@MaxKonyi ... words fail ... your talent and commitment to music is ..................................................... endless ....

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Coincidentally, I stumbled across this video, as I've recently been placing focus into my ear training. I really love this video. You broke things down very nicely, and every bit of it makes sense.

THIS is the exact 💯 information ihv been expecting all this while ❤😊God bless u..i will come back with a testimony 🙏higherheights always

That's what i think... robots have no feeling. Thanks for sharing.

Wow 🤩- just discovered you yesterday. I found your ear training major scale video fascinating! It’s really helped thank you. I think you are the only person who’s (long, in-depth video) I have ever watched all the way through (lol doing some bedtime stretches on my bedroom floor at the same time - so yes, meditating on what you are saying at the same time as stretching and relaxing). You definitely have a gift in helping people stay focused on the topic! Your comprehensive, creative and sensitive language use is really one of the best I have ever seen. I love how you keep repeating things over and over - a bit like in meditation how one would use an anchor like the breath to return to focus - but obviously it also helps practically embed the concepts. I am in my mid forties and learning multiple instruments - piano, guitar, bass and drums. I’ve had so many people say to me it’s not wise, people get hostile with me about it - crazy - but what I find fascinating is how learning different instruments at the same time is unlocking so many musical concepts that all relate to each instrument. It is helping me beyond words! Things click every time I sit down and play. I’m getting creative gifts being able to manifest the music from within my being. My body has never relaxed sooo much in years when I use the skills (the ones that are embedded and now naturally there). It’s euphoric and peaceful. I look forward to when my skills are better and I can incorporate faster and more upbeat or complex rhythms and scales. I feel like I’m doing really well! So screw the nay sayers. I am a deep thinker and analytical type but never really had the life circumstances to let this ‘divine’ life force blossom. But here I am 🙏🏻 😌 I’ve been able to pick apart and dive deep into all parts of a song for years. It’s great to be able to put into action. I am not starting from scratch as such on these instruments. I played guitar and wrote harmonically complex songs when I was a teenager knowing nothing about music theory. All by ear. But my ‘kind of’ musical training was from my mum who sang in a band with 3 others, having practices at each others houses. They sang four part harmonies which led me to a life time of only ever singing the harmony to any melody I ever heard. It’s only now when I’m learning intervals that I realise my 1,3,5 are pretty well embedded in my musical mind. I’m thrilled at the ‘free gift’ 😂 I’m still miles off in reality but it helps. I look forward to more of your videos. You are very very kindly giving a great gift to the world with your beautiful tuition. Thank you 🙏🏻 so much ❤

Can you please do more of this series. It's fascinating. it makes me think of music totally differently or with a different perspective.

Amazing !! I love it

Love it

As someone who doesn't really know how to play drums and just fumbles around trying to figure out how to make a song to just sit nicely on a grid, this helped me gain more understanding about the time signatures and how it changes the feel of the song. Before all this what I only used to know is that when it steps out of the bounds is of 4/4 time is that it's swung most probably Lol. You've helped another idiot become less of an idiot which is the main reason why we all do this, I think.

Hi from the future! 👩‍🚀😆 I'm here to bring the Avatar (I'm sorry 😉) the Elements 🌎🌊🌬️🔥 timestamps! 🎉: Introduction 00:00 Challenge's concept #117 6:22 Sisterlain 7:47 August Stevenson 10:38 Tilde 13:03 Deejay Vu 15:45 Newt 18:32 Kraft Dinner For All 21:34 Maddie 24:43 Leeway 27:22 Zaibu 29:51 Frederik 33:05 GooZe 36:26 Omari 39:36 BitStart 42:34 Vunsunta 45:08 FrioVentus 48:48 Max's previous composition 53:16 Clousure 55:11 Awesome music!!! Is inspiring, as always!! Thanks for your time and for share 🤗🥳🪇, greetings! 👋

Wow, thank you so so much for the video and the companion page - there's amazing content and for free, can't believe it! I wrote a song and had some trouble writing down the B Part. I thought it was a fast 3/4, but whenever I sang it with band something felt off. Then a friend of mine played it in a duo context and he suggested 12/8 for the B Part and it finally felt right. I was really happy to learn this, so I didn't have to break the song down to 3/4 or 4/4, but could sing and play it how I feel it.

where can we just listen to this song lol

Hey Max. It's been a long time. it's so good to hear from you. Sorry I havent been able to respond for so long I was just busy crashing out lol. I have gotten SO much better with understanding music theory, and have been learning jazz harmony. But I decided why stop at being a prouducer. I want to become a composer (not professioally ofc, though that would be cool. ut just for fun and make it a part of music collection) I wanna know how to rightly divide string sections, woodwinds, and brass too. Maybe can you make a short video on that if you could

Observation I made during the twinkle listening exercise. I found the feelings of each degree change when it was done preceded by another degree. For instance what 4 felt like in the scale, 5 did in the melody. Which is interesting because IIRC it was the first descent in each exercise

THANK YOU!~

At 23:20 you are saying that flat 3 is a little bit more dissonant with the tonic than flat 7, I am not sure about that. If your logic is that the further away on the circle, the more dissonant, it seems wrong. For instance, 3 is more consonant than 6, 2 or 4…

Such amazing entries this time. Had to come back for another listen.

