Basic Ear Training Exercises and Techniques for COMPLETE BEGINNERS

[@PresidentMystry]

As soon as you said “Now here’s the second note.” I prepared for a single note and closed my eyes. Then an ad started playing of a guy playing a jumpy tune on his piano and I thought, “Is this a trick question??” So I opened my eyes and saw the skip ad button

[@opasnajovana]

same, i got so scared

[@NoahKellman]

hahaha oh man sorry that's awful timing! Didn't realize that's where the ad was setup. Did you end up getting the question right after you recovered from the shock?

[@PresidentMystry]

I had to skip back a few seconds but yes

[@thembelihlezwane4226]

😂😂😂😂

[@DanielLearnsPiano]

I did exactly this. I had the Simply Piano We Will Rock You ad.

[@kcreative7293]

The biggest secret and most challenging part of ear training is...."CONSISTENCY" .....you have to do it everyday!!!!!!!! the consistency part is where people fail and quit. I know cuz I was one of them. its hard and frustrating and it makes you want to quit. Believe me if you do it every day every day every day it does get easier and you'll be amazed of the results.

[@tuttilynn3791]

I've been looking for a good ear training course for a new student, this is it. Thank you.

[@NoahKellman]

Glad to help!

[@robertakerman3570]

@@NoahKellman nice job. TYSM

[@BoBestvina]

I like how you explain it as a new language. Takes the pressure off getting it right away.

[@ninij9692]

The snow outside is mesmerizing, it goes really well with this video. Thank you for doing these videos for those of us who have struggled with ear training and singing on pitch. 💜☮🎶

[@NoahKellman]

You’re very welcome 😀

[@MsVikings100]

I got the G in the first question. Fun, and awesome teaching video, just what I needed. Thank you

[@chaleureusenikolai3741]

Im distracted by the background its so beautiful

[@niiii4134]

Yea

[@martell203]

Me too! Beautiful 😍

[@anishkamble5317]

yeah me too

[@اميروليد-ز2و]

ع٥عرل

[@dedrg470]

I love this, he shows the difficulties we may encounter, makes me feel less lost, worrying if I am doing it wrong

[@witchenette]

This is so helpful! I might be able to finally overcome the trauma from when I was in elementary school. Where I live, arts and music are obligatory subjects up until 18 yo, the end of high school. When I was about 10 yo I think, the music teacher was forcing the whole class to write down the notes she played on the piano. She would run through the basic chords first and then she played some random sequence. Of course, the whole excercise was always graded. That was impossible for me then, as was for the majority of the class, and it's still impossible now. I hated music because of that so much, each lesson was so stressful. It was maaaany years ago and I still remember that lessons vividly, the trauma is real.... It seemed very wrong to force kids to do something like that at such age... Your video wasn't stressful at all, I even feel motivated to practice and learn now :) Thank you so much for that!

[@thisyearwithkate9504]

I just started learning the piano and this has truly helped me in recognizing the notes.....Thank you so much for keeping it so simple. Love from Nigeria.

[@WillsJazzLoft]

Wow! I already do well at recognizing tonal centers for a few of my favorite jazz tunes ( example C minor for Footprints ). But this also is an enormous help. It's in almost deceptively simple and yet effective methodology. I think that I will try it out on relatively simple tunes however

[@elainegroom1989]

Excellent training. I have trained my ear to hear middle C. The rest falls into place with repetitive singing. I hope that came out right. Thank you. (Just keep singing)

[@LivingGuy484]

My teacher recommended making an association between intervals and a popular song (or one we could make up). Eventually, you'll pick it out super easily Ex: Perfect 4th going up, in every key, is the start of "Here Comes the Bride" Perfect 5 is starwars theme A major third going down sounds kinda like a doorbell So on, so forth. You can find handy charts with other example songs for free online. I would highly recommend still doing the exercises that he suggests though, because they allow you to internalize the sound better and really get a grasp on what you're hearing

[@TechTins_Projects]

Don't do this. It will make it much harder. I tried that for months and yes eventually I was able to recognise those pitches. But was of zero help when trying to find notes in melodies. The method described in this video is the easiest and best way. You need to use your instrument at all times for this. Learning all the intervals two note associations does not help, believe me.

