Advanced Ear Training - Do you REALLY Know your Intervals?

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

CORRECTION - 1:03:55 I copied and pasted the wrong audio. Thanks to failgod9079 for spotting this. These videos are so info-dense that editing them makes my head swim; my apologies. I will soon be hiring someone to proof-watch/proof-listen to my videos, so hopefully these little glitches will become far less common. Eventually I will make this video unlisted and re-upload with the error clipped out. What did you think was the hardest level? For me, hands down it is Level 9 Singing Descending Intervals. FOLLOW ME FOR THE LATEST NEWS ON CONTENT Facebook: facebook.com/JoeLuegersMusicAcademy Instagram: instagram.com/joeluegersmusicacademy Website: www.luegerswriter.com/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@Zonewriter3]

i concur. re level 9 - singing descending intervals. it is very challenging. Repetition, repetition, repetition! Good stuff, Joe!

[@tallguym4m]

For me, level 9 not so bad - but level TEN! :/ I think (forgive me if it sounds like making excuses) it was more the timbre that challenged me. Had it been an actual piano and violin playing, I think it would have been much easier for me. But I loved the challenge!! :) Thanks Joe! I've been enjoying your vids!

[@richardzhou6775]

Joe, I watched through the entire video the first time. Solfege was rooted in my mind. So, I always tried to find the reference through solfege, which works pretty well. But I am not sure that is the right way or wrong way to do it. Thank you so much for this wonderful video lesson. By the way, I made many mistakes in Level 10.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Interval Guide 1st - Same Note Minor 2nd - Sharp Dissonance. Jaws. Major 2nd - Soft Dissonance. Happy Birthday. Minor 3rd - Imperfect Consonance. Zelda's Lullaby. Major 3rd - Imperfect Consonance. When the Saints go Marching In. Perfect 4th - Perfect Consonance. Here Comes the Bride. Tritone - Sharp Dissonance. The Simpsons Perfect 5th - Perfect Consonance. Star Wars Main Theme. Minor 6th - Imperfect Consonance. The Entertainer. Major 6th - Imperfect Consonance. My Bonnie. Major 7th - Sharp Dissonance. Take on Me. Octave - Perfect Consonance. Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

[@Zonewriter3]

I'm finally at the point where I don't need the song title refs anymore for major an minor intervals. This will help with the chromatic nuances. Thanks!

[@AngelCleva]

My minor 7th song is "Somewhere" - West Side Story

[@AngelCleva]

Also I find minor 3rd Canada's Hymn to work best for me... I can really recomend trying out multiple songs, so you can find the one, that you can recognise in every Key 😊

[@Zonewriter3]

Thanks Joe! This is a great add-on to the original!! This is exactly the level I'm at...thanks to endless looping of your other interval trainings. I am really looking forward to your Chord Progressions Ear Training course!! As always, thanks for all the effort to share your passion!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for being a constant listener! When I was editing this video, I actually ran into a few weak spots in my own ability. Singing a descending tritone or minor 6th with only one reference pitch really took some polishing. Next month’s video will be a 1 1/2 hour roundup of all my shorts. Scripts are written for chord progressions, scales, and sight singing.

[@sarahsmith1418]

I haven’t ever felt challenged by ear training and this is most welcome. This is genuinely very exciting to play with.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! I'd like to make more like this. I've had an advanced chords video requested quite a bit.

[@sarahsmith1418]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy I would love to see an advanced chords video!! There’s really no one else making content (and for FREE? In this economy??) like this and it’s very appreciated!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

If you look at the fine print in the description, everyone watching is required to put me in their will and send me two pints of their blood a year.

[@sarahsmith1418]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy you are hereby entitled to the entire nothing I own and are likewise welcome to the waste byproduct of blood, sweat and tears I produce making art and music that maybe like 3 people actually enjoy! I hope that covers it

[@thepianokid27]

Just finished the entire video.. wow that was challenging but so much fun! Thanks again! :) I am looking forward to a similar one like this but on chords instead! Love your "1 hour long exercises to hear almost every chord" video and would love to have a more advanced ear training video on that!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for watching! The next hour long video I release will likely be one on scales next month, but I would like to do an advanced one on chords in the future.

