If you want to improve your ear training then head to tonegym.co?aff=2104 👂🏻🎵 Also, to test your ear training here's my interval test on the 2nd channel kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJNrtsadqca9gtY.html 🎹

@isaiahneilguitaristofficia549

2 жыл бұрын

I honestly think teaching intervals in this type of method with songs that if you use interval melodies baselines Guitar lines etc. is way easier than doing the traditional just here’s the interval just memorize what it sounds like there’s no connection to a song something you’ve heard before so this way teaching of us in this way with something that you can relate to what you’ve heard before you might even enjoy you might even like in associate with is so much better way to teach intervals in the sound of intervals than j just here’s a minor third just memorize what it sounds like.

@tiyenin

2 жыл бұрын

As for beyond-the-octave intervals, Greensleeves has a lovely rising m10 between the first and second half of the chorus (I hear it as D4 to F5 in the key of Gmin).

The way you bring up “Under Pressure” and “Ice Ice Baby” in the same example and not even bat an eye is genius. Lol

@JMannus65

2 жыл бұрын

Ummm. But there’s an extra note in ice ice baby …

@toddpacker4683

2 жыл бұрын

@@JMannus65 “it’s not the same!”

@Astfgl

2 жыл бұрын

@@JMannus65 Completely original work

@andrejz8954

2 жыл бұрын

I died :D

@chaic4211

2 жыл бұрын

@@JMannus65 A whole extra note! Must be original

David Bennett piano checklist: Beatles example(s): ✅ Radiohead example(s): ✅

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

😁

@dahliafiend

2 жыл бұрын

That why I love this channel.

"You can also use the bass line to Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice." Subtle, very very subtle and perfectly delivered with a straight face. 😂

@drakeburnett7254

2 жыл бұрын

I knew that joke was coming once I heard Under Pressure 😂

@jasonremy1627

2 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆

@afip4n6doc

2 жыл бұрын

😊

@zzzaphod8507

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad Queen ripped off that bass line!

@syntec1418

2 жыл бұрын

@@zzzaphod8507 Under Pressure was made literally a decade before Ice Ice Baby

The verse melody of Even Flow by Pearl Jam starts with a very memorable descending tritone!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Nice example 😀

@Excelsior1937

2 жыл бұрын

I remember when I found that!

@TheRealWL9

2 жыл бұрын

So does the prechorus of Maniac, going from F# to B#.

@DougerArt

Жыл бұрын

also don't stop til you get enough by MJ

"No surprises" by Radiohead. You. You just played me a song I have been looking for for 9 years. I am shook. I genuinely NEVER thought I'd find that song!! I was beginning to think I dreamt it!! THANK YOU!!!

@zarzaparrilla67

2 жыл бұрын

That feeling when you find a song you were searching for years is amazing. Even better when that song is No Surprises.

@sdzy1605

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha just like my comment about Let Em In's opening using the Big Ben bells!

@planetsoccer99

2 жыл бұрын

that feeling is... better than the cherry on a whipped cream sundae Better than a week that'll never have a Monday

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite Radiohead songs! Glad I could make your dream come true!

@adamgthompson

2 жыл бұрын

David, what’s the modal change on the turnaround in the introduction?

I laughed out loud when he talked about under pressure and ice ice baby like they were different riffs and carried on

@jonnybigmuff

2 жыл бұрын

They are different riffs. Extra note on ice

@thewickedwizard

2 жыл бұрын

Ice Ice Baby isn't a sample. It has an extra note in it. Different Riff

Für Elise will always be the go to for Minor 2nd to me ^^

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)" has great examples of the descending minor third for pretty much the entire melody

@drakeburnett7254

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great example. Love that song ❤️

@rome8180

2 жыл бұрын

It also has the minor 2nd interval at the end of each line on the words "these" and "disagree," etc.

@zzzaphod8507

2 жыл бұрын

Good example, although the title is "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".

I have a pretty wicked case of food poisoning, so I have spent about 15 hours watching your videos today (since I am unable to do anything else). I feel like I have taken a years worth of music theory classes. Just wanted to give you a shoutout for making my otherwise awful day edifying and educational. Great channel!

