Hi guys!!! The Chord App in the bottom left is called "Chordie" and the ear training App that mentions is "Good Ear Pro"! Thanks for watching and be sure to go check out Noah's UA-cam Channel! @noahkellman
I can grasp the idea of being so familiar with chord voicings and shapes that you can recognise them instantly, but working out that sax lick so fast was mind blowing.
So basically learning lines like that is easy when you know what to listen for. Lines like that are almost entirely scales and arpeggios which you can recognize just as easily if not more easily than chords, then everything else is common jazz language. For example the lick starts with an enclosure with the first 6 notes, circulating around the final 6th note. While that isn't a straight scale or arpeggio it is an extremely common piece of language.
One thing that gets overlooked is technical ability. Of coarse I'm really impressed by his ear, but im equally impressed by his fingers. I tried transcribing the cowboy bebop sax lick from the video, and it took me a similar amount of time to get the notes down, about 3 minutes, but getting it up to speed took me an additional 10+ minutes of finding the ideal fingerings and commiting them to muscle memory. Bravo 👏
that is why they say music is a very competitive market, because people who started early have all the skills combined and make it super difficult for people with even 10 years experience vs 20 years
Cowboy Bebop, and more specifically Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, is an amazing pull. Completely divorced from the otherwise amazing show, that soundtrack can stand up to any album ever musically. Props to Noah for nailing it so hard.
Telling that the melody for "Don't Wanna Fall In Love" was the part to trip up the pianist, but Jesse hears the melody clearly right away-makes sense! Violinists are trained to hear and think about the upper melodic bits, pianists are listening for the inner voices and bass line. You are what you eat, after all...
somehow, this manages to take something that would normally be intimidating to the point of actual discouragement & actually makes it feel more grounded & accessible. thanks bunches for the inspiration!! the hard work clearly does pay off. bravo!!
How have I never seen a video concept like this?? So fun, engaging and insightful!! Please continue to make this a regular series. I love that you had such a wide range of genres to throw at him. There's been so much redundancy on the youtube piano content front but this is the most refreshing thing i've seen in a really long time. great chemistry too
check out frank tedesco's omegle series. he asks people for a random song request and instantly plays it back on piano. the most entertaining videos on youtube
@@dbrawla6319 I love those Frank Tedesco videos too but the great thing about this is that you can see him working it out in real time so you get more insight into the process
Love this! Wonderful combination of theory, practice, and ear training. Love your taste in music, Snacks...two of those tunes are all time faves of mine!
Very nice! My last 24 have sucked, but this gave me a smile to start the next round. Your new track sounds great and I can't wait to hear it in full. Take care.
Inspiring! I was not too far behind you on most of this (probably about 2x the time it was taking you), so it was both encouraging and motivating to get better at it. I was totally lost on the bad snacks tune tho - which was really cool! So, inspiring again to keep at it and keep trying to hear "colors" and identify different harmonic sounds.
This was SOOOOO much fun. Best video I’ve seen in a long time. I loved not only Noah’s amazing talent, I loved Snack’s 100% genuine joy and excitement watching and your little thought bubbles. The “staring at nothing happening in Ableton” killed me. 😂
Noah is great! I took his course Jazz Piano Secrets and learned so much. I'm still nowhere near his skills but one of the most valuable things I've learned from him is how to practice chord voicings and demystifying seemingly complex chord extensions - skills I can apply to any instrument and yes, ear training!
So glad to see Noah on a bigger platform I’ve been watching his videos for months now and I’ve learned a lot about about music theory from him. My goat and this girls got good taste in music too 😮
Never seen/heard this channel or your music, it popped up i recommended and i'm glad it did, cus this was a freckin cool video! Merry chrimbus everyone!
This is sick! Like most would love to see a series of this, but also would love to see Noah do a piano cover of this in a Final Fantasy jazz piano style!
DUDE..... Jane Child??? WELL-CHOSEN! LOVED that track growing up!! She was on the cover of Keyboard Magazine for that album. The solo is not even hard to play but is so fun! -and good job with the A natural, was waiting for him to get that! 😊
Bravo, Noah! Love how he defaults to super tasty chord voicings... I feel like even when I sit down at the piano and know the chord qualities I don't come up with those sounds so quickly. Worth a mention for everyone interested in more development of long-term melodic memory: check out Ran Blake's (very short) book "Primacy of the Ear". Good stuff from another Boston-area legend!
