Why Learning Intervals by Ear is Important (And How To Do It)

[@Diegoyoutube24]

I really enjoy listening to someone that knows what is talking about. Thanks!

[@freddiempanga5513]

Very useful. Intervals are a must for every musician to learn- especially for pianists.

[@Spinz99]

I just battle shoving all the juicy jazz and blues intervals, like tritones and dominant 7ths, into that major scale that I knew so well as a kid when I did Solfa.

[@pachenha]

This is interesting. I tend to play the melodies by ear instead of reading the sheet, lol. My ear is very good, but it's a totally unconscious ability: I can easily play any melody that I know, but I struggle to name the intervals. Btw, I love your channel :) I just began to take piano classes (about a month ago) and I'm learning a lot from you too!

[@googavo1d]

Seems logical ! There's has to be a trick that makes people learn music the easy way without added complications of musical theory.

[@TheElectricCheeseProductions22]

@@googavo1d functional ear trainer. App. Nice app

[@PetulaGuimaraes]

Transposing! When we figure out the intervals of a melody we can then change keys and the melody integrity is kept. That is one that I find interesting and try a lot, even in my baby steps at the piano.

[@stevengraham3278]

I can't tell you how MUCH I appreciate this video. It helped me a ton. Thank you :)

[@souljarohill8795]

I'm trying to learn how to do this to get better at my beats. I've made a plan in my head to do this everyday for the rest of this year but not even worry about chords which i already know or different scales I already know. Just hammer in these intervals for about a month and then see where my process has taken me so far. Cause I dont feel like I need to be perfect at this in order to start making beats but at least have a good enough grasp to make the process less difficult.

[@hugomusic9504]

probably the best channel on youtube

[@Fumozart]

Agreed

[@antonyoflaherty3532]

This is really well put together, just what I have been looking for.

[@ciri151]

I have been learning songs by ear on guitar for over a year now, and I only recently discovered what intervals are lol. Like she said. It starts out slow. But now I can learn songs/classical pieces in like 5 to 30 min depending on the difficulty of course.

[@peterkerj7357]

dumb frogposter

[@mr.mohagany8555]

Showing how to use teoria for this is super helpful. Especially since you can use the exercise to also practice reading notes.

[@macilab]

You are such a pro and at the same time so down to earth about it, this is very motivating. Goals don't seem to be so unreachable :) This was really helpful, and explained in a truly pleasant way. Thanks!! xx from Hungary

[@purplechili2512]

I'm a new bassist player and I couldn't afford courses in a school. So I watch vids and I have started major 3rds and perfect 5ths on the site. I find M3s easier. But it's my first day today and I have 20 correct vs 5 false! Maybe there's hope for me! xx

[@youkokun]

Wow thanks for showing the Teoria tool! This was wonderfully informative and helpful. I recently got a parish book of chant/plainchant/Gregorian chant and it's really challenging but exciting. "Do" is moveable and many phrases get a mysterious quality because you start on "la" or "fa" and there's usually only a flat 7th if any. Anyway, if anyone's interested in a tech-free supplement, chant works for me, at least :)

[@nilton61]

Imo almost all ear training programs have a high treshold which also is imminent from the content. This high threshold hinders many from continuing ear training. A very good way around this is the Alain Benbassat method that is based on the fact that the lower quadrachord resolves downward and the upper quadrachord resolves upward. It is by far the best method I have tried

[@9rzqan6j]

Great recommendation for teoria! Thanks!

[@DKReinemer]

This is great! I'm actually learning to play guitar and trying to strengthen my ear/interval training, but this was super helpful!

[@colekeircom]

Thank you for your advice and help . Its very much appreciated , Kieron.

[@ghiblie]

Thank you so much !

[@patrickwells4014]

if you truly want to develop your musical ear, take sofeggio. My first year of college I took solfeggio. I wasn't a one semester course. I lasted for 2 1/2 years. It involved pitch identification, interval recognition, singing exercises (yes singing exercises. They were on our mid-term and final exams), and music dictation, that is writing down the notes dictated by the professor on the piano. This is why I am a successful composer and performer. This was my proving ground for musical training. There is no way around this training. Take it and you will have no problems in reaching musical goals.

[@Sam-tv2dp]

great video, I'm a guitar player and find your video very helpful, thank you.

[@FromTheHipp]

i've been consciously interval training for the past couple of months and i can pick up on intervals already. my dad always said i learned and picked up on things super quickly and i think over the next year for sure i think i'd be in the right direction.

[@sallylauper8222]

I like your approach. I can't catch except when it comes to rhythm. But I'm learning.

[@ant7936]

In the 50/60s, most groups (bands) bought singles (discs) and played them over and over, to learn words and chords, to increase their own repertoire.

[@sofia8452]

This video is so helpful! All of your videos are so easy to understand. Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!