[@kaussey4]

This helped a lot for me , you just have to make sure you put it in music context and remember how the interval sounds in relation To the 1 and in relation to notes that are played in sequence (which is the hard part imo) for ex. 1-4-7 in a min key sounds like two perfect 4th back to back

[@Ana_crusis]

Yes that's a good way to do it. I did that and could recognise all the intervals in a couple of weeks. After a while you stop thinking of the song you used as you know the interval so well

[@Ana_crusis]

@@TechTins_Projects nonsense

[@neongrave5414]

@@Ana_crusis well i have a test on monday i can tell the intervals because of the music but when it comes to melody or randomly generated notes i get lost and its only c major scale what should i do?

[@lancashireliberty7603]

I'm a drummer trying to learn music theory just started playing bass so cheers for this!

[@stephensufian4127]

Yes. I recognized G because it seemed substantially higher rather than a bit higher

[@DidierBampiliMusicProduction]

I have music contents check me out

[@k_drive]

that snowfall in the back is majestic

[@jtolibov]

I wasn't the only one staring at it haha

[@SOMYALMIGHTY]

Time stamp

[@claudiachestelson8289]

This video and you are what I've been looking for...I kept thinking we've got to recognize the SOUND of notes to actually find and play them. And that definitely is like learning a new language. Thank you...for un-complicating this!!!

[@alasdairvaler]

As a person who always had an issue with understanding notes and sounds because I didn't know how to learn the pattern for that I must thank you. Just at the beginning, with the language metaphor you explained it to me like no-one else. Your way of describing thing is very similar to my thinking and I am really gratefull I've found your YT!

[@Shreya-vs6bh]

I'm also really struggling but it takes 3 months to 3 yrs to develop relative pitch. I thought i was slower and its just my day 2 😅

[@botanicalERB]

I love this video!!! I took choir all through high school and have been trying to tune my ears again to play bass, you're a wonderful teacher!! ☺️ This is really helping me get a grasp on it all again!

[@Ashleybmakingvideos]

This video was super helpful! I hope you continued this series, because this made me realize I'm more advanced than I thought. Guess those years of high school choir paid off lol

[@gaylecheung3087]

I was talking at six years old by the greatest vocal teacher ever in Toronto back in the 70s

[@JSDJerry]

Best eat training ideas I’ve heard. Now I need a syllabus to follow.

[@MFJMD564]

If playing the piano, it might be good to listen to the interval and then reproduce it on the keyboard, not only try to think for the interval. Why? Because it will train your muscle memory at the same time. You'll train your ear to identify the sound, and your muscle memory to instinctively play that interval. With time, you'll be able to play fast melodies by ear.

[@couch6126]

Him:here’s the second note... Ad:I found a loove lol

[@RealSekiroGamerz]

For mine it was loud

[@jamesrusso2523]

Simple and efficient . Best lesson on you tube , I have been searching a long time .

[@KipIngram]

2:50 - Ok, given that the only possibilities were E and G, it was clearly a G. But I don't know if I'd have known that if it could have been any note of C. If F and A had been possibilities... well, not sure.

[@BerryTapeTV]

One of the best music tutorials I've seen in a while

[@christinamilioni6325]

Great content! Thank you! Looking forward to more beginner ear training videos! Have a great 2021!

[@ВикторСавченко-щ1ш]

Greatings everyone! I haven't got a lot of experience in singing but if I'm not mistaken You're singing an octave lower than you actually playing (6:15). Please help me somebody out with clarifying this. THX!!!

[@pallavisreetambraparni6995]

Your method to identify intervals is pretty good

[@jackwilloughby239]

I think it would be more profitable to start with the Harmonic Series. An Octave of C in the Bass followed by the fifth, root, third and fifth in the right hand. this is Still a triad, but the 5th is doubled. These are the four notes of a standard Bugle Call which are prevalent in almost all Western Music. These 4 Notes Frame the Pentatonic Scale, which Frame the Blues Scale. Once you have these notes down you can apply the standard Morphology that Arrangers use, Minor, diminished, sus 9, sus 4, Altered, Sharp 5, sharp 5 to the Ninth ( which Miles uses in Airegin and which the first four bars of the Melody by Sonny outline this Methodology I'm talking about). Ear Training is sort of misrepresented these days because teachers play random intervals without a tonal center. The Harmonic Series just fits the ear like a glove and if you don't start there you are sort of Lost in the woods. The fact that thousands of even tone deaf Soldiers could Learn, Recognize and Respond to a wide variety of Bugle Calls (as many as 100), is sort of embedded in our Musical DNA.