I immediately ordered this book after reading your comment a few days ago. Got it earlier today, already several chapters in and let me just say this is one of the best books I've bought in awhile. He's actually a great writer - poetic, terse, philosophical, and very entertaining. I love the way he brings analogies of other artistic mediums and storytelling to what we create as musicians. Part ear-training and part creative philosophy - this is right up my alley. Of course this is just day 1 but I wanted to thank you for sharing!
Love that you kept your “staring at ableton” and “chord lord judgement” clips in there! Tbh I related to that so much, nice to see even successful role models get nervous:)
Great video! My memories as a kid are filled with the satisfaction of figuring out songs for various bands I was in. The first one was realizing there was a minor fifth in, "Louis Louis" and then there was the organ solo in, "Light My Fire." Often music, for me, was all about puzzle solving.
Wow.. I loved this. That Guy smoked those chords in next to no time. Great video format. I need a piano teacher like him.... In the meantime, great content!
this shows what good musicians can really do...it's about the ears first. People fall over Beato's skills...which are immense...but not all that rare. GREAT video Ms Snacks!
His videos about ear training helped me out so much. I kind of feel bad because he helped me grow so much that I don’t really look to UA-cam for new material anymore😭
Nice! Also, to newer students here. As Noah said, dont be discouraged, thinking you have to have perfect pitch to be able to play songs by ear. Just play, play, play, and listen, listen and listen. It seems impossible at first, but the more songs you learn and play, the more your ears are opening up to sounds, you will build a whole vocabulary of chords and transitions by time in you ears. Also a great tip that I use a bunch and Noah also used in this video: You dont have to know the voicing of the chord exactly, just find the base line first, since its easier and then work out the voicing. But 99% of the time if the base is for example C - it will be just a C major/dominant or a minor with some extensions, which you can btw change to your own liking. Dont quit, you will get there if you train! Lately I have been listening to mezzoforte live in reykjavik here on youtube and just jamming along with them and learning their songs by ear. Great training and great fun as well!
I feel like it’s worth adding, of all the people that I know who have perfect pitch, the ones that are great at playing by ear have practiced tons. Maybe they had to practice less than other people, but there’s always variation in talent. The point is everyone gets where they want to be if they work hard.
OOOOOHHHHH!!!!😮💨 Most impressive! This is inspiring me to go back to the ear training gym AND to go listen to all these dope tracks in their entirety. So fun! To get even half this good at keyboard/transcription is a life goal of mine that’s probably gonna take my whole life😳
4:41 This. Same is true of guitar, especially if you play bass as well. You've played with all the legos, it's their arrangement that makes a new (to you) construct. Great upload, you guys are amazing musicians🤩
The 17:50 "I wanna be" segment is really really good. Got some Metheny/Lyle vibes (Ok, that is usually my reference point for jazzy stuff, and Noah Kellmann laying some piano chords on top kind of enhances those vibes😃). I love it. Can't wait to hear the released version. I wanna hear more!
PS! Listening right now to your Neat Tapes 1-2. I'm flabbergasted. Can someone explain to an old borderline boomer what kind of music style this is? It's so groovy. (I'm getting old maan)
This was such a fun video Regarding your song and the text you put on screen, you are super talented too though! I totally understand where you're coming from because people are always telling me I am and I'm like I'm alright i guess lol, anyways, really love that snippet of your new song it's sooo good!
yeah we have similar music tastes. Every single song you played was an absolute bop. Never heard them before. Thanks for the new music listening homework.
Absolutely ridiculous! Noah is so insanely talented. Seeing people this intelligent always sort of hurts my own ego, but I'm very impressed and happy for Noah that he has this ability!
I remember when that Jane Child Song hit the radio. I was thinking, “those tasty chords are incredible!” I would’ve slowed everything down to pick out the sounds! 🥳 Glad to see Noah would have done the same, too!
Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH for adding the insert of actual notes on staff of what he’s playing. I’ll be watching this video and pausing countless times sitting at my keyboard attempting to follow along and learn🤓
this was so sick to watch x Noah's videos along with a few others gave me the foundation to go out and learn how to improvise and play piano, without that I wouldnt even be able to understand any of the concepts in this video. I've never watched Bad snacks before but It was so intensely relatable how their energy shifted as soon as it was their own song playing haha
Cool video! I've been a musician for over 30 years and I get what he's doing. Hearing a song and knowing what chords are being used is like seeing purple and knowing it's made up of red and blue. The more you practice and know your chords and what fit together the easier it is to transpose. Music is math!
I wish I knew enough color theory to hit you with the "🤓 um ackshually you usually only get a vaguely purplish grey from mixing red and blue, and you can get a much more vibrant purple from mixing magenta and aquamarine" (I don't know whether this is true but it sounds like something a color theory nerd might say)
didn't expect to see boyz ii men Step on up. Easily my favorite boyz ii men album(Nathan Micheal Shawn Wanya), I never expect to see much r&b in vids like this.
Hi guys!!! The Chord App in the bottom left is called "Chordie" and the ear training App that mentions is "Good Ear Pro"!
Thanks for watching and be sure to go check out Noah's UA-cam Channel! @noahkellman
Bottom right even?
@@althejazzman But, from HER point of view, it was bottom-left. 😛
@@desertdwarfHaha if she's monitoring on a transparent display.
everyone making videos should use that chordie app visualization, it's awesome
Is it iphone apps I cannot find good ear pro
That’s exactly how my wife looks at me when I talk about machine learning.
for some unkown reasons this made me laugh
Cool, but this pianist is much cooler!
uh huh? uh huh? oh wow! that's crazy
I can grasp the idea of being so familiar with chord voicings and shapes that you can recognise them instantly, but working out that sax lick so fast was mind blowing.
The lick uses common jazz patterns / language. Noah still did an amazing job transcribing this so fast at full speed.
@@vpsaxman That helps a bit!
You know what would make this faster than 3 minutes?
Sheet music. ;)
So basically learning lines like that is easy when you know what to listen for. Lines like that are almost entirely scales and arpeggios which you can recognize just as easily if not more easily than chords, then everything else is common jazz language. For example the lick starts with an enclosure with the first 6 notes, circulating around the final 6th note. While that isn't a straight scale or arpeggio it is an extremely common piece of language.
@@Quotenwagnerianernot necessarily, since you need to already know all the scales and arpeggios to be able to play it to tempo.
When he started shredding that sax intro at 15:45, I was like.......
That was sick!
One thing that gets overlooked is technical ability. Of coarse I'm really impressed by his ear, but im equally impressed by his fingers. I tried transcribing the cowboy bebop sax lick from the video, and it took me a similar amount of time to get the notes down, about 3 minutes, but getting it up to speed took me an additional 10+ minutes of finding the ideal fingerings and commiting them to muscle memory.
Bravo 👏
that is why they say music is a very competitive market, because people who started early have all the skills combined and make it super difficult for people with even 10 years experience vs 20 years
Cowboy Bebop, and more specifically Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, is an amazing pull. Completely divorced from the otherwise amazing show, that soundtrack can stand up to any album ever musically. Props to Noah for nailing it so hard.
Telling that the melody for "Don't Wanna Fall In Love" was the part to trip up the pianist, but Jesse hears the melody clearly right away-makes sense! Violinists are trained to hear and think about the upper melodic bits, pianists are listening for the inner voices and bass line. You are what you eat, after all...
I enjoyed these. I hope it becomes a series. Also, her own track sounded dope with the piano, too.
She is not a youtuber that adopts trends. She goes with the flow, according to her own will as as opportunities provides itself.
You might want to look up Frank Tedesco, I think he does this in a more entertaining format and he's pretty good.
@@sleptiq thanks, I'll check it out.
Side note, your taste in music is FIRE Snacks!
:)
Yup.
So dope you two!! I wanna play!! ❤🙌🏼 Noah’s awesome and so are you!
I would love for them to have you on
We’d LOVE to do this with you!!!
I’d be down whenever! 🙌🏼
I would watch the hell out of this series
Yes!!! Make this collab happen!
