Music Theory Revolution | Bastien Sannac | TEDxCentraleNantes

[@erich15]

I know exactly what he is talking about! I thought the same thing after a while and started to train my ear. Why do you think Ear training is so mandatory for music students in college? Opening up my ear has opened a whole new world of music to me and has speed up my learning, memorization, expressiveness, well everything music related. Music is a hearing are. The better your ear the better you can become just like he said. The better you can see the better you can paint a picture. Everything in music builds off of you ear. If our brains are wired to learn language (music being a language) the way they are and we have experience learning the way he explains, then what better way to learn! Music is the language of the heart/emotion. You have to involve emotion. The current way way of learning music, incorporating emotion comes last not first. This video is awesome!

[@erich15]

I have been using this program for a couple weeks now and it has definitely improved how i hear music! this is so cool!

[@ivankorablev-dyson8281]

This talk suggests an interesting idea of FIRST learning to speak and understand the language, and THEN to read or write. I would really love to start with those exercises! Because this sounds like a great approach to learning music. I started learning music couple of years ago (having no musical education or experience at all), and I started with music theory and solfeggio and books (so I started with reading and writing), because they seem to be the de facto standard of where to start, and I simply did not know of the other ways of learning music. But this approach seems to be more fun and engaging and intuitive! Thank you for addressing the problem and also providing a solution!

[@erich15]

I have been using this program for a couple weeks now. I started after I watch this video. I am hearing a difference! It has music more palpable to me. It is helping me to better write music to convey what it is I want to convey.

[@leif1075]

You saybthat for real and not as a paid sponsor? Lol how is it going now?

[@lou6864]

are you still using Meludia ?

[@DerJayger]

What a video. The actual content begins at about 8:00 (almost 50% in) or rather 12:00 (75% in), before that, it's just a sales-buildup. The rest is not a "new approach angle" or a revolution, but old wine in new bottles. Seen that a dozen of times before. If would be okay'ish (standard) if not for the salesman-stuff. What's going on with the TED application process?

[@musicfrommarrs9109]

This is the notion behind the Suzuki method of teaching music: musicians should learn music as they would any language. There are many ways of tangling the learning process in this manner - Suzuki, this way, the way colleagues of mine do this. Take the notion of hearing and experiencing the language of music first, and then explore how we represent this on paper. The representation on paper (or computer screen) allows us to share our explorations with others across the globe.

[@FranzKaernBiederstedt]

Being a composer and a music theory teacher myself I have to say that there isn't something like a revolution in music theory or in learning music and its fundamental theoretical basics. I strongly disagree with the assumption that music teachers before Bastien Sannac and his teacher have focussed only on reading, writing, analyzing and on intellectualization without any emotional approach to what music and its elements feel like, or without trying to devide the field of music in different parameters (what Sannac here calls the 7 lakes of music instead of the vast ocean). I'm confident, I can guarantee that every passionate teacher tries to break down the infinite world of music into chewable bites and to present them in an appetizing manner. Of course, every teacher personality has their own ways of explaining, their own methods of showing, presenting, thinking, encouraging, developping etc. And of course, no teacher has always in every situation with every pupil or student the exact right and perfect tool at hand to help the pupil or student in a difficult situation. Teachers have every right to try out methods, to see which tool works in which situation, to make mistakes. Every good teacher has always and will always observe the results of their teachings and learn from them. And every good teacher knows that there isn't the one and only method that works for now and forever. They all are led by the goal to increase the love for and the understanding of music and what happens within it in their pupils and students. I am clearly opposed to a narrative that the way how music has been taught has always been bad, superficial, discouraging, and now with the method this video speaks about, all of a sudden, the whole world will be able to learn music easily. And it's not that Bastian Sannac tells totally new and revolutionary things here. So, you do ear training by comparing lower and higher notes? Wow, No one has ever done that before!

[@billwesley]

Every person who speaks with feeling is making music, the emotional conveyance does not depend on word meaning but on tone and tempo of voice which can be read for feeling in languages the listener does not know. This operates like facial expression which is universally understood and so can not have been conditioned by culture or language. Absolutely no one worries that they don't have the capacity to regulate their voice to express feeling, its automatic and innate even for an infant without language because an infant still communicates emotional states by regulating tones and tempos of voice. This means musical instruments allow artists to imitate the voice in the same way that puppets allow artists to imitate facial expressions and body language. Since we are already musically cognizant in terms of the voice all we need do is apply what we already know to other than the voice.

[@OjoRojo40]

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[@carlaraimer718]

🌈🙏💜brilliant! Thank you (& Vincent )

[@onestagetospace4892]

Select the instrument you want to play. Watch how others do it on KZbin. Learn how others tune their instrument. Put on the radio. Imitate and listen to the sounds you make. If it doesn't sound correct, try something else, until it sounds right. You will gradually train your memory and sensitivity. It is as easy as that. You will get to a good level doing that. Now, if you care about preventing injuries to hands, and want to read notes (which is not necessary to play or learn to play music) go to a music school and learn from an old teacher who is still able to play without complaining about arthritis.

[@joshuaserra3435]

learning our own language is so nature-ral

[@hipchickmck]

This is the basis of the Suzuki method. He called it the "mother tongue" method. You're totally onto something, but it's not new, he published this over 50 years ago, and it's taught world-wide.

[@icychickliu6500]

cool, very good way to learn music theory for beginer

[@firlyofficial8298]

James McAvoy trying to role as a French guy. Great information!

[@TheRiotonmars]

Oh! He was saying "focus". Now I know. Or, was it?

[@fingersfingersthumb]

Why Music Learning should be any different from learning our first language ? This is so true, yet few people realise this. Please check out Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory, i mean it. Do it. There is a series of videos of youtube in which he overviews this theory.

[@thepianoplayer416]

Playing by ear is nothing new. It is something taught by Shinichi Suzuki of Japan (founder of the Suzuki approach) more than 50 years ago. The problem is that a lot of us got enrolled by our parents into a music program as an academic exercise. We just practice at home week after week and besides family members, only the teacher would hear us play. Like somebody who would go to a Spanish class every week but doesn't get to the point of communicating with Spanish natives. Many of us took lessons with no expectation of performing anywhere. We would spend a lot of time learning pieces but not to the point of being comfortable playing even an easy song like "Happy Birthday" at a party... sad but true...

[@billwesley]

Perfect, agreed 100%

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

My parents were the five percent than.

[@danieltv123]

This is more and ad. The message is train your ears, or musical perception first. Nothing really new. There are a couple of softwares that do that like Ear Master.

[@whateveryoumean1618]

This is illuminati fr i play guitar to songs by ear it isnt always ok just listen to music like they are talking to you and play one string scales scary stuff i swear!