0 BS on this. I get to know it for you, use the free version for almost a year (which have intervals, chord progression and one more that I cannot remember now). Use it every day, stick with it and made amazing progress. Now I have for an year the pay version and use it every day. What did for me (not only the app but being constant every day) was AMAZING. I never be most sharp on music and keep growing every day. Thank you very much David, is really a one of a kind channel. Best regards from Argentina!
Fantastic! This should be included in any music education curriculum haha. Here's some more intervals that I would love to see in a sequel video: In Major keys: bII: Do You Want To Know A Secret, Things We Said Today Vm: Strawberry Fields VI: Strawberry Fields bVI: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds VIIm: Yesterday VII: Sexy Sadie, I'm So Tired In Minor keys: I: I Am The Walrus (borrowed major tonic in minor key) IIdim: You Never Give Me Your Money (half diminished instead) bII: I'm Only Sleeping VIm: Come Together, Penny Lane bVIIm: Glass Onion
I think it would be helpful to have a "different levels of ear training" video or something similar. A lot of times it's easy to hear chords played on a piano with all the intervals clearly audible, but in some songs, different instruments are playing different notes of the chord or the tones can get quite muddy. Going through that from easy to difficult would be interesting
The thing about "For No One" is that at the very end, it DOESN'T resolve. If you listen to the first times Paul sings "...cried for no one, a love that should have lasted years", you'll hear (what I now know to be) the G sus 4 and G but then you hear another chord which leads into the next line he sings. But the last time, you hear the G sus 4, the G, and then...fadeout. Which, given the words and the overall "feel" of the song, is a great effect. But it still seems like it's left hanging. Which might very well have been the idea...
Musical allusions to the singer's feelings. "Is it over? as she turns away. We're expecting the warm resolution and the singer is wanting her to turn back around.
Ow! One of the best videos of music theory in RU-vid! Others "Beatles' chords" that I remember: The Eadd9 in the Paul's part of "A Day in the Life", The E7b9 in "I Want You" III7 in "All You Need is Love" G#/A# in "The Long and Winding Road"
I''ve been watching, subscribed and somehat avid about this. Musician for 40+ years on the side, been retired as a fireman for 4 years- had to afford my extravagant lifestyle as a musician, nevermind the family. I am hampered by a stroke-and don't play every day now, which is a bummer, I hope to return to my previous level, but it's difficult. Self taught through study and been the beneficiary of many hugely qualified along the way, and this includes yourself. This is the area where I fall short, the recognition of the theory- which is, as you so rightly say- a very important aspect of it all. As I say, it's the crux of the biscuit. After so much time, I recognize several changes, though not all. Tone deaf, poor singing voice- I'd managed some proficiency on guitar. As I could read I'd learned some cool pieces, Stars n Stripes Forever, Mozarts 40th, Eric Johnson songs etc. The Beatles are among what I am very familiar with, so this struck me as delightfull, and a cool way of learning. Previously I'd hear a change and equate it to, say, the b2nd in Misirlou, or Hey Joe by Deep Purple (has a very Spanish intro ) so it must go like... This solidified it for me very nicely and more comprehensively covers most every change, so Thank You. Feel free to go in depth, with more examples to identify, and changes in minor keyed Beatles songs, for example. Advanced content, well explained- is appreciated. Best of luck to you with the channel and in being a musican. In life, too ! Say Hey when you come thru Texas, amigo. Now then, where is that confounded bridge ?
If you might be trying to establish perfect pitch for yourself, start with Middle C. How do you sing Middle C to yourself? Just sing Paul's opening note ("Hey") from "Hey Jude." How convenient for us all that he starts on Middle C! The key of the song is F, so you can probably "hear" the F major chord easily enough as well.
And THIS folks, is why the Beatles were the best group ever. Period. You put on ANY Beatles album, and you've got a lesson in the greatest music ever made.
I've loved the Beatles since I was a child. Most of this is beyond me. However, your explanations make me at least grasp why one never gets sick of listening to the Beatles. The songs are pleasant to the ear because of their different meter and development. The ear and mind love it without knowing why. Your excellent videos try to explain the why to people. If that makes sense.
Great video. Thanks David. Can you go over the altered and rare chords the Beatles use. Like the 9thchord in Getting Better, flat 9 in I Want You, the Hendrix chord in Taxman, and the Hard Days Night opening chord? Im sure im forgetting others but you get the idea. Greetings from Chicago!
When I started to play the guitar 10 years ago, almost all of what I listened to and practiced along (nearly on a daily basis) were Beatles songs - they truly are excellent musical material ^^!
Don't know if it's true, but I heard once an interviewer asked Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive if he had an formal music education...he said, "yes, I listened to The Beatles."
