Due to popular demand, a fully-realized version of the circle visualizer seen in this video (now called Sonofield) will soon be available! Sign-up here to receive updates regarding the launch of Sonofield: m.schulz.audio/sonofield Sonofield is a real-time harmonic visualizer. It displays all the relevant information about the chords and melodies you play on your MIDI controller in a visually intuitive way. The version I'm using in this video is just a simple prototype...

@majikmuzik8036

Ай бұрын

Is there a particular reason tonal center is Blue?

@maxkonyi

Ай бұрын

@@majikmuzik8036 The colours are based off the work of Stephen Malinowksi's Harmonic Coloring (link in description). There is no real reason beyond it being a calming color. In the full version of Sonofield, this can all be changed.

@user-vh3qu6tf6q

8 күн бұрын

I already register my email through that link but there's no reaction yet. plz,,,, hurry up!!!!!! I can't wait!!!!!

@maxkonyi

7 күн бұрын

@@user-vh3qu6tf6q Haha. Working on it!

Does anyone else feel like this is the video they’ve been looking for, for about 20 years?

@gilboewer4107

2 ай бұрын

YES I DO

@michaelhackethal8187

Ай бұрын

Sure do, bro.

@michaelknight4041

Ай бұрын

Just started but I think it just might be. I've been playing guitar all my life but I still have trouble with hearing notes and intervals instinctively.

@StrangeLeap

Ай бұрын

Inspired by this video, I started singing solfege in the car with a single note drone on loop. But instead of trying to hear the intervals (like I've done all my life, to negligible progress), I've been trying to hear the notes themselves (the feeling of the notes, like max says) before I sing them. Recently I heard a tune on the radio, and knew for certain that the melody started on the fifth. It was like magic. Still a long way to go, but I've gotten more progress in the last 2 months than I have in the last 10 years.

@hectorgarciamarin9736

Ай бұрын

Hahx si

I asked my piano teacher, "How you are able to find the correct chord/melody instantly" and he said to me "Use *Feeling*". I never really understand this concept until i watch this video. AMAZINGG

@em_the_bee

Ай бұрын

What a great teacher lul JUST FEEL IT BRUH

@DrkstrX

Ай бұрын

@@em_the_bee😂yeah just feel it bro duh! I can't understand how people just feel it. Makes no damn sense 💀

@Mighty_Atheismo

Ай бұрын

It's very easy. How to feel it. Step 1. Do *it* Step 2. Don't do something else

@Jello-Biafra69

18 күн бұрын

Feeling the music and writing based on emotion and not just structure will make a song that brings out those feelings in a real way for everyone to know exactly how that song was born.

@litaf5104

18 күн бұрын

r kelly told me the same advice. i never felt the same since

No idea what im watching but i like it!

Before he started talking, I forgot I was supposed to be actively exercising my brain😅 That was so peaceful. Better than the brown noise I put on to help me fall asleep.

I've gained this skill by practicing guitar and listening to various types of music and melody. It took a me a while to get it right but now I can quickly find out the scale, melody and chords of any song I listen to. I didn't have any music teacher I've done all by myself using KZread only.

@maxkonyi

16 күн бұрын

Nice!

@mathew5968

14 күн бұрын

Congrats dude, I am aiming to have this skill as well but I'm just a beginner at the moment.

I would LOVE a podcast of an hour of guided practice. I've wanted something like that for years!

@shoeeeeee8113

16 күн бұрын

Agreed!

@ren_avel

10 күн бұрын

+1 :)

@roydegroot4079

7 күн бұрын

+1

This helped me so much!! I feel like I finally get what I’ve been trying so desperately hard to understand for a decade. Thank you!!!

Best music theory KZreadr. Criminally underrated. Don’t change when you get famous and keep the down to earth, unpretentious yet deep vibes going.

@maxkonyi

4 ай бұрын

Much appreciated 🙏🏼

@SchultiTube

Ай бұрын

​@@maxkonyi Hey, thanks for your video. Thats a very interessting concept. Did you do 1 hour listening-session videos/Podcasts/audiotracks that we can put on play in the car, like you mentioned? Thank you!