[@bembambimbombum]

I do have an APD and this really helps me a lot. Thank you so much!

[@worm91237]

wow this lesson is the best I've come across. Thank you!

[@lynnesteele9682]

Nice foundation for building a bigger sound vocab. Thank you!

[@prodbycilson]

This is the first vid that I understand. Thank you for your vid.

[@v0vee]

Glad I’m recognized all three correctly.. I thought I wouldn’t

[@trevorfox3759]

This video quality is good bro. Keep it up

[@NoahKellman]

Crimson Lightning Music thanks appreciate it!

[@yesido7304]

Great lesson. Btw i'm a guitar player and generally i'm not so trained on identifying single note, but i'm very good on identifying chord (harmony created by the chords) or the sound created by the bass guitar. Any suggestion to improve my hearing abbilities sir?

[@williamchan900]

Do you sing when you play?

[@TheKalemba777]

You are officially my new piano mentor !!!!!

[@willfoster2635]

Many thanks. I'm tuning my guitar so I need this help. Power to you.

[@SourCabbage4U]

I play by ear, i lean forward tilt my head and play the notes with my ear.

[@abcxyz-nd6xh]

At 2:30 I counted on my mnd to have got "G" Thanks for the exercise!

[@pasihirvonen4023]

I realize this is an old video but I still have to drop a comment. I don't usually comment on videos so this is a special occasion. :) It's wonderful to discover an ear training video with "beginner" in the title that is.. actually for beginners. I swear 99.9% of ear training videos in youtube that claim to be for beginners are actually aimed at people who were beginners a year ago.

[@NoahKellman]

So glad it was helpful!

[@JoshuaLandsberg-w2n]

Good luck. 👍

[@philomena1539]

This is an excellent video - so helpful. Now it seems possible. Thank you!

[@Jeff-xy7fv]

4:00 - I've always been singing the notes by number rather than A, B, C, etc. C=1, D=2, E=3, etc.

[@LuciusLucius]

Thats not right Its either the letters or Do re mi fa sol la ti

[@pandadncr4825]

Why do all assume you can automatically sing a note in the correct pitch and therefore find it on the piano 😂 I can't sing like shit lol but just hearing the note in your head works too xD

[@NoahKellman]

panda dncr hahah I know what you mean. Totally cool to sing it in your head too! I just find that for many people singing it out loud is helpful.

[@hitoshishinsou3125]

I showed a picture of you to my friend and she said theres no way you have any money im crying dawg youre doing gods work with this you didnt desrve tha ti love you broksi i hope you get a free milshake🥶

[@corettaha7855]

Scuse me, but where is the class for people who can’t tell if they are singing the note or not, even as it plays?

[@Ana_crusis]

Two doors down . Labelled Woodwork

[@sadglad8967]

I got E! Im so proud c: Wonderful beginners guide!

[@allangaus9761]

Thank you for your gentle tutorial for a beginner :) dig the sweater- wonder if its still around 3 years later lol

[@ravensdark01]

I am not playing an instrument but I got every note except the last one. going down with the notes is much harder than up from the C. Good explained! maybe I will now learn to play the piano : D

[@NoahKellman]

Awesome job, Amy!

[@arielfarra7979]

How’s it going

[@thegoodinfluencer15]

Beginner friendly! Thank you!

[@Eduardsax]

Good tip. A good place to star ear training. Thank you!

[@Whyidk11]

My whole family has a music ear my dad plays guitar my mom sings my grandpa and his siblings used to have a band in the streets and my uncles play too I'm tryna play keyboard for now and hope that if I get in music high school i can learn the violin in 1 year

[@ratnakarpandey5240]

Looks like Sargam of 7 surs of India - Saa Re Gaa Maa Paa Dhaa Nee Saa . Am I right? Love from India .

