I have an experience with this. While I was teaching guitar, I discovered that when the student couldn't play a struming, they couldn't sing it. So I did flip things around. First they learn how to sing the rithm. It works like magic. They learn how to play it so much faster. And with some practice ( not that much ) the only thing that I have to do is to sing the new struming once, they repeat what I sang and they play it immediately. I use the same thing for the melody, specialty for syncopations or back- beats.
Audiation visualization, see things in your head hear things in your head. Audiation does not have anything to do with what things are called. Only with what you hear internally. You may be able to visualize a thing and percieve it from different perspectives and even rotate it visually, zoom in on details to reflect on them without knowing what all those things are called. Audiation means do the same with sound. Your inner voice, the one that speaks to you is an aspect of it and demonstrates the connect between language and music. To develop this: listen; sing what you hear; play what you hear. It is a form of musical memory and needs to be exercised to function well. Curwen hand signs helps with this too.
I searched for audiation and this is the first thing that came up. While I appreciate the video, you're completely right that this needs more videos and more exercises
Great advice! If you can't hear it, you can't sing it. If you can't sing it, that means you aren't connecting with music and you'll never be a natural, which at the end of the day means...no one will be attracted to your music.
Great video Levi. I’ve come on leaps and bounds since I started singing what I’m trying to learn. If I can internalise the melody or even just the rhythm then it makes it much easier to actually learn the piece.
I play piano and needed to hear this to develop my ear better. The more you know the song the better you’ll be able to hear! I know this I just need to do it. Thanks for valuable advice!
I have picked up on this with organ music: If i dont wanted use the organ, i use the piano and play the manual parts on the piano and SOLFEGE my way through the pedal line. When i get yo the organ, all i need to do is just corrodinate hands and feet. Its quite neat, but its alot of work!
I would always recommend foundations. I’m yet to have any student who doesn’t have some gaping holes in their knowledge. But there written in a way that if you get intermediate and stuff is uncertain, you can go back
2:10 "English muthafucka do you speak it!?" Immediately came to mind. Haha. Great video. I've been getting a lot more serious on my ear training. I gotta say, I can really hear my favorite solos in my head, I'm not too sure I can sing 16th notes beyond 110 bpm. There's a lot of that. Lol
I want to buy your book in digital form, but I'm forced to use the kindle digital app on the computer(which is where I spend most of my time playing guitar). I did this for a Hal Leonard book and the quality is horrible. I can't zoom in and can hardly read it. I'm getting older and can't see like I used to. Am I going to experience the same with your digital book?
@@LeviClay Keep on shreddin' my Scottish friend. I just watched Braveheart, I'm whacked on pre-workout and putting in a 10 hour shred session. Keep on killin' it on that guitar neck my brother in shred!
That’s laughably incorrect sir. The song Maria from west side story features a b5 prominently in the melody and is easy to sing. Exactly the same at the start of the Simpsons theme. Repeat what you read online less and practice more and you’ll be surprised what you’re capable of
@@LeviClay Re-read what you wrote and you will see that it is you who are wrong. West Side Story was performed by highly trained singers, all of whom would have had graduated with M.M. in vocal performance, with over 6 years of sight-singing and formal vocal practice. The Simpsons theme would be performed by professional vocalists in a Hollywood studio who have decades of experience as the top sight-reading vocalists in the world. So GTFO with your supposed "knowledge" and elitist attitude. b5 is the hardest interval to sing (within the octave) without significant training and you can be damn sure that those viewers watching this video (beginners) won't be able to sing it. You didn't even sing Sweet Child o' Mine with proper intonation, as you admitted in this video.