@maxkonyi

Ай бұрын

@@SchultiTube Not yet but they are coming!

@dunker20

Ай бұрын

@@maxkonyi That's great news, I'm literally checking every day if those are available yet. Thank you in advance, Max!

@maxkonyi

Ай бұрын

@@dunker20 Good to know!

Protect this man… he’s onto big things!

The music training interactive podcast idea is fantastic. I 100% would support you launching that I’m a Patreon.

I feel like I've learned things about life listening to this video.

I remember as a boy, hearing the drone of powered machinery and doing this exact thing to create melodies and harmonies in my head. Exercises like this are truly the foundation of all musical ear training. Once you master this and apply the theory to an instrument, you can play most music without even looking at a musical score, lead sheet, or chord chart.

@BigTrees4ever

7 күн бұрын

I do this all the time haha even use my footsteps as a beat when I’m walking.

@12345AgainstOne

7 күн бұрын

I used to vacuum a lot at my job and i would hum songs along to the drone like a bagpipe!

This is the only method that I have tried (and in 45 years I have tried a lot) that really works. Picked it up from your Udemy course and have been practicing consistently for around 2 months. My wife had the TV on and the music leapt out at me, I knew without doubt what the melody was. Checking it against the keyboard confirmed it. To practice the skill I used bugle calls and graduated to traditional Chinese music to play back in real time. What is remarkable is that when you hear it in terms of feeling there is no doubt, just complete certainty. Great presentation and a real service to your community.

@maxkonyi

4 ай бұрын

Very nice! That's great to hear.

@I-is-me

2 ай бұрын

Does he have a course on ear training?

@maxkonyi

2 ай бұрын

@@I-is-me In the works...

@I-is-me

2 ай бұрын

Can you review on the use your ear method and tell us where is it good and over(like where other ways can be applied too)

@I-is-me

2 ай бұрын

@@maxkonyi I wish it covers every aspect of ear training step by step

There’s something about this that is so hypnotizing that it transcends education and becomes a performance in and of itself? Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your humor so clearly and so vibrantly. 🎉

@maxkonyi

Ай бұрын

That's the hope! Glad you enjoyed it 🌞

Came for music theory, stayed for zen, great work Max ❤

As a Music Sciences PhD scholar, I'd say this is a brilliant approach. Keep up the good work 👏🏻

@maxkonyi

19 күн бұрын

Thanks!

It did tickle me when he appeared in the circle 😊

I don’t know what that was at the beginning but i could listen to it my whole life

This was fantastic! Regarding your future plans of doing a video like this for chords, there's actually a great book that explains the "psycho-acoustic" tendencies of both chords and melodic intervals called "How Music Really Works" by Wayne Chase. It goes into a lot of detail about the harmonic version of this circle which actually has a name that's different than the circle of fifths, called "harmonic circular scale" because it's based on an actual parent key referencing a tonic, and features an organizational directional flow based on interval forces (whereas the COF doesn't do that). A lot of those concepts were also referenced from an older book in 1959 by Victor Zuckerkandl called "The Sense of Music," which Wayne said was a source in his research. I highly recommend checking out HMRW first before releasing a video on the chords, as there's some interesting patterns and types of progressions that aren't mentioned on youtube yet. Cheers!

@maxkonyi

Ай бұрын

Cool! I will definitely check that out today. Thank you. Always looking for more stuff on this topic.

@SongSecretsMomNeverTaughtYou

Ай бұрын

@@maxkonyi The book is better priced on his own website, whereas someone marked up the copies on amazon to a ridiculous amount so make sure to not give Bezos any cash haha

This turned into a meditation very quickly❤

Max, the other thing I wanted to say was that a very simple app with this exact interface would be a beautiful meditative ear training exercise in sure everyone would like.

@maxkonyi

3 ай бұрын

Good to know!

im not sure how much o the visuals are needed for this to truly sink in, but i would love this as a podcast.