[@failgod9079]

Spotted an error at 1:03:55 where the wrong audio clip was played. Thanks for the video, enjoyed the exercises!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

D’oh. You’re right. Copy paste error. These videos are so information-dense that it’s hard for me to catch everything. Now that I’m getting more views, I’m going to have a proof-watching team starting next month. I will likely make this video unlisted eventually and re-upload with the mistake cut out.

[@A.isforAmara]

the fact that i came looking for this comment makes me happy :))!!

[@darthTwin6]

I posted a comment about wanting exactly this video on the first interval video. I’ll look at your videos first next time. Great video!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! I don’t know why KZbin doesn’t push playlists more, but check out my playlists sometime. I’ve put all my hour long videos into a playlist there.

[@Ana_crusis]

You should label the first a Unison that's the correct term

[@quang_phm]

Great video, thank you Joe.

[@escanance]

Very helpful and improving Please part 2, would be awesome!

[@saulvillarados312]

I've improved a lott , thank you!!!! 🎉, Are you uploading more anytime soon?, It would be great. they're by far the best exercises I've found in whole internet ❤

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! Starting in September, I’ll be uploading a 5 minute audio exercise every Wednesday that covers different topics. The hope is eventually I’ll have this massive playlist of hands-free exercises you can put on shuffle. Saturdays I do the more produced lessons. These hour long videos only come about once a month or two because they take so much time. The next one will be sight singing for the bass clef, and the one after that will be an hour of scales.

[@saulvillarados312]

Great, keep it on !!!🎉

[@jonstein6868]

just jumped in at random around 30´. These exercises are great! Thanks Joe, will come back and do some more soon ...

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Glad you found them! Thanks for watching!

[@valerypopov6499]

i dont know where to begin...so im gonna start somewhere (which is an octave :D) this hour i've spent was awesome. i practice ear training for 4-ish years now and ive never had such joy exercising like i just did. DEFINETELY asking for extreme series to continue (sight singing maybe?) Is it considered cheating if when asked to sing descending interval im still singing ascending interval (if it goes lower than fourth)? like if asked to sing Major 6 down i sing minor 3 octave lower? P.S.: you're a great guy and you do an amazing job with these videos!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks so much! I've definitely got ideas written down for more advanced videos like this, but it might be a few months because I'm trying to cover all the basics first. Right now I'm working on an hour of scales, which starts with major vs minor and goes through 20 different levels, including all the modes/pentatonic/octatatonic scales. The next advanced video I make will likely be chords because it's been requested so much.

[@olzhasus]

Was I the only one singing along right from the start 😂

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

KZbin analytics tells me that at least 18 other people were singing along. Kidding!

[@perryfrimpongmensah3710]

Haha naah

[@JazzPhrog]

I feel like singing along is the only way I can do it.

[@josnardstorm]

Bro singing along is my krutch. Until it got to singing given intervals on command. At that point, I got ashamed to call myself a singer 😔. But that’s why I’m here!

[@cayvzcult]

Nooooo. I think singing along is necessary so you hear yourself doing these correctly.. or not. Cements it in your brain way better. Imo.

[@recipehacker9752]

Best things for my ears since ear hair clippers. Please add these tunes to the written interval examples in the description to help listeners: M3 Theme from Rawhide, P4 Oh Christmas Tree, P5 Theme to A Space Oddyssey, m7 There’s a Place For Us (West Side story), now you guess the last one: Theme from movie Love Story = ??

[@thepianokid27]

I think there is an error at 21:50 whereby it sounds a Perfect 5th but the answer says Perfect 4th. Hope it's not my ears playing tricks on me but please confirm! :)

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

You’re not the first person to ask about that one. The notes I played are F-Bb, which are a perfect 4th. However, the organ sound has very prominent overtones, so you’re probably hearing Bb up to the octave overtone of F. I’ve stopped using that organ sound because it makes things sound kind of vague.

[@thepianokid27]

I see! Ok thanks for confirming that :) @@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@x.sanctus]

Do you really love my ears XD This one really got me. Wish that the KZbin Algorithm would've chosen the video you recommended to watch before. I'll definitely give both another watch. Besides that, I enjoyed the challenges in the levels 7,8 and 9. 10 was simultaneously delightful and disturbing. Since fellow listeners may recommend content: How about a video that focuses on recognizing chords that are not western canon? Quartal stuff and chord extensions

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks so much. Great idea about the chords video. I’ve always been really interested in quartal and quintal chords. To my ears, quartal chords sound a lot more tense because of how perfect 4ths are usually used as suspensions. Quintal chords sound more stable and resolute.