Here are mine : *2m* : Für Elise *2M* : Satin Doll *3m* : Hey Jude *3M* : Summertime *4* : Marche des rois (Bizet) Eine Kleine Nachtmusik *5dim* : Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns) Dig me Out (Sleater-Kinney) Black Sabbath *5* : It don't mean a Thing *6m* : Love Story *6M* : Nobody knows the Trouble I've Seen Lofotens (Thomas Fersen) *7m* : Watermelon man *7M* : Pictures at an Exhibition : Baba Yaga (Moussorgski) *9m* : Killing in the name

@eloicourau6855

11 ай бұрын

La marche des rois ❤️❤️❤ found out about its descending 4rth today!!

Another good bass line for the descending tritone is "YYZ" by Rush.

I just can't get enough of ur intervals related content. I do pray that u make them more often. You Rock. And I do hope that going forward.. UR body and mind is never in grief for beyond 3 seconds.

Just LOVE every single video you put out!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!

These are so good, the production, the song choices, the way you explain everything in detail. Well done sir

Thank you so much David! It is so easy to conceptualize this way I can probably name multiple examples of each interval. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and the entire DB massive!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

Wow, I never noticed how similar the bass riff to Under Pressure and the bass riff to Ice Ice Baby were to each other. Thanks for pointing that out!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

It's an odd coincidence isn't it

@thomasrinschler6783

2 жыл бұрын

I laughed hard when he did that.

I like timbre of David´s voice. Nice singing.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏😃

David, videos are always terrific and I always learn something from them. But this one is truly exceptional! I ave a difficult time with descending intervals. This will make a big difference for me! Thanks!

Where would the world be without the great musical innovations of Vanilla Ice? 😀 On a serious note, the fact that the Beatles fit so many of your examples demonstrates how great they are as songwriters. Musicologists are going to be studying their material long after we are all gone I suspect.

David, that's very helpful. Thank you for your great content

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Dude your videos have taught me so much..its opened doors to my firther understanding. Much thanks and i will joining patreon

dude always putting in effort to make us better musicians! Respect!

The minor second interval is a very common interval used when cats meow. Disregarding single long note meows, try looking out for the type of meow that has two notes that descend in pitch. More often than not, it will be a minor second interval. Lol.

Great video and just what I needed to practice my ear training. Thank you! Also I'm going to give tonegym a shot over the holiday break. Looks like it could be fun. Thanks again for the great vid and all around solid content, sir !

Give your graphic designer a raise. I love the use of color in the title card here and with the ascending interval video also. Excellent work.

I really enjoy these type of videos. Thanks David!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Hello and thank you so much for this dude!!

Excellent, David, and a very Happy Christmas.

Wait, how did I miss this upload? This is super super helpful. Thanks David! Have a great Christmas!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David!

I love when people figure out a way to throw in the word "penultimate." Such a great but hard-to-find-context-for word

@DawnDavidson

9 ай бұрын

Yes! I have a friend who always drives me nuts by using “penultimate” when she means “ultimate.” No, the pen part is not an *intensifier*! LOLSOB

Great video(s)! These practical ear-training memory tricks, are one of the best things a musician without perfect pitch can practice. The same memory trick can be done with chord movement/progressions as well.

So glad someone else remembers Joan Osbourne’s One of Us. One of my mom’s favorites, so I heard it a TON growing up.

@DawnDavidson

9 ай бұрын

Great song. I’m old enough that it reminds me of my stepdaughter, who played it a lot as a teen. :)

Thank you for these videos. I have wanted to have relative pitch my whole life but never was able to train it well. These videos gave me a good place to start and now I've been training for about 2 weeks and I can almost confidently identify any isolated interval

Thank you, perfect timing for me. I have been really struggling with descending thirds when they are not the same notes as Hey Jude, Swing Low or a doorbell.

Some other suggestions: m2: Fur Elise M2: the high piano notes in Bohemian Rhapsody, the bass riff in Hit the Road Jack m3: Clair de Lune (highest notes of the 2nd and 3rd dyads) M3: first notes of the Take on Me intro, first notes of Summertime P4: Legend of Zelda, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik TT: YYZ by Rush (intro guitar riff) P5: Game of Thrones opening the other ones are honestly pretty hard

I was sure the octave riff is going to be from "My Sharona" 🙂

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

That is a good example!