I loooove how much she's vibing to the tunes
Noah's skills are amazing, but her reaction makes it much more interesting. More videos like this please.
somehow, this manages to take something that would normally be intimidating to the point of actual discouragement & actually makes it feel more grounded & accessible. thanks bunches for the inspiration!! the hard work clearly does pay off. bravo!!
Really glad to hear that! And sure thing.
How have I never seen a video concept like this?? So fun, engaging and insightful!! Please continue to make this a regular series. I love that you had such a wide range of genres to throw at him. There's been so much redundancy on the youtube piano content front but this is the most refreshing thing i've seen in a really long time. great chemistry too
check out frank tedesco's omegle series. he asks people for a random song request and instantly plays it back on piano. the most entertaining videos on youtube
@@dbrawla6319 I love those Frank Tedesco videos too but the great thing about this is that you can see him working it out in real time so you get more insight into the process
@@Fullofills yeah forsure they're not the same thing, I was just suggesting something that they might find as enjoyable as I do
The concept is very popular on Drumeo. Different instrument, but exact same concept, and wildly popular
Love this! Wonderful combination of theory, practice, and ear training. Love your taste in music, Snacks...two of those tunes are all time faves of mine!
Very nice! My last 24 have sucked, but this gave me a smile to start the next round. Your new track sounds great and I can't wait to hear it in full. Take care.
Your new song is DOPE!!!!!! Can't wait to listen the full version🔥
Inspiring! I was not too far behind you on most of this (probably about 2x the time it was taking you), so it was both encouraging and motivating to get better at it. I was totally lost on the bad snacks tune tho - which was really cool! So, inspiring again to keep at it and keep trying to hear "colors" and identify different harmonic sounds.
Wow! What a good job putting all those memories together! We really enjoyed the video and the musical accompaniment. Thanks for sharing.
Subscribed after watching this… you guys are perfect together ! As another commenter suggested, please make this a series. Very fun and inspiring !
I appreciate his humility along with is incredible talent. And that new track sounds doooope! Also also, I love the deep cuts of your clip choices.
This was SOOOOO much fun. Best video I’ve seen in a long time. I loved not only Noah’s amazing talent, I loved Snack’s 100% genuine joy and excitement watching and your little thought bubbles. The “staring at nothing happening in Ableton” killed me. 😂
Those genuinly facinated faces of Bad Snacks are priceless :) Noah is amazing ! Would definitely watch more of such content :) Thank you guys
Thank you for this! Watching the process is highly educational
This is so underrated. Really wholesome video and thanks for the music.
I hadn't heard any of the songs played in this video, and I loved all of them! Thanks!
Noah is great! I took his course Jazz Piano Secrets and learned so much. I'm still nowhere near his skills but one of the most valuable things I've learned from him is how to practice chord voicings and demystifying seemingly complex chord extensions - skills I can apply to any instrument and yes, ear training!
So glad to hear you learned a lot in the course, Jonathan! And thanks for the comment.
Great take on how the ear training is just about practicing it and working that muscle memory. It gets so much easier the more you do it.
So glad to see Noah on a bigger platform I’ve been watching his videos for months now and I’ve learned a lot about about music theory from him. My goat and this girls got good taste in music too 😮
What a great musician Noah is, and I really enjoyed badsnacks original! this way a really lovely video :)
Omd I loved this video 🙌 soo talented and brilliant song suggestions!
Best video I've seen in ages. That was awesome.
Breakign down other songs, and then yours as the last one is such a cool format! I would watch so many of these
Holy Crap he's talented !!
Enjoyed the interaction between you two and snacks giggling the entire time
This was so much fun! He's awesome, and I love your joy for music! So cool, thank you!
I just watched the full video and loved it. I’d love to hear/see more of your analysis of that cowboy bebop tune!
This is a super fun video. I’ve been working on ear training myself, so this was a great and relevant watch for me!
Wow on his talent! I actually took a lesson from him about 10 years ago . Such a nice dude and great teacher!!
Never seen/heard this channel or your music, it popped up i recommended and i'm glad it did, cus this was a freckin cool video! Merry chrimbus everyone!
Fascinating with all the harmonic complexity in 70s/80s pop music.
What a great musicians, both of you!
