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1. Welcome/Introduction to Course: Hello, everyone. My name is Michael Emenalo, and I'm here today to talk to your boat and exciting new course that just created called. The Music lesson in this series, of course, is I'm gonna be taking a different approach than traditional online education experience or me. The teacher teaches you how to do something that will be included. But I'm also going to give you a real life. One on one case study One of my students has graciously accepted to be videotaped while I teach them different music concepts. Now, this concept could be what a court is or how to find a certain note in the piano or a scale or how to play a certain song. Uh, but the fun part is, is that after you have watched and experienced my student go through the process, I have then chosen a series of selected, curated classes from previous courses that have made to learn this singular concept. Now it's a lot of fun seeing a student go through this, you'll be able to see the challenges, the pitfalls where they succeed, what's easy, what's hard. And hopefully it'll give you the student a little more empathy for other people learning as well as yourself. So in this lesson, we're going to be learning the building blocks the basic building blocks for how to play a song by ear s. So what, we're gonna do it? We're gonna learn how to hear a note, how to listen to that note, how to sing it. And then how to find that note on any instrument on the piano, the guitar or really, whatever instrument you play now, this is a process that people just find on 1000. Bull is mysterious. It's it's something you're born with. But I am going to tell you that that there's a step by step process to being able to do this. And that's where you're going to be learning. In this course, I'm going to show you how to hear note and two played on the piano. That's it. I hope you enjoy this new format and this new process of learning how to play music and, uh, let's let's begin
2. The Music lesson - Find a note by ear: This is Daniel. I'm Michael. And the great thing about Daniel is he doesn't know very much about music theory. Goal is to have a music, and we're gonna start from the beginning the beginning. And I'm gonna teach him how to play music by year. I'll get into that over this next few years. A Siri's Run episode 493. This would give it a but basically, I will not be talking to Daniel at this point about notation about reading music. I will be talking with the names of the notes by the very first thing that I teach all of my students is how to hear note to sing the note, define the note. So as you may know or may not know, a piano is actually quite small because you look at the keyboard here. That's how big a piano is that this pattern is the same as this is the same as this, uh, but this in this. And if you're looking, you get your two black notes you got 3 to 3. It's the same way up the notes. Because of that, this note here, which has two black notes and these two are the same name notes. In this case, they're both C sharp. Not only $50 getting coffee and snacks. You go. Um, OK, so the very first thing is I'm gonna play a note and all I want you to do. You should try to sing that note, and if you don't sing right, that's OK. But I'm gonna play note. And in fact, you can even look at it. Doesn't matter, because I don't know what You don't know what it is. And uh huh, great. You actually saying that note now? Just sort of interest. You actually saying that note? You hear that? Uh, no. You saying that that note, uh, you saying at an octave blower blower using an octave lower than than what I just played. So do it again. Wait. I'm gonna play this note and then seeing the note that you hear, uh uh, ok, now you're tryingto you're turning, compensated and sing up. You know, you're saying before was correct. Okay, So anyway, just sing that note again. Back to where you were right now. As I was saying, he's saying this. No, uh, no, no, you were. You were correct. Uh, because this note and this note are have the same name these air both sees. And how you find a C is you have your two black notes. And if you go down to the next note, if these two black note is a c So, Daniel, could you show me some other season the piano? I'm gonna show you another. See, here's one baby And that's the one you saying Could you sing? Okay. Now can you play a c an octave below that? Oh, yeah. Oh, that. You know that, right? That you probably could sing it. Okay. Uh, you just think that again, huh? Here. How would the case that the way to get down? That's okay. Uh, that was, uh, uh Got it. Okay, we're doing another stint. Set me tone way again. We're getting We're getting down near the lower end of your range. Another seven down. Great. Actually doing this we're not getting I just went down this. Ah, yes. At two in the afternoon now. We tested this at seven. In the morning. You could go down lower, I hear down lower. What's create? I don't know. This is little break I don't know. I'll try to sum this up. When you fall asleep, your muscles become much more relaxed. Your vocal cords, which are controlled by muscles, also then become relaxed and center vocal cords more relaxed, their looser. They can move around a lot easier and the pitch can drop lower because they're just able to move more, that's all. Now what I want to do is talk a boat higher and lower. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna demonstrate this person. I'd like you to do it. Okay? I'm gonna play a note, and then I'm going to sing that note and then I'm going to descend. I'm just going to let my voice trail going down. So I accepted this note. Booz, uh, here are descended. I think it's cause your chin came down. Let's see if I can do that. I'm the CTO. OK, so it's a say I'll just get another one way. So it's just decided, OK? Eso just just the oh who Right? And you don't need to descend the chin. I not die. That helps. It does Okay now, So they're do studio, right? Wow, that was like, Yeah, you were because you I don't know why. Uh, So what I want you to do now is going to do the opposite. I'm gonna play a note. You listen, toe, get something, I'll demonstrate. You're gonna listen to it, sing it in your head and you're gonna start down to the bottom of your voice until you rise up with that note. So, for example, uh, I'll give it I'm not saying you can do, but they scientifically okay, self. Same thing. They'll play the note, listen to it in your head, then start down lower. Doesn't matter where lower and just try to get that note. Okay. Uh, you ended up there. You were close. Try to get down here. You were close. Uh, you know what? You're actually really good at this. No, this this is good. There's gonna make us a lot easier. Yeah. You think I'm gonna graduate? Well, here's a the reason we're doing this. Why are we doing this? Hey, hang second. Uh, I'm also failed music student. Great. Okay. Glad that you're in spent many, many years in the wilderness, but then I But then I had a kid who is a natural musician. Okay? And it's one of those things that he could do really well, uh, and I can't do it all, so I often tell him that, you know, part of, you know, the things that I've given him as father is no musical talent. Nice because he would have otherwise peaked too early. Oh, thank you. Very kind. So, you know, that's just my gift to him. OK, so your gift is the gift of not music. Yeah, an impediment. But now the game has changed, and now the game changes change, OK? And cause you've told me about your kid, your son and I know that he plays by eras. Well, which is super cool. And there's all sorts of great reasons about that again. I will talk about that later. Okay, so we're gonna do the same thing again, and this time I'm gonna play a note and then going to sing up from it, and then we'll again do the inverse and then sing back down to it. The reason we're doing all this is to help find notes, because Daniel found the notes pretty easy. I played a note kind of saying it. I mean, saying that an octave but that's really the octave thing is quite irrelevant. Especially another thing is that the male voice generally sings an octave lower than is written. And if a male in a female sing in unison, which means that they're playing the same singing the same notes the same time. Generally speaking, the male voice will be an octave lower, but just considered the same note. If I do this thistles unison, that makes sense. Because is that to see, right, not to see. So this is unison versus this being like a harmony version off. So I'm gonna play note on I'm gonna hit that note, actually going to sing it down an octave, so I can I get some range to go up? Otherwise it could be great. Embarrassing. So Ah, uh, now what? I just sang on to do this again. Ah, uh, So actually saying, uh Sangin Octave, I have so many things to say. One of the things is Daniel has no preparation. I did not tell him anything that we're gonna do, because this is this true. This is a music class. This is a music lesson. Daniel has come to me metaphorically to learn how to play music. So I heard you were singing. You saying that pretty little with this? Let's try to lower the moment. We could No, this'll was, uh, okay saying after that I should jump. Yeah, it's hard because you get these things in your voice. You what? That is bigger. That that song? Oh, no, it's I do. It's the bow. I can't place it. It's a theme to love story. Uh, played again. Yeah. Yeah, that natures. Well, we're dating ourselves. Yeah. You know what? We're gonna stop for there for right now. You'd home play a note on the piano. Just try to sing it. And if it doesn't sound right, slide your voice up or down until you hear it. When you play this note and it sounds right, Noah, you will hear its balance versus I sing a different out. Uh, it doesn't resonate the same way because what happens is this note. When I sing this note, everything is resonating at the same time. And there's just Ah, nice. I don't even know what the word is. It is correct for lack of better words. We'll see you next time on whatever this show is gonna be called. Didn't you figure that out? Yeah. I wanted to see how many I did, but I don't know. We'll talk. We'll talk about that and I'll practice. Okay. See you soon.
3. Melody #1 What are Melody and Pitch: welcome to Melody. You've made it. Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is describe what is a melody. Melody is a Siris of pitches over time. Generally, it has a rhythmical context, but its basic form it is just a series of pitches. Now, a pitch is another name for a note and to describe it in mathematical terms, a pitch is something that you hear that is vibrating. Generally, it has a constant vibration. And that vibration, whatever it is, it gives you the pitch. For example, if I played this note on the piano, what's happening? I'm pushing down a note. There's a little hammer behind it which hits a string. Now that string is vibrating at 440 times a second. But not this pitch or note is on every instrument. For example, if I gonna play this Yeah, this'll is an a on the on the guitar. And again, this string is vibrating at 440 times a second. Um, if I blow a new recorder again, this is an A and this has been more abstract. This recorder is actually vibrating at point or the air coming through it is vibrating 440 times a second. That's why we hear it as an A. Um uh, when I sing in a, my vocal cords are vibrating at 440 times a second. You don't really need to know what the vibration speed of any note or pitches. But this is just a way to help you visualize when we start looking and trying to discern high and low notes. Now that is exactly what it is. Ah, higher note is a note that vibrates faster at higher rate than a lower note. For example, there's my A for 40. If I played this note, I'd say this is a higher note, and the reason why is because the string is vibrating at a higher speed on the lower I play a lower note. Still, uh, that string is vibrating again slower, and this again works in any instrument that is a lower lower pitch because it is moving at a lower velocity. Okay, on the next lesson, we're gonna give you some techniques to learn how to hear high and low notes and discern them