[@ryanrys8625]

I like this guy! Keep up the great work sir! ❤

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks! Will do.

[@pdlawson100]

Great exercises, really useful! Singing the intervals on the train got me some confused looks though 😂

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Didn’t you read the disclaimer? “Interval ear training may result in confused looks on the train.”

[@errickprayuda3380]

Thanks for all your ear training videos. I practice it 6 days a week. I found that singing is the hardest especially descending. Lv. 10 surprisingly not that hard afrer i practice singing (which is really really hard for me).

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for watching! Yes, I went through that video so many times in editing and I still have to stop and think for a moment if I want to sing a descending tritone or minor 6th.

[@errickprayuda3380]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy exactly!

[@errickprayuda3380]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy anw can you please add tritone in singing ascending intervals? That will help me a lot.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I run the order of intervals through a randomizer and it’s funny how sometimes it leaves one out. I had the idea recently to do an entire hour of singing intervals, one at a time starting from different pitches. Hopefully I can get to it soon.

[@errickprayuda3380]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy that would be wonderful. I would certainly practice that everyday.

[@adrianherralgot4071]

19:44 yes its a perf. 4th but also a minor 2nd between the string and the answer pling sound😂😆

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Beautiful, huh?

[@racquelroberts]

Question: Is the interval at 26:33 a Perfect 4th? It's marked a perfect 5th. It's low, so maybe my ears need a little more practice down there. BTW, I am LOVING your videos, Joe. :) They are exactly what I needed to elevate my music game. Thank you so much for creating them. They work and are fun.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for watching! I think someone asked about that example once before and I double checked the original file. There’s a bass playing a 5th under an acoustic guitar, although the octave overtone is so prominent in one of the instruments that I would almost say either answer is correct since they are inversions of one another.

[@racquelroberts]

Oh! That makes perfect sense. Cool. TY, Joe! @@joeluegersmusicacademy

[@karlschmied6218]

20:50 I hear three notes here and with respect to the lowest note it's a fifht and an octave.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I listened to it again and checked the original score. The example is correct, but you are probably hearing a prominent octave overtone l (which actually means your ear is pretty good!)

[@FlorianMunze-rs6zd]

Thank you soooooo much! Its been very helpful. For me 3,4,5,6,9 and 10 are the ones I had some mistakes or a lot (6,10) It would be nice if you‘d make more, my ears are not bleeding yet

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

How about: I’ll think of an interval, and you guess which one I’m thinking of.

[@FlorianMunze-rs6zd]

Haha. I have no intention of stuying viola. xD

[@jokester5130]

How are you supposed to tell the difference between a minor 2nd and a major 7th if you don't know if the tonic is the higher or lower note?

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Good question. This kind of ear training is “non-functional”, which especially helps you in advanced music without a clear tonic. It’s all about distance. A major 7th will sound much larger than a minor 2nd.

[@CamiloVelandia]

Fantastic!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks!

[@josnardstorm]

26:20. I think that guitar is slightly out of tune. I can’t tell if it’s too narrow or too wide, but it doesn’t sound like a perfect octave

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I used midi instruments for all of these, so they should be in tune. I believe the confusion comes from the fact that some instruments have very prominent overtones which make the intervals sound inverted.

[@babyzorilla]

Tough stuff but I’m gonna get it

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Yeah you are!!!

[@thiagoleite7988]

Thanks!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks so much!!!

[@billybrioso7438]

Great content

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks!

[@robinshepherd7260]

Sooooo helpful. Please more!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

kzbin.info/aero/PL40pFkWbVtdk0NVhK5V8dWM2W_-aXY918 Hoping to add new videos to this playlist each month.

[@LexaTerrestrialx]

yeah once I found these I was like "oh I can do ear training wherever now"

[@thiagoleite7988]

Thanks!

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

You bet!

[@poerava]

Those strings are killing me man.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Hahahahaha! Sorry! They sound better with headphones, so I’ve heard. I’ve stopped using them more recently.