This is sick! Like most would love to see a series of this, but also would love to see Noah do a piano cover of this in a Final Fantasy jazz piano style!
this was awesome! especially loved ur track breakdown
DUDE..... Jane Child??? WELL-CHOSEN! LOVED that track growing up!! She was on the cover of Keyboard Magazine for that album. The solo is not even hard to play but is so fun! -and good job with the A natural, was waiting for him to get that! 😊
Amazing how fast he knows what the correct keys are. I look forward to your new track
Bravo, Noah! Love how he defaults to super tasty chord voicings... I feel like even when I sit down at the piano and know the chord qualities I don't come up with those sounds so quickly.
Worth a mention for everyone interested in more development of long-term melodic memory: check out Ran Blake's (very short) book "Primacy of the Ear". Good stuff from another Boston-area legend!
instant buy. thanks for sharing this! -- Also.. did we jam at Namm this year at the Elektron booth?! haha
@@RickyTinez Yeah! That was rad... See you at NAMM this Jan?
I immediately ordered this book after reading your comment a few days ago. Got it earlier today, already several chapters in and let me just say this is one of the best books I've bought in awhile. He's actually a great writer - poetic, terse, philosophical, and very entertaining. I love the way he brings analogies of other artistic mediums and storytelling to what we create as musicians. Part ear-training and part creative philosophy - this is right up my alley. Of course this is just day 1 but I wanted to thank you for sharing!
lots of fun to watch Noah pick up these songs and explain the theory. working with my son to learn piano and this was cool to aspire to someday
Really liked this video! Had fun watching and learning
Love that you kept your “staring at ableton” and “chord lord judgement” clips in there! Tbh I related to that so much, nice to see even successful role models get nervous:)
I really enjoyed this video! This was so cool to see!
You’re onto a good viral vibe here! So many good shorts to be made! More of this! Amazing video
found this video through the yt shorts, then found your track & music through this video and absolutely loving it
I don't know that much about chords, but this kept me hooked until the end! Thanks for sharing!❤
This was so much fun! Would love to see more stuff like this! :)
i reaaaally love this. super fun video to watch :D
You guys should do it again ! That was fun to watch!
Thank you for Jane Child. What a banger track (and memory)!
Great video! My memories as a kid are filled with the satisfaction of figuring out songs for various bands I was in. The first one was realizing there was a minor fifth in, "Louis Louis" and then there was the organ solo in, "Light My Fire." Often music, for me, was all about puzzle solving.
I watch Noah whenever i want to learn new piano chords
That good ear training app is INCREDIBLE! Great recommendation!
Also that new unreleased track I cannot wait to hear it!
Now let's try this with Jacob Collier hahah
This guy is Awesome! Thanks for bringing us good content 👌
Wow.. I loved this. That Guy smoked those chords in next to no time. Great video format.
I need a piano teacher like him.... In the meantime, great content!
Literally every component of this video makes me smile
this shows what good musicians can really do...it's about the ears first. People fall over Beato's skills...which are immense...but not all that rare. GREAT video Ms Snacks!
His videos about ear training helped me out so much. I kind of feel bad because he helped me grow so much that I don’t really look to UA-cam for new material anymore😭
Nice! Also, to newer students here. As Noah said, dont be discouraged, thinking you have to have perfect pitch to be able to play songs by ear. Just play, play, play, and listen, listen and listen. It seems impossible at first, but the more songs you learn and play, the more your ears are opening up to sounds, you will build a whole vocabulary of chords and transitions by time in you ears. Also a great tip that I use a bunch and Noah also used in this video: You dont have to know the voicing of the chord exactly, just find the base line first, since its easier and then work out the voicing. But 99% of the time if the base is for example C - it will be just a C major/dominant or a minor with some extensions, which you can btw change to your own liking.
Dont quit, you will get there if you train! Lately I have been listening to mezzoforte live in reykjavik here on youtube and just jamming along with them and learning their songs by ear. Great training and great fun as well!
I feel like it’s worth adding, of all the people that I know who have perfect pitch, the ones that are great at playing by ear have practiced tons. Maybe they had to practice less than other people, but there’s always variation in talent. The point is everyone gets where they want to be if they work hard.
Amazing talent!
would defo watch more of these if it was a series!
And Bad Snack, great call with the A natural in Jane Child. Immediate follow. 🙏👊. Loved this video so much.
really like that! if possible make this in a series.
