The MOST Important Musical Skill
In this episode we discuss the most important musical skill: Audiation or using your minds ear.
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Okay Dylan, sing John Cage 4’20" for me.
I liked this one. My son has perfect pitch, learning that was humbling for me. As for me I don't have the focus or inclination to get into others melodies. Maybe that's wrong but I enjoy my own path.
Audiation is an important skill to exercise. If you don't have perfect pitch, you can have relative pitch … and true pitch.
Remember Beethoven ????
Beatle music at the wrong speed … I can hear it immediately. The brain is an amazing thing. Your kids are amazing.
GOOD VIDEO! I just had something like that happen to me.
At age 71 after having played trumpet most of my life I’ve decided to finally learn piano. Because CHORDS! While I was noodling around on the keyboard one fragment of a scale reminded me of a classical piece from about 50 years ago that I had taught myself to play the main melody of on my trumpet. I had no idea what the piece was named but as I was picking out the notes, more and more parts of the piece came to mind so I could play what I thought was the whole thing on the piano. After mentally going through my LPs (long gone unfortunately) and searching with Google I concluded it had to be Holst’s March in F. I found a YouTube version of that same LP to see how far off I was and much to my surprise I had nailed it note-for-note! The only differences were that I taught it to myself in C on the piano and the tempo was quicker than I had remembered.
I was like HOW DID I DO THAT? I’m not sure I’ll ever understand but it felt pretty amazing.
The mind has to connect the dots somehow, all these comments aside of being true, they are also the way it work for the individual… We have to find the way it works for us to accomplish this task, so explore, evolve, elaborate, and bring it to muscle memory! Isn't that having the mind tell us how to connect the dots?
"Sing, sing a song
Sing out loud
Sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad."
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Sir, you are a genius. I like the sound of this sentence. And, it happens to be true. Thank you so much for touching on the topic of listening, memorizing, singing, and playing. Well done, I look forward to more insights.
I must jam with you
I agree with you it's easier to make music by not thinking but just playing it
it always amazed me that you can whistle a tune with the correct intervals ,your mouth becomes a flute suddenly
Perfect pitch. My God. What a good ear they have!
The problem with this most important skill is: our brain stores everything in coded chunks, there is no possibility to have something like a tape recording inside our head. My own inner ear is highly developed and I don‘t exactly know why, but my earworms are surprisingly precise and even at pitch although I don‘t have perfect pitch. But that just leads to the conclusion that my brain does an excellent job decoding audio systematically and store coded chunks, and even more important: it‘s trained in decoding those chunks stored in memory and use them. This is why I’ve always been able to play almost any rhythm, melody and harmony on any instrument. But most human brains are not really trained in this. That means that when Rick says ‚you have to audiate‘, it really is nothing an average person can do perfectly on the spot. But yes, at least in a way because we are all able to recognize music (except for tone-deaf people). And again, I‘d like to remind everyone that the brain doesn‘t just learn by input, but needs to perform output decoding to keep memories usable. (sorry for the long text, but I love this topic as I studied music education and psychology of learning)
Concert pianist do "Mental Practice". So they hum the song and touch the keys without pressing down so the piano makes no sound. They are matching the finger movements with the humming, not by playing it.
We just experienced this with our guitarist during rehearsal. My son and I pointed out that he was playing the wrong notes and as we sang it back to him, he immediately locked in playing it correctly. I do agree that the ability to audiate is definitely something that can be cultivated over time with practice and repetition. So glad I found this video.
Watching this video I realize I have a very good pitch, some comment says if you can sing Abba Dancing queen on pitch right from your head and I did. I used to be very insecure about my pitch, but I practice everyday and I feel more comfortable now
you're telling me some people have learn how to think? I always assumed everyone did this. I mean it's basics, you can't play anything without it, it would be like writing a novel without picturing what happens/hearing the dialogue. It's also super useful 4 the sight-reading stuff. I guess it's the whole point of solfège.
I can do this, but I am not a musician…is this actually hard for people?
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I can hear melodies. But how people hear harmony? I dont get it. Different notes pop up at once.
As a musician composer this has always been my go to method. I actually developed it based on wanting to one day be able to play piano bebop solos without reference to learned scales, like many great singers do, the ones that doesn’t know much about music theory.. it honestly took me many years but I love the fact that most of my solos and even chords comes from a choice made by ear and not by “oh I can use a Dorian here and an 8 tone scale there. Writing orchestra music I have similarly learned to hear the choice of instruments in my inner ear/mind before putting anything down on paper, and yes it’s not developed over night, but it’s a true joy to work with music this way and being quite independent of theory in both writing and performing.
This explains to me why karaoke is so hard. There is so much focus on trying to follow exterior prompts
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I am not a musician. I am a poet who has a better then average ability to do what you spoke of in this video. Still, I have been in bands, chorus, and I have done backround vocals just listening to that bass and drum track in my brain that never shuts off.It's a fun hobby and it makes me happy! Very child like. Your kids have the right idea because you taught then how to hear the tunes inside their heads.
I have gone to my piano or guitar and played any song by ear, but when I check against the recording, its transposed. Not always, but the majority of the time
So I have relative pitch but defintiely not perfect.
A cheat I thought of would be to only completely perfect the sound and feeling of one note. How much pressure on your vocal chords etc. Then go relative from there.
Seems like too much effort.
I loved this video. I have the Beato Ear Training course and I really like it but I found that my Audiation is what needs work and I haven't yet found an exercise in the BET that works on Audiation. Is it possible that something could be added down the road? Just as an aside, I discovered this because I was getting so discouraged with the harmonic intervals. I took the program down to a friend of mine who is a retired symphony violionist. She aced the test of course, but she asked me to sing the lower note of the interval, and at first I didn't know what she meant. I'm so focused on this now and I can tell it is improving my hearing and playing but it is painfully slow. Thank you again for all your bundles and lessons. You are providing an incredible service and contribution.
Fascinating. I'm researching audiation for my dissertation currently, specifically the claims made by Edwin Gordon that is echoed in some of this videos comments that audiation is essential. I cannot audiate due to a condition called congenital aphantasia. I cannot imagine sounds or pictures at all. No minds eye, no minds ear, no internal monologue. I never hear music in my head, (whatever that means) but I work in music performance and don't seem to suffer. If anyone else does struggle with this please hit me up as I'd love to hear from you for my research. Thank you