How to Practice Without Sheet Music: Tips for Professional Musicians

[@lyndafoster9437]

I have been doing the chord walk down. Without looking at the music. I will do this now. Thank you

[@GregoryAgid]

Thats amazing! Happy practicing!

[@pickls]

you're truly an inspiring person to me

[@GregoryAgid]

THANK YOU!

[@joenremmer]

Hi Gregory, thank you so much for the routine, I absolutely love it. I haven't been so challanged for weeks, my brain is boiling. The beauty of it in my opinion is, that you take those little building blocks of major triads (which are more or less hardcoded in your muscle memory) and you start combining them in a greater harmonic context. So whilst playing/learning this excercise, you can focus your mental effort on keeping track of the intervals, whilst paying minimal attention to the individual triad (fingering). It really opens up my comprehension of harmonic relationships, and allows me to experience the sound off it in a much more inspiring way than simply playing single pitches in certain intervals. I'm deliberately doing it without a sheet in front of me, but when in doubt (so as not to hardcore mistakes) I briefly check with the video.

[@SuperDuperTuberTube]

You have such great ideas. Thanks!

[@GregoryAgid]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this. It takes a lot of time to make these videos and I appreciate your support very much. 🙏

[@georgespencer3973]

Great idea. Thank you

[@GregoryAgid]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting!

[@GregoryAgid]

I appreciate that so much. Thank you for watching and supporting me.

[@xavimolinamusic]

Thanks truly hepful!!

[@GregoryAgid]

Glad to help!

[@MyBailey777]

Another great video, Gregory. I practice using books by David Hyte and Kalman Opperman. BIW- I'm a clarinetist!

[@GregoryAgid]

Both amazing warm up selections. Thank you so much for watching!

[@SecondLineArtsCollective]

Love these videos!

[@GregoryAgid]

Glad you like them!

[@samuelbrown434]

Great! Now do augmented 4ths in whole steps! Hahaha. Not really but that does make me think you could also compound your interval skipping in a similar way using two different intervals. Like major thirds in minor thirds. So major triads in this order, grouped in pairs: C-E, Eb-G, Gb-Bb, A-C#. With this sequence you could even reverse the direction of every other triad and get some half step voice leading: C-E-G, B-G#-E, Eb-G-Bb, D-B-G etc!! The possibilities are endless!

[@GregoryAgid]

Spot on! I love this comment very much! In Alvin Batite's Root Progression, he actually combines half steps and whole steps in sections 3 and 4: Half Whole diminished scale and whole half diminished scale. You are totally correct, the possibilities are endless. You can create some very cool sounds that are completely unique to you! Thanks for watching and commenting. Just followed your channel too.

[@samuelbrown434]

@@GregoryAgid Thanks for the follow man it means the world to me even though my channel has been inactive for a while! 😆

[@quentinmorales]

Some are quite interesting musically, some others not so much 😊