"Auld Lang Syne" has good examples of the major second, minor third, and major third descending, particularly in its chorus. The chorus starts on the A above the tonic in the key of C, drops a whole step to G, then down a minor third to E and a major third to C, following which it bounces up and down a whole step between C and D before jumping back up to the high A.

@jabrown

2 жыл бұрын

This comment of yours confirms that I’m much worse at identifying descending intervals than ascending ones, lol. I always thought the chorus started with a major third down.

Excellent as ever!

This is good I love your work

Cool, man. Thanks. Never had songs for the descending. Spent a day or two in high school theory classes naming examples for ascending though. Always found that fun.

4:37 - you added the extra note! Too funny!

I am finding interval ear training more and more important and fundamental to my development as a musician. Descending melodic (horizontal) intervals are the first crucial step for me to identifying harmonic (vertical intervals) which is then the next step towards identifying triads (three note chords) and then four note chords.

Helped a lot! Thanks

Brilliant thanks these really help

Thanks! 🙏 This was very useful!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😀

Great Video Dave

Great video! 🤩🥳Thanks!!!

My favorite example of descending Minor 6th is "Where Do I Begin? (Theme from Love Story)

These two interval recognition videos are phenomenal. From the minor sixth up, it hasn't been easy to find examples that sink in for me. These examples stuck for me. I hope these become the "go-to" videos for all learning relative pitch in the future. I'll be pointing people here

The Love Story melody is great for b6. Unforgettable.

Hi David, This is super useful! Thank you. Could you also do a video about using familiar songs to learn arpeggio or chords? Thank you again!

Well, I guess the Chairman of the Board has no problem singing the decending Major 7th! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, too, David! You've made an amzing channel. Happy New Year, too!

Excellent lesson as always ❤

@DavidBennettPiano

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Thanks for doing g this. Thought I’d have to do this on my own.

For major 7th the GREAT example is Maybe by Brainstorm (vocal line in a chorus - may-be).

@nataloves

2 жыл бұрын

OMG brilliant, THANK YOU, I feel like I've instantly leveled up!

"Feelings" by Morris Albert is a great example of a descending Perfect 5th in a minor tone...

Merci for this video. I wish I listened to this 60 years ago.

Sunshine of your love (end of the riff) is a very distinguishable ascending minor third followed immediately by a descending minor third. Similarly, the Klingon theme from Star Trek II has is just alternating ascending and descending perfect fifth. Two for one! Ascending and descending back to back!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you so much!!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Muchas gracias por el ejemplo de 7ma mayor descendente. Me hacía falta un ejemplo así de claro. Tuve dificultades encontrando un ejemplo así de "nítido". Gracias.

Great way to know intervals - I always think of Jimi Hendrix's Fire for a minor 2nd

Great presentation . Many songs you used for samples my ear has heard them many years. How you demoed them in relative relationship for the 12 intervals fantastic . Some of the tunes I did not know but am familar with the groups . Cheers 01/30/2022

I’m like 4 minutes into the video and he’s already managed to use multiple Beatles and Radiohead songs. Brilliant

One example (though not particularly well known) for the major seventh is in Voiceplay’s Wicked Medley. At about 1:57, the bass singer (Geoff) drops from an F#2 to a G1. Maybe not the best example as it is harder to compare it to other things as it is pretty darn low, but it’s a pretty beastly example.

Just thought of another example for descending fifth. Aqualung by Jethro Tull. Its the first thing that comes to mind whenever I hear that interval. The "Sit-ing" of 'Sitting on a park bench' is the 5-1 interval.

Thank you sensei 😁

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

😃😃

Very interesting. Thank you..

Good stuff. Hard to hear but less so than before. Thanks

Didn‘t expect to see Black Sabbath on this channel. David you black-hearted head-banger.

damn that outro hit hard 🔥

Great examples! One of the examples from your previous video, the tritone in Rush's YYZ, works really well as a descending tritone as well as an ascending one, since it just vamps on the two notes for a long time. But the Black Sabbath example is also a solid and very noteworthy one, so it makes sense to use it here! Great video, since I saw the first part I've been trying to figure out examples of each interval in songs that I know, but I've been kind of struggling to identify those intervals. Maybe I need to set up a keyboard and noodle around a bit, try to replicate it.

