OMG it works, I can't explane, I imagine keyboard in my head and play melodies in e flat Maj or c min I feel confidence, I do not fear, I was stuck I worked with ear training app last 3 month, but now it is breakthrough. Thank you

You're killing it man, keep going!

I just downloaded the functional ear training app, and I LoVe it! I really appreciate all your videos! Thank you so much for sharing!

Julian, thanks so much for taking us along with you on your trip! I like the format of this video. Looking forward to seeing more of this series! Your tips for practicing away from the instrument are really helpful.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Arr Ambrose, I love hearing this. I'm so pleased this concept was helpful. I really want to help people SEE that this is how professional musicians think. After all, unless someone shows you like this - then there's no way to tell that this is what's going on in their head. I'm glad you liked this one and I'll follow up with more soon

Julian, thank you for your formula. I understand it, and I am eager to apply it to my life.

This was very interesting for me because I do not yet have a piano so I have been studying all the videos and trying to imagine what notes the person is playing, so thank you for this type of video.

Very much enjoying this new video series. Looking forward to the next one. For me the takeaway is your thought process, not a particular song or its transcription. PS. Love Bryce Canyon. So stunningly beautiful.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Estevon! This means a lot. I'm so pleased that you got the main take away - which was to demonstrate that this thought process is going on many times a day. This is 95% of what I practice. My goal wasn't so much to get across specific techniques, as it's hard to really demonstrate the technicalities when I'm 'out in the field', not at the piano. Thank you for your honest feedback - it means a lot.

Wow! I totally have done this same thing in my head for the last 2/3 years but I haven’t watched this video until today!

Great that you're able to make such a trip. Spending any time in New Orleans...I hope!

It was really difficult to control my urge not to check on any instrument whether my intervals are right or wrong. But after few weeks of practicing this technique and watching your following videos on EAR TRAINING ,it really helped me to detect the intervals and transcribing it easily without any instrument.Its really interesting and gives you immense pleasure when you figure it out something by ear not by regular means.I shall be always grateful to you for teaching me this thought process .

@mthokozisibrianngubane6420

Жыл бұрын

How do you actually know in your head that you are in c min or e flat maj, plz help.

Awesome. I love that. I’m going to do that too.

I enjoyed this, especially the scenery

Hey Julian, thanks for your videos. I've been a longtime subscriber of yours and got lots of useful information out of your videos. I'm wondering what microphone do you use to record your voice? Sounds nice and clear!

Awesome Video !

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Alex!

Yes. Finally. Thanks for this

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Oscar! I'm so glad you liked this one, I really didn't know how it would be received, but personally I needed a breath of fresh air, and to get out of the studio for a bit. Glad you liked this and I'll follow up with a few more

Great video...edgy, love the driving techno/EDM beats, and what phenomenal views! Thank you for showing us the nuts and bolts of how you do things....it's comforting to know that there are no shortcuts...that all it takes is practice and perseverance! :)

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Farah - I really appreciate your kind words, and I can't wait to share more about the transcribing process in the upcoming videos. Glad you liked the new style - I just had to change it up for this one, and I had fun

wow great

That was inspiring. I'm going to try to transcribe songs now. Thanks!

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Mission accomplished! You don't know how much that means - if I hear that from just one person, then it was all worth it. Thank you so much Caleb - let me know how you get on.

I like your suggestion man! Thank you!😊

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

So pleased to hear this C.S., and it's always great to see your name in the comments. I appreciate it :)

This is an excellent idea and learning opportunity for all of us, especially since we ALL usually rely way too much on our instruments to validate our ear. This is difficult for me but absolutely essential to take me to the next level of my musicianship. Love the beautiful scenery too! What a bonus! Big hugs to the Fam! Aloha 🤙

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Arr Brad, it's so good to hear from you. And I've been meaning to email you to record our discussion on hearing loss / prevention. How are you doing? I'm just catching up from this recent trip, but can't wait to talk with you.