I'm really stuck at two things, first is that i can't recognize chromatics together(like the same degree sounds different when i play it with another chromatic degree like 2nd,3rd,4th,6th, and 7th with flat/sharp degrees and vice versa) and I can't recognize melodies when someone's signing it and i want to recognize it directly by listening to it rather than sing along etc... Can you please tell me a way to deal with both?

+ energy sent your way Max. Heal well and keep kickin ass.

This song is amazing! I just want to listen to it all day.

I suffer with the same back problems 40+ years now. I use a height adjustable desk, play keyboards sitting and mixing standing up. Some days just forget it and go for a walk.❤

Was so excited for this one can't wait to see what everyone came up with 😂😂

I remember you lol

Dear Max, thank you so much for all this amazing content. Is there a specific place where one can leave questions for possible future q&a's?

6/8 has more in common with 2/4 than with 3/4 due to having two primary beats - i think of 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 as a triplified 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 respectively

Got bug on each sedation!

I love the way you talk about ear training and this vid has more useful additional information. I know you're not really interested in recognizing specific voicings as you mention you pretty much only care about chord position and quality, but as an aspiring jazz pianist it's one of the things I'd like to be able to recognize better. Still, just applying your ideas I realize I just need to become familiar with all the different types of voicings. Thank you for your contributions 🫡

a suggestion would be listening to Hindustani classical music which is harmonically very static and always has a drone accompaniment.. In particular look up ALAP.. this is where the artist established the mode so it is very free and unmetered.. All classical melody is about the relationship of melody to drone.. The drone is like the earth stable and unchanging.. the melody is the air element shifting and free..

When he hit the C note hard 🎉

May I ask where I can listen to the whole piece of which you play the excerpt @9:30 minutes. It is lovely indeed.

I've been working on my audiation and everything in this video is so helpful. It's absolutely a mashup of theory, scales, triads, chord progressions etc. Its opened up my eyes to something I always thought was impossible for me to do. Takes time and practice but it's fun practice.

To all the prods, he's refferring "routenote" as the tonic

A truly recomend to listen to Argentian Folklore that is based on all the types of 6/8 approches. Like Zamba (very slow tempo) and Chacarera and Chamame (that are medium and fast tempos)

This approach is needed in the greater balance of musical conversation 🙏🙌💪

Hi Max - I really jive with your mental model for this stuff; thanks so much for sharing. Quick question: When you’re listening to - and attempting to improvise over - a song in mixolydian (e.g. B, F#m, A, E, B), is it “okay” to perceive the tonic as the first note in the mixolydian scale (B) or would you recommend training away this tendency until my brain always perceives the tonic as the root of the relative major scale (E)? I guess the same question goes for minor key songs (i.e. do you think of the root of the relative major as their tonic). Thanks again!

Another thing about inversions to help with learning them for beginners is that they typically give the sensation of wanting to "move somewhere else" without needing leading tones or very dissonant intervals. So if you hear a basic chord or triad that "wants to move" but it isn't a dominant 7th chord or another tension chord that has extensions, then it's most likely an inversion. A trick I use myself is to compare what the different inversions sound like in the context of a chord progression and compare the different options and placements and how they result in feeling rest versus unrest

Excellent video! Something that may help that second question about feeling chords as a single unit versus individual degrees stacked up and trying to recognize those is that the whole purpose of chords and harmony is to add depth and texture to support a melody, unless that melody is interacting with other voices in counterpoint. The former situation doesn't need chords to be heard as a collection of individual notes, it just needs the root of the chord and quality of the intervals to create a mood effect and it's okay that they're perceived as "blob" of feeling when it comes to melody + chords. But the latter scenario with counterpoint is it's own world that whole university programs have been dedicated to studying haha

You're a genius, thank you for all the fantastic effort you've put in!

What are the drone sounds you have in your Major and Minor videos? :)

When you said: "you can recognize 12 different colors", I thought: "I can't, I'm color blind". It doesn't mean I can't see colors, I just can't recognize the difference between all colors. I'm wondering if there is something similar with audio. As far as I'm aware, I'm color blind because of a physical deficiency, I can't learn to differentiate certain colors no matter how hard I exercise. What if my ear is the same? I've been a musician for 30 years and my ear has always been my weakest ability. And it's not because I have hearing damage, I actually have incredibly sensitive hearing.