In this episode we discuss the most important musical skill: Audiation or using your minds ear.
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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
One of my greatest joys is being able to pull out any song and play it entirely in my head
Lovely & amazing tutorial!
Nooo, not baby shark!!!! Aaaaaah! Good video otherwise.
Practice practice and then some more practice and when you think you are done practice some more.
This is how I make music I can hear it in my head it’s like I’m tuned into someone’s radio and I’m just transposing what I’m hearing. I made a song a few weeks ago based around the note my computer made when it crashed, also made a song out the dripping of rain off the corner of my roof , music is weird you never know what the source is going to give me you
I started doing this out of the blue for some reason one day . Didn’t always do this.
@Rick Beato, check out the book "This Is Your Brain on Music" by Daniel Levitin. Fascinating book!
Of course, you probably already have and there's a video somewhere on your channel about it. Love your work!
I am a Music and Piano Teacher, as well as a Music Education Content Writer and also a great fan of Rick Beato, in fact I am about to join his Ear Training Course as part of my after-graduate level continuing education. Lately I have been consolidating my ideas through my channel, and one of them is what I call "Modeling Technique". In a nutshell consists on having a background track for every single assignment, so in turn it becomes the auditive model. From there you look at the score and try to match it. For example Piano Adventures method offers background Music throughout its levels, all these Music tracks are top of the line recordings with top of the line Musicians. Once we accomplish a lesson, that becomes a piece in your repertoire, and then by accumulating them over time, you will be starting your mental music library. I asked parents today what happens to a human being that reads a lot of books? so then imagine what happens to a young aspiring Musician that listens to lots of different songs? Reason I posted this here today is because this realization as a teacher happened to strike me last night and all of a sudden I ran into this video just now that completely validates that theory and my method, and coming from a major dude that I consider one of my mentors.
"Baby Shark?"
That sounds kind of cheap.
Couldn't they have named the song instead, "Infantile Precambrian terrestrial cephalopod?" Sounds a hell of a lot more catchy, don't it Rick? Who are these cretin buttholes?
A nice tip is to memorize every part of the instrumental, you don't have to get that detailed but enough to understand harmomy and rythm better.
I think it's possible some people don't have a "mind's ear". I recently have been reading about aphantasia where something like 1-3% of the population do not have a mind's eye and are literally unable to conjure images in their mind. Maybe some people have the aural equivalent to this?
Chip off the ol block
I guess, for Dylan, it’s like, “huh? you asked me to sing it from memory, so why would I sing it in the wrong key?” He’s an Ear-Training monster; dang impressive!
So, Rick, in this video and another, you mentioned that you do not have absolute pitch, but I thought I remembered you saying that, like many others with age, your absolute pitch has dropped by about a semitone.
Its the same when for example you are commanded to play your non-musician friends favorite song (melody) on your instrument, the guitar in my case. You know the song But dont know wich key its in. You start to play and yea its sound like it! But your friend is like no no no its not right, it does not sound like that! They imagine (and know by heart) the sound of the melody so they’ll know if you play in the right or wrong key ?
I have no “sound” in my head. I also do not visualize either (afantasia). Will your ear training classes still help me if I can’t even hear in my own head the sound?
I just kind of always did this. I don’t have perfect pitch at all, but I’ve been doing this from the start.
This is a rap over the star wars theme.
I don’t know notes, but I can pick a song from my head and play it on the piano without much fumbling. Never had a piano or learned the notes on it.
I know many people can do this, so Im not saying it’s a unique skill or anything 🙂 But what is it called in English? I only know the word «gehør».
Recently there have been studies that show some people can NOT visualized or audiate things in their "minds eye" or "minds ear". This is facinating, because many people assume everyone has this ability; The people who do not go thru life thinking its only a figure of speech when someone talks about doing this, and the people who can do it think people that cant just mean they arent that good at it, not that they truly CANNOT do it. Furthermore, many times, people that hate reading fiction and dont understand why anyone would do it tend to be the type that cannot visualize. Therefore, they get nothing but words. They do not "play a movie in their mind" while reading
I know there’s a condition where people cannot see mental images.. I’m curious now to know if there are people who cannot imagine a sound? Random thought. Great video!
So… the music Force is strong on the son of Beato… and daughter!
Awesome! Sending this to a special student.
Part of what Rick explained reminded me of how I unconsciously apply this when I practice speaking/reading on the foreign language I’m learning! Loved it!
Yes, Doris Day (1962) is a great vocal version. Check out theatre organist George Wright (1956), but don't let that distract you from looking into Henry King & His Orchestra (1936) version, or Paul Weston (1948), Dave Brubeck Quartet (1952), Lee Wiley (1954), Al Viola (1957), Carmen McCrae (1959, Les Brown & His Band of Renown (1962), Jackie Gleason (1963), Wes Montgomery (1964), Nelson Riddle (1964), Ferrante & Teicher (1965),, or The Jimmy Smith Trio (1993).
When practicing this… are we aiming to be in the right key of the song we are imagining?
But can ppl remember the words ?
I used to be able to pick out tunes from my head and be spot on but I haven't thought/used that skill in a long time (few years). I think the only song now that I can pick out of my head without hearing it for a long time is the tuba walkup intro to Curb Your Enthusiasim ?
For people who take this to heart and want to then transfer it to your fingers for whatever instrument. here are some exercises I've been doing at home:
1. Play a chord and put it on some kind of repeat, so you have something to play on top of
2. Start from the root note, and sing a 3 to 4 note melody. Then play the exact melody on the instrument.
3. If you want to hit some certain notes but the notes aren't coming to you mentally, try playing a little riff and then sing it back to yourself, and then play it again.
Another exercise:
1. Key agnostically just sing the first 2 bars of a popular tune.
2. Try to play it on the instrument.
3. Continue the song.
I've been trying to do this about 15 to 30 minutes a day (to an hour if I'm having too much fun), and my ability to find the "right" notes has gone up quite a bit. My ability to also mentally think up new licks and then play them as intended is also going up slowly.
Ricks kid is gonna go far in life I can tell you that much!
When Dylan sings a song, he sings the notes of the instruments. When Layla sings a song, she sings the lyrics.
Rick, you are such a great father.
That's all for now. Just when you're getting started!