eye opening! Having learned to read and play only classical all my life, I feel like I never learned to play the piano really.

I so agree with your theory about one key, I do that with my piano students and I often get push back from the parents about doing songs in more keys, but I've felt so strongly that the kids musical knowledge and ownership of the keyboard was so mush richer and stronger if they can do more amazing stuff in one key rather than some halfway feeble stuff in different keys.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+misssusansrockacademy I'm so pleased we both agree on this. In the long run, there's plenty of time to explore other keys later - but most musicians go their whole lives without ever immersing themselves in one key fully. Another thing I always notice is that sheet music books feel that they have to have a piece in each key - that it's a bad thing to have 2 pieces in a row in the same key. However in the long run, I think that the key changes confuses students and makes music much more complicated than it needs to be (12 times more complex).

@misssusansrockacademy7872

8 жыл бұрын

TOTES AGREE, thank you. This is really helpful, J-dawg ;-)

@MoneyAli75

Жыл бұрын

What’s the coolest key ..how bout F

@Bpaynee

Жыл бұрын

I've been learning how to play guitar online for like half a year, and I kept feeling like I was sort of getting a feel, and then it would slip out of my grasp. Last week on a bit of a whim, I thought I wanted to anchor myself in one spot so I could really get familiar with a smaller range and good an ocarina. So happy to hear I was maybe onto something!

@johnnyvishnevskiy8090

Жыл бұрын

@@MoneyAli75 I like B major because it is so ergonomic

Wow, this is the first time ever that I hear someone talking about mastering one key only and it actually makes a LOT of sense! This is an eye opener!

Wow! As a beginner, this was how I did it. They say hum the songs, but whenever I hum them, they are in the same key, my key! So I got very conscious and I thought I might not grow as a musician like this. This made me incredibly proud! Thank you! More power to you!

I really do think your the best music teacher I've ever listened to! You can explain complex music theory but make it sound much more understandable and straightforward, few can do it

I had a similar experience and came to the same conclusions by experimenting with Movable Solfege (movable do major, and la minor). Some really good advice here. I like how you've illustrated the notes as colours. Once your ears can identify these (colours/syllables), it's a skill you will never grow out of or forget.

SUPER!!! parallels between parallels are equal -the same Way with keys(in well tempered system)and less is more for the brain. .the best teacher ever! thanks Julian.

My ear has improved so much following some of the advice that you have given! Keep up the great work!

Very interesting, I shall try it, thanks! I already been practising hearing and feeling in I, II, III, IV, V instead of C, D, E, F, G and i think it is the right way to go. But i think hearing it in the same key offers some more reinforcement!

I heard your interview with Pat Flynn and had to check out your channel. Great stuff man. Really inspirational considering I'm working my way into something similar. Keep up the great work!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+AdamIvy Thanks so much Adam! Sorry for my late reply, so pleased you enjoyed the interview, and good luck with everything you're working on - keep me posted, I'd love to see what you're doing!

I also came across this concept by accident but it wasn't from playing in one key. While playing on my church's worship team, I played in may keys with many simple chord progressions and often the same songs. My worship leader would occasionally refer to chords as numbers regardless of the key we were in so I began to notice the connection between the keys and I started to be able to "hear the numbers" so to speak. This was before I knew all 12 major scales. Once I learned them, playing by ear, improvising, etc. really opened up to me. This also made learning other instruments super easy, since the theory is the same across instruments. Though my technique may lack, it's now possible to play anything that has a controllable pitch. Great video!

you are great, thank you for the effort of creating these amazing videos! I was suprised, because it seems with time I've come along these methods by myself, absolutely everything you said and I believe this is the right way of training! wish you all the best

You are the saviour I have been waiting for. I am a victim of trying to play each song in all keys and ending up achieving nothing at the end of it. Thanks for sharing.

There's sometime I've been realizing this way of practicing during my studies and this video now confirms that this is truly practical. Music is a language! Great video, thank's for sharing!

@diretoaospontos-victorbarb7377

3 жыл бұрын

Fala João, seu ouvido melhorou com essa técnica? Quero muito ter o melhor ouvido possível mas não sei a melhor maneira kkkk

This is, indeed, the most important lesson i saw on you channel. Thank you so much, Julian, i felt enlighted!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Łukasz Siewiorek I'm so pleased to hear this Lukasz, glad this resonates with you. Which key do you think you'll focus on?

Hi. This year I took your advice and I'm learning songs in one key (C, of course for a beginner) and now I understand the songs a lot better! I wish I had done it when I first saw this video. Thank you so much!