Ah! Good stuff.

Hi I have difficulty to understand low notes , because I hear more air than the note but If I pitch shift the song one octave higher I can understand the bass notes , do you have any tips to improve perception of low notes ?

Thank you Julian. An excellent tutorial once again and a very big thank you for showing us some amazing scenery on your journey . Immediately following your tutorial Aimee gives her Ear training tutorial. Good to see. Don't be concerned about showing us some of the scenery along the way. Aimee even does one of her tutes from her skate board hehe.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Arr thank you Robert. I really appreciate the encouragement. It can get a bit stagnant staying indoors, 'in the studio', and the truth is that most of my music practice IS done outdoors, away from the instrument, even when I'm on long road trips and I'm not doing any playing. Can't wait to share the next few videos from this trip with you

Thank you from Lima Peru !!!

Cool Julian! Did you see the Great Throne in Zion? Hope you enjoy your time here in the states.

very beautiful places...

I recognize that Chipotle. 2100 South in Sugarhouse! I wish I had know you were in town. :)

Wow buddy!! Love the personalized presentation! You know,since starting your ear training course I've grown slowly over time. Recently though I noticed something mind blowing. I started playing the melody of "The Christmas Song" and my fingers just automatically went to the right notes. With out me even thinking about it!!!! I've been going over it in my head for several days first. Anyway just wanted to share that. Thanks again for everything you're doing. Also,really cool seeing you on your travels :)

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Charels! That's awesome. That's just how it happens - you practice it consciously for quite a while... and then one day, you find that it's become intuitive - you're not necessarily thinking 'major 3rd, minor 3rd, 4th, etc'. You 'just know' that this is what you want to play. I'm really happy for you. It should also become quite addictive when you get a few successes like this - it makes you want to transcribe another song, and another. Thanks so much for sharing this. And now that it's getting close to Christmas - keep going with other Christmas songs. It was Christmas songs that I started ear training on. Keep me posted and I'll talk to you soon.

@charlenestarr2901

6 жыл бұрын

I will!!! Love the Christmas stuff :)

The shots in those rocky places are breath taking.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Definitely. It was really nice to get out of the studio and change up the scenery and backdrops

hey julian, whats the music in bakround, something between techno og jazz...like it a lot.....where can you get it...mikael

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Mikael, all of the music in this video (and all of my videos) was composed and produced by me. I have 100+ 'library tracks' from my years of composing, and I use these in my videos whenever I need interlude music. I haven't published these tracks, for download. But if you send me an email (through the contact page at TheMusicalEar.com) I can send you the MP3 to a song. I'm glad you liked the music.

Nice. Lovely series idea!

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Arr so pleased - I almost didn't post this. It's very experimental - but the main point I want to get across is that everyone can practice this, many times a day, no matter how busy you are. I sometimes go months without access to a piano (if I'm traveling for example) yet I feel completely immersed in music because I do this every day. Thanks so much Jazz Cat!

@rockstarjazzcat

6 жыл бұрын

Well, Denver says hello! :) Even if everyone can, I've very seldom seen daily ear training modeled. Refreshing to see it so. I'm inspired to incorporate more myself. Many thanks.

I am worried that whilst I can tell if the chord major or minor I would need to be sat at the piano to find the chord in order to name it C minor or F major etc --am I doing something wrong? Terry UK

I have done this exact thing for about two years now. Only thing different is that I’ve practiced relative pitch a lot also so i try my best to get the key right. Somehow I hear f# easily so i just get the key relating to that. That part is not really necessary at all like you said in the video, but if you can do it then why not i guess. But cant agree more with this training tip, makes your melody playing also better over time especially if you think how the lines are played on your instrument, for me its the guitar and i always visualize the fretboard and think the notes as red dots when transcribing.

Is it worth learning movable solfege? The reason I ask is that the solfege syllables are very short, e.g. "me" (minor 3rd) is shorter than "G flat" (minor third from Eb root).

