piano by ear course Now it's YOUR turn to be the life and soul of the party!. Click Here 👈 ear training is a hot topic amo...
piano by ear course
Now it's YOUR turn to be the life and soul of the party!. Click Here 👈
ear training is a hot topic amongst piano players because we all want to have trained ears we want to hear the things and play the things so this lesson is all about how to train your ear i'm going to try to keep it to 10 minutes or less we'll see what happens but the idea is that we can begin training our ears right away that's one of the first things you can start working on when you learn to play the piano and the way you can do this is by learning your intervals interval or intervals refer to the space between two notes so from here to here that's an interval from here to here is an interval and songs are made of melodies which are created using intervals so if you can learn to hear two different notes and identify the space between them you can play them on the piano and then you can hear a song and play song so let's begin we're going to use c as our home base for this it's just nice and simple the space from c to d that's the second when you play them at the same time they sound really crunchy but basically it's the distance between one note to the next note if you really wanted to get theoretical it's a it's a whole step apart we're looking at major intervals today just to keep it simple it's a beginner lesson so from c to d is a second melodies that sound or use this might be happy birthday right so when you hear or you want to identify a second you can just think happy birth that's the second another one that works for seconds is mary had a little lamb mary had a right mary it's moving down in seconds mary had so when you're trying to practice this to put this into actual practice a great way to do it is to play a note anywhere on the piano [Music] and then try to try to sing a song from there so major second happy birthday happy birth boom that's a major second above a i could play this note um i'll close myself that's really high play down here so now i'm going to try to find a second below it i'm going to sing mary had a little lamb so that second note very boom that's the second below b so that's how you can work on your seconds all right let's look at thirds these two guys together they sound awesome creates a harmony and to pick these out by ear i like this one summer time right you know that song kershaw summer time and the living is that's this that's a third major third time um you could also think oh when the saints go marching in oh and the saints go marching in that's a song that uses thirds at the beginning as well so again you can use that same trick pick any note try to sing one of those songs and the second note that you sing is the interval okay let's look at fourths this one's really obvious [Music] here comes the bride that was very helpful for me um also we wish you a merry christmas it's gonna be stuck in your head now that's a fourth and then we have fifths lots of songs use this twinkle twinkle little star twinkle twinkle or are you going to those are fifths so again you can pick any note and then sing one of those songs twinkle twinkle oh that's terribly high it was horrible but you get the idea you don't have to be a singer to train your ear um it's just a way that you can help to connect what you're hearing in the space between the notes to what's actually happening on the piano so we can keep going let's do a sixth that is not a sixth let's draw that again let's do a sixth [Music] this one is my bonnie lies over the hey and let's just back up a minute i played something that was not a sixth and it's i knew not because of my hand placement i knew because my ears told me that's because i've been practicing my intervals for a lot of years so this is just a beautiful way to explain to you the bonus of training your ear is that you will begin to learn when something is right or wrong and you can apply these to sheet music when you can memorize how they look in notation you can see them and play them really quickly which is so helpful it's going to make you a faster sight reader so there are multiple reasons to train your ear this way and learn your intervals so yes my bunny lies over the or it came upon i'm busting out the christmas songs today and then we have the seven that's the crunchy one this is hard to find examples for um but nora jones i don't know why i waited till i saw the sun that's the seventh how i used to find um seventh was i'd sing the octave la la and then i just go down a note and there it is you can go at it that way if you want and then the eighth the octave this one also one of my favorites somewhere somewhere over the rainbow so that will help you find an octave so those are the we we're we stuck with simple intervals today we stuck with major second major third we stuck with a fourth which is technically called a perfect fourth a perfect fifth major sixth major seventh and then the octave so start there so practice connecting famous songs or songs you are aware of or songs that you know to each of these intervals and see if you can memorize what goes with what then practice picking a note on the keyboard or the piano and then singing the first part of that song to see if you can find the interval that you are looking for you can play intervals say their names out loud that's another helpful trick but i find that connecting popular songs to the space between notes is just its tried and true way of training your ear super helpful um okay so i give my my examples songs that i feel familiar with that match these intervals but maybe you have your own and if you do comment below let me know what they are and happy practicing [Music] [Music] you ...
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