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS

I can’t thank you enough for this. I’ve been trying to get a grip of this for a decade and this is the way someone needed to say it for me to understand. The whole experience of listening to music for me is completely different now.

more vids like this please i love being able to see the degrees

This is brilliant thanks so much for creating!

Incredibly helpful. Thank you!

fantastic teacher! thank you 🙏🏽

This circle is so useful, please keep developing it!

great idea to have practice playlist, i would appreciate starting with few degrees first - eg 145, not all of them together as it was in the practice section in this video

On the overtones subject, the easy thing to do there is to play a sine wave in comparison, which has no overtones, to make it obvious. Another thing maybe to point out about 3 is that, because of our immersion in this scale system, 4 and 5 sound like intervals, but 3 sort of sounds like a chord. It introduces major'ness, which anyone born into the western system will feel in a certain way.

Thanks for making this useful video!! Hope you continue with your series of ear training

Man this is great, thanks a lot. I play music and you just put words on things I felt whithout knowing it. Will sure help a lot in my comprehension of music, and how it's linked to emotions.

This is genuinely the most useful ear training video I’ve come across

This is incredibly well done! Highly educational!

This is brilliant. This is the most comprehensive and coherent lesson I have ever had on ear training and I have been searching since 2018. You lined everything up for me. Thank you for putting this out there. You got my sub and like!

@maxkonyi

Ай бұрын

Wow great!

Love the way you teaching this!

This is the Pink Floyd circle of fifths lesson. About to get my head around this was where I was when I had to give up 20 years ago. Getting back to music again now, I will definitely be referring to this video a lot and checking your other channel for the guides I need, thank you. I like the way you do things. p.s. it's kinda hard to sing when you have a MIDI wind controller in your mouth;)

this is such a gift thank you

I really appreciate what you're tying to do. Very nice presentation.

OMG love this channel so much

Such a powerful message around the 1h22m mark about all the tools and past experiences and getting the job done.

It was a nice way to reframe and visualise your point, it's cool that you keep evolving your approach on this subject.

We do this when we start to learn indian classical music or any instrument we learn in Indian traditional learning style.

@maxkonyi

28 күн бұрын

I know! Would be nice if it was this way in the west..

@johnnyxmusic

4 күн бұрын

And in three or four incarnations, you get it. Many notes. So many notes.

This study by numbers of intervals worked better for me. Thanks

I'm surprised to be able, already after 25 min. watching, to predict the sound of each number so far. Never thought I would ever manage this. Thanks a lot!

Genius method, more please sir 👏

I don't understand it yet, but I think they should teach us this at school. I had an experience at customer service, better not told but well I think this could had help me a lot and it will. Greetings from Mexico.

This is surprisingly relaxing

I'm so fucking thankful for this video. I've been searching for something like this for so long, learning the language of music, the language of the feeling of music from the ground up to understand music completely and express myself perfectly

This video changed my life, thank you!!!

This is wonderful.I have been exploring my own melodies in my songs as well as my fave songs since watching/hearing this video.It's a form of travel. Thank you.

Thanks! This is gold!🔥

Your direct and focused speech is excellent, it’s something a lot of other educators don’t have. Great stuff.

@johanjotun1647

Ай бұрын

tho we all talk, really speaking is a skill

In all seriousness, this video is soooooo good!!! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this video. It is helping me a lot on my journey with music. I'm very excited for your future content!

what a great video, thanks you so much

OMG I LOVE YOU. I WATCH FOR LONG. I’ve been alive for 105 years, and I’ve never figured this out… you make me feel things I never thought I would thank you

@OliveBardicBird

Ай бұрын

105 years?? wow

@Therealdangerboy54

Ай бұрын

@@OliveBardicBirdyes I’ve been alive very long

@scoutbane1651

Ай бұрын

You could like... not lie, kid. What do you even gain? Pathetic.

@pseudoblackie

Ай бұрын

@@Therealdangerboy54 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 best comment ever

@OliveBardicBird

Ай бұрын

@@scoutbane1651 bruh chill it’s all vibes here

The best video on topic ever. Thank you.

probably the best series on yt about this. Avoiding the nonsense information and just practice the feeling.

