Ear Training - Theory and Practice w/Dave Frank

[@cimmik]

Just for the structure. 6:57 Lennie's Ear Training System 17:19 Charlies Ear Training System 27:30 Dave's Inner Ear Line Method

[@lindokuhle2472]

Thank you

[@GarryBurgess]

One of those methods is also called the Allain Benbasset method, with the cadence first, and then the random note to name. The app called "Functional Ear Training" will hammer that into your head in an easy way, and after you guess, it resolves it to the tonic, but using the ascending or descending scale tones.

[@connor6842]

This by far the best ear training video I have seen on youtube. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@DaveFrank]

please enjoy a vivst to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, there are currently 34 in-depth videos for you, all free)

[@sliverhandsonbasses]

Watching the scat part with subtitles is priceless! 👌🏿

[@DaveFrank]

hahaha)

[@pablinksksks]

Stefano knows better

[@wesleybrehm9386]

I’m dying laughing. I had to go back and watch the scat with subtitles after reading this comment. 10/10. Would recommend.

[@serthomas4103]

Dave, you are very inspiring person. I thought about playing jazz for about 20 years (being IT guy), and now started to learn jazz... You have very bright and clear impro, best what I found in internet - thank you for sharing such excellent skill.

[@DonYurik]

Some tunes for the Charlie´s method: Ther long and winding road for the minor 2nd, Beethovens 5th Symphony for the major 3rd, A little night music for the perfect 4th, Simpsons Theme for the flat 5th, Superman´s theme for perfect 5th, My way (or Days of Wine and Roses, or Chopin´s nocturne op 9 number 2) for the major 6th, and Superman´s theme again for the major 7th. Hope it helps :)

[@GlennMichaelThompson]

Thanks for these lessons and approaches to ear training. You were fortuitous enough to study with Lennie Tristano AND Charie Banacos!?! Amazingly solid background with mentors like that! Thanks for your other online lessons and related material from your website. Very generous of you to be sharing all of this great knowledge. Thanks again!

[@genopierpoint8887]

Most informative stuff I've seen on KZbin so far.. Word..

[@DaveFrank]

Geno Pierpoint Pleasevisit the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com for 27 more in-depth classes on all sorts of cool topics. All free w/no commercials:)

[@vecernicek2]

Dave, you're a blessing. I have say 15 years experience as an amateur jazz musician and I know maybe 70% of the stuff you teach, but you do a fantastic job in putting it together, which makes all the difference. Please keep doing what you're doing.

[@DojoOfCool]

Thank you so much. Something another teacher told me was two short ET practice sessions per day is better than one long one.

[@edzielinski]

Thanks so much. Each technique is explained very lucidly both visually and verbally and the hands-on demonstrations are invaluable. Your instructional videos are some of the most useful and easiest to follow, around, even though they are jam packed with good information.

[@jazzman1945ify]

Hi, Dave! ! I remember that you have melodica. Take it into the hands - without a mouthpiece or corrugated tube, press any interval, without releasing the fingers on keys , and sing those notes directly into the tap hole of instrument (with narrowed mouth, so as not to lose the air) calling them aloud : for example: "Do - Mi -Do - Mi". The voice and melodica sound simultaneously; remains only adjust fine tuning the voice under the sound of instrument Experience shows that it can make a man with no ear for music.

[@arthursantiago100]

It’s funny. I heard someone else about 3 decades younger than I do the “ song - interval “ recognition method once. Didn’t know a single song he was talking about. Haha. Thanks for taking the tunes back a century. Anyway, got your joy of improv books. Love the inner ear method as it relates to certain musical lines. Helping a lot already... have been using it only a couple of months. Thank u !

[@billpiano]

Dave thanks for the video. I studied with Charlie for about 10 years. Like you mentioned he always pushed eartraining. One thing I'll add is when just starting out with recognizing a single note play the cadence then turn around and play a random note with the eraser end of a pencil so you can't tell what it is by seeing or feeling it. Doesn't work as well with more notes, hence the tapes. He also suggested doing it with another person. But I don't think many people could find a partner always available for the amount of time this requires. At one of my lessons a new kid came in for the first time. We were all talking. The new guy said he was going to practice 6 hours a day. Charlie told him to break the time up 3 hours ear training (or ear straining, Charlie was such a jokester) and 3 hours on the rest of the stuff. Hope this might someone. Bill

[@billpiano]

Also, there is an app for a PC that automates this exercise. I thing maybe one of Charlie's wrote it. It's called Functional Ear training app.