You're a great teacher! Thank you.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Hrvoje Šerić Thank you so much Hrvoje, that's very kind of you, and I'm really happy you enjoy my videos!

Best tutorial ever

Hey julian, thanks for the video content as it widened my perspective in ear training by narrowing down to a single key.

Wow! What a piece to the puzzle. Remarkably, came at "just the right moment" for me. Accident? Not! Many thanks. Heading to link.

My ear is pretty crappy. I like the way you explain that with all keys one just gets a kind of mushy understanding of the notes rather than their place in the key. And although I play fairly well (and sing), I really don't think of myself as a genuine musician. Ear Training is king. Boy, if this helps me get it - my whole definition of myself will change. Thanks SO much for your insights. As you said in the video - this very well could be the most important video you've ever or will ever create.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Marty Wilson Great comment Marty, thanks so much for posting. I know I make some bold statements in this one - that 'ear training is king' and that 'this is the most important lesson I've made' - but I really believe it. I'm very clear that my greatest gift is my ear. Before working on my ear I made very slow progress in music - complete average student. But when I shifted the way I practice, to focussing on one key, I found my ear developed, and since then - I find myself learning every day - every time I hear music played, learning new music theory all the time. My compositions got far far better, I could write good music consistantly, every time - because I just used my ear to transcribe exactly what I was hearing in my imagination. And my confidence shot up - I went from being scared in music class, to feeling very confident, and understanding what was going on. In my mind, the centre of everything is your ear. I think if you work on your ear for a year, you'll feel like a genuine musician. Nothing else has given me that feeling. Although I read a lot of music theory books, they've never given me the feeling of 'knowing everything'. The only thing that gives you that feeling of 'knowing everything' and complete independence, is developing your ear - relative pitch or perfect pitch.

Been searching for training videos for hours and finally found something worth watching

This is so interesting. I'm going to give it a try. I'll check out your course too.

This is sooooo helpful thank you

Easily the best music lesson on youtube. Great Job!!!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Caius Howlett Wow, that's a huge compliment Caius, thank you! Well I certainly feel it's MY most important lesson. When I think about what I did right when learning music, this is the one thing that comes up every time. Really pleased you enjoyed this one!

Excellent advice, thank you

Very interesting! That makes a lot of sense. As a rock guitarist I think it's fair to say there's a TON of music in A major so there's a lot of tunes to work with without getting bored. I'm going to mess with this. Thanks for all your work and help! The one thing I will say is the drawing was so cool that it distracted me from the message and I had to watch it a few times to get both.

I'm 18 and, exactly like you, I've been playing and composing almost exclusively in Cminor/Ebmajor for about 2 years ! I'm glad to know this is a good technique, because, as you said, teachers usually tell us to play in all keys and I thought that practicing like that wasn't a great idea, finally. Thank you very much !!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Louis Mercier Really nice to hear this Louis - sounds like we've experience exactly the same thing. I believe that to master all 12 keys - it's not a case of slowly working on one key, then slowly working on the next key, and little by little building up your knowledge across all 12. Instead I think it's a case of mastering one key, by completely immersing yourself in that key - and then later transposing that knowledge out to other keys - which is a relatively easy task - perhaps a week playing in each remaining key is all it takes to transfer that knowledge to the remaining keys. Really glad this one helped. The other key part to learning to play by ear is to practice transcribing songs. If you can do 3 songs a week (excerpts of a song - a verse or chorus is fine) - then I think in 4 months you'll have made huge improvements - because you make the fastest progress in the beginning. Keep me posted how you get on.

@MilkBoneForDogs

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your reply !

I Completely agree with this. It simplifies an extremely complicated thing without hurting the music.

This guy's good. I like your videos bruh, keep it up!

I agree with this video.. since I had adopted working in C Maj / A Min I have finally got a really good grasp of how all the chords work together. Using this method in this video of playing by ear uses the relative pitch approach. Thanks Julian.

@MyOwnWayMusic

7 жыл бұрын

I sometimes play in other keys but what I also do is transpose the midi keyboard to wherever the song is played in and still work around C Maj / A Min on the keyboard.. of course sometimes songs shift from one key to another and bring in imported chords not related to your working key.. but still, never the less.. the approach of mastering playing in one key really works for me.. amazingly so...

