I believe the ability to "predict" the sound behind a key on a keyboard before it's actually played constitutes the ultimate musicality test which can be reliably used to sieve out those who fail it and save them a ton of work and subsequent inevitable fiasco. That said, I must admit that amid all my "nonperformance" despite tens of years of training, I developed recently a liking for sight reading (and sight reading only without any attempt at honing once deciphered sheets) treated as a shooter like computer game or touch typing. Therefore I concentrate on improving my sight reading ability exclusively rather than actual playing. For me sight reading, and I repeat strictly that, serves as a kind of back door entrance to the edifice of piano playing (after having been unceremoniously bounced off at the front door). I am very curious to see how far I can go along that path. I wonder if anyone out there has ever tried this and if they have, what their results have been.
This will be my first ever attempt at sight singing, so I'll go ahead and write my results before the test: Not good. (Haha. Eventually I'll master this video.)
Frannie Haig try perhaps singing the note and then going up or down by a half tone. for example if you’ve just heard a C and you want to get to a G#, try to sing a G (perfect fifth) and then go up by a half step to get to the G#
Me too. But I use my own hack by remembering pattern C-C#-D. And then use that pattern for any tone you want to sing (for example Bflat it's A-Bflat-B). Although you gotta train your ears for interval pitch first to use this trick
OK relax - you've taken the most important step towards reading - namely recognising that you can't do it and hopefully now investigating ways of learning to read
I got a day to practice for an audition to get into this middle school. I'm just trying to make sure that I have a middle school to go to that is decent
This will help me , on my reading I recently joined the choir , but I guess this will take time to memorize all the notes in my head ears and eyes Do you sell a book for this
For example I sing an F, and I see a G coming. WHY THE HECK am I singing F#? I always do that, I want to go a whole step higher and just add a semitone to my voice. Any tips to fix that?
Sing a lot of scales, major and minor scales, then go jumping from one note to the other in the different degrees of the scale (tonic to mediant, mediant to dominant, dominant to subdominant, etc.), contextualize your singing within a key.
I have tried to play piano without success for many years, but don't give up simply because am intrigued bywhy I can't :-) This video presents perhaps an answer to my question. Even in the very first exercise I made 3 or 4 mistakes. In the second one (with sharps and flats) I got completely lost. Clearly some people (or rather probably the majority) don't have the ability to imagine tones, or to "hear" them in their mind, without actually playing, or even singing them. For these people no amount of practice will lead to any sensible results. Having said that I am not going to give up. Well, not just yet anyway :-)
Your say "For these people no amount of practice will lead to any sensible results" is only true to a very few people, the majority can develop that ability if they are determined like you are.
DyzioTheDreamer dont give up! I see results, real results. It took me years but i am so glad i pushed trough. Play the violin or piano as well , it will boosten your hearing by miles.
As a self-taught guitarist who never had the intelligence or mental fortitude to work on sight singing/ear training (I thought that learning to read music would be enough.....), I have spent far too long out in the aural wilderness like you and I recognise your cry from the depths :-) although I do have a decent ear. However, I have been trying to improve my relative pitch for some time now, and I have to say that I absolutely love the challenge, even though I haven't been sufficiently systematic to make as much progress as I would like to. In any case, every piece of extraneous music I hear now is a legitimate candidate for ear training, chord and interval recognition, and so on, and I feel no despair - on the contrary I have great entertainment laid out for me all day long. I treat it as a huge game and really have lots of fun! Two great books I recommend for you - and anyone interested in this activity - are "Learning and Writing Music" by Ron Gorow, and "Jazz Ears" (with CD) by Thom Mason. If you put in a bit of time and effort with these two books, you will have TONS more fun with music and your ear is CERTAIN to develop.... in other ways than simply being able to recognise intervals. Good luck!
In Level 9: The sound you give for the second note in bar 8 (D) is incorrect. The sound you give is E, whereas the note marked is D. Otherwise I find these exercises very helpful
I was wondering I have a sight reading audition for a show chior coming up are we supposed to just sing "ah" for say the note name. I play an insturment so this is kinda hard for me thx :)
Wes Montgomery or George Benson could not read music. George Benson cant read what's on the sheet but can sing 30 Charlie Parker solos by memory,in tune!
I've done better than that. I've tried to remain completely untrained (I hated books and any symbols written on paper -- they frighten me). Not only can I not read music , I can't even read English ( I'm having some one type this for me ). But I can perform the complete works of Shakespeare and I can whistle Vivaldi flute concerti as well as all of the symphonies of Beethoven and hundreds of songs -- all from memory. And it only took me 30 years of daily practice and a full time assistant who could read.