@IuriSigma

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not him but, as long as you learn the scale degrees, any name system will do. The important part is the functional harmony of scale degrees. I myself learnt them using moveable do, but I also kind of think about them as numbers as well. The app Functional Ear Trainer was the one I used mainly and it's enormously helpful if you really spend the months/years using it, as long as you train at least 20 minutes or more a day. The fixed key method seems to work really well too, even faster it seems but I didn't have enough experience with it yet.

Wow!! I can kind of figure the key of a song by humming a line and seeing if it fits the whole song . Definitely not like that!!? Way to go!!

Extremely excited for this series :D try to capture the songs you are listening to, would be easier for us to understand P.s. love the vlog style video :)

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Nipun! Agreed - that's the part I need to work on. I didn't realize that the songs weren't really audible until I uploaded the footage. I'll work on it and hopefully I can get this VLOG style to work.

@nipunbanerjee6385

6 жыл бұрын

jazztutorial it's awesome :)

I give it a like but because of the soundtrack...:-)

hmm but how would you know that it's in c dorian? from your membership I would have just tried to transcribe it in c minor and just figure out the intervals and it's scale degrees

@sprenzy7936

6 жыл бұрын

btw what cam and mic do you use? the video quality looks looks amazing

Hi Julian, this might sound as a stupid question. I’m a beginner at piano. Why do you transcribe in Cminor and not major?

Hye Julian. What you are doing with your ear training is use a "Movable Do" when you figuring out the notes. But one thing I don't get, is why don't you keep DO everytime ? I mean you use DO for the minor keys of C minor and C dorian, but you switch to Eb major when transcribing a major tune... I don't really get why. Keeping a DO major would be more relevant as it would highlight the differences between all the modes. It would be more consistent. Can you explain why you do it this way pls ?

My piano stopped working 😭. But luckily, I found this video and now, I am on my way to transcribing stuff.

Had no idea you were in my city! Would have liked to meet up and so forth. Headed to see the Bad Plus in Boulder, by any chance?

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Arr Chad!!!! Which city do you live in? I had no idea you lived here - otherwise I would have insisted on meeting. This was actually filmed 2 weeks ago - I just got back home. But of course, YOU were the person who originally came up with the idea for this type of video. Your original 'day in the life' ear training video was an excellent demonstration. Is it publicly searchable on KZread?

@BAwesomeDesign

6 жыл бұрын

Salt Lake metro area. Not sure if my video shows up in KZread searches... your inspiration inspired me, so.... circle of life and all that. (Or circle of fifths).

Looks like you’re in Red Rocks, CO

I didn't see you writing down any music. When you say "transcribing," do you mean mental memorization AND/OR writing down the music?

Hey Julian, im a bit confused. I thought the point was to transcribe ALL songs in the key of C minor, but in the video you transcribe a song in its relative major key- Eb Major- why? You said this is because the song was in a major key- so are you saying you transcribe minor key songs in C minor, and major key songs in Eb major? I cant understand your reasoning behind transcribing in Eb major when i thought irrespective of the original key everything must be transcribed into C minor. Appreciate your clarification. Thanks

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Damian, Yes - C minor is the same key as Eb major. Both scales have the same flats - Bb Eb Ab - and they're known as 'Relative' major and minor scales. Every major scale has a 'relative minor scale' - and you just count down a minor 3rd from the major scale's root to find the relative minor scale - e.g. D major and B minor, F major and D minor, Bb major and G minor... and Eb major and C minor. Or if you're in a minor scale, you can find the relative major scale by counting UP a minor 3rd - e.g. F minor and Ab major, C# minor and E major, and so on. So if you're transcribing a major melody using notes of Eb major scale, then you're transcribing it in the key of C minor / Eb major. Every key represents 2 scales - a major scale, and a minor scale. I also just posted a follow up video which I think will help explain more on this here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pGWVmLaOgNynl7Q.html Does this help / make sense?

