Basic Ear Training Exercises and Techniques for COMPLETE BEGINNERS

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If you're a complete ear training novice, start with this video. Once you have developed some relative pitch, you'll be able to play songs, hear chord progressions, figure out notes, all by ear without having perfect pitch.

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  • @PresidentMystry
    @PresidentMystry3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @opasnajovana

    3 жыл бұрын

    same, i got so scared

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @PresidentMystry

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had to skip back a few seconds but yes

  • @thembelihlezwane4226

    @thembelihlezwane4226

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @DanielLearnsPiano

    @DanielLearnsPiano

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kcreative7293
    @kcreative72932 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chaleureusenikolai3741
    @chaleureusenikolai37413 жыл бұрын

    Im distracted by the background its so beautiful

  • @niiii4134

    @niiii4134

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea

  • @martell203

    @martell203

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too! Beautiful 😍

  • @anishkamble5317

    @anishkamble5317

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah me too

  • @user-oq2jt3se7v

    @user-oq2jt3se7v

    2 жыл бұрын

    ع٥عرل

  • @tuttilynn3791
    @tuttilynn37913 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad to help!

  • @robertakerman3570

    @robertakerman3570

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@NoahKellman nice job. TYSM

  • @ninij9692
    @ninij9692 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @NoahKellman

    Жыл бұрын

    You’re very welcome 😀

  • @dedrg470
    @dedrg4703 жыл бұрын

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

  • @k_drive
    @k_drive3 жыл бұрын

    that snowfall in the back is majestic

  • @jtolibov

    @jtolibov

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wasn't the only one staring at it haha

  • @SOMYALMIGHTY

    @SOMYALMIGHTY

    2 жыл бұрын

    Time stamp

  • @MsVikings100
    @MsVikings100 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @FlowWithBo123
    @FlowWithBo1238 ай бұрын

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

  • @claudiachestelson8289
    @claudiachestelson8289 Жыл бұрын

    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!!!

  • @witchenette
    @witchenette Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @christinamilioni6325
    @christinamilioni63253 жыл бұрын

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

  • @WillsJazzLoft
    @WillsJazzLoft2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @thisyearwithkate9504
    @thisyearwithkate9504 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jamesrusso2523
    @jamesrusso25232 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Ashleybmakingvideos
    @Ashleybmakingvideos2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @alasdairvaler
    @alasdairvaler Жыл бұрын

    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

    @Shreya-vs6bh

    Жыл бұрын

    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 😅

  • @LivingGuy484
    @LivingGuy4843 жыл бұрын

    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

    @TechTins_Projects

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @kaussey4

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Philrc

    @Philrc

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Philrc

    @Philrc

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TechTins_Projects nonsense

  • @neongrave5414

    @neongrave5414

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Philrc 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?

  • @JSDJerry
    @JSDJerry2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @botanicalERB
    @botanicalERB3 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @elainegroom1989
    @elainegroom19892 жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @lynnesteele9682
    @lynnesteele96823 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lancashireliberty7603
    @lancashireliberty76032 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Skunkbagg
    @Skunkbagg9 ай бұрын

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

  • @worm91237
    @worm91237 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @bembambimbombum
    @bembambimbombum Жыл бұрын

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

  • @prodbycilson
    @prodbycilson3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SANNYKUMAR1
    @SANNYKUMAR12 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

  • @couch6126
    @couch61263 жыл бұрын

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

  • @RealSekiroGamerz

    @RealSekiroGamerz

    Жыл бұрын

    For mine it was loud

  • @LibraryofMusic
    @LibraryofMusic Жыл бұрын

    This is truly helpful. Thank you

  • @willfoster2635
    @willfoster26356 ай бұрын

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

  • @pasihirvonen4023
    @pasihirvonen4023Ай бұрын

    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

    @NoahKellman

    Ай бұрын

    So glad it was helpful!