@nbnewman

2 жыл бұрын

An ascending tritone is also a descending tritone: the tritone chops the octave into two equal halves

@SomniRespiratoryFlux

2 жыл бұрын

@@nbnewman I did know this, but I figured it wasn't necessary and I tend to ramble so I left it out. It is still definitely an interesting aspect though - going up or down a tritone still creates the same pair of notes, just in a different octave. But I meant, in terms of that example, that by alternating between two notes a tritone apart you get both ascending and descending tritones in the same sample of music.

Great exemple for the minor 6 is the two firsts notes in the guitar intro of Dream Brother by Jeff Buckley, I use it all the time

Another example that has a perfect forth, a perfect fifth and a major third is Today by Smashing Pumpkins.

Hilarious you nailed the “huge” difference between under pressure and ice ice baby hahahahaha one of my favorite vids of vanilla explaining it

Count me in with those who love these kinds of videos... terrific: thank you

The Game of Thrones theme is another good example for a perfect 5th

The Rains Of Castamere is also a very good one for the minor 6th, ascending as well as descending, ("and who are..")

It's interesting. You find good point.

That descending major 7th is actually very helpful. That only one I could find previously is Cole Porter's "I Love You" and as I don't know that song very well it has been hard to remember.

For descending major seventh I also use “Both Sides Now” in the third line of the verses. And “There’ll be Sun” from “Tomorrow”

A great song for the descending major second interval is Miles Davis' "So What"!

I already know my music is wabi sabi. No need to elaborate. I just wanted to say I appreciate what you do here. I've been subscribed and rarely show appreciation and wanted to express my gratitude. Thank you.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 😃

YYZ by Rush would also work for the tritone, the entire intro is descending tritones

Loved the vanilla ice joke :D

The first 2 notes of Sing For Absolution by Muse is the best example of a descending minor 6th that I can think of.

Here are some more common examples which people are likely to be familiar with: Minor Second - first two notes of Beethoven's Fur Elise. Major Second - my go-to tune which I use in my head is the first two notes of the main riff of The Four Horsemen by Metallica. Minor Third - Oranges and Lemons Perfect Fifth - first two notes of the Game of Thrones theme tune. Played nice and slowly on the cello, so it's an easy one to recall.

@virus3run20

7 ай бұрын

Do you know any good ones for a descending minor 6th

@irushforth

7 ай бұрын

@@virus3run20 Not off the top of my head, no.

@irushforth

6 ай бұрын

@@virus3run20 The Entertainer ascends and descends again several times over that interval (eight semitones, a minor 6th).

In the late-80s, I used to be well-skilled at melodic dictation, and even pretty good at four-part SATB dictation. Then I had to spend 30 years concentrating on work, and learning Chinese (wife is from Northern Manchuria). I never would have imagined I’d benefit from such utterly-remedial tips, but they’re working! Recently, I’ve found myself confusing M6 for m6, and the reverse, and in harmonic presentation, sometimes even confusing them for tenths or occasionally even m7s! This is helping though, thanks! More generally, remembering _The Entertainer_ , _In My Life_ , the _Love Story_ theme. For minor sevenths, somebody pointed out the closing-credits theme song for _Star Trek, the Original Series_ .

For the tritone, I was thinking about the opening to Danse Macabre

The way my dog got up from her nap with the maj 3 doorbell 😅

One of Us is a famous song for anyone who was in their teens in the mid 90s. Beautiful song :).

pros of watching your videos : free, amazing music theory, entertaining, learning a lot, having fun cons of watching your videos : starting to like the beatles

You got a video for arpeggios? Such as the Nokia theme ends in a major triad in first inversion (if I'm not mistaken). Keep the ear training vids coming and good job!

I love the Beatles examples!

When John Belushi did Beethoven in the early days of SNL, he played around with two notes that are easily recognizable as the opening of his 5th Symphony, in a descending Major 3rd interval. He then expands it to a Perfect 4th, then a Perfect 5th. From there, he starts playing the bass line of "My Girl." (5:34)

“David Bennett is hawt 🤤” I wasn’t even paying attention to the Patreons and just heard that out of nowhere and I was so confused 💀

3:52 Another nice Major 3rd is on "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins. It's repeated during "Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag".

I approve of the high volume of bass lines in this video

I find with descending intervals that minor ones sound major and vice versa. I think it has to do with the shallower vs deeper step down, and that the inversions are reversed.