@neilanfranklin4576

6 жыл бұрын

C minor is the relative minor of Eb major, same notes

@Jdman5000

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Neilan Franklin thanks for your answer - read above! Same notes doesn’t mean same key!

@neilanfranklin4576

6 жыл бұрын

Damian Muirhead thanks, in classical theory, the minor key does use the same key signature as the relative major key. I suppose you can see it as just another mode of Eb major, using C as the key centre rather than Eb.

Nice Jullian. This is s very useful method, however, some of the songs in your video were masked in the background noise. So you may need to use a zoom mic or sth similar to record these type of videos. Also, your choise or music is fantastic :) Keep it up

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Arr great - glad you liked the music, and concept. I actually have a high quality Sure mic I was using, but the noise levels were high in some places (like Chipotle). But let me work on it - I think I can find a place out there where I can demonstrate this clearly. This was just the first one. Thanks for your comment Mehrad!

Do you think it's useful to practice transcribing in keys other than C or Cm, or maybe to just transcribe everything as relative intervals from the root note?

@Eru87

6 жыл бұрын

It's an easier key to figure out, if for no other reason, because at least C is all white keys, and Cm is the Natural minor scale, which along with the relative minor scale are the most common scales around the mayor and minor scales in pop music at least. If you can figure out in that scale, transcribe it to degrees or numeral, you can fly to any key you'd like from there

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Big Bang. Here's my thoughts: Any practice is better than no practice. However, the best practice is to transcribe every song in the same key - purely because 1. it removes the confusion of changing between 12 keys, and 2. you learn to spot the recurring shapes very quickly - you'll notice that it's the same 4 chords, the same 5 notes, the same handful of melodic patterns, being used over and over again. And just based on growing up with a lot of musician friends who practiced ear training, like me - I've noticed that the ones who transcribe songs in the key of the original songs (i.e. across all 12 keys) never reach mastery. Whereas myself, and a handful of other friends who focused on one key - we all mastered this skill. So yes - I do think that this is an essential part of achieving success. To this day, I transcribed EVERY song in the same key - and I believe that's why I have a crystal clear picture of how harmony works. Harmony is my specialty - purely because I view everything lined up from C... which few musicians do. And when I sometimes discover a new sound while I'm playing in a different key, then the first thing I'll do is transpose it into C minor, so that I can learn it from C. Does this make sense? Do you have any other questions?

@keithabberstein6949

6 жыл бұрын

A wonderful travelogue commercial. Nothing to do with music. You should take notice of several of the preceding comments and let us hear the music that you are supposedly "practising by ear"

I'm sorry, Julian, but this is not working for me. I could see you transcribing, but I never heard any of the melodies you were listening to. For this to work, you either have to get your mike closer or overdub the melody when you make the video. I did enjoy the vlog style and joining your travels through the beautiful parks.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Kerry, I appreciate your feedback. This was an experiment for me - I'm getting the hang of some new microphones and cameras, and I wasn't sure if this would work. I have a feeling I can get this style to work much better in future - and I'll have to get closer to the speakers, and focus on well known songs. But for now, I mainly want to raise awareness about ear training - and show people that this is literally 95% of my music practice. This is something I practice EVERY TIME I hear music played. I can never listen to music and not think like this. Whether the music is a film soundtrack, someone's ringtone, dancing with my daughter to Disney songs... whatever the music is playing, this thought process is also going on. So even though the audio didn't work out as well as I hoped, I hope that this one gets the idea across - that this can be practiced many times a day. And now I'll work on finding a way to capture the music better when I'm 'out in the field'. Again - thank you for your honest feedback, and you have a talent for making it to top comment in a lot of my videos! Well done - that's not easy :)

The problem I find with this is that I have no feedback (like the one an instrument gives you) so I dont know if I'm transcribing it right

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Dorfman - I completely understand. So I'd suggest that you start at your instrument, have a go at transcribing some simple melodies (like Christmas songs). Don't play to the recording, but just sing the tune from memory, and start the melody on C. Use your instrument to begin with, for the first 5 melodies... and then when you start getting a rough idea for how it works, then transition to doing the thinking part away from your instrument. Does that work for you?