[@pericologan]

The snowfall is beatiful!

[@klaara_]

Thank you for this video. P. S. I love the snow in the background.

[@max101victory]

This was very helpful, thank you

[@Xaforn]

I’ve always played by ear subconsciously, it seemed to amuse my music teachers yet frustrate them. I can read music but playing by ear allows me to fully communicate my emotions it seems. I just can’t overthink it.

[@justash1498]

The fact that I got all the questions and this is my first time. 😮😮

[@gangofgreenhorns2672]

This is great. Thank you.

[@NoahKellman]

For sure, you're welcome.

[@stephanielupercio3168]

im excited for this journey!

[@juneclarke7618]

Thanks Noah Looking fwd to some more videos. Stay safe God bless🌻

[@NoahKellman]

Thanks, June, you too!

[@petertarsio7168]

Numbers and solfegge is the way to go. Singing is the basis of it all independent of the instrument. 1 3 5 =. c e g = do mi so. Auditation!

[@alfiemarie]

love this. one question tho, how come it starts with C and not A? sorry. :C

[@freespiritedyou]

Noah! IT"S SNOWING OUTSIDE!!!!

[@milagrosramos2601]

Thank you for the ear training class.

[@SANNYKUMAR1]

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

[@ksch1177]

i really don't get it. How do I know if my sung notes are matching up? that would require already a level of pitch, which I don't have.

[@NidraxGaming]

Yeah, the first one was obviously a G. I can tell the I-V right away thanks to Star Wars. My main problem is that whenever I sing the solfege I sing it sharp, starting at C# instead of C 😔

[@LibraryofMusic]

This is truly helpful. Thank you

[@jesikaglenn4561]

I love the falling snow ♡

[@alexdissington]

i usually associate songs with the notes, e.g. jingle bells starts with an E, so if the note reminds me of jingle bells, i know its an E

[@ORagnar]

This is good. I could do the equivalent on my guitar. I'm curious about another aspect of ear training, and that is listening to music and being able to pick out the instruments that are playing. Is that a fundamental part of ear training? 5/27/23

[@benjaminhawthorne1969]

I really appreciate your verbal introduction/explanation. I just received Rick Beato's Ear Traing Method and he explains NOTHING! He simply plays a note or a chord and you have a choice, major or minor? 😕

[@NoahKellman]

Oh! I’ve never used Rick’s but maybe his is more of an exercise-focused approach or training application, whereas this is specifically a tutorial. In any case, glad this helps!

[@crystaledson]

First: C4 and E4 Second: C4 and G4 Third: C4 and E3

[@bickydas4471]

Do you recommend using solfege in this practice? Like, is it better to use do mi Sol instead of saying c e g?

[@LightBWK]

What a surprise. This is totally like color. I teach color and wrote 2 books about color, and this is totally like how I teach color.

[@NoahKellman]

Oh wow cool I would be interested in hearing more about how one teaches color. What's the process exactly?

[@LightBWK]

@@NoahKellman Like music notes, all quality of colors have names. Then using those names we calibrate our eyes to spot the same colors. Hues are like notes in an octave; saturation is like loudness; value/brightness is like going up and down an octave. Color Palette is like chords and keys. Colors applied on a piece of artwork is like rhythm and melody.

[@marshmellow5344]

@@LightBWK that is very very interesting! I am an artist (well sort of). I do watercolor, so I kind of know about saturation, brightness, hues and all those stuffs. That is actually mind blowing how music and art are similar in that way! I am currently teaching myself relative pitch. :) thank you for that information!

[@mysticniradyt]

I wasn’t even paying attention until the screen went black and I knew the note was a G cause the interval is a perfect 5th and my guitar teacher drilled into our head what songs correspond to which intervals and perfect 5th was Star Wars and yeah that’s one way to remember that interval😭😭 I need help

[@oliverispissed]

The second note was G🗣‼️🔥

[@Elienguitar]

Just watched another vid on using soflage. Now on a journey to learn my intervals!

[@somerandomfatguy.3384]

Wow solfege really helps.