Yes, that was a mistake, explained in the description. Noticing that though requires a very fine tuned pair of ears. Well done and thanks for your feed back
Level 1: Almost no mistakes (I think the mistakes where due to a lack of concentration, rather than a lack of skill) Level 2: Couple of mistakes (hard time to hit the accidentals and if I manage, my brain switches to another key if there is no harmonic context) Level 3: Impossible to read (I can't handle the leaps. It is clear that I have to work on individual intervals) Thanks for uploading this, altough I think it doesnt make sense to come back to this everyday, as one would just memorize how it should bit by bit and not really sight read it anymore. But thanks nonetheless
HI, I think you see that some ones make it clear that there are so many mistakes in this video. please try to remove it. because the beginners will get wrong notes. I hope you will do . . . Merci
i totally gonna fail my quarterly exam i didnt even know we do this my old teacher never taught me this now im so mad i only have a 80% in chorus and if i fail i wont make the honer rol in my school
Day 1 Level 1: 0 mistakse Level 2: 0 mistakes Level 3: 0 mistakes Level 4: 0 mistakes Level 5: 0 mistakes Level 6: 1 mistake Level 7: 0 mistakes Level 8: 2 mistakes Level 9: 0 mistakes Level 10: 0 mistakes I am in choras and band at my school and I qualify for states in band
Excellent tool. Thank you. You really have me working on "hearing" the intervals in my head before vocalizing.
0:55 level 1
2:49 level 2
4:43 level 3
06:38 level 4
08:32 level 5
10:24 level 6
12:19 level 7
14:13 level 8
16:07 level 9
18:01 level 10
I like how it's a mission and not a job or a task.
Level 1 : 0 mistakes
Level 2 : 4 mistakes
Level 3 : 7 mistakes
Level 4 : 8 mistakes
Level 5 : 8 mistakes
Level 6 : 8 mistakes
Level 7 : 7 mistakes
Level 8 : 7 mistakes
Level 9 : 3 mistakes
Level 10 : 7 mistakes
I don't know what happened at levl 9 but I realy need to practice lol
Dani Abadeister honestly level 9 was easier for me than the others too!!
I believe the ability to "predict" the sound behind a key on a keyboard before it's actually played constitutes the ultimate musicality test which can be reliably used to sieve out those who fail it and save them a ton of work and subsequent inevitable fiasco. That said, I must admit that amid all my "nonperformance" despite tens of years of training, I developed recently a liking for sight reading (and sight reading only without any attempt at honing once deciphered sheets) treated as a shooter like computer game or touch typing. Therefore I concentrate on improving my sight reading ability exclusively rather than actual playing. For me sight reading, and I repeat strictly that, serves as a kind of back door entrance to the edifice of piano playing (after having been unceremoniously bounced off at the front door). I am very curious to see how far I can go along that path. I wonder if anyone out there has ever tried this and if they have, what their results have been.
Great tool for practicing and getting your level up. Thank you for sharing this!
I did it!! But to be honest the "hoo" sounds creepy... Who agrees?
Me! :D
Too demn creepy 😟😬
only level one wiyhout mistakes!! I'll have to practice a lot!!
There’s a mistake here 16:57 an E is played instead of D
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16:55 that’s an E we ear, not a D as written
You are perfectly right. How could we miss that one. I'll put a note in the description.
No wonder i got it wrong and became so confused... (though i don’t have perfect pitch)
You're right, Sebastian approved it and Amadeus approved it too.
This will be my first ever attempt at sight singing, so I'll go ahead and write my results before the test:
Not good.
(Haha. Eventually I'll master this video.)
Got up to level 6 without any mistakes... I have to practice more (since I’ll be majoring in voice)!
I still have no idea how to sing or even hear flats and sharps, so I can only do the first level.
Frannie Haig try perhaps singing the note and then going up or down by a half tone. for example if you’ve just heard a C and you want to get to a G#, try to sing a G (perfect fifth) and then go up by a half step to get to the G#
Alright, I’ll try. Thank you very much.
Frannie Haig glad to help!
Try to sing the modes also starting on the note C. I mean C dorian, C frygian, C lydian, C mixolydian, C aeolian (minor) and C locrian.
Me too. But I use my own hack by remembering pattern C-C#-D. And then use that pattern for any tone you want to sing (for example Bflat it's A-Bflat-B). Although you gotta train your ears for interval pitch first to use this trick
alright! (crying) I admit it (sniffles) I can't read! baaawwwlll
frustrating, right? but i'm going to keep trying!
