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where can we just listen to this song lol

Hey Max. It's been a long time. it's so good to hear from you. Sorry I havent been able to respond for so long I was just busy crashing out lol. I have gotten SO much better with understanding music theory, and have been learning jazz harmony. But I decided why stop at being a prouducer. I want to become a composer (not professioally ofc, though that would be cool. ut just for fun and make it a part of music collection) I wanna know how to rightly divide string sections, woodwinds, and brass too. Maybe can you make a short video on that if you could

Observation I made during the twinkle listening exercise. I found the feelings of each degree change when it was done preceded by another degree. For instance what 4 felt like in the scale, 5 did in the melody. Which is interesting because IIRC it was the first descent in each exercise

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At 23:20 you are saying that flat 3 is a little bit more dissonant with the tonic than flat 7, I am not sure about that. If your logic is that the further away on the circle, the more dissonant, it seems wrong. For instance, 3 is more consonant than 6, 2 or 4…

Such amazing entries this time. Had to come back for another listen.

I'm really stuck at two things, first is that i can't recognize chromatics together(like the same degree sounds different when i play it with another chromatic degree like 2nd,3rd,4th,6th, and 7th with flat/sharp degrees and vice versa) and I can't recognize melodies when someone's signing it and i want to recognize it directly by listening to it rather than sing along etc... Can you please tell me a way to deal with both?

+ energy sent your way Max. Heal well and keep kickin ass.

This song is amazing! I just want to listen to it all day.

I suffer with the same back problems 40+ years now. I use a height adjustable desk, play keyboards sitting and mixing standing up. Some days just forget it and go for a walk.❤

Was so excited for this one can't wait to see what everyone came up with 😂😂

I remember you lol

Dear Max, thank you so much for all this amazing content. Is there a specific place where one can leave questions for possible future q&a's?

6/8 has more in common with 2/4 than with 3/4 due to having two primary beats - i think of 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 as a triplified 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 respectively

Got bug on each sedation!

I love the way you talk about ear training and this vid has more useful additional information. I know you're not really interested in recognizing specific voicings as you mention you pretty much only care about chord position and quality, but as an aspiring jazz pianist it's one of the things I'd like to be able to recognize better. Still, just applying your ideas I realize I just need to become familiar with all the different types of voicings. Thank you for your contributions 🫡

a suggestion would be listening to Hindustani classical music which is harmonically very static and always has a drone accompaniment.. In particular look up ALAP.. this is where the artist established the mode so it is very free and unmetered.. All classical melody is about the relationship of melody to drone.. The drone is like the earth stable and unchanging.. the melody is the air element shifting and free..

When he hit the C note hard 🎉

May I ask where I can listen to the whole piece of which you play the excerpt @9:30 minutes. It is lovely indeed.

I've been working on my audiation and everything in this video is so helpful. It's absolutely a mashup of theory, scales, triads, chord progressions etc. Its opened up my eyes to something I always thought was impossible for me to do. Takes time and practice but it's fun practice.

To all the prods, he's refferring "routenote" as the tonic

A truly recomend to listen to Argentian Folklore that is based on all the types of 6/8 approches. Like Zamba (very slow tempo) and Chacarera and Chamame (that are medium and fast tempos)

This approach is needed in the greater balance of musical conversation 🙏🙌💪

Hi Max - I really jive with your mental model for this stuff; thanks so much for sharing. Quick question: When you’re listening to - and attempting to improvise over - a song in mixolydian (e.g. B, F#m, A, E, B), is it “okay” to perceive the tonic as the first note in the mixolydian scale (B) or would you recommend training away this tendency until my brain always perceives the tonic as the root of the relative major scale (E)? I guess the same question goes for minor key songs (i.e. do you think of the root of the relative major as their tonic). Thanks again!