[@mharbaugh]

I'm SO glad you mentioned the note you focus on as "popping out." I discovered this phenomenon a few years ago, and I didn't know if anybody else had that same experience, or if it was even worth pursuing. Thanks so much Dave, I owe you one!

[@b00rak]

Lennie's system helped me almost instantly. I had a big problem distinguishing between P4 and P5 harmonicaly and now the problem is gone. Thanks a lot.

[@DaveFrank]

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[@arthursantiago100]

Frank

[@Sitt593]

Dave Frank Congratulations, excellent video, I was looking for one like this. Regards from Ecuador (South America)

[@SNCDeeDee]

dear mr dave , i truly admire what you are doing , in your honest and relaxed ways . and for free ! you have claimed many hours of my life to practice on the concepts you talk about in your 21 videos . some of this stuff is pretty new to me , some other concepts where floating in my head and you made them unfloat :) . respect !

[@DaveFrank]

where are you located? Thanks for writing, you may enjoy the master class and music video archive at www.davefrankjazz.com..new class coming..

[@SNCDeeDee]

sint-niklaas , east-flanders - belgium

[@vancelovett2339]

So happy to find your vids Dave! I hear music in my head all day and now I can more easily define it and get it down. So excited to practice these every day (even just listening over on the train is helpful). Thanks so much!

[@DaveFrank]

Hi Vance thanks for writing) Please enjoy any of 59 in-depth master classes all free at davefrankjazz.com. FYI I have a new online jazz school that meets live every Saturday on Zoom) Blessings and keep swingin!

[@je644]

Thanks mr.Dave..I've learned a lot from this video..first the 3 kinds of pitches and their differences and then the 3 systems to develop my ears...pls. keep it up, maestro!

[@christianromero4752]

let me just say that you are the best teacher I have ever had, thank you for making these videos!!

[@DaveFrank]

wow you gotta get out more hahahaha) Please enjoy the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, currently 33 free in-depth classes just for you!

[@christianromero4752]

You're the best cause you don't mind repeating it over and over and over and over and over... lol

[@DaveFrank]

haha

[@ejo3571]

Great. hope to make it..I'll keep on working that inner ear. Thanks.

[@hebron6296]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! you're a great teacher a great piano player and a great person :D thank you for sharing your knowledge. greatings from Mexico.

[@jacktuffery9930]

I cannot believe this video has only 2k views. The most helpful video on ear training that I've found. Thanks.

[@DaveFrank]

It has 177,000 views haha, 2k likes)

[@jacktuffery9930]

Haha, embarrassing on my part! Gonna chalk it up to late night KZbin watching.

[@MrVinnyVp]

Thank you Dave, Charlie and Lennie.

[@PaulCharlesGriffin]

Thanks, Dave! Excellent video! I particularly like the letter at the end. And I like picking my own songs with memorable opening intervals (like Here Comes the Bride for the major 4th)!

[@ignobooboo]

Dave, this is the best lesson I have ever had, and I have had a lot. My friend Mark Marquis also studied with Charlie. I tried to upload a vid of him playing some outside stuff, but I don't quite understand yet how to upload a video, so I sent it to your website. I have this other friend that studies with Banacos and Charlie told him to write a solo over How High The Moon. John said "OK easy enough" Then Charlie said. "Away from your piano" At first it took him a week. A year later only an hour

[@DaveFrank]

Thank you, commenters) . I’m happy to invite you to enjoy any of 21 in-depth master classes on youtube and Ustream . These include Bill Evans, Dave McKenna, Charles Ives, a walking bassline master class, an ear training clinic, playing outside the changes clinic, Frank Zappa, Charlie Parker, Eric Dolphy, the Marx Bros, Bruce Hornsby, the Grateful Dead, Lennie Tristano, Dick Hyman, Eric Dolphy, Oscar Peterson, Liberace, and others.

[@waylander24]

The best lesson I've had on on ear training. Thanks!

[@javieramondacamacpherson2857]

Thank you so much for sharing these amazing exercises. The letter you read at the end was very sad but incredibly inspiring. Thanks!!

