Can You Hear Four-Part Harmony and Write It Down? - Ear Training
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- Have you ever had the frustrating experience of hearing a musical idea you want to work with as a player or as a composer but have struggled with being able to write it down? This lesson is an exercise in hearing a passage of four part harmony and being able to notate the melody, the bass, and the inner details of the chords. The video explains how to go about the task and how to sharpen your aural ability. The approach will liberate musicians wanting to notate ideas and will also make sight reading skills more assured.
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0:00 - Introduction to can you hear four-part harmony and write it down?
1:02 - About the exercise
3:23 - Getting started
4:17 - Playing the exercise
4:33 - Stage 1: Initial thoughts after first playing
5:31 - Stage 2: Getting your ear on the bass part
7:05 - Stage 3: Thinking about bass line direction
8:52 - Revealing the bass line
11:39 - Stage 4: Possible clues to chords
12:30 - Stage 5: Thinking about the inner parts
14:10 - Stage 6: Alto part clues
14:39 - Revealing the alto part
16:24 - Stage 7: Working out the missing tenor part
18:16 - Revealing the tenor part
19:40 - Analyzing the chords
22:24 - Conclusion
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Everyday in college our theory professor would pound some chords on the piano and make us write it down.
I struggled hard with it but in the end that ear training was priceless as a gigging musician. I have often had to learn a song in a few minutes without an instrument in hand on the way to a gig.
This video is a great re-cap to sharpen my skills.
Thanks for another great video...have a great weekend😃
Essential skill. You have a great weekend too.
Hi Gareth, (you'll probably know this story),It is said that Mozart wrote the outer parts first because half way through a piece he ran out of ink and finished the inner parts in ink of a slightly different colour! Slán, Austin.
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This is a great exercise! I got the bass part with no problem. The alto part was the most challenging for me, maybe because I've never sung an alto part. I wanted to go to the E on the first beat of measure two to create a suspension.
Middle parts are the hardest to hear
What a great communicator this guy is. Thanks!
Most kind
Hi Gareth, a brilliant video, by the way. For people like me who have difficulty reading even two parts for keyboard, being shown how to hear four is amazing. Before this I thought people who read scores were from another planet!(Cáis shona duit).Happy Easter to you! Slán, Austin.
Happy Easter to you too!
Awesome lesson thank you Gareth
Many thanks
Really useful lesson Gareth, thanks
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I figured the tonic F was the first note, from the tune and used aural interval recognition to place the others on the staff. Ok I used crotchets and quavers instead of minim and crotchet, but getting somewhere through ear traing and sight reading practice. The manual bit was writing down the notes in F and counting the semitones to give me the minor 6th (8). F to A. Much practice needed to make it more natural.
You’re going in absolutely the right direction. Try our Aural Dictation course at www.mmcourses.co.uk
amazing video thank you for sharing. After going through the exercise I realize how much I have left todo. However its amazing how well one hears after knowing what's going on.
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Your content is so excellent and I am really grateful so much of it is available for free on YT. I learn something new and valuable with every watch.
Thank you. You are most generous. Much appreciated.
I started two years ago with no musical training trying to learn the piano. I found your videos early on, and have followed you closely. I have become a music theory geek, even though I am frustrated at my ear training. My daughters and musical friends laugh and say I'm playing boring church music, but they are very supportive. I recently played a Bach 2-part chorale with no hesitation, and have started playing a 3-part chorale.
The videos that Alex and you put together are worth their weight in chocolate. And that's becoming more expensive than gold or diamonds.
Joyeux Pâques!
So glad it’s helpful. Happy Easter!
I seem to be blind to musical notation. In fact, 38 years ago, my music teacher set us a small melody phrase and instructed us to continue the music with chords and harmonies. You could tell the pianists in the class, as when she played their pieces they sounded really nice. When it came to mine (I play a little guitar) it sounded like Les Dawson, and she laughed. I dropped music shortly after.
A pity you dropped music. Les Dawson had a dazzling career!
I love it.... I am surprised with this doubling in first nite in Bar 3 notes F D for S A and same for Tb
An FD doubling involves the doubling of a minor 3rd rather than a major 3rd so that’s ok.
Thanks for the harmonization !
Actually, it happened to me just this week. I keep listening to George Shearing’s music and there was no sheet music for it ! 😂🤣😂
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Why didn't you mention the seventh in the etnor voice in the C 13- chord (V 13) in the third last bar? Don't you think together with me that this important enough, to at least mention it?
Nice exercise for breakfast or tea - thanx for sharing and greetings from Germany from the silver fox, David😉🦊
A pleasure. The 7th is part of the 13th chord.
Only Mozart and Mendelssohn can do this dictation in one hearing ! It took me over 10 times to get things right and I have an A in A level music !
You got there. Excellent!
I did not expect the major 7ths.
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And I didn't expect the spanish inquisition either.
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@@francoisbruel9163 you'd be forgiven for that. Very much the typical experience.
@@sagnier yeah, nobody expects the spanish inquisition...
sorry i stand to be corrected on the chord which u wrote as V 13th........... to me it looks like chord iii 7th which are ( A,C,E plus a 7th Bb) kindly shed more light sir.
It’s a V13. In 4 parts a V13 employs a root, a 3rd, a 7th and a 13th. In this case - C E Bb A
I can't even hear zero part harmony and write it down. John Cage is the bane of my existence.
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"Dream Symphony" otherwise known as a Fantasia 😂
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