How to Play By Ear Pt. 2 - Answering YOUR Questions!

[@CoreyLennox]

Thanks for watching and please let me know if you have any other questions, or things you'd like to learn more about! 🎵 Here's the link to my full piano by ear course! bit.ly/piano-by-ear-coreylennox

[@michaelpoindexter4306]

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[@CoreyLennox]

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[@songsomg7627]

Excellent teaching; very useful hints / points in a very short time. Never seen like yours before. Thank you so much for your time sharing your wisdom

[@ibanezprestige]

Great video with clear and concise explanations making it easy for viewers to follow. Many Thanks!!

[@darrylem6157]

Wow! I waited sooo long for someone to make the connection between the major and minor scales like u did! If most people would have done tutorials like u and Sean Daniel (guitarist). Thsi is sooo much more practical and productive. I'm not taking away the value of the theory but just trying to make the journey more simple. Great job sir and thank u!

[@CoreyLennox]

I'm really and truly glad you like my approach! I was honestly a little worried about posting this, because it's definitely a shortcut in terms of the music theory, but that's just how I think about these things and it really makes everything a lot simpler. Thanks for watching Darryl!

[@NomeDeArte]

Really helpful, I came from a country with a fixed Do, and is kinda weird when I look the piano label with Do from a D note, but I totally get why you say is important to cover all bases. Thank you for all the hard work you put on the channel!

[@gabrielgherman87]

Same here!

[@eglasb]

Excellent video! Thanks!

[@Jcarbonellmakesmusic]

You are an amazing teacher. I went to the Los Angeles Film School for music production for like 3 years before I transferred to a city college. La film teaches nothing… you rock!

[@clarieking4603]

Ur video is very good keep it up God bless

[@sospiroso]

Lucid, logical and unpretentious. Excellent tutorial presentation keeping it simple and straightforward. 👍

[@amy-sun-shines]

Thank you, this is a great overview, and I am SO happy for your answer to consider the minor scale within the context of the major. That actually coincides with my training as a shaped note singer. I’d never heard of assigning Do as a minor scale tonic until this video, and cringed at the thought. We always sing La as the tonic in a minor scale, and your explanation helps me to realize the significance of that.

[@flutep2069]

Your daughter is so cute! God bless you and your family!

[@MichaelMacherey]

That was my lightbulb moment! Absolut(C,D,E) and Relative(Do, Re, Mi), Movable Do!👍

[@unclemick-synths]

My first experience of solfège as a youth must have been fixed-Do because it seemed to offer nothing so I have paid little attention to it. Movable solfège makes so much more sense and is a powerful tool for internalizing the sound of intervals. You also answered my questions about minor keys. Minors are important to me because there are beautiful symmetries to the natural minor that are missing from the major (and they make a lot of sense on my main instrument which is bass guitar which is very visual pattern oriented) so I think as comfortably in the minor as the major - I never think of the minor as a twist on the major (especially as A-A is evidence that major is actually a twist on the minor! 😎)

[@JoseLima-pt9hu]

I'm also from a country that uses SI instead of Ti but I am aware that some coountries use TI and that's ok, of course. One of the things I discovered in this video was the concept of moveable DO, which is used in conjuntion with the A to G (or C to B) nomenclature. I think that in Europe in general we use the fixed DO and this idea of moveable DO makes lot of sense to me. Thank you. Great second lesson on ear training.

[@pixelduster2000]

I'm so lucky to have run into this channel. Best teacher on the internet.

[@CoreyLennox]

That means a ton!!

[@Photologistic]

So “movable” is relative, fixed is perfect. I agree, and relative pitch is a good skill most anyone can learn, even if perfect pitch seems unattainable.

[@petrieberries]

Thank you 💝

[@tonaydachidofr8241]

Great teaching

[@simonwale6993]

Thanks for the 1st Vid. And Hello Vivian 👋

[@raquellopez112]

❤you have a beautiful daughter. Congratulations 😊😊😊😊😊.