@MyOwnWayMusic

10 ай бұрын

Hi again, I also use the Nashville Number System for notation using numbers to identify the scale intervals 1, 2-, 3-, 4, 5, 6-, 7dim rather than chord letters to create a chord chart, that way this can be applied to any key without changing the chord chart and this works great too. (but you still need to know all the scales)

This is freaking brilliant. All of the connections and relationships in the harmony of songs is revealed when you put them all into one key. Wow. I have struggled to understand and play "Canon in D" by Pachabel though I could muddle through it by rote. When I transposed it into C all of the hidden connections became clear as a bell...the melody = inversions + the harmony fragments. I was able to improvise alternate lines and embellishments because now I understood it completely!

This is so helpful. Thank you.

This is absolutely brilliant and i'm going to be applying to my own practice and playing. Thank you for this wonderful insight.

@JonathanOvnat

2 жыл бұрын

4 years later, how much did it help?

Thank you so much for this fantastic tip. I’ve played fairly well with playing by ear but certainly not perfect or confident if I couldn’t figure out certain chords or what chord I wanted to play based on what I was hearing in my head. Playing all songs in the same key is amazing. I actually know all keys and their chords but struggled with playing by ear. I found after two days of practice of playing all songs in one key that no song was too hard to play, and I found that so pleasantly surprising. Shocking. So wonderful!!! Thank you!!!

Just stumbled upon this video, im going to try this out, thank you !

Thanks a lot for all your great efforts 👌✌👍👏👏👏👋

another great vid, thanks

A most excellent video.

Brilliant video. Thanks

Interesting concept. Learning a song in one key is one of the easiest concepts explained in regards to ear training. Thanks.

I do everything in the key of C maj / A Min and now I’m a near-master of playing, arranging, composing and remixing all in the one key.. Julian’s approach literally changed my music abilities. I will transpose up / down on the DAW (Cubase Pro 9.5) to suit the project, but I still stick to playing in C Maj / A Min on the keyboard. The other important thing about mastering one key is that you start to recognise all the outside-of-the-key chords that can work in your chosen key.. plus all the non-root bass note chords that add interest in the key that you have mastered.

@YogeshRana-fg8jr

5 жыл бұрын

I loved your video... thanks.... thanks ... thanks

@edthesaxplayer8450

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Julian I'm a sax player and just came to this conclusion after much frustration. tring to learn a mass of musical theory at the same time. I accidentally came across your video today.

@John8095

4 жыл бұрын

Vortex 5 what does he mean by stuck to one key? Like I can play the key but that’s it? Just play it as much as possible? Or put it in songs? If so how ? Just looks for songs that have that chord only?

@Chris-cf2kp

4 жыл бұрын

@@John8095 Practice in only one key so that your ear learns how intervals and chords sound in relation to each other like second nature. When you hear a song, it might be in a different key but unless you have perfect pitch, you won't necessarily know that, and can still conceptualize the theory from ear to paper. I guess if you have to transcribe it out in it's key on paper and then transpose it into your preferred key, that could work. It makes sense to train your ear in one key like this before overwhelming your ear with all keys first.

@WishToSightRead

4 жыл бұрын

Vortex, how long did it take for you to master? I can sing a song, but I can't hear the intervals very well, it's about 50/50 for me. Intervals down are worse.

Julian you are my favorite....from the US peace to you and and our brothers and sisters in the UK.

thank you for a good refresh..

Hi, i'm brazilian and i have done all the rmy ear training using this same technique. I did ear training Everywhere. When i was ever confused about any harmony, i couldn't help myself and i wrote all the songs names and when i got home, i used the piano to make sure i was thinking right. After watching your video, i understand why i got perfect ear and i can play any song (not too much complicated) in any key. Julian, today you made my day. I feeel awesome, because i love your videos and, today, i know why my studying in this concept was so good to me. Congrats for the channel.

Wow..this is a very simple principle and very good guide to learning music especially for beginners. I admire your good logic. Very smart of you. Thank you so much Sir Julian for sharing this principle which you have discovered. I will do that principle. God bless you.

Excellent advice!!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Certainly worth a try! Thank you!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Jane Terry Thank you Jane! Glad you're going to try this :)

I sort of worked on a version of this on sax. I have written out two pages of number patterns that look like this: 12321, 13431, 13451, etc. Then I sing the patterns in a particular scale like major, dorian or lydian-dominant, etc. I sing the notes while fingering them on the sax. I'm kind of intrigued with your ideas. I love the fact that they go against everything I've ever heard. I've never thought learning in all keys was great way to study music. Thanks for the video.

