There are two sides of a coin to this approach. You can either learn all music initially through just one key and then incorporate other keys after you've comprehensively learned in one key, or, what most Jazz musicians do - learn one concept or song in every key in the one sitting or sessions that you dedicate to learning those concepts or songs. They both achieve the same outcome. I'd argue that the later may be more efficient by allowing you to apply concepts earlier in any situation.

This is prolly the single most effective thing I did to improve my understanding of music as a whole. Very grateful to have fallen on one of your videos on this a few years back.

Я уже закончил свою карьеру как музыкант. На пенсии. Воспитывался на ,,классике". Но мне интересен и другой мир музыки. Это - джаз.Совершенно другая область, и другое восприятие. Спасибо за уроки. Но я беден и финансово помочь не смогу. А в остальном - благодарю за другое музыкальное пространство!!! I have already finished my career as a musician. In retirement. I was brought up on,, classics". But I'm also interested in another world of music. This is jazz.A completely different area, and a different perception. Thanks for the lessons. But I'm poor and I can't help you financially. And for the rest, thank you for another music space!!!

Hi Julian, great video. Your approach reminds me of some psychacoustic research I came across a few year ago by L.L. Cuddy. She did a bunch of work on training absolute pitch in the late 60's-70's. She was demonstrating that by pitch training with a constant reference (I think a 440 Hz A), subject were able to essentially internalize that note. Participants did basic pitch training where they were presented with various tones and asked to identify the pitch, but the reference note (A) was presented way more often than any other note. Participants were eventually able to internalize that note in memory, and thus have a permanent internalized reference to compare pitch. If I recall correctly, the participants became almost as good as those with actual absolute pitch. It also suggests that those with absolute pitch may actually also use an internalized reference note (even if they are unaware of it). Many participants in the study were able to maintain a high level of performance (pitch identification) many months after the initial training period, suggesting good longevity. In relation to your presentation, it seems like you are suggesting a similar approach for learning more complex musical patterns. It would be interesting to get some science behind the approach and see how methodologies differ in tested ear-training performance. Thanks for another great tutorial!

aula incrível ! obrigado !

Thank you Julian. God bless.

Well said! I personally learn songs in C minor so the black keys on the piano are the notes that are not in C major, so when playing for example C mixolydian I know that the Bb note that is played with a black key, So it's the distinguished note that I must use properly to convey the feeling.

Excellent video! Glad I’ve subscribed to your emails. I’ll be focusing on one key from now on until I become fluent

Thanks for the awesome share! 👍👍👍👏👏👏

Ignore the comments here from the guy with perfect pitch, they don't know what they're talking about. Julian's advice is a 10/10

thanks very helpful I watch all your videos I never played the piano, just guitar but it helps a lot

Not a very popular method but that's how I learnt too! Thanks for bringing this to light!

all i love in one video !

i will for sure be trying this ive been finding ear training super difficult i also like C minor because its the easiest key for me to sing so thats fun

WAOU you're incredible, I always wanted to get off the enormous complexity of having so many keys because in my mind one note was always relative, for the same note i ear different things depending on the key so I am always lost. Thank you

Thank you very much Julian, I really enjoyed and learned with your video, and the drawings, they are great! Did you draw them?

I agree. To learn the relationship between chords, it is thinking in one key that allows you to learn to hear these relationships very quickly. Very good movie. My friends are surprised that I can immediately play the harmony of a song I hear on the radio. Thinking this way allowed me to master this art.

@aschitaka

Жыл бұрын

just with this way?!!!

This is a great idea 💡👍 As I play alto saxophone, I'm going to go with Eb on piano but as a twist I'll use Ebm instead of Cm.

i kinda had the same journey and also stayed with Cm for years actually. its my home scale

Awesome advice, I'm gonna give it a try! But what do we do if the piece has a key change at some point? Do we still play in our "C minor" home key, or we modulate to the new key relative to our "C minor"?

Synesthesia, the association of one sense with another, such as your color coding of notes, is a great tool for musical comprehension. All I have to say about that, though, is that you got the colors wrong ;D

Eye opening (and ear opening too :-)

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Why you chose c minor as your point of reference for ear training. Isn’t easier to think a minor and c mayor?

I totally understand the benefits of focusing on one key for a period of time, but the part of this that doesn't make sense to me is how you learn a song initially if it's not in your key. I still have to find the melody and chords to the song before I can then transpose it into another key. Or should I just get sheet music for every song I want to learn and then transpose the sheet music? Thanks.

Thanks for the great videos! At 4:00 you mention that every song you listened to, you would naturally listen to it in C minor. I'm curios how that worked? Did you transcribe the songs to C minor? or did you listen to and learn songs that were already in that key? Or is there something else that you did? Also would you recommend any particular key to start with? I.e. one that there is a lot of material already created in?

@rayneill4888

2 ай бұрын

That is exactly what I was thinking. You;d have to listen to the song in it's original key first. How do you make the leap? From memory?

Awesome video, man. Do you give lessons? I'd love to dive into this stuff with someone over the course of a longer time span :)

@osti1711

Жыл бұрын

Register in Julian's ear training course. Very good, I really recommend it.

Is this equivalent to saying prioritize solfege+scale/chord degrees?

Great concept, I'll give it a try. One question though - why not C major which is kinda the easiest (no black keys) and most frequently used in Western music?

@debrucey

Жыл бұрын

It’s only the ‘easiest’ to write on paper. Black keys don’t make songs more difficult to play, in many cases they make them easier. The perceived difficulty of black key keys can be a self fulfilling prophecy due to beginners avoiding them or sticking in C major for too long.

Question. : So how do we listen to songs as though we are in our one key, do we have to listen to songs that are only in that one key? Or can we listen to any music in any key then when we transcribe it we do it in our one key?

@riderdiekid9014

11 ай бұрын

If you have a keyboard with transpose that with help.

what is the proper way to transcribe?

I just have one question, why is a lot of chords in your examples are completely wrong???? 0:51

No. Just No. Terrible advice. There are literally only 12 notes in western music. That's less than half the letters of the alphabet. Learning notes by ear is literally super easy. Get tuning forks and strike them in the dark (at bedtime). That's how I developed my perfect pitch. I actually make my own tuning forks now, and I even developed a special tool for striking multiple tuning forks at the same time (chords), the better to identify each frequency and chord by ear. I can identify the slightest drift in frequency by less than 0.5Hz. In short, learn all the notes together and play songs in their original keys. Much less difficult than learning multiple languages at once, and the vast majority of humans on earth speak more than one language.

@TUBESTOOL

Жыл бұрын

I agree this seem really counter intuitive. I like the good old game: have your child play a single random note on the piano. Then without knowing guess the note. After years I have no problem with playing by ear.