[@V21IC]

Interesting especially the last part with Frere Jacques - Oh when the Saints - Here comes the Bride -Twinkle twinkle Little Stars!

[@davidleesn]

There are hidden problems (that I suspect lead to why so many give up on music notation when intervals are not studied chromatically and PRECISELY …..Encouraged by “ the false equal spacing FINGERING FEELING “ of using white keys OF C MAJOR…. so much so that Chopin , as far as I am aware, always taught B major first ( I have preference of F# /Gb major by ear first like many a jazz artist …..then C# /Db with the key signature where both ascending and descending cycle of fifths are introduced ….using “scaffolding “ by Vigotsky to overcome by breaking down the problems uniquely and individually encountered by each 🤚 ✋ rather than glossing over them! I agree with you totally on the importance of intervals (from tonic…ascending as Major and descending as minor intervals of the same diatonic scale…that my father always warmed his voice up on when learning and practising singing !!) I try to encourage my students to do the same but only after , as far as I know uniquely taught by me…, acquiring the 12 major scales played with 2 hands without using thumbs I nickname ‘butterflies’ as that duplicates the tetrachords of string (especially violin)playing…the best of mine can learn it in 20 minutes with my visual aids of a carefully chosen colourful, moveable diatonic scale musical ruler. Ha ha… the 3 different minor scales (blue moths) are taught with the natural minor taught first as ‘depressingly dull day’ , then with melodic ascending interrupted by the sunshine breaking through but only briefly with melodic descending….and then harmonic minor as the stand alone to cope with the weird changes if we accept the whole Universe with so much shocks of the unknown and newly discovered… that Daoism opens my belief system to accept but is gloss over ( thankfully not denied) in the Judaic Christian frame of mind so dominant here in Western culture !

[@overmanonfire]

Thank you, you convinced me it could be done it is possible, I thought i required at least 10 light years of training

[@creativesource3514]

A light year is a measurement of distance

[@lanmaixuan9308]

Thank you so much. LOVE.

[@DonnaHarrisMusicStudio]

I used to be really good at playing tunes by ear and had a perfect sense of pitch, but I have always struggled with learning intervals!

[@TechTins_Projects]

Very interesting. If the song association method should be dumped later. What is the advantage of using it to begin with? Would it not be better to use your piano pentatonic technique from the get go. The reason that I ask is, that I went and memorized all the intervals up and down 24 transitions (Took me six months at 20 minutes every day). To then find that is was hopeless once I got above two notes in a melody to identify. So I felt like it was total waste of my time. I am now using random notes to figure out the distances between each note on piano. Will try the pentatonic idea you suggest. Great video by the way.

[@dominicdoesit_tv292]

I just starting ear training with apps etc...very hard! Thanks for the advice...I had concerns about a realistic timeline.

[@rosemarycarpenter108]

I really liked the way you motivate kids / teachers to train kids to learn intervals!! And btw, what province of Canada are you from ?

[@victorfalcone2129]

Great video ! I will try teoria. I discovered your channel just yesterday and your videos are not simply useful but also motivating ! So thank you very much for what you're doing

[@freeelectron8261]

Thanks for the interval training tips - I'll give it a try.

[@KeepingOnTheWatch]

Identifying Intervals is a weak area for me but I like it because it's challenging. My preferred method is through RCM's online digital learning.

[@Carlitto314]

Awesome, thanks for the video!!

[@LusineYsoprano]

You are great! I love to listen to your videos, they're so interesting and full of helpful knowledge! Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge! :-)

[@alerotune]

Thanks. Really helpful video

[@hopesonmakokha5217]

I've just had an Epiphany! Thanks for sharing this.

[@abhijeetdutta6156]

Beautiful

[@Miicrowahvei]

Thank your for this exciting video! And for suggesting teoria! I quit piano playing years ago and want to start again. Fortunately though I do have about 10 years of ear training behind me, so intervals are a piece of cake haha. Identifying and creating chords are a different thing though.. Not so good at that.

[@johnd7564]

I bought an app called tenuto that has interval and chord recognition training. No affiliation, I just think it's pretty good. Good luck!

[@stompcity4085]

Excellent

[@freepagan]

Nice Brahms in the background.

[@ant7936]

It's noise.

[@arthouston7361]

I have been using the Perfect Ear app, but I will check out Teoria. Thanks!

[@meltemh.2002]

Thank you so much!!! This helps me a lot ❤️

[@midnight4109]

Wow, how many pianos do you have Allysia? I have become fascinated by digital pianos but when I listen to them, I am bitterly disappointed with the sound, if not the feel of the keyboard. So I am sticking with acoustic. I wonder if anyone has found a really realistic sounding digital instrument, for less than $5000, hopefully a lot less!