I have more progress with Mr Bradley's videos in piano and music learning...thank you sir :)

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+lwazi Dlamini Thank you Iwazi! I'm very happy my videos are helping you in your music learning journey :)

Very interesting concept. Makes sense to me.

This is absolutely brilliant! I produce music, however I am not a "musician" per say. I play everything by ear, mostly in C major and then transpose. These are exactly the type of Videos that I believe more people starting out in music should watch and take to heart. Keep up the great work.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Schön This is great for me to hear Daniel - thank you! Honestly, if I had my own music school, it would be based around this concept - at least for the first one or two years. We would only study one key, I wouldn't even tell the students that other keys until they'd mastered one key. And once you master one key, it is much easier to learn the other keys. You just take everything you learnt, and map it out starting from the 11 remaining notes. You've basically done all of the work on the one key, now you just rinse and repeat - honestly I think you can master each other key in 2 days, if you have a strong understanding of the first key.

@danielschon6004

8 жыл бұрын

Very cool, so just so I understand this correctly. If I'm doing intentive/attentive listening to a piece. In my minds eye would I then revert every note back to the key which I am using? So even if a piece is written in G Major with a chord progression of I, IV, V ie. G - C and D. I would then apply that to C Major. *(with the root being at C) and then calculating in my head the chord progression for I, IV, V which would be -C - F and G... Would that be the correct way of going about it? Or would I still start on G (Even though Im in C major) or an inversion of the C chord to get the "similar" or identical progression just in the key of C major? Apologies for the intense questioning however this simple step will help me immensley when going about writing music...

Thank you so much !!!! It makes my life so much simpler to think all in one key :)) 🙏

Thnk you for the video !

the method is very simple but the realization is very innovating thank you

Hi Julian -I stumbled upon some of your videos while clicking around on KZread. You're a fabulous teacher. Excellent.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Dennis Gentile Arr thank you Dennis. I really appreciate your kind words, gives me all the inspiration I need as I'm working on new videos. Thank you :)

Wow! This is a method I've never heard of before, but it makes sense. I have pretty decent ears already, but I still don't hear every note in my head when I transcribe or improvise. I will try this method and hopefully, it will take my ears and playing to a new level.

I am told, Play “Autumn leaves” in all 12 keys. Very daunting task! Like learning twelve languages. Good to focus on one key. Love this idea!

Totally agree, I actually stumble up this by mistake. Watching this video made me realize what I've been doing.

I agree with this principle. As it happens, while taking conventional "read music" piano lessons, I played everything in C. At the end of the year, I discovered that I could play just about any melody I could sing (not quite perfectly) without looking at either music or the keyboard. Now I couldn't tell you what notes I was playing, but I could quickly find them on the keyboard.

I think this is the best way to learn by ear. I practiced it with the C-scale with the songs I already knew. C-Scale I know very well. I was shocked at how easy it was for me to transpose to C with little to know problems. I’m going to continue practicing my scales but I’m going to mainly focus on one key for a certain time. Doing that is a great way to understand the keys better. I’m actually surprised this isn’t the first thing to come up when learning to play by ear. It’s really good stuff.

@yips5466

9 ай бұрын

you transpose key with app . or keep in original key , then by ear you make one key version

This is very interesting to me. I have unwittingly been doing this for quite a few months now and I have seen an improvement in my playing. I really appreciate this video for allowing me to realize what I have been doing for so long now. Thanks.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+tehlolzfactor I'm so pleased to hear this TF. I think many musicians do this naturally (whether they tell you about it or not), but they're made to feel like it's a bad habit, or that they're being lazy - as I was. But I've given this a lot of thought and I believe that the 'practice in all 12 keys' advice should come way later at the very end. I hope from now on you feel good about your fixed key practicing since you understand just some of the benefits which I mentioned here :)

@TerryFangaz

8 жыл бұрын

+jazztutorial runs jazz riffs and fingering to create them please

@PLanBBeaTZ

8 жыл бұрын

+jazztutorial your tutorials are great!!!!!and your EAR TRAINING is a MUST!!!!!!!i do this for about one year now and recognize the major 2nd, the sixth over a major chord without any effort, i just know it...the major third and the fith are quite harder for me...but i wil master them too X) great stuff as always!!!!

Sure I will follow your way.

Thanks Julian. I tend to hear everything in D major/B minor, but get a hammering if I don't play songs in the original key - even though it's just me playing and no one else is affected. So now I've taken to always checking the original key before allowing myself to go to far along in the most comfortable key.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+paulwwells Hi Paul! I think D major / B minor will work great for you. Even if you have to play some songs in their original keys, I think that transposing it into your fixed key as well will still do most of the job - you'll be aware of the recurring patterns from one song to the next. Thanks for the comment!