As a "massive Beatles fan" I would be very interested to know your top 10 bad or even terrible Beatles songs. Every Beatles fan has their list of songs they hate. What are yours?
You are such an amazing young man! I love your videos, what a talent! I am in the first year of a music degree at 37!! I'm hoping to become a tutor, and with your excellent instructions, I started to believe I can x ❤
Plerase do some Elton John. espeically his album tracks from Tumbleweed, Madman, etc. Some of his chords changes and resolutions seem to come out of left field. The last chord of ComeDown In Time for example.
I've seen a lot of Pink Floyd examples in your videos, they produced fantastic music and I'm also a big fan. So my suggestion for next training is Pink Floyd! 🤩
Day 3 of asking. Do you think it’s possible to use AI to separate the vocals good enough in the AHHH section of A Day In The Life, to finally see who is singing where?
Really like the coverage of the non-diatonic chords; II, bIII, III (not covered today), bVI, bVII. Another good Beatles song for bVI is P.S. I Love You.
Strangely, although I have no formal musical education, I find this "secret language" absolutely fascinating! Many thanks for introducing me into another world David...
Part of why V7 wants to resolve to I so much, is because its 7 note brings in a IV-ish sound. It's as if V7 combines IV and V, heading back to I with extra weight.
My college band played this in 1980. It's a nice explanation for someone playing on solo guitar. In my view a lot of it's charm is how the timbres of each band instrument blend. It's a bit like how a barbershop quartet works. These days a looper plus octave could handle bass with guitar on higher register?
You missed a trick here on For No One! The final G on For No One sounds resolved after it's suspension, but it's really not. It's the V of C, the tonic! And Paul just leaves us there! Cheeky.
I’d be a sucker for an Ozzy Osbourne ear training. Crazy train is all over the place between minor and major. Would be cool to hear what you make of it. Unfortunately Ozzy‘s catalogue s not really for ‚the regular‘ piano player probably… in that case, I‘d go for Elton John! ❤
i had a question that's more Beatles-related than ear training-related, but i felt it was worth asking anyway "1" is a collection of all the Beatles songs that went to number 1 on the charts, but it doesn't encompass ALL the best Beatles songs. in fact, it's not even close. if there were to be a "2" album that was like a "best of the rest" compilation, what would you put on it? this would probably be a good video idea if you wanted it
illuminating! ive always thought of the "50's" progression as the one four five with the 'relative minor" thrown in but i understand it now as the minor sixth...many people will know it from leonard cohen's song hallelujah
I love how you’re trying to teach people how to recognize courts by changing the key and showing them the first cord than the fifth cord than the fourth cord
I love your channel, great video! Just an unrelated question. Do you have any tips for how to improve left hand piano technique? I am self-taught and I have always just hammered the base notes or climb up and down at best. When a musical piece has arpeggios on the left hand I am useless, especially if I try to sing at the same time.
Great video bro, thanks now i recognize way better chords, you could make a video like this but with Miracle Musical or Tally Hall, they have really good and rare chord progressions
I remember when I was first starting out on guitar and trying to learn songs by ear (which i'm still mostly terrible at) I found beatles songs particularly hard to hear and then I'd see other people play them and they seemed so easy. As I got older and more experienced I realized that they were so difficult to learn because most of the recordings I was listening to were not tuned to A440 and so my ear could not decipher if a chord should have been an E or F for instance.
There was quite a bit of speeding-up and slowing-down of tape speeds back in the day, which was often the cause of such pitch offsets in studios recordings and this was still happening even in the 1990s (the original recording of the 1992 The Cure song _Friday I’m in Love_ being pitched to A456, for example).
The repeated 6th chords opening "Fool On The Hill" is almost identical to the opening of "Golden Slumbers', to my ear. Also, the rolled augmented chord that opens "Oh, Darling" sounds very similar to the opening of Lennon's "(Just Like) Staring Over."
I enjoyed this video! Are there bands we all know as well? Is there a good reason to go off the gold standard? I suppose ‘Beatles and these other guys’ could be just as good.
If you make another video of this sort, discuss the dissonant chords of Harrison’s work. They’re usually not considered pretty, but they illustrate frustration.
Man you are simply fantastic. I love how you appreciate actual MUSIC instead of simply technical ability like most RU-vidrs involved in music, simply by your taste in artists: the Beatles and Radiohead, for example
I love those videos on chords progression ! It would be nice to have a video analyzing the chords progression by Nirvana, i feel like there are some interesting stuff happening
I enjoyed this very much. I'd love to hear Steely Dan ear training. I feel comfortable with Beatles chords, but not Becker and Fagen--they're so "jazz"-y.