[@facundoestrada7026]

Thank you very much, this video helps me a lot, since I'm not able to play for music lessons for the moment.

[@DaveFrank]

thank you for writing, please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com for 53 in-depth jazz master classes, all free for you) Blessings from NYC!

[@itorres008]

The ear training method I always used was remembering song beginnings. I've really only practiced that, and the logical progression to identify harmonic intervals (notes played together). As you showed the method I noticed pitches separately as I never had. I never really had seriously tried it. I'll work on that. Thanks. Trivia regarding electronic equipment buzzing, I believe the pitches heard are overtones of a 60 Hz pitch, the cycle of alternating current - midway between Bb and B. :-)

[@christianhower8059]

I am indeed "expanding my brain capacity in an unexpected way". Thank you for sharing this!

[@ellekay3026]

Amazing! I'm doing A2 music and this will really help - Thanks!

[@alextpf]

thank you sir for sharing this great lesson

[@marisolombra]

Infinitely thankful for your help!! Now I have an alternative to my learning by trial and error.

[@DaveFrank]

this actually becomes fun after an initial period of torture)

[@UnitedEffect]

Great lessons. Thanks for sharing them!

[@manguera9]

the great flamenco fusion guitar player Paco de Lucia played by ear , and improvized by ear ,he played with John Mc Laughing and John's charts chord music are very heavy, and Paco did it, Paco began to doing gigs at the age of 12 yr old , practice 8 hours a day , people passing by his windows thought that he was playing a record.

[@RetroLPGames]

Thank you so so much! I've been playing the piano for 13 years but it wasn't until 3 years ago, that I knew what a chord is or that I was able to play anything without a note sheet. I slowly started improvising and am now able to play pop songs with the classic four chords and so on. But what I'm really looking forward to is jazz and blues. So I'm going to start today using these methods because this is the first time, I hear of a method that seems to make sense! So again: Thanks a lot :) P.S.: 19 and I know the Star Trek theme ;) Though being from Germany, I've never heard the NBC tune before :D

[@DaveFrank]

+RetroLPGames please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, there are 31 in-depth master classes to help you with your jazz playing free)

[@DaveFrank]

yes, it's ok to focus on a few if you like for awhile

[@magnificentelectromagnetic7417]

this is a great help, thank you and keep up the good work!

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Frank this excellent..excelente.. I am using the functional ear method. Great app.. I do some videos without app. I really like your choices NBC theme.etc.

[@euliskay]

Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@cedricbourgeois5134]

what u play at the begin is wonderful

[@Bookssful]

I am going to use this very method, I need to develop my ears. thanks!!!!

[@gonza666]

Thank you for this awesome lesson!

[@thecatboss123]

Das it mane, I'm sure with your videos and daily practice I'll be 1000 times better than I could ever learn by myself. Being honest, as a guitar player from your neighbour country México, here in all my years of practicing and studying there has never been a decent teacher I could reach, the good ones always say "I have to many students" and the others don't know this sort of thing. Most books I found online had alot of useless stuffing. The other "issue" is that most only teach classical guitar and I'm all about the blues/jazz/rock. I truly want to become a good musician and it may not mean much but really, thanks for getting me back in track to learning more than just replicating songs after endless hours of self-induced chimpanzee style training.

[@DaveFrank]

thanks for writing amigo! There are lots of good jazz guitar teachers teaching on skype these days, perhaps that might be useful for you)

[@Hexspa]

Been using that first method - thanks.

[@dmorti]

Thank you so much --- your videos are just amazing. So generous, clear and thoughtful! They make me want to become a music teacher. :)

[@jojomusic8532]

This is so Great! You're such a teatcher Dave!! Really inspirational

[@DaveFrank]

Thanks for writing) You may enjoy a visit to my master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, 27 in-depth master classes free for thee)

[@briancraig388]

Dave ok I am been working in C2 of the keyboard in GarageBand since that where my voice is at a comfortable start range at this time so far I am just up to hear not too far but plan to work on this over the weekend before finishing to the end of this first octave I am a 5th interval up from my starting note in C2 sum this up by hitting two notes at the same time C C# minor 2nd C D. Major 2nd C Eb.minor 3rd C F. P4 C F# Aug. P4 C G. P5 If this is not correct way of writing out whe

[@Riedel777]

Txs Dave! Great work! The blue danube waltz is also good for a perfect 1 at the beginning. In the book of John Novello i found a workable training method for me, working with the back of a pencil, instead of the finger. Perhaps interesting to you too.

