing based around a symmetrically made chord, and I love the idea of learning the melodic and harmonic sounds together his way. It's like a twofer. Thanks as always, Rick.
As a performance major at CCM, this ear training and method of practice is so much better than what my school offers. Thanks for your insightful approach, I will put this to the practice room, and I can't wait to show it off in class on Tuesday!
Learning these from a guitar POV right now, and this was amazing! Take a step back and think about them from a piano perspective and attack the ascending/descending simultaneously. Thank you!!!
Thanks so much for this Rick! I’m a pro musician but have never dedicated enough time to ear training. Your videos have inspired me to get to work!
This is great lesson to excercise your hearing especially when you do productions but you stopped singing for many years.Thank you Rick.
Thanks for posting, you explained not only intervals but also the logic behing "Aug" and "Dim" chords.
Whenever I hear a minor second, I just think Für Elise or the Jaws Theme immediately and that works
yeah, "Eyes Wide Shut" too for great film buffs...
that’s what i’ve always thought too, the pink panther theme works too
Tristan und Isolde theme here, to a fifth and minor second.
I use the jaws theme too!
Für elise is not a minor second its a minor 3rd
7:07 lmao almost fell off my chair
SAME
Hilarious😂😂😂
Cool
In addition I'd play random tones from different octaves and then sing them in the same octave.
For example, C2 (~65Hz) and D5 (~587Hz) to -> C3 (~131Hz) and D3 (~147Hz)
Squeezing the tones as close as possible.
first two minutes are already better than what I've been struggling with for a couple of hours now thanks again Rick!
Wow, I like this method as you are using the augmented triad to find both the upper and lower of the same interval-genius and because we know our triads we can check ourselves for correctness.
Thank you!
This is an excellent lesson. Thank you. I am going upstairs to work on intervals now.
Rick!.........your films really are the best on youtube that deal with ear training, keep up the great work!
Thank You so much Rick! You have so many great lessons. Thanks again for sharing them.
Thanks for this. This is where I'm at with my musical journey and I've been finding it challenging. This is very helpful!
Rick out All you Ear training videos this the best one because I can see and hear and I can understand thank you God Bless
Great new approach for me Rick! I will be trying this for sure ... Thank you so much! 🙏
Thank you so much, this helps tremendously!
"Fifths are tricky for people especially descending fifths. I'm not sure why, probably from not practicing."
OKAY OKAY I'LL PRACTICE MORE *runs away sobbing*
Anna Katrina ironically, fifths are the only intervals i can recognise with precision.
hehe same, i was surprised when he said they were trickier cos its all the others i cant do :p
They're easy for me because I grew up in a place where polka is popular. That polka bass line is always alternating fifths. Same with most rockabilly, old school country, etc.
I always mix up the fourth and fifth
@@LeviChangsMusic same.
Excellent lesson and easy to remember the method for practicing.
Domoarogato Mr. Beato... I never thought of this before. I struggled for years with ear training, only got marginally better... I think this idea of using symmetrical chords to train 3rds is genius.. I'm going to start trying to train my ears again.
Love the exercise, many thanks!
Thanks, Rick! But about those songs -- I'm old so they might help me! ;-) A really cool idea might be to call on your many followers to make suggestions and put together a list. There might be dozens of examples for every interval -- sometimes old ones, sometimes new ones, some from jazz standards or Broadway, some from Blues standards, some from classic rock, some from '80s new-wave pop or grunge rock or metal. That way students can look at the list and pick out the ones they know.
Excellent excercise, thanks!!
I love these videos, I needed help with this a lot.... And you helped me with it he y much so. Thanks man!
just what I needed right now, thank you very much ;)
Tremendous help, Rick
thank you for this advice. i am in my first year at university and this part of theory class always gets me. i have a hard time distinguishing the 4’s and 6’s. i will try to train with this method and practice more.
This is fantastic.
Excellent tips thanks Rick.
As always, solid advice, Rick :) Keep up the good work!
Amazing interval training, seen no where else. Keep up the college level education ffreaken free of charge people an I'll forsure buy a Beato book
It's been a year. Rick is keeping it up. Bought the book like you said you would?
How’s the book?
Thanks Rick, these are great exercises. I can identify intervals by ear but I have trouble singing them from a given tone. This should help impove it!
Awesome video. I'm understanding it!
Thanks Rick!
This is amazing Rick! In my experience the fifth and the fourth are the easiest for people, and they struggle with the thirds. Also the octave gets the student confused a lot, I don't know why!
Fantastic job!
Can't wait to try these, I've been using the Tenuto app but I've been looking for something else to help supplement that for my ear training! Thanks.
Thanks man! These tricks definitely gonna help me to be a better musician!
Ótimo video!!! .. I need a good teacher like this one in Brazil !!!!
Excellent, straightforward and eminently practical. Many thanks!
Great method, thank you!!
Just took some notes. Looking forward to trying it out.
Great advice, Rick. You just make all this seem so straightforward. We just have to add the labor. :-)
Great video lesson, i think this method is similar to the David Lucas Burge relative pitch. I gonna try for a year and see my results. You are great Rick thank you! I’m learning music from you, but also i’m learning english too. Saludos desde Mexico.