The speed is amazing :o
songs sounds amazing at 18:26 \o/
OOOOOHHHHH!!!!😮💨 Most impressive! This is inspiring me to go back to the ear training gym AND to go listen to all these dope tracks in their entirety. So fun! To get even half this good at keyboard/transcription is a life goal of mine that’s probably gonna take my whole life😳
4:41 This. Same is true of guitar, especially if you play bass as well. You've played with all the legos, it's their arrangement that makes a new (to you) construct.
Great upload, you guys are amazing musicians🤩
The 17:50 "I wanna be" segment is really really good. Got some Metheny/Lyle vibes (Ok, that is usually my reference point for jazzy stuff, and Noah Kellmann laying some piano chords on top kind of enhances those vibes😃). I love it. Can't wait to hear the released version. I wanna hear more!
PS! Listening right now to your Neat Tapes 1-2. I'm flabbergasted. Can someone explain to an old borderline boomer what kind of music style this is? It's so groovy. (I'm getting old maan)
The rizzler
i mean if a homie was just playing all of my favorite songs like that so easily i would've been rizzed up too lol
This was such a fun video
Regarding your song and the text you put on screen, you are super talented too though! I totally understand where you're coming from because people are always telling me I am and I'm like I'm alright i guess lol, anyways, really love that snippet of your new song it's sooo good!
Thank you!! :’)
yeah we have similar music tastes. Every single song you played was an absolute bop. Never heard them before. Thanks for the new music listening homework.
that was pretty cool, dude shredded the cowboy bebop lick. and your track sounds * chef's kiss *
That was fun, and pretty informative
What a cute video! You can tell the mutual respect between both as artists of the craft. And your admiration is palpable lol
Noah is super good, super modest and great sense of humour ❤❤❤
Absolutely ridiculous! Noah is so insanely talented. Seeing people this intelligent always sort of hurts my own ego, but I'm very impressed and happy for Noah that he has this ability!
I remember when that Jane Child Song hit the radio. I was thinking, “those tasty chords are incredible!” I would’ve slowed everything down to pick out the sounds! 🥳
Glad to see Noah would have done the same, too!
Also, THANK YOU SO MUCH for adding the insert of actual notes on staff of what he’s playing. I’ll be watching this video and pausing countless times sitting at my keyboard attempting to follow along and learn🤓
Whoa, this is amazing, Noah. Love watching this.
Thanks Dan! Good to see you over here.
I feel like the harmony in your unreleased song fits so much with the universe of the Zelda Games !!
More of this kind please
more of these plz
Cool choices. Like what we heard of the new tune too!
I am also a lover of #11 chords, specifically maj9(#11) is a great chord. Lydian is so bright and pretty!
Oh man does your track sounds too good from just the bits that I've heard! Can't wait for it's release ugh...
YOOOH!!! He just went BEAST MODE on the 4th Round! This is fantastic content. 🤓
This is so enjoyable. Two people loving music :)
this was so sick to watch x Noah's videos along with a few others gave me the foundation to go out and learn how to improvise and play piano, without that I wouldnt even be able to understand any of the concepts in this video.
I've never watched Bad snacks before but It was so intensely relatable how their energy shifted as soon as it was their own song playing haha
Cool video! I've been a musician for over 30 years and I get what he's doing. Hearing a song and knowing what chords are being used is like seeing purple and knowing it's made up of red and blue. The more you practice and know your chords and what fit together the easier it is to transpose. Music is math!
I wish I knew enough color theory to hit you with the "🤓 um ackshually you usually only get a vaguely purplish grey from mixing red and blue, and you can get a much more vibrant purple from mixing magenta and aquamarine" (I don't know whether this is true but it sounds like something a color theory nerd might say)
ngl, my favorite part of her videos is the editing. this is my humor.
Hearing Jane Childs “Don’t want to fall in love” took me back to senior year of high school, did not expect that ❤
didn't expect to see boyz ii men Step on up. Easily my favorite boyz ii men album(Nathan Micheal Shawn Wanya), I never expect to see much r&b in vids like this.
Props for the Cowboy Bebop! Mad ear man 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is so cool! And 😊 Made me burn for Jazz theory again!