Another thing about inversions to help with learning them for beginners is that they typically give the sensation of wanting to "move somewhere else" without needing leading tones or very dissonant intervals. So if you hear a basic chord or triad that "wants to move" but it isn't a dominant 7th chord or another tension chord that has extensions, then it's most likely an inversion. A trick I use myself is to compare what the different inversions sound like in the context of a chord progression and compare the different options and placements and how they result in feeling rest versus unrest

Excellent video! Something that may help that second question about feeling chords as a single unit versus individual degrees stacked up and trying to recognize those is that the whole purpose of chords and harmony is to add depth and texture to support a melody, unless that melody is interacting with other voices in counterpoint. The former situation doesn't need chords to be heard as a collection of individual notes, it just needs the root of the chord and quality of the intervals to create a mood effect and it's okay that they're perceived as "blob" of feeling when it comes to melody + chords. But the latter scenario with counterpoint is it's own world that whole university programs have been dedicated to studying haha

You're a genius, thank you for all the fantastic effort you've put in!

What are the drone sounds you have in your Major and Minor videos? :)

When you said: "you can recognize 12 different colors", I thought: "I can't, I'm color blind". It doesn't mean I can't see colors, I just can't recognize the difference between all colors. I'm wondering if there is something similar with audio. As far as I'm aware, I'm color blind because of a physical deficiency, I can't learn to differentiate certain colors no matter how hard I exercise. What if my ear is the same? I've been a musician for 30 years and my ear has always been my weakest ability. And it's not because I have hearing damage, I actually have incredibly sensitive hearing.

As an older musician who has developed 'moderate+' ear skills, but only after decades of lacking them, and only after several failed efforts at obtaining them, I would like to chime in here to say that this young man is the only person I've encountered online who is cogently explaining aural skills development from a perspective that precisely matches my own experience. He doesn't need my validation but if you are someone viewing this video and reading its comments and you are wondering 'Is this correct?' and 'Does this guy know what he is talking about?', then I would say yes it is, and yes he does. I would also reinforce how useful this skillset is to almost anyone who wants to work with music. Even getting the basics down will likely do wonders for your confidence, for your ability to recover from error on the fly, and for your ability quickly transcribe, compose or improvise. About the only thing I have found similarly helpful in improving my musicianship is basso continuo training but that is not as broadly/immediately applicable.

Awesome thank you

Chacarera!

Hopefully your app will touch on all of the topics you have mentioned.

This was so great, I watched all three parts. It's so useful to start tying the different feelings /emotions or idiosyncracies really, that each chord, or chord progression has together. One thought I have is that doing this ear training has it affected your enjoyment of music? Are you constantly just hearing intervals and progressions when you listen to music, or can you turn it off and listen to the music without this. Does it remove some of the magic of music? Thanks!!

Im only a couple seconds into the vid lol but something that gave me a slight skill spike in moving from apps to musical context was actually going over the same content in functional ear trainer but in three different ways. First master the lesson while using singing to help if needed and taking as much time as I want. Then still taking my time but only using audiation (no singing or any sort of sounds). Then answering immediatley without any thought or delay. I noticed once I got to the third method it felt completely different, I realized I was doubting my answer almost everytime but it was still correct... that moment of doubt eats up a lot more time than you think when you are trying to analyze something realtime. Once u get over that moment of doubt u will actually be able to keep up with much faster stuff.

I've viewed all 3 parts and want to thank you for taking the time to put this together. Very well presented.

I never realized that I also unconsciously listen for the harmonics in people's voices until you said it. Sometimes I fully zone out of conversations because I'm focusing on it

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Cant wait to buy it❤

Nice video. I was humming the note every time you left it unfinished, kinda felt like a compulsion ... 🙂 ...Although, never knew this doesn't come naturally to people, I assumed everyone feels it naturally. Probably because Indian music doesn't really define a specific scale/frequency for a composition, for us shifting octave is such common thing. I am researching similarities/differences between Indian and Western music and landed at this video. Would be great if you could make some content on that.

❤ can you show a video of what to expect to see and how to the app basic level to advance ... look forward to it 🎉 thx 😊 Every failure is the path 😅 Like that 😂

As always, Your way of explaining something just cuts through any ambiguity. Love it!

i dont know how much its helping me but whenever im near a humming electrical appliance ive started quietly humming a tritone over it to cause a sense of unease throughout the room

So basically, finding the home note is essentially the first step. Then you can work from their.

Thanks

Two general questions 1. Do I get a confirmation mail if I sign in for the email notification 2. When is the app about to launch ballpark wise (a few days/weeks/months)

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