  • @user-mg1dx5tb1l

    @user-mg1dx5tb1l

    Ай бұрын

    Good luck. 👍

  • @stephensufian4127
    @stephensufian41273 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DidierBampiliMusicProduction

    @DidierBampiliMusicProduction

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have music contents check me out

  • @gangofgreenhorns2672
    @gangofgreenhorns26724 жыл бұрын

    This is great. Thank you.

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    4 жыл бұрын

    For sure, you're welcome.

  • @philomena1539
    @philomena15395 ай бұрын

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

  • @gaylecheung3087
    @gaylecheung30872 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Eduardsax
    @Eduardsax2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @serirracional
    @serirracional2 жыл бұрын

    That was useful. Thanks a lot!

  • @milagrosramos2601
    @milagrosramos2601 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the ear training class.

  • @samjeshrakbca488
    @samjeshrakbca4883 жыл бұрын

    Thank you bro . For a awesome tutorial

  • @stephanielupercio3168
    @stephanielupercio3168 Жыл бұрын

    im excited for this journey!

  • @mbulelombiko5032
    @mbulelombiko50322 жыл бұрын

    Thank you . This helped a lot.

  • @ramonalee392
    @ramonalee3922 жыл бұрын

    Super super helpful, thank u so much!!!!

  • @TheKalemba777
    @TheKalemba777 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza16882 жыл бұрын

    Great lesson!

  • @ijyoyo
    @ijyoyo3 жыл бұрын

    Yoooo thank you for this , really appreciate it !

  • @thegoodinfluencer15
    @thegoodinfluencer152 ай бұрын

    Beginner friendly! Thank you!

  • @juneclarke7618
    @juneclarke76182 жыл бұрын

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

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, June, you too!

  • @trevorfox3759
    @trevorfox37593 жыл бұрын

    This video quality is good bro. Keep it up

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Crimson Lightning Music thanks appreciate it!

  • @anastasiyatrukhanova5056
    @anastasiyatrukhanova50562 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I will try!

  • @pericologan
    @pericologan3 жыл бұрын

    The snowfall is beatiful!

  • @klaara_
    @klaara_2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @strangefruit3737
    @strangefruit37372 жыл бұрын

    Yaiiii thank you for this vid. I an so exited learning piano 😍

  • @pallavisreetambraparni6995
    @pallavisreetambraparni69953 ай бұрын

    Your method to identify intervals is pretty good

  • @MFJMD564
    @MFJMD5642 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mario_israel
    @mario_israel Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot!!! 🙏🚀

  • @emmettadair4015
    @emmettadair40154 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much!!!😊

  • @Elienguitar
    @Elienguitar3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @samueljohnson163
    @samueljohnson1632 жыл бұрын

    Really very good teaching..well done..

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Samuel. Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @allangaus9761
    @allangaus97612 жыл бұрын

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

  • @beatsfromyhwh
    @beatsfromyhwh2 жыл бұрын

    cool, this is helpful! wish you greatness 🎹

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!

  • @victordavidpeeler8033
    @victordavidpeeler80333 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much

  • @yesido7304
    @yesido73042 жыл бұрын

    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

    @williamchan900

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do you sing when you play?

  • @JJdavidson2013
    @JJdavidson20135 ай бұрын

    Nice work on the site

  • @marieortiz5184
    @marieortiz5184 Жыл бұрын

    Very helpful.

  • @jenmartin2870
    @jenmartin28704 ай бұрын

    thank u . very helpful

  • @sadglad8967
    @sadglad89673 ай бұрын

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

  • @abcxyz-nd6xh
    @abcxyz-nd6xh2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @PianoHeal
    @PianoHeal4 жыл бұрын

    So good 👍🏻❤️🎹🎵😊

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it! Any requests for future ear training videos?

  • @jackwilloughby239
    @jackwilloughby2399 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @IUAI-pg2ll
    @IUAI-pg2ll10 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @rushcho1
    @rushcho12 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the good contents

  • @somerandomfatguy.3384
    @somerandomfatguy.33845 күн бұрын

    Wow solfege really helps.