[@jazzman1945ify]

Thank You so much, Dave! We are waiting for more secrets of ear development !

[@RoseWarrenMusic]

You are so cute as a teacher!!!!! and this is sooo beneficial !!!! Thank you so much !!!!!!!!! I am a fingerstyle guitarist from Taiwan, Taipei :D And I have been practicing many methods as well , and your sharing is sooooo valuable !!!! God bless you !!!!!

[@DaveFrank]

Hi Rose, nice to meet you) Please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, there are currently 38 in-depth classes, all free) Blessings from NYC!

[@RoseWarrenMusic]

Dave Frank thank you !!!!!!

[@DaveFrank]

no, hold each interval for 4-6 seconds, then go chromatically to the next interval, hold for 6 seconds or so, etc..total time 15-30 min

[@ChevonneReynolds]

This is pure AWESOMENESS sir!!!

[@Abbaddonna]

thank you very much, sir, for the great lesson!

[@AdamOuissellat]

Recalled Pitch as you like to call it is just a lower level of Perfect Pitch. You can hear the pitch "colours" or "flavours" but only with a sound you are used to. If you listen enough to another instrument in the correct way you can drive deeper than the timbre of the instrument and hear the subtleties between the pitches. Perfect Pitch has many degrees and levels. If you've ever met multiple people with the ability you'll know that some are far better than others. Some can tell the pitch of your voice, or a bird, while others can only tell pitches apart within the range of regular music (not lower of higher than a piano and only musical tones). Some can tell you the notes in a 6 part chord, others can do clusters (like chords with lots of 2nds in e.g C#, D, E, F, F#, G#, A). It can all be learned within a few months or years (depending on your circumstances) but you have to understand the ability first, and then know the right way to listen. I highly recommend everyone to check out David Lucas Burge. His course has changed the way I hear forever. Good videos by the way.

[@DaveFrank]

thanks, keep swingin!

[@richardj.rustleshyman2026]

AdamOuissellat have you gained perfect pitch from his program?

[@francescoscopellitidrums]

This is a gem! Thanks Dave! Francesco.

[@UnfortunateLifeEvents]

It takes consistency to see true results from this type of ear training.

[@DaveFrank]

+aroldka definately.

[@tomcurzon5186]

Dave thank you so much for your excellent lessons. I love every single one. While I am not quite ready to use the 15 elements, I nearly am, but have trouble constructing the bop lines so that they resolve on the strong beats - I would be so grateful for any advice on how to practice this and also some breakdown of your brilliant lines! all the best from London. Tom

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thank you, Davr🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@itorres008]

I believe the further apart the notes are, the easier it is, So perhaps you can start from the octave which would be easier, down to the minor second?

[@ferneastcott9329]

happy new year to you too! Seriously these excercises could benefit those with hearing issues, or better distinguish folks with issues of comprehension, attention etc... vs folks with hearing 'blind spots' Interesting comment about hospital sounds, at least these days the barrage of our instruments and gadgets are tuned and programmed appropriately (equal temperament)? This was not the case 25 years ago.... good or bad I am not sure. I really liked the old phones as a kid with a real bell

[@MindDoctorsMakeAcid]

Cheers Dave, great class.

[@flaviopaiva4664]

Very, very, very good.Thanks

[@courtneywinfield1947]

Thanks a lot for this. I love ear training. You definitely dont listen to music in the same way once you start it. I realised that my fan hums a c natural, now when I try to sleep with it on I end up harmonising with it in my head instead of sleeping :) anyway, subscribed and will check out your other vids for sure!

[@MamieFarish]

Thank you! I'll gives these ideas a try...

[@Siralantoon]

Dave you are some kind of a musician. I love your Masterclasses. Cool shit man!

[@DaveFrank]

Hi Alan, thanks for writing) There are 34 master classes all free at www.davefrankjazz.com)

[@Siralantoon]

How cool is that. I'm watching you do your Oscar Peterson Masterclass, while you are messaging me! Beautiful.

[@DaveFrank]

haha keep swingin amigo)

[@BobMazzo]

very helpful, thank you Mr Frank.