[@pitttman]

This was so helpful!

[@CoreyLennox]

Glad to hear it!

[@mr7clay]

In Fixed Do countries, from what I gather, trying to learn Movable do on top would add confusion, so maybe the pragmatic solution is to use scale degrees (1 2...) for thinking in relative pitch. As you suggest, 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 is a fine pragmatic approach for learning by ear.

[@CoreyLennox]

Totally! Honestly I personally think about these things in terms of the numbers as well. I should have mentioned that in the video!

[@cragedouglas9465]

Thanks again Lennox, and big up to your baby daughter too. Very good looking.

[@vineeth433]

hi I saw ur part-1 video it was really great and helpful ❤ But I need a help I wanna learn to play song buy listening.I tried to find chords as the formula like ( I ,V,VI,IV) but it wasn’t that perfect especially Indian songs cuz I’m a Indian so I tried with few songs 😂 I wanna play just like as you play any songs on any key So I’m waiting to learn that from you.. And I hv lot more questions And I believe you will help me❤ God has gifted you a beautiful girl baby❤ And Thank you for making us all this video ❤

[@yegor.akimov]

Cool! Next video need to be about Nashville Number System 😄

[@EfigLoveTucson]

Pretty cool (2nd) video... I watched Part 1 first... and I agree, let's not get too sensitive about the whole So-Sol and Ti-Si... I'm from Peru, and JUST NOW / BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEO, I understand why, in Peru, we call La (Am) and LA (A major) :) :) :) I had no idea about the Fixed Do and Moveable Do... "so(l)" THANK YOU for the way you teach, it is amazing!!!! that pun about "so(l)" was very much intended!!! :) :) You have a subscriber for LIFE!

[@dalemcmillen2065]

Two questions: 1.When I studied music in college a long time ago we used 1 2 3 4 5 etc instead of Do Re Mi Fa So. However since then, I see most everyone using traditional solfege. Is there a reason why one is better than the other. 2. For minor scales, I see you didn't change the labels on the piano. This looks like both a minor third and a major third are both "mi", a minor 6th and a major 6th are "fa". This is very confusing and seems counter productive. Thanks!

[@pulsarlights2825]

Modes confused me for a long time because I could not get the C-Am thing because it was all the same notes. When I started comparing C major to C minor I could hear the difference and feel how the whole steps and half steps differed. Just my 2 cents...great video.

[@CoreyLennox]

Oh totally. It’s weird to wrap your head around at first, but ultimately it just comes down to where the focus is. What are you emphasizing? Same thing for the other modes, if you find you’re playing all white keys but the entire song is focusing on the Dm chord primarily, you’d be in D Dorian. Or if you’ve got an F# (normally the key of G) but the whole song is kind of emphasizing the C chord as your starting point, you’d be in C Lydian.

[@portuguesemania]

You are great 👍 thanks a lot for this content. Are you still available for online lessons?

[@CoreyLennox]

I am but my schedule is totally booked right now!

[@ldiazmdiaz]

As far as I heard "Si" was changed to "Ti" due to "So" letter "S" existed per the abbreviation. Who cares use what you want and feel more comfortable.

[@unclemick-synths]

Exactly, using Ti has that advantage and really the pedants are just like the Brits and Americans wasting breath whining at each other about colour vs color!

[@pulsarlights2825]

Would the same principles apply to other modes as well? Is there an easy way to tell if a song is in the Dorian mode, for example?

[@marianboudreau1337]

So... doesn't the solfege scale sound different if you are in a minor key?

[@codetech5598]

The countries that use fixed Do don't use the letter names C,D,E,F,G,B at all. They say Do, Re, Mi, etc. If they want the note between they will say Do Sharp, etc.

[@JayCee-hw4zc]

We day ti and so in Australia too. 4:04

[@eliorakiva9704]

Thank you for the great explanation! I just want to ask, if the song is in a minor key, how do you refer to the 1 chord of the relative major scale? (the 4 chord is calm and happy, the 5 chord feel tension and and resoleved...) we need to refer it like a major key just with a lot of 6 chords in it right (with the feeling of resolved)? so what is the feeling of the 1 chord of the relative major key?