OK relax - you've taken the most important step towards reading - namely recognising that you can't do it and hopefully now investigating ways of learning to read
I got a day to practice for an audition to get into this middle school. I'm just trying to make sure that I have a middle school to go to that is decent
Did you make it lol
Really iam very happy to lern Music from you
This will help me , on my reading I recently joined the choir , but I guess this will take time to memorize all the notes in my head ears and eyes
Do you sell a book for this
I am so rusty... by level four I started making mistakes :'(
Title: "Can you sing what you see on the music sheet?"
Me: No because I can't read sheet music.
Heeeeeellllllpppp!!!!!!!!!
For example I sing an F, and I see a G coming. WHY THE HECK am I singing F#? I always do that, I want to go a whole step higher and just add a semitone to my voice. Any tips to fix that?
Sing a lot of scales, major and minor scales, then go jumping from one note to the other in the different degrees of the scale (tonic to mediant, mediant to dominant, dominant to subdominant, etc.), contextualize your singing within a key.
@@musicwithnopain Exercises to help contextualize within a key would be great if you had time to do them!
I have tried to play piano without success for many years, but don't give up simply because am intrigued bywhy I can't :-)
This video presents perhaps an answer to my question. Even in the very first exercise I made 3 or 4 mistakes. In the second one (with sharps and flats) I got completely lost. Clearly some people (or rather probably the majority) don't have the ability to imagine tones, or to "hear" them in their mind, without actually playing, or even singing them. For these people no amount of practice will lead to any sensible results. Having said that I am not going to give up. Well, not just yet anyway :-)
Your say "For these people no amount of practice will lead to any sensible results" is only true to a very few people, the majority can develop that ability if they are determined like you are.
musicwithnopain I hope so. I want to be able to audiate and hear what is played.
DyzioTheDreamer dont give up! I see results, real results. It took me years but i am so glad i pushed trough. Play the violin or piano as well , it will boosten your hearing by miles.
As a self-taught guitarist who never had the intelligence or mental fortitude to work on sight singing/ear training (I thought that learning to read music would be enough.....), I have spent far too long out in the aural wilderness like you and I recognise your cry from the depths :-) although I do have a decent ear. However, I have been trying to improve my relative pitch for some time now, and I have to say that I absolutely love the challenge, even though I haven't been sufficiently systematic to make as much progress as I would like to. In any case, every piece of extraneous music I hear now is a legitimate candidate for ear training, chord and interval recognition, and so on, and I feel no despair - on the contrary I have great entertainment laid out for me all day long. I treat it as a huge game and really have lots of fun!
Two great books I recommend for you - and anyone interested in this activity - are "Learning and Writing Music" by Ron Gorow, and "Jazz Ears" (with CD) by Thom Mason. If you put in a bit of time and effort with these two books, you will have TONS more fun with music and your ear is CERTAIN to develop.... in other ways than simply being able to recognise intervals. Good luck!
level 1: 0
level 2: 7
level 3: 7
level 4: 7
level 5: 12
level 6: 7
level 7: 12
level 8: 6
level 9: 13
Great...Do you have any rethyms for guitar, Please?
Очень понравилось ираспевки делать не надо, благодарю!!!
In Level 9: The sound you give for the second note in bar 8 (D) is incorrect. The sound you give is E, whereas the note marked is D. Otherwise I find these exercises very helpful
I was wondering I have a sight reading audition for a show chior coming up are we supposed to just sing "ah" for say the note name. I play an insturment so this is kinda hard for me thx :)
It's easier to hit the pitch using a consonant such as La
Level 9 8th bar you play E instead of D, please check
how can u SING notes?
Level 1 : 0 mistakes
Level 2 : 0 mistakes
Level 3 : 1 mistake
Level 4 : 0 mistakes
Level 5 : 2 mistakes + 1 uncertainty
Level 6 : 5 mistakes
Level 7 : 2 mistakes
Level 8 : 7 mistakes
Level 9 : 7 mistakes
Level 10 : 7 mistakes
I'm a private music teacher + I've been singing 13 years in choir (info for reference)
wow!
I am in a advanced choir but I haven’t practiced in about a month so this was kinda tricky
What do you suggest I do to get better I make at least 3 mistakes from level 3 onwards.
The pattern of accidentals keeps making me trip over my words. For some reason switching the vowels has made me bite my lip multiple times.
