You've Been Learning Intervals The Wrong Way

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• JO

  @Josev-TV · 2 years ago · pinned

  Minor 2nd - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BriCZfmlU_s&amp;t=386">6:26</a><br>Major 2nd - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BriCZfmlU_s&amp;t=520">8:40</a><br>Minor 3rd <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BriCZfmlU_s&amp;t=629">10:29</a><br>Major 3rd <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BriCZfmlU_s&amp;t=741">12:21</a><br>Perfect 4th <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BriCZfmlU_s&amp;t=858">14:18</a><br>Tritone <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BriCZfmlU_s&amp;t=965">16:05</a>

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• KN

  @knowndragon-zj8zi · 2 years ago

  I genuinely have no idea what is going on but I’ll watch again later

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• MA

  @MattScottMusic · 2 years ago

  This is great. Only a couple of minutes in and I immediately recognise this problem - none of the five different major seconds in a major scale sound the same to me and all have a different feel, so Frère Jacques is useless for ‘hearing the other four, etc etc with every other interval! Thank you! Time someone said it.

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• FW

  @FWFWFWF · 2 years ago

  I didn&apos;t learn the intervals yet but I did manage to communicate with Aunt Peggy who died 20 years ago. Happy halloween everybody.

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• MA

  @Marijnzor · 2 years ago

  I was blown away by how intuitive this exercise is!<br><br>I consider myself somebody who needs a lot of work when it comes to my ears, and I definitely consider myself to be somebody who can&apos;t sight-read.<br><br>But with this exercise, things just felt right. I might not always have had the vocal range to sing it, but I usually knew what needed to be sang.

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• JO

  @JohnHorneGuitar · 2 years ago

  This is pretty revolutionary! It not only exercises the intervals but their function in within the chords. I&apos;m hearing lots of sounds I recognize and some I would have been able to identity but some others I would not have. &nbsp;Looking forward to making this a part of my regular practice!

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• CO

  @colinmoen3833 · 2 years ago

  Great exercise! &nbsp;And to all the commenters defending the &apos;familiar melody&apos; method and giving Aimee a hard time for this video: when I was in music school, there was a significant skill gap between the jazz students and the classical students when it came time for our dictation exams, particularly once we were dictating atonal melodies. I think this was because the jazz students had already spent years exposing themselves to different intervals in a wide variety of contexts, so they had a larger &apos;toolkit&apos; for recognizing various intervals and didn&apos;t have to do an extra step in their head of trying to re-contextualize each note as the root note of its own key in order to identify the note that came after. I don&apos;t think this makes the &apos;familiar melody&apos; method outright wrong, as it likely provides an accessible first step for many students to begin learning intervals, but in my anecdotal experience it certainly had limitations, and I think my classically trained peers who managed to overcome their initial struggles in this area did so through a lot of practice and exposure, which is exactly what Aimee is trying to help with here.

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• RR

  @rrpatriot1584 · 2 years ago

  I love how she speaks with her eyes. 👍

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• TI

  @timothykeech7394 · 1 year ago

  Learning to recognise an interval in the context of a song leads to errors when the context is different. I have put this point to a number of singing teachers who look at me in incomprehension. You&apos;re dead right Aimee.

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• KA

  @KarlLew · 2 years ago

  Wow. &nbsp;Wish I had learned music from you 50 years ago. 😂 Now I’m just here for singing ASMR. Never knew intervals could be so beautiful. Thank you. ❤

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• RY

  @ryan-heath · 2 years ago

  That sounded spooky 👻

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• PI

  @pickinstone · 2 years ago (edited)

  The ridiculous arguments I&apos;ve gotten into over ear-training using stem from this &quot;learn the song&quot; interval training. Charlie Banacos was a famous music teacher out of Boston who used to teach musicianship via contextual ear training--hearing within the context of key centers and chordal colors INSTEAD of naked intervals. I studied with one of his disciples--Banacos was a force of nature--and I still used Contextual Ear Training to tune my ears. I knew that you&apos;d circle around to talking about CET sooner or later, and I&apos;m glad that you&apos;re hipping everyone to another way ;)

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