[@CoreyLennox]

I need to do a more thorough video on minor and modes, that's a hard one to sum up via text! But the short answer is just try to think of them as belonging to the relative major key. So if you had Am, F, G, Am you could call it i, bVI, bVII, i in a minor key... OR just think vi, IV, V, vi in the major key (C). So it would be sad (vi), peaceful (IV), then motion or pull (V), then back to sad. Obviously an oversimplification but I hope that makes sense!

[@eliorakiva9704]

@@CoreyLennox Thank you for the answer! but if I have Am, F, G, Am in the key of Am, if I think of it in the the major key (C), so Am is the (vi) cord of C and it need to feel sense of sad, but because I play in the key of Am, I need to feel sense of tonic. isn't? and what about C chord when I play in the key of Am? it's the tonic of the relative major but I'm not soposed to feel tonic, so what is the feeling of the C chord in the key of Am?

[@user-sm6sz1el8o]

Thank You sm for the video! Im trying to buy the course but the linknisnt working :(

[@dmlq48]

If you're learning Byzantine Chant, you'll learn it by solfège. But, instead of do, re, mi, you'll learn it as Πα (pa), βου (vou), γα (gha), δι (thee), κε (ke), ζω (zo), νη (knee), πα (pa).

[@j.w.8663]

@1:49 OBVIOUSLY those people have never watched "The Sound of Music" 😂

[@CoreyLennox]

Right!?

[@SusanRichardsDay]

Are there the 1, 4, 5 chords used frequently in minor scales ?

[@pulsarlights2825]

the 4,5,6 in a minor key is in like a thousand songs, but I never knew what to call it. It is a subset of the Andalusian Cadence, but that usually has a major 3 chord which implies Harmonic Minor....this stuff can get confusing.....

[@CoreyLennox]

Yes! The primary chords work exactly the same way in the minor scales as well. For example in A minor: i - Am (a,c,e) iv - Dm (d,f,a) v - Em (e,g,b) OR V - E (e,g#,b) The only difference is- as I mention in this video- that V chord can sometimes have a G# which is why I have two options there. One with G natural, the other with G sharp. Hope that makes sense!

[@mjcrofton]

Golden Rule Simplified and Improved. I suggest that the root note of a scale be taught as being a W (Whole), (i.e. not nothing), and then the scale would read WWWHWWWH i.e. 8 notes. Very simple, very symmetrical and consistent with the unchanging notion that the octave in every scale has 8 notes, not 7 notes. The "Golden Rule" as presented by your course suggests to a beginner that a scale has only 7 notes. WWHWWWH. Confusing because the root note is left out, which adds complexity. Go with WWWHWWWH (up) and HWWWHWWW (down). 8 simple notes in the octave up and down the scale. No brainer. .

[@chrispurvis2136]

WWHWWWH are not the notes but the intervals between the notes. that's why there are only 7. having 8 intervals does not make any sense, because that would mean there are 9 notes to the scale.

[@marianboudreau1337]

Yes I like that. That sounds like something I would have come up with. Works for me!!

[@marantz777]

I do not totally agree about the Fixed/Relative debate. At least in Italy and i most other country, if you want to think relative you use "Grades" not "notes". You can talk using roman numbers like I II III IV V VI VII (from first to sixth grade). That is a much more intuitive ways to go relative, because almost anyone still use absolute even with Do Re Mi...

[@CoreyLennox]

That's fair. To me it's all just different ways of referring to the same concepts. Here in the states the way I explained it is far more common but you're right that just talking about scale degrees in terms of numbers would lead to a lot less confusion than solfege. I'm taking note of that for future videos :)

[@moutainnear]

Ti--a drink with jam and bread

[@CoreyLennox]

You know it!

[@omarmacabuhay3823]

Cute

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