Hi, everyone. I have a friend who is very skilled in playing songs by using his musical ear. One thing he said to me when I was new learning how to play music was to learn how to play a single songs in all the keys, which I think relates to this master says. I never practice the way my friend told me. I’m going to practice the way this master is teaching.

Hi Julian, thanks for your great videos! Could you please tell how fast the procedure can become with practice? Say, if I improvise and hear a melody in my head and want to play it right on the spot, I would have two options: 1. Relying on muscle memory and ear-to-muscle connection, obtained by many hours of improvising (I'm pretty close to that). This involves some 'feel' developed over time for where the next note is. This can be done in real time while improvising, because it's relatively fast. 2. Actually identifying the next note's degree in the scale (ear training) and knowing the actual letter by memorizing the scales (e.g. I hear that it's a 6th and I know the tonic is G so the next note must be an E), or, similarly, identifying the interval from the previous note (ear training), then, by memorizing scales, knowing the letter of the next note (e.g. the previous note was B, and the next note is m3 above it, so it must be a D). When I'm transcribing, I have all the time I need and I can go through that procedure with 100% accuracy. But can it be brought to a speed level where you can utilize it in real time?

This is very true , I said that to myself and it really helped me to improve better than I can imagine. 😀😀😀👊👊👊👊🎹🎹🎹🎹🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👍 Thank you very much and God bless you more.

Love the editing - pure talant, where did you go to school to study music?

This is a very different approach. I will try it.

This is interesting, I'm gonna try this for a few months and check for improvement

This is such a slow method of learning but definitely the most effective... so here goes!

thanks for the tips! now I will learn to play my songs in B, Gb and Db :)

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Justinus Andjarwirawan Thanks Justinus! I really recommend you choose just one key for this to work best.

Its a beautiful piano !!

One key is a brilliant suggestion !!!!!

Wonderful Jazz!!

My experience was a bit different. Since the very beginning of my musical education (I was 8, so pretty old) I liked improvisation and playing melodies by ear. I wasn't really serious about it, like hard work on subject, but I enjoyed playing those melodies starting from different tones. Just based on the feeling. So as I learned in the school about different keys I was already feeling them and knowing exactly which sounds belonged to which keys. It actually helped me a lot in learning music theory. For I every key was so natural for me, I had no difficulty at all noticing patterns. For example I was absent when the Circle of fifths was taught. I didn't even hear of it. So I just sat and tried to learn by heart which key had which marks. I've worked this out all by ear and as I've written it on paper I noticed that they go in the pattern. Then I learned, that this pattern was called "Circle of fifths". I was 10. Not that I boast about it, or say you're wrong. I'm just saying, that it differs and each one has to find his own way. I believe your hint would help a lot of people. :)

incredible ,thanks

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+toyin hannah Thank you Toyin! Really pleased this resonated with you

I really enjoy your videos, but have only just come across this one. Wonder if F and Dm would be a good choice. I have been testing myself on my knowledge of all keys, and then becoming confused and losing my way. Hope to be able to report good progress. Thanks for this Julian.

sorry u stated it at the end..this so awesome. more please on this

Thank you

Good video!

You are very good teacher

Thank you Julian.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Steve Bhowanee Absolutely, thank you Steve!

Very nice Julian!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+iMusicAcademy Thank you IMA!

Sir! respect from Honduras! I've been doing this before watching these video... now that I see how it works for you I'll totally continue on this you are brilliant!

Julian, Thank you for this lesson and product. Your videos are fantastic and very helpful. You over deliver on your videos. I sent a few emails regarding a few questions I had. Please let me know if you got them. I have been showing everyone your course. Keep up the incredible work. Very inspiring! Sincerely, Bob Taylor

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+iMusicAcademy Great to hear from you Bob - yes I will be responding to emails this evening so look forward to responding to your questions!

my man ill come again in a month and see if i could be able to learn something by my own cuz im broke af to buy the course. keep it up

Nicely done, young man...

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Charles Kahlenberg Thank you Charles! Glad this one helped :)

Very interesting approach Julian. I'll give this a try. Knowing you I'll bet it's just what I need. Thank you for all you do!

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+John Paul Riger Thanks John, and it's so good to hear from you! It's been ages - how's everything with you?