I did ok until I got to level 8. I was off half of a key. And I need to go over my sharps again. 🤦♀️
I made it perfectly
But I think it should be fast next time to improve our ability
Wes Montgomery or George Benson could not read music. George Benson cant read what's on the sheet but can sing 30 Charlie Parker solos by memory,in tune!
I've done better than that. I've tried to remain completely untrained (I hated books and any symbols written on paper -- they frighten me). Not only can I not read music , I can't even read English ( I'm having some one type this for me ). But I can perform the complete works of Shakespeare and I can whistle Vivaldi flute concerti as well as all of the symphonies of Beethoven and hundreds of songs -- all from memory. And it only took me 30 years of daily practice and a full time assistant who could read.
perfect score.
my favorite part is lvl 10 where the last measures are just off..
Level 1 : I missed one note.
Thank you
all perfect yaya
Level 9, bar 9 second minim is written D but sounds E!
Yes, that was a mistake, explained in the description. Noticing that though requires a very fine tuned pair of ears. Well done and thanks for your feed back
Starting to struggle a bit level 3 I have to think hard hahahhah
Surely think too hard, la, la, la?
thanks :D
Level 1: Almost no mistakes (I think the mistakes where due to a lack of concentration, rather than a lack of skill)
Level 2: Couple of mistakes (hard time to hit the accidentals and if I manage, my brain switches to another key if there is no harmonic context)
Level 3: Impossible to read (I can't handle the leaps. It is clear that I have to work on individual intervals)
Thanks for uploading this, altough I think it doesnt make sense to come back to this everyday, as one would just memorize how it should bit by bit and not really sight read it anymore. But thanks nonetheless
i have perfect pitch but for some reason i made some mistakes here and there
Dr Hemantha Senanayake Really? I have not a perfect pitch but i did 0 mistakes
im practcing for the judication
I keep losing Do at Level 8-10
Dude, on level 9, on bar 9, its written D, but playing E.
Level 2: 4
perfect
Mistakes
level 1: 0
Level 2: 10
Level 3: 5
Need to work on it. As some others posted, I also need to practise the sharps and flats.
All good!
Vb vf un flux l firișoare Aleksandrov
I have perfect pitch. This is A piece of cake
Joshua Han You’re really lucky, i have good ear too but not perfect, like realative pitch.
HI, I think you see that some ones make it clear that there are so many mistakes in this video. please try to remove it. because the beginners will get wrong notes. I hope you will do . . . Merci
i totally gonna fail my quarterly exam i didnt even know we do this my old teacher never taught me this now im so mad i only have a 80% in chorus and if i fail i wont make the honer rol in my school
I am failing so bad 😂😂😂😂😭😵
i have my ap music theory exam and im at level 2 hahah welp
Omg half tones are killing me xd
I feel like Ed Sheeran now :))
Damn idk how to sharps and flats oh no
0 mistake i think, wow!!
Level 1 : 0 mistakes
Level 2 : 1 mistakes
Level 3 : 1 mistakes
Level 4 : 2 mistakes
Level 5 : 1 mistakes
Level 6 : 0 mistakes
Level 7 : 1 mistakes
Level 8 : 3 mistakes
Level 9 : 2 mistakes
Level 10 : 3 mistakes
A D5 on the first lesson? Shit, I am a tenor but DAMN!
I am a bass tho, imagine my problem with that loo
4
Level 1 lol
0,4 THEN ALL MESSED UP
Level 5 took me out
Day 1
Level 1: 0 mistakse
Level 2: 0 mistakes
Level 3: 0 mistakes
Level 4: 0 mistakes
Level 5: 0 mistakes
Level 6: 1 mistake
Level 7: 0 mistakes
Level 8: 2 mistakes
Level 9: 0 mistakes
Level 10: 0 mistakes
I am in choras and band at my school and I qualify for states in band
Good for you
do you have perfect pitch?
Seeee
I can't do naturals or that b lookin thing so more mystakes than I can count XD
you mean sharp and flats :D
I have perfect pitch so 1 lmao l
Really... You're a genius
Oof I suuuuuuck
1. everythin correct.
2. Complete and utter disaster with flat and sharp notes.
3. Should I even continue
Fuck im going to fail😧
Level 1 - 64 mistakes, and counting...
Countless mistakes..
Level 1: 1 mistake
Andre Bocelli can't read a note of music and neither can Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder.
Level 6 smh
This is just weird.
Too easy!!
Kimberly Halbrook you must have perfect pitch like me
1 mistake