[@briancraig388]

Ok Dave forgive me for the bunch of question I am not new at ear training or music but I am new to this approach never herd of it until now

[@zmerz]

Fantastic!!!SUPER VIDEO!!!!Thank you!

[@DaveFrank]

Thanks for writing) Please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, there are currently 35 in-depth videos, all phree)

[@manguera9]

Gary burton(vibe) said that Stan Getz used to improvized by ear , without looking the sheet music, another testimony Herbie Hancock in his first gigs with Miles Davis , he said " i was playing a 8 bar vamp to let Miles improvize suddenly i play a wrong chord , and Miles improvized over the wrong chord" thats the power of ear training.

[@DaveFrank]

nice thanks

[@vineet5678]

great video and teacher thanks

[@harrissimo]

Thank you. I love your videos. I have become a much better player thanks to you.

[@DaveFrank]

+harrissimo That's Great! Please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, there are now 32 videos, all free for thee)

[@tallulah2]

Really loved this--thank you!

[@DaveFrank]

Thanks Tallulah, you may enjoy a visit to a new master class and video archive at www.davefrankjazz.com. 24 in-depth classes like this one all free for thee)

[@rafapintor7722]

Estos videos son geniales, para cuando subtitulados en español? un saludo y felicitaciones

[@giobattaable]

YOU ARE MY BEST TEACHER

[@briancraig388]

I was wondering how long do you need to practice this daily? God Bless great stuff : )

[@Gruszyn90]

This channel is so dope.

[@DaveFrank]

thanks for writing, please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at davefrankjazz.com for 47 in-depth classes, all free)

[@dougnickerson]

Thanks . I'm a gonna try some the ideas you recommend , im particularly Interested in these type of exercises , ive played guitar for 45 years - hv certain type of interval recognition , but it comes and goes , weird , I keep workin' - by way I love your video on piano bass lines - great presentation , other peeps were not able to 'splain it in a way I could put into prctc thanks . . I play som piano too

[@DaveFrank]

+Doug Nickerson all cool, tx for writin'..please enjoy a visit to master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com, there are 31 classes for ewe, all phree)

[@WhiteMaskPianist]

Thank you so much :)

[@DaveFrank]

$2

[@Rosannasfriend]

Can you please make more ear training videos? Thanks.

[@Maximissesable]

Fantastic! Thanks.

[@cimmik]

Why haven't I heard about any of these techniques before. I have been wondering incredible much how I could train my ear, in an as effective way as possible.

[@lucillerains3877]

You don't have to be at an instrument to train your ear. Or should I say that your Ear Training doesn't stop because you're not at your instrument. The world is full of sounds to analyze. Start with car horns. You start to hear that Volkeswagons and panel trucks have a single tone, compact cars are a minor or major third, and very expensive large cars are usually a very out of tune triad. Train whistles are usually a flatted fifth. And so forth.

[@anthonysilva5312]

Holy Lordy... what a useful lesson

[@DaveFrank]

hi, thanks for writing, please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com for 43 in-depth classes, all free:)

[@PerfectPitchForAdults]

The 3-note chords in the first system will be much easier to handle if they are played in a wide/spread position.

[@ghostring1]

Thanks Dave.

[@nitrowheelsmusic]

Thank you so much! Cheers

[@briancraig388]

Dave thanks I will work on that at this moment since back is in a lot of pain all I can use is my iPad and the on screen keyboard from GarageBand so if you have any good tips how I can use this app to get beast from these exercise or in general please let me and others know very much appreated

[@ryanedwardmusic]

Yes, absolutely.

[@tychopoupeye7730]

Great video

[@iankjenkins]

finally! another lesson!

[@afbdreds]

Great Class

[@DaveFrank]

please enjoy a visit to the master class archive at www.davefrankjazz.com for 45 in-depth jazz master classes, all free)

[@briancraig388]

oh I also have iPad app I can use called symphony pro I think this is version 3

[@DaveFrank]

Hi Tom, it's difficult to answer your ?'s without hearing you play..if you like sometime I'd be happy to give you a free skype lesson, no obligation, to discuss this further.. DF

[@Lazerlee]

Thank You Very Much

[@briancraig388]

Ok I am working on this week C2 to C3 now Dave comforta

[@iankjenkins]

keep em coming