@JohnPaulRiger

8 жыл бұрын

+jazztutorial Living the dream Julian, living the dream! I'm just now picking up my Christmas repertoire and booked up pretty solid through New Years and into 2016 solo and with various bands. I've learned a lot of music from you and I thank you so very much. I worked out this new ear training lesson and was very surprised how easy it was. I told my wife, "Wow, I never realized I could actually do this!" She's heard me make a lot of noise over the years and so when I learn something beneficial she's the first to notice. I'm going to encourage others with whom I'm working to try this and see if it's as helpful for them as it is for me. You are a master Julian at not teaching us WHAT to play, but opening doors to new musical vistas that help us learn HOW to play. There's a huge difference and again I thank you beyond words for sharing of your genius.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+John Paul Riger I'm so pleased to hear this John! I love that you're gigging lots this Christmas, making improvements, and living the dream! I was pleased to see your email recently with all of your gigs listed - I hope they went / are going well. Have a great 2016 and keep me posted with everything! Julian

@JohnPaulRiger

8 жыл бұрын

+jazztutorial Excellent, just excellent and thank you! Christmas eve here and tonight I'm playing to a sellout dining crowd in a posh historic hotel. I'll perform Blue Lotus and cite your remarkable gift as an artist, teacher and friend. Merry Christmas and I hope this next year will be the very best year of your life so far!

Brilliant

Guitar player here of 20 years here. I STRUGGLED so hard for so many years with my ear training. I got some progress over the last year with solfege training. I could figure out stuff faster by ear, but it wasn't mastery by any means. I literally tried this one key method for ONE HOUR and by the end of the hour I could hear a riff, picture it in my head and almost immediately play it correctly! I was BLOWN AWAY! It felt like something internally clicked! I'm sticking to A minor and C major just for the sake of ease on the guitar. This is a game changer for me!

I'd like to try this because I have found it a little overwhelming trying to learn everything in all keys all at once, and I often get stuck. I think this may solve the problem and nudge me further along. Thanks for coming up with this idea.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Charmian O'Brien Glad to hear this Charmian. In my opinion, you don't have to learn 12 keys from scratch. Instead, you just learn one key and then transfer that knowledge to the other keys at the end. Let me know you get on with this, thanks!

Thanks Bradley, I have mastered the I IV V I have been having difficulty hearing the ii. iii and vi and vii. Hope this will help.

thanks Julian...

I'm playing trombone for about 8 months now. I'm also learning to transcribe. However I'm in the habit of saying the starting note in my head before blowing it to ensure I have the correct pitch. Relying on this I sat in an airport and thought I could transcribe a song without my instrument. When I returned took my instrument to identify the key, it was indeed in a different key than I thought it was. I had to rewrite it since my concern is if choir/church members can sing it as I mostly transcribe from voice recordings, thus try to keep key as accurate as possible. I was recently transcribing a song sung at different places by the same choir, but seemingly different keys as key in my mind simply is how high or low especially singers and would still sound same. The keyboard player from the one event told me he played along in F major while the other recording was in a different key. However having chosen to write in F I had to note so many accidentals that I thought I should have probably written it in the other key. Your method I understand if different. My favourate key is E flat will try to transcribe accordingly for the 6 months and see. Thanks!

excellent tip thanks!!!! can i apply it to guitar as not a piano player?

Very helpful Julian. You are absolutely right about how it's natural to try taking on new songs in their original key. For some reason the key of B major troubles me. Maybe I should focus on that one for all songs.

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Justin Jackson Hi Justin! You could focus on B major / G# minor - yes. Or you could go with a key that you're most familiar with already, and I bet B major will seem much easier when you come back around to it. For me, I found that once I mastered one key - that was the hard part done (about 90% of the work). And it was relatively straightforward to transpose all the things I knew into the remaining 11 keys (roughly 10% of the work). I found it took me about 2 or 3 days to feel confident in each new key, each of which I practiced on their own. So I was never flicking about between keys while I was first learning this stuff.

Great approach to ear training. Not affiliated in any sort of way, but I like the app Functional Ear Trainer to practice this.

@arnaucs1534

4 жыл бұрын

@Kitten Katt I have one question. Do you practice on this app with only one key (the one that you've selected) or with any key? Because at the beginning it only gives the option to practice with a major key signature.

wow that's already my chosen practice key...lol e flat c minor. .thanks JB

@jazztutorial

8 жыл бұрын

+Terry Crowder Jr. Thanks Terry! I think Eb maj / C minor is a good one - worked for me :)

Thankyou