4. Melody #2 Find A Note, Sing a Note: Okay, What we are going to do with this class to play a note on the piano or on the guitar, whatever insurance you want, and then sing it. So I'm gonna play a note. Now listen to it. Don't try to sing it right away here, Here, in your head Once you think you hear it singing note, even if it's not right, that's okay. What you do if you start moving up or down until you feel that your voice is balancing with the note that you just played Oh, okay. Saying that note this is does not feel right. So I'm gonna start moving up and down until I find something that seems to blend with the okay, That is the basic technique. Now it's just another way. That's kind of how so I look to find a note. So by playing during the guitar, the same thing, really? Listen, try to internalize the sound waves. Hmm. Start a little high, and I fell down into it. A Okay, So before we go on to, the next lesson, when he wanted to do is turn the computer off, go to your instrument and just try to do this the whole bunch. Um, just play a note on the instrument you want and try to sing it. It will take time, but when it comes, it comes. And then you just after that point, you just kind of know it. And if you're feeling good about that, then we can try flipping it the other way around which some people find easier. Something will find more challenging, sing a note and then find it on the piano way. No one took a while. Um, the next lesson we're gonna be using an app to really hone in to make sure that refining the notes that we're looking for
5. Melody #3 How to use a tuner: in this lesson, we're going to use an app to help us find the pitch that we're singing. After listening to a note that we've played in the piano or other instrument now online, there was a list off different APS for IOS, or android as well a zoo for different browsers. If you're using a computer, they all functionally work the same. Some have lights, and some have these little meters that are moving back and forth as you see it moving. As I'm talking, the reason why it's moving it is registering the pitch that I'm playing. But when you speak, when you're spoken voice, you do not just speak in one pitch, even if you think you do your pictures moving all over the place. Now, if I were to speak just one pitch, the I would be speaking like this and there would be no motion. I'm just singing a B flat. We don't talk like that. So here's the goal. What you want to do when you're singing is to try to get between those two lines on the left and right. The goal, of course, would be perfect would be right in the middle But our voices don't really work like that. It's really almost impossible to hold pitch perfectly right in tune consistently, but we just want to be in the ballpark. We want at least get the letter up top. Right now. It's saying, Be fired or saying a We want to get that to be the same as the piano So here's what we do. We're gonna play a note on the piano or it could be guitar or anything. We're gonna listen to that note say, Mazza, previous lesson singing in your head. And now you're going to try to sing. Okay, I was able to sing it One thing to notice the piano into his B flat. Four. When I sing who I'm saying a B flat. Three. What that means is I'm seeing one octave below what is being played on the piano. That's OK. We'll be discussing octaves with the meaning of a knock of is at a later point. What is important at this point is that you sing. You get the same letter note as what is on the piano, Um, and again a same as the previous lesson play a note you listen to it. And if you don't sing the right notes right away, you just move up and down until you find it. Uh, okay. I was able to sing it. I slid up from a D to an E and again as he noticed on the piano, the five who I'm singing any three I'm singing two octaves below again. That's OK, so using the tuners can be a lot of fun. It's kind of challenging. It can kind of mess of your head a bit, too, because it really does move around a lot. Uh, but I want to say that using the tuner, consider this a stepping stone to using just your ears, because what the tuner does, it validates that you are singing the right pitch, but over time you want to get to a point where you do not need to use a tuner to be able to hear if you're singing the right pitch or not. Eso as an exercise what I suggest just sitting down with an instrument and having your to Iran playing a note, singing it until you get the right note and pretty soon you will be the tuner at all
6. Melody #4 High Low: when you're trying to discern which of two notes is higher or lower than the other, there's a technique which I do. The first thing is I seeing the first note and I seeing the second note, and I listened between these two notes. When I sing the second note is my boys rising? So I feel it, the vocal chords tightening up safely as it moves up. What I feel it descend into a feel of falling, as when the note the second just lower in the first. So, for example, if you here to nose the second note rises, I'm rising up to get to the second note, which means that the second note is higher than the first. It's descending. The second nuke is lower than the first, and again every inch min is the same Bo. And uh, so this is a technique which will work for really any pictures in just a matter off, Like anything practicing and being aware. Are you rising? Are you are you falling in pitch? Okay, The next lesson we're gonna do a Siris of listening tests to see how this is working out. So far,
7. Melody #5 High Low test: okay. Low and high test what we're gonna do. I'm gonna play to nose do eat two times what I want you to do. First of all, played the second time I tried to sing along and decide and then given answer is the second note higher or lower than the first. And sometimes the two notes may also be the same. So your answers could be low high for the same They'll be doing this on different instruments. Okay, here we go. - Um uh Ah. Uh huh. Uh oh. Uh huh. Uh, yeah. Uh oh. Uh huh. - Uh uh, how how?
8. Melody #6 High Low supplemental: Okay, So if you're having a challenge hearing the high and low note, we're going to continue to give you some or listening examples. Now, what I'd like you to do this time is really Listen, I'm gonna go slower. Listen to the change, whether or not you feel a rise for a drop in the pitch. Okay? I'm only going to go in piano right now, and it goes floor. So really? Take the time. No rush. Everybody goes at the Roman speed. Here we go. Um, - yeah . - Uh huh. - That's what's going to be hard, Uh
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