Great video, very useful, thanks a lot !

Out of all the videos I’ve seen yours are by far the best ones! Thank you so much for uploading this awesome content, I’m really grateful! ❤

This is the most important video tutorial about musice for me ! ! Absolutley gamechanger 🍩🍩🍩

What a wonderful video. Very helpful. I have already begun doing something similar with my students. Very inspiring.

Thanks for the video. My first time exposed to that. It was fantastic. Thanks❤

You’re very kind, thank you

Very helpful! Thank you.

YOU are a good teacher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

thanks for this knowledge

Wow thank you and PLEASE do the podcast or series of ear training that would be so helpful!!

truly eye and ear opening to me. big realisation. thank you ! forms a by the ear basis for understanding and creating music brilliant

This is amazing

The direct listening really hit home this time. That familiarity before its mentally labelled, can only be pointed to with words. 😎🙏🌌

This was so amazingly helpful! I would love to see more videos like this when you have the time. The only hard part is if I'm only listening then I cant see the circle, just as feedback

Awesome. Thanks.

THANK YOU! Really helpfull!

Amazing video

I love this! It resonates (pun...unavoidable!) with how I help people navigate "the unknown" via this kind of primordial approach to piano improv. It's about the sound itself and the feelings that each note (and each combination of notes) generates in our bodies and our moment-to-moment experience. From this level of presence, we connect more deeply with our creative channel. It's fun to hear sentences coming from you that are so similar to how I express these experiences/ideas/concepts. Grounding our understanding of sound in an awareness of how the overtone series works brings us to a much more experiential understanding of it all. Great stuff, Max, good to find out about you. :-)

Ear training exercises yes please!! Keep the amazing job

I tried to develop perfect pitch and didn't know that I was training my relative pitch, started with the C Major scale, and got the feeling of the notes and know it's the same for every major scale

Absolutely fantastic video (and I'd LOVE to have that as an app on my phone).

thats gold right here

Everything you say makes sense this is what I’ve been looking for! Also giving Buddhist vibes great humble approach!

Thanks, this is so helpful. Having used Functional ear training I feel the ‘pull’ to the tonic. Looking forward to your app.

This is a great explanation of movable do solfege but with numbers instead of " do re mi..."

This is so amazing to my synesthesia

Great video Max. I missed it live unfortunately (4am start for me!), but really enjoyed the stream - thank you!

Excellent ❤

My choirs maestro taught me a very similar method for solfeggio five years ago. It is the best method to sight sing melodies, by far.

very helpful thanks

Please make those long practice videos 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Thanks man

Really interesting!

1:12:00 YESS please! That would be awesome

@vusgaldafda7889

Ай бұрын

And drag to start.

I can tell a Maj chord from a min, thanks for not saying one is happy and one is sad, you saying "feelings" are not emotions, thats a helpful statement for me, i always get frustrated with people who can hear scale degrees, this is the area that broke my guitar progress... I'm trying to rededicate myself because i want so badly to break free of mindlessly playing scales and modes and gaining no musicianship.

Your work is just incredible! So happy I found you !!! Thanks a lot this is sooooo Gooodddddd

@maxkonyi

2 ай бұрын

Nice! Glad you're enjoying it 🌞

Hello just what I needed

Progress Checks and Goals 1:24:39 1. Can you recognize the tonic? This should be done first 2. Can you produce/sing the tonic given a drone? 3. Can you produce/sing the tonic given a particular piece of music? 4. Can you recognize each scale degree given in isolation over a drone? 5. Can you transcribe simple melodies by ear? 6. Can you transcribe simple melodies by singing them after hearing them? (listen, pause the audio, transcribe it without using an instrument) 7. Can you transcribe in the moment without pausing the music, and call out the notes as they flow by?

wooooow its wow. Thanks a lot! Чувак, это очень круто! Я смотрю и все перевернулось с головы на ноги! У тебя дар объяснять так, что бы понял каждый, даже такой безнадежный ученик как я)