Thank you! Great tip!
Thank you, I'm sure they work. It just makes perfect sense to me. Regards.
This is amazing thank you
I seem to have hit a brick wall at harmonic thirds. I thought I was making progress, then make several mistakes. I did well with 2nds. I came here for help and will try this while continuing with the Beato ear training. Practice, practice practice.
I definitely know what you mean about developing a weakness on the descending side. When I hear a descending interval, I often have to reverse it in order to determine the interval. I hope this exercise helps with that.
Amazing, this channel is beautiful!
Thanks Rick I feel that musical part of my soul long thought almost dead returning to life...at the very least I will have it back for me.
You've a truly brilliant channel here, many thanks indeed :)))
Fantastic lesson
the best music teacher in the world
u have no idea hove much I love your channel Kind Regards Henrik af Ugglas
Thank you so so much. Really. Thank you. Thank you.
Good morning Mr. Beato, perhaps you can enlighten us on George Russel's Lydian chromatic concept one day. Your channel is great!
Brilliant!!
Thank you so much
thank you so much maestro
Great method. There's a simple brilliance in the practicing of basic intervals, M2's/M3's/etc. by having an above and below note, and moving in whole notes. You're learning basic intervals, from both sides, while also exposing your ear to the more "dissonant," exotic, and advanced sounds of the whole tone scale, diminished chords, augmented chords, quartal and quintal stacks, clusters, etc.
Great lesson, as usual. I'm adding this to my regimen immediately! Like...NOW!!!! LOL!
fantastic tutorial if i had 1% of your knowledge i'd be happy many thanks
Hello Rick. I'm so glad I found your channel a week ago. your videos are well made and the content is great.
Are there any videos for learning music theory basics, like from the really beginning?
Keep up the great work :)
Thank you for this!!! :)
great advice to reduce complexity by choosing AUG and DIM chords as a reference für 3rds.… an learning these chords accidentally btw :-)
Very helpful✨
Finally, I am able to get over my M2/m2 handicap! Thanks!
thank you!!!
Nice method for practicing this stuff
7:08 that falsetto! haha Thanks for the lesson!
I happened to pause right when he hit the high D and thought about screenshotting
lol I chuckled when moved the pitch down instead of up on that one.
"- Actually, lemme go down (smiles)..." the Professor's a jewel really, top notch teaching with a very human posture...
Thank you
@7:57 My brain: “Seasons of Love”
A little trick that will help is to find song snippets that contain the intervals. For example: P4 asc: "Here Comes" the Bride, Min7 asc: Have you driven "a Ford" lately, etc...
The symmetrical idea is smart. I should have thought of that.
i was having a hard time with m6 m7 M6 M7 but after doing this exercise daily for a week i can hear the difference 90 percent of the time. Of course I do a lot of other ear training but seemed to take me over a speed up. and the super charge one but not as often as i used to. thanks man for the knowledge
What other exercises do you do?
@@diegopalominoss hey sorry for the late response I wasn't notified. I do interval test or quizzes. do interval test. dude I started off hearing every note almost the same. i do this video's regime but a full session on my keyboard or for warm up too. When I practice interval training as warm up I can hit notes a lot better. It's weird man I don't know how to tap into it. But there have been a couple times that things just came out so effortlessly like fluidity. And I also noticed my adhd medication really helps too I can hear the distance between notes much more clearly
Hey Rick nice and helpful video!
at 8:27 you said people have a harder time hearing a descending fifth, but for me it's easier because in my ear it's an obvious perfect cadence and helps to hear a nice resolution. Conversely the same with an ascending fourth sounding like a perfect cadence as well. Is this a bad way to train my ear though?
hey man thanks
for those who don't know augmented chords , half diminished and full diminished chords:
augmented chords is simply an angry plunk on piano sounding big chord. a full diminished is a train sounding toddler on piano like cluster chord.
half diminished is only present when at least a 4 note chord... pretty sure.
YES thank you so much. i don't even play piano but this helps SO much :)
Oooh just realized my problem is I only practice up, I need to work on descending intervals!
I am in the process of finally training my ear after many years of playing guitar, maybe I'm alone in this but I personally find b2 and 7 to be the easiest intervals to hear, its usually 3's and 6's I struggle with the most.
Hi Rick, I have a question, Will you make a video in the future about use of melodic minor scale, in classical way (ascending, descending) as well as only using ascending? I cannot find any good video on yt about it and your videos are always very clear and useful.
This is very helpful I have your ear training course and was getting frustrated not passing tests :(
Descending 5ths = super hard for me. Get them confused with Perfect 4ths
Great lesson, I should practise this stuff more. One thing that is never mentioned here though: how do I reliably recognise the interval within the context of a tonality? I can usually tell the basic intervals when isolated but when it's not the major/minor tonic my ears seem to get fooled, even into mistaking major chords for minor in some cases. But I guess I should really work on getting all of this right on its own before I have any chances of using it in a more complex scenario.
Rick would you suggest working on one at the time or multiple at once ?
After you hit the chords on augments and diminished; do you hit the middle note and go up then hit the middle and go lower or do you play the chord and let it ring and play the upper and lower. This is revolutionary to me.