[@souny1372]

Alysia can you show us how to improve at sight reading to play immediatly the melody on a sheet

[@1TreukFlyyy]

When trying to transcribe a melody by ear, do you think of the notes as scale degrees (relative to the key of the song) or as interval between each notes (relative to the preceding note played) ?

[@khadijahasimon6172]

i love your music history videos

[@Laura-do9ub]

Great video, guess I have something to do this vacation! Could you maybe do a tutorial on reading 'a prima vista' or sight reading. I, and I'm sure many others, am really struggling with with learning this vital skill. Do you have some tips?

[@Sumergocogit0]

At 8:11 you mixed up harmonic and melodic intervals. Melodic is one after another, harmonic is at the same time.

[@neilzedd8777]

So glad you commented this haha. Not to correct her, but Ive been studying music theory for about a week and was wondering if anything stuck. I heard her say that and thought to myself "hmm, surely its the other way around."

[@Polyhat_]

haha love the thumbnail, that's certainly what it feels like

[@dalkeiththomas9352]

New to the channel, love the content 😂here as a trying piano player

[@Chilajuana]

Awesome Tutorial!!!!!!!!!!

[@ernestdrozdz1889]

thank you! :)

[@shaswat_292]

This is so 👍😎👍

[@modernmozart813]

I had tried the same idea 💡 before I watched this video .

[@GarryBurgess]

During this video, there was an image of 5 C clefs, and prior to this, I was only aware of 2 of them, and now I know all 5 of them, and how they work. I am interested in all the instruments, and so I might have to use these clefs for some instruments. My biggest worry is that after spending all this time finally mastering the piano grand staff to some extent, is if there might be interference learning if I venture too far into these alien clefs. So my plan is to just use intervals and nothing more when reading these clefs. Is it possible to mess up your instant pitch recognition of grand staff notes through reading too much music in other clefs?

[@bh5606]

Interval training is good, but how do you identify the first note?

[@samzero6795]

Can plz make a video about relative pitch!

[@Mrfailstandstil]

My ascending melodic 5-th association was linkin park's in the end melody haha

[@randomchannel7483]

second comment:) Keep posting those videos - My daughter and I have watched all your videos! We have learned soo much - my daughter loves you!

[@musikone1780]

If I was younger, lived near her, wasn't married and she wasn't married, I would marry her. These are minor obstacles to over come, so who knows, it could happen. Hahaha

[@kanyekubrick5391]

Functional Ear Trainer. it's an iPhone app

[@kanyekubrick5391]

Nana Naema pretty much

[@victorfalcone2129]

Thank you, I'm going to try it :)

[@nilton61]

Functional ear trainer is great. Its also available on Android and Windows

[@menonly56]

I guess Harmonic means together and melodic means one after each other.

[@allysayuzon6429]

Yeess, I thought I was the only one who noticed it

[@hellopsp180]

The 5 note scale LOL. I've already been doing it without realizing

[@crazedmaster]

Can you please make a tutorial for Lizst - La Campanella - thank you.

[@SeanShannonPianist]

lol she progresses grade by grade in the difficulty of her videos and shes only at like grade 3 now and la campanella is diploma level

[@HilbertXVI]

musical_misadventures I'm sure it was a joke

[@Bobowobo]

musical_misadventures she has her grade 10 RCM

[@Bobowobo]

musical_misadventures oh sorry I read your reply wrong.

[@SeanShannonPianist]

Bobowobo np

[@monstercolorfunco4391]

Learn to use tags and youtube references properly so people can find your sessions when they search youtube with words like... how does an orchestra work, music lesson, begginer music theory, cos youd get 10x more views if you had 10x more corresponding search results. cheers.

[@ryzhendrix8224]

thanks...teoria works!

[@MarsLos10]

perfectly explained. but what if I don't really think of intervals when I'm trying to figure out a melody by ear and just let myself have a couple error tries every now and then until I get it right? is that bad? I also have trouble figuring out the first note. When you first played the Adele's song you just said "I think the first note is a G". But how? I only can recognise the C note, so maybe sometimes if I think of C in my head, I can recognise a D or a Bb, but a G is way too far from C. Any tips? Please anwser xD

[@Sophia-hs7et]

I believe she said 'i figured it out, it was/is a g" as in she fiddled around to find the first note, then used her knowledge of intervals etc. Some people have perfect pitch and *do* know it immediately, but there's no harm in trial and error. And no, it's not bad at all to make a few errors when figuring it out. Alysia even made a mistake on her first try of the adele song, if you didn't notice. She seems to glide through it because she's obviously used her technique many, many times and has subconcious memory of what intervals fit the melody. Practice practice :p

[@MarsLos10]

Yeah, but I mean she figured out the melody with just one mistake, but I would need maybe 5 minutes or more and lot of trials and errors to play it properly. So when I want to find out the starting note, I play the song and the notes around there at the same time in order to find the pitch I hear on the track? Thank you for your anwser! :D

[@musikone1780]

You all have failed to realize that she is a piano oracle, a piano goddess. She will always get it right, because it is who she is. You and I are mere mortals in comparison.