[@afriendlyfox]

I am struggling anyway. Yes I can match the note if I try to tap it at the same time I'm hearing it, because it starts to resonate, but if I first hear the note, and then go singing up the scale to find it, I don't know which one it is, I can't recognize the sound from memory.

[@TheGame_Grinders]

The second note was a G !

[@wwriters8821]

I really enjoyed the snowfall..

[@violetatio3224]

This is the lesson I am looking.

[@violetatio3224]

...for. Thank you.

[@koonfybeats]

Last advice is more important than everything in the video

[@JJdavidson2013]

Nice work on the site

[@donnagadde5152]

Hi Noah! Thank you for this great information. I have a question. I can listen to a favourite song a few times and then have it play back in my head, almost as it it were recorded on tape. I can hear the melodies and instruments like I was listening to it again. This is true even with songs like the Piano riff played by Edgar Winter in the song "I'm Not Sure" on the Second Winter album. I've been told that I have a good ear for music. I am currently learning to play Tin Whistle and want to start with Piano. Is my ability to hear music after listening to it a benefit to learning an instrument?

[@NoahKellman]

Hey Donna, yes, absolutely. That ability will likely make it far easier for you to naturally absorb melodies and chords as you are learning. For many people, it can be difficult to get away from the page, meaning it takes a long time to memorize. That means they are always simultaneously reading and working on skills. If you can easily memorize music, you can quickly step away from the page and focus on the skills themselves. Hope that makes sense, and keep up the great work!

[@donnagadde5152]

@@NoahKellman Thank you for your reply Noah. You are so right! I amazed myself! Just 3 or 4 days after buying my first keyboard, I'm playing the right hand melody of the Intro. to Fur Elise. That's with correct posture and fingering as well. The scales and fingering are coming really easy to me with my right hand so far.

[@aurum6249]

watching this in 2024. restarting my music journey.

[@josereyesguizar4449]

thank U so mch 4 ur Time...i L0ve Music.. sadly I am a beginner, but I have one Question?, what is the concept behind playing any given NOTE and having the next one play in harmony with it on an instructment. Pretty much, the making of a song; Not whole in theory but if you were to play Gmajor for example within the next 3-5 notes play; would there be such a musical equitaion that 2 or more of those NExt 5 notes played would have to be specific notes carry the beat with structure. How you do put notes together to create a BEAT/SOUND/RHYTHM. ( Not reading them) is kind of hard to explain myself. Thank U...

[@johnmclaughlin9004]

So... if i cant tell what note is what and im trying to train my ear how do you expect me to be able to sing it? Nevermind just needed to watch some more.

[@kineticslides]

love that sweater. where did you get it?

[@rachel9725]

Serious question: What did that mean, to 'match' your voice to it? How do you know your voice is matched?

[@devanand5031]

Super, very useful video, thank u

[@aku7598]

Its talent. My hearing can't differentiate b, c and c#. I can differentiate only intervals.

[@mr._unchained]

In my world there is no such thing as talent, anyone can achieve anything with consistency

[@derrick2251]

@@mr._unchained that’s simply untrue. It’s talent. Those who deny the ability to play by ear is mostly talent it are virtue signaling. My hearing is horrible and I can’t sing some notes. You would understand if your hearing was bad too. It’s talent

[@aku7598]

@@mr._unchained Talent to me is remembering of any subject. I just wonder how those musicians can remember many songs.

[@collinsmcrae]

​@@mr._unchained Well, you are delusional and your world doesn't reflect reality.

[@marcdeckard7064]

Figuring out what a note is, isn't playing by ear, it's transcribing. Playing by ear is hearing or thinking a note and then playing that note.

[@collinsmcrae]

Very few people have perfect pitch and can just automatically determine what all the notes are in a song they are trying to learn, or even a musical idea in their head. Trying to play a melody you are thinking of, is just as much transcribing as learning a song. If you want to be able to eficiently and accurately learn songs by ear, ear training is required.

[@SlickRickharmonica]

amazing...I always thought I was tone deaf!

[@AKANOBOLA]

I love tis channel

[@terriskillz]

Second note is a g it’s also the Superman movie beginning theme intervals