I actually do this all the time, except I use numbers to represent chords in the key and scale degrees.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Perfect! So pleased to hear this Edgar. Honestly, once someone makes this 'active listening' a habit, then it's just a matter of time before they master this skill.

GREAT! STAY SAFE WIZ

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Asward! Always great to see you in the comments. How's your playing going?

Dont you need perfect pitch for transcribing music ?

@hawkzrl2109

3 жыл бұрын

Cuz fun and all but i cant hear what notes are beeing played... Only people with perfect pitch can do this unfortunately

I see your point to practice ear training in an everyday situation. Because the background noises are too loud, I can not hear what you heard. Hope you can make similar video without background noises.

I'd like to hear some specifics about what was learned in transcribing songs while in restaurants and driving. Otherwise it seems like you would just be doing what you can already do.

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

Some things I've learned from transcribing: - How music works, - What the norms of music are - The characteristics of any musical style (jazz, rock, country, EDM, funk, etc) - Taking any sound I hear and using it in my own music (chord progressions, melodic shapes, rhythms) ...basically learning the language of music, just as though I was learning a foreign language, so that I can speak it, and understand it when I hear it. I'd say that 80% of what I know about music has come from transcribing songs on a daily basis, and by transcribing them all in the same key - so that I can compare literally thousands of songs (from the last 15 years of doing this) all lined up from C. Does that make sense? Let me know if you have more questions, or want more specifics - I can also follow up with a video answering this question in more depth.

@bills48321

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your answer. I take your point that this is a worthwhile thing to do. The mystery for me is that when I do this, I tend to pick up what I can already recognize and the things I can't identify, like a jazz piano chord voicing on the car radio, just goes by without being able to figure it out. If I have a keyboard or guitar and can repeat the recording, then I can usually get it.

Ear training seems very difficult without perfect pitch unless I have my instrument with me. I'm not sure how to begin without my instrument.

@jarkkojanhunen6121

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Marco, there are actually some great apps, for example "functional ear trainer": play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaizen9.fet.android&hl=sv

@MarcoH72

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@davidzvonar

6 жыл бұрын

exactly i dont have perfect pitch so this is impossible for me

@Eru87

6 жыл бұрын

Julian explains in his videos that he doesn't have perfect pitch, just a very high relative pitch from all of his years playing and doing what this video shows, along other things he covers in his ear training course. I highly recommended it, it's excellent no matter what level your at.

@davidzvonar

6 жыл бұрын

according to what is shown in this video he uses perfect pitch. how else would he know the notes? i mean if he said intervals i would understand

I recognised that you were in Utah from the rock formations

If you don't know the actual key the song you are hearing is in, couldn't you instead use numbers 1 to 7 for the notes, 1 being the root?

@jazztutorial

6 жыл бұрын

You do both - when I'm listening in C minor, I'm also thinking of each note as a scale degree - the root, 2nd, minor 3rd, 4th etc. In music, you want to be aware of both - the note name, and the number. And the same for chords. It's just a lot easier for me to call out note names - C Eb Bb etc, rather than saying 'root, minor 3rd, minor 7th'. If you only try to think in numbers, it gets a bit abstract. So I recommend assigning real notes to your numbers, think of the numbers in a key. Does that make sense?

@rodgrego7690

6 жыл бұрын

jazztutorial that makes perfect sense. Thanks for clarifying.

these comments must be cancerous, love the video

I play drums...

Just started listening to you. Great that you're so good at transcribing in the car but what that's got to do with "how to" is completely beyond me. The actual instructional aspects of this video could have been presented in less than 60 seconds!