[@poerava]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy Thank you brother Love your work man! Brilliant stuff. I’ve sent it to my friends.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

@@poerava awesome! Thanks so much for sharing.

[@yips5466]

Why you not make Video everyday ear training but in short duration

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I release a music short every day - check out my playlist “ear training shorts”. For regular videos, the KZbin algorithm seems to prefer my long videos. Starting in August I’ll be releasing a full video every Saturday.

[@curtpiazza1688]

Excellent! 😂

[@Bruce.-Wayne]

@9:56....how could this be a minor 7th?....any chord notation in D major with D at the root and C on top sounds nothing like a minor 7th chord....3rd and 7th are the character of the chord....

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

These are intervals, not chords, which refers to the distance between notes. A D minor 7 chord contains that interval but a lot of the color of the chord comes from the minor 3rd D-F. In D major, the diatonic 7th would be a D Major 7 chord, which contains a C#

[@demolicionesdemexico]

Thx v much... But, It Will be Great if you loose the strings only piano , ir muxed timbres on intervalos.. but without the strings attached... THX 👍🙋🏻‍♂️

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

You’re the second person to ask for that, so I’ll go ahead and remove strings in the future on anything that doesn’t require a lot of sustain.

[@demolicionesdemexico]

Would be Great if you remive rhe "strings"🎉

[@EarTrainingMastery]

Descending Intervals are way harder. Don’t you think…?

[@sarahsmith1418]

Is there an error at 1:04? I am hearing a perfect fourth in the strings there but it says the correct answer is a major second.

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Your timestamp is at the beginning before the exercises start. Maybe you mean 1:04:00? Check my pinned comment. There is a mistake at the very end where I basically copied and pasted the wrong audio clip.

[@sarahsmith1418]

@@joeluegersmusicacademy oh yes, oops!! That’s what I meant! And I looked at the comments and I see you already caught it 🙈

[@xisotopex]

not so much ear training, as ear weeding out lol... pretty much convinced that you either got it, or you dont, and if you dont got it, no amount of ear training is going to get it for you... you may learn a few tricks to recognize some things like a circus dog, but the reality is some people are wired for it and the rest of us are not... lol... this is what separates the pretenders from the real deal... i will still keep trying though...

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

So it is true that some people have amusia, or tone deafness, and others develop perfect pitch at a very early age while the learning window is still open. The good news is that most of us fall in the middle and can gradually develop musical skills over the course of years. It’s all about daily, incremental growth. I couldn’t match pitch pre-college, and now I teach choir.

[@romalomo]

Keep trying, don't get discouraged. I only started training my ears a couple years back already being a young adult. Now, I can succesfully do most of these exercises, except decsending intervals which I haven't practiced. PRACTICE is the key word. If you can sing a melody you can do this. Sing a major scale, if you can feel that 7th degree pushing towards the tonic, I promise you can do this. The key is to look for theese feelings for each one of the intervals. They all feel different, even if just slightly. But it takes time, practice and especially patience. Start with the easy things. It doesn't matter how basic you think it is. In time you'll get there, I promise.

[@fabieng6864]

Level 10 😂😂😂 yes

[@pedrolopes6071]

Omg I suck at these 😢

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Did you try these first? Interval Ear Training - 1 hour of hands-free ear training exercises kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2S2mGlujcehnbM

[@martim2810]

i'm sure i hear a major third at 15:58, i'm trying to hear a 4th but it seems to me that this is some sort of error can you clarify this for me? thanks for the videos btw, they're awesome 🫶

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

Thanks for the comment! This example is the lowest E on the piano moving to the lowest B, which is a perfect 4th. That low B is so hard to hear though; at that spectrum it sounds like a low rattle. Try playing an e and b along to it in a higher octave.

[@cayvzcult]

God I hate ear training. No wonder I avoided it for so long. Oh well I’m gonna go thru lesson one every day till I get ay least 90%. I’m getting like 20-30 now lol. Garbage lol

[@joeluegersmusicacademy]

I have a huge playlist of ear training arranged somewhat by difficulty, and this is one of the last videos. Maybe check out some of the earlier videos: kzbin.info/aero/PL40pFkWbVtdlfiS6YGQ3zr9mQRj7naT19