[@windfulwind9784]

Should i start with intervals from random first note or intervals from selected first note in exercises ?

[@johnparadise3134]

14:12 2nd are you sleeping Brother John 3rd When the Saints go marching in 4th Here comes the bride 5th Twinkle twinkle

[@mikecipriani7495]

I can play just about any song I know by ear, so what does that mean?

[@Theslavedrivers]

Very good teaching - but would be better without background music.

[@joseedionne4702]

This is one of my lacking skills. I've installed an app on my phone last year so I can do it on the go, everywhere (mostly in the bus or waiting for the bus - except in winter :P ). The app asks for 28 good answers out of 32 to considerer you succeed and you can move on to the next exercice. I've went through minor and major second, third and sixth, perfect fourth and fifth, and octave, in a year. But I don't feel really confident, so, last march or april, I've decided to go back and try to have 32 out of 32 good answer in each exercices. I'm still stuck at the second chapter : minor and major third, perfect fourth and fifth, octave. Descending intervals are usually the one I miss. Harmonic intervals go relatively fine.

[@Tsering2001]

Which app did u used?

[@joseedionne4702]

@@Tsering2001 3 years ago? I don't remember. XD I used it for like 6 months, then didn't really need it anymore.

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Good.

[@davidradevic6354]

Someone told me to practice only seconds until i know perfectly to indetify them and than go other step.. What do you think about that?

[@sojournashanti]

@ 8:12 melodic(individual) | harmonic(together)

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Thanks to the past you! 😀👍

[@souny1372]

i train ear every day 10 min :)

[@alessandro9740]

how's your ear now? update pls? :)

[@davidradevic6354]

And for singers also?

[@toddsutton5672]

same as the dude below i try to play guitar. I have a severe brain injury and i dont hear anything in my head, cant remember melodies rhythms ect. trying to get my brain to do it. at 60 ya know old dogs. lol

[@ghazouabahria662]

I can easily figuire out how to play any song on piano with the right hand but the problem is with the left hand .. I don't always find a good "melody" to go with the song iykwim .. what's the solution ? 😂

[@kyoryu1]

Ghazoua Zizou Suscribe to my channel. I got tips for you. I am very friendly and as you i got difficults figuring out wich keys or chords to use with my right hand compositions.

[@ghazouabahria662]

DER ENGEL DER EINFRIEREN okayy 😁

[@rajatrawat3631]

the opening frame tho.lmao

[@lbf6449]

lol im 24 trying to learn piano and im like, first year second year? Im way too late to the starting line I guess. Although I. can echo a melody just fine with my voice...

[@ReddBlues]

I'm sure there's probably apps to practice this. I'm using an app to practice sight reading.

[@hugomusic9504]

Tenuto is a good app for learning intervals (Iphone)

[@nathancharles6437]

Hugo Rousu is it free?

[@hugomusic9504]

I don't think it is free but it is not a whole lot of money and it is worth it because you can learn intervals in 3-4 weeks (at least I did). Tenuto also has note reading challenges and you can easily customize the exercise so I think it is worth it at least.

[@modernmozart813]

But not free

[@x96mustanggtx]

Anyone else notice the size of that ring on her finger?!? :D

[@lol_manu123]

what piano are you using

[@oliviahawkes4828]

hey this video was more of an explanation than you showing us how to do it.

[@1212saeid]

Is this abrsm and grade 1

[@ward1958]

Can you make a video about "How to talk quickly"😅

[@piratuspiratus4075]

Question at 2:39. How did intervals help you guess the note? Did you guess the next note from it's interval from the last note? Or did you guess the note from it's interval from the tonic note? 😁

[@prashantkumar2963]

3:20 how did you do that?

[@ishiidayne8345]

HERESINCE THE 1OK SUBSCIBERS HUHUHUH GOOO MAMSHIIEEE anyways I need to learn because aural test iZ rill

[@thibaultphlipponneau5534]

❤️

[@Nick-ui9dr]

Interval khali school ka pasand aata tha aur koi interval nahin. Aur school mein bhi sirf wohi pasand aata tha. 😂😂😂

[@ビビくん-v1w]

1:28 I know the song but I don’t know the name lol

[@Theslavedrivers]

08:57

[@simonsimon325]

The thought of having to do that test where they play a triad and expect you to sing the middle note makes me feel ill in the balls. I'm so bad at identifying things harmonically. p.s. could we please have an entire vid of you singing stuff that's a bit too low for you? It was so adorable... in a non-patronising way of course.