  • @noneofurbusiness906
    @noneofurbusiness906 Жыл бұрын

    Cheers Mate!

  • @v0vee
    @v0vee4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @prashantkumar2963
    @prashantkumar29633 жыл бұрын

    thank you sir for your valuable lesson. how much time one should practise this and what are its application?

  • @jonathanallen2560

    @jonathanallen2560

    3 жыл бұрын

    The ability to learn to play a song just by listening to it is usually what drives people to get good at this. Also impressing your non musician freind's by saying you have "perfect pitch. "

  • @jude4736
    @jude4736 Жыл бұрын

    Very good Nohal bhai

  • @lapis_zarzyk
    @lapis_zarzyk11 ай бұрын

    this is so helpful, tysm:]!

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    11 ай бұрын

    I'm so glad to hear that!

  • @jesikaglenn4561
    @jesikaglenn4561 Жыл бұрын

    I love the falling snow ♡

  • @devanand5031
    @devanand50314 ай бұрын

    Super, very useful video, thank u

  • @pandadncr4825
    @pandadncr48253 жыл бұрын

    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

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @enigmaticpuzzle9654
    @enigmaticpuzzle96543 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @FallenLight0
    @FallenLight010 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @igantoh802
    @igantoh802 Жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @amanitamuscaria7500
    @amanitamuscaria75002 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @ravensdark01
    @ravensdark013 жыл бұрын

    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

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Awesome job, Amy!

  • @arielfarra7979

    @arielfarra7979

    Жыл бұрын

    How’s it going

  • @italianjustice7355
    @italianjustice7355 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks❤

  • @SanAntonioRosie
    @SanAntonioRosie Жыл бұрын

    Sweet sweater!!!!

  • @tharuntharun4471
    @tharuntharun44713 жыл бұрын

    Very good

  • @723lion
    @723lion3 жыл бұрын

    April 2020 and your place is snowing like crazy :D

  • @KipIngram
    @KipIngram2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @makemoneyjourney7864
    @makemoneyjourney78642 жыл бұрын

    Wow amazing video and not to sound like a hater. this C d e etc like this will take ETERNAL LIFE..... But better than nothing. Of course this is youtube might not want to give everything here since it needs much work and people might not even watch and follow all you need to give them to perfect their ear, So I get it. good job sir.

  • @nicolasguerrero8283
    @nicolasguerrero82833 жыл бұрын

    thanks bro

  • @pusep132
    @pusep1322 жыл бұрын

    U are a gud teacher

  • @paulgee8113
    @paulgee81132 жыл бұрын

    Thx .

  • @violetatio3224
    @violetatio32242 жыл бұрын

    This is the lesson I am looking.

  • @violetatio3224

    @violetatio3224

    2 жыл бұрын

    ...for. Thank you.

  • @danielbair8722
    @danielbair87223 жыл бұрын

    Hey, so you said if you've had experience with ear training to check out some of the other videos. Do you have any more advanced ear training videos? I grew up with a basic concept of Perfect Pitch that I developed on my own, and now I want to work on hearing cords, Etc instead of just hearing single notes. Do you have any videos that are about that? If not, do you have any channels you would recommend? Also, just a quick side note I am mostly blind, so I would need something where the instructions are read out loud rather than being text on the screen in the video

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Daniel, I don’t have any videos about perfect pitch specifically, but I do have other more advanced relative pitch ear training videos!

  • @NoahKellman

    @NoahKellman

    3 жыл бұрын

    Here’s a video I released recently: kzread.info/dash/bejne/enaTzM5vqKTHipM.html

  • @dogagone2882
    @dogagone28822 жыл бұрын

    Great video but also wow i really would like to switch houses for 1 week with you :D totally random but it looks so peaceful, thats a genuine offer mister.

  • @freespiritedyou
    @freespiritedyou Жыл бұрын

    Noah! IT"S SNOWING OUTSIDE!!!!

  • @donnagadde5152
    @donnagadde5152 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @NoahKellman

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @donnagadde5152

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

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