LIVE 🔴 Playing tunes & answering questions (01/05/20)

[Music] hello welcome to my first live stream um does it sound the right let me know if it doesn't sound piano tunes for you [Music] I'll be on three questions for you so stick any questions you can look up my laptop over here that's what I'm looking at over here people just saying it sounds great that's good yeah coach questions in the comments and someone's someone mentioned something Radiohead favorite Radiohead album in rainbows karma police do I know Baker Street op I am I'm a Radiohead one so you can guess which one this is [Music] so that's some Radiohead David defender fur hello David and who else is here daydreaming that's a good choice in my life the Beatles please can you analyze Claire de Lune that's quite a mission but I'll bear that in mind it probably took me a while to put that together I won't be analyzing that right now oh my goodness these are going by so fast what is your favorite chord that's a good question who is that bhaskar favorite court well I've always really liked you know imagine that just a normal C major chord for example imagine if you add the the D in so it's a major chord with an added second I think I read somewhere that sometimes called a new chord yeah just a major chord with a second degree added into it [Music] and as to cause they record to the same cause yeah that's not how I see it I see an ad nine is different because has different intervals in it and after all Accord is just intervals [Music] rather than the nine so there are different chords there may be the same note if you just think about them athletically but why so different and why God Jazze flight of the bumblebee I'm not going to attend that carpenters I wonder if you met I wonder if the reason use of carpenters Dennis Smith is because that chord I was planning is the first cordon [Music] long and winding road beetles I only sit down to learn that a couple days ago I think it'd be a bit risky for me to pay that I haven't got the sheet music in front of me and that's we got wine I don't perfect agencies resolve as nicely in minor and that's asked by Bevin that's a good question so a perfect cadence in case you're unaware is a move from the fifth chord of the key to the root the first chord and key so for in sync if you move from G ideally g7 that's where that's how works best g7 C [Music] now it won't really be satisfyingly the tension is resolved when we see and when I say result continent more more pleasing g7 and when I move to see one of those notes find a very satisfying home that's not too far away from it so the B the D soaks down to E or you could say comes up the G and the Chi that was in the g7 called without didn't see anyway so there's a few different ways of looking at how it results but it does really nicely but your question was why the minor chord [Music] and I guess the reason why would be [Music] doesn't get to resolve down II like in the major chord [Music] and that interval is now twice as large it was a minor second and instead now [Music] yeah changing the key or whatever it's super functional Delia Smith Bennett or Bruce are you talking about David Bruce and I want I want to say too much about I don't know actually I don't really know what you're saying but what I will say is that although it hasn't been announced yet me and David Bruce might be doing a collaboration soon I don't know how soon soon is but the wheel was they're moving with it and I'm very excited about that because David Bruce was actually very helpful when I first started my channel two years ago he gave me a lot of advice about how to get off the ground and how to put my videos together so if you don't follow David Bruce as well he's a youtuber and he is more importantly a very successful compatible composer so his channel is all about classical music and the world of composing so it's chock-a-block with with really interesting videos so check that out at some point well as you guys say Dana Bruce is a beast yes I agree David defenders Oh Billy Joel can you play the lick almost no one [Music] maybe I'll slip into the next song I probably have to pay added nearly some royalties for that now your opinion on Billy eyelashes songs that's an interesting question so I've done a couple of videos where I've used Billy Eilish as examples I used bad guy and I used berry a friend and every time I do that I get loads of comments either saying that they hate her or that they love her or something like that it's always really extreme no one just think she's alright but I can see why some people don't like I think from I guess you could say from a marketing point of view but I to be honest hadn't really paid much attention to her until earlier until last year when her album came out and I gave that a go and I was really pleasantly surprised because if you just listen to bad guy and you watch the music video for bad guy you probably think that she's kind of a silly sort of not joke act act but something that's a bit of a silly song but some of the music on her album like berry a friend and also there's a song called when the party's over and there's an older one called ocean eyes they're really really nice songs and by no means are they offensive and by no means I would say should they be divisive but somehow she has become as really device's divisive figure in pop music and to be honest I think that was completely intentional on part of the record label there's nothing that sounds our record better than it being controversial so yeah if you if you actually think that Billy Eilish is awful or bad or whatever just go listen to her album first and then come back and then if you still think that then fair enough but I do have a feeling that a lot of people who write them off do it before they've even listened to you know two or three songs affairs okay Eric garner max Conti that's a good one so I'm guessing maybe nobody's ever gone the so I know is misty so you don't know this is a jazz standard started as an instrumental written by Errol Gardiner garner even in I think it came out about the 50s might be wrong about that and then there was a little Ella Fitzgerald did a really professional yes oh really [Music] yeah good suggestion max kunti brilliant brilliant oon that other questions New York state of mind Billy Joel I wish I knew how to play that that's a really good tune everyone keeps saying saying daydream really ahead but I don't know it well enough I played it before but it's um it's one of those tunes I need the music in front of me for so I will learn that for the next live stream daydreaming and hopefully that will mean that you guys can just stop right engaging in the comments okay who who is your favorite Beatle that's good question and I think it has to be I think I'm always torn by this question because my favorite Beatles songs like hey bulldog Strawberry Fields I'm the war's like they were all written by John Lennon predominantly but I think I prefer Paul McCartney as a Beatle I don't know why I think Paul McCartney is probably has a more palatable personality in eastern interviews not to say John wasn't amazing and you know a complete unique gem but but then to be honest if I had to be locked in the room with a Beatle for 24 hours it probably Ringo Starks I think he's probably the nicest guy I'm all of them I think he you know I don't I don't know for sure but I just get you get that sense from Ringo that he knew he was in the presence of no three of the most amazing song writers of all time and not an octopus's garden and don't pass me by but I think he knew that he he he played his cards right at some point so yeah John writes my favorite become songs Paul McCartney is probably my favorite Beatle Ringo is the guy I'd want to have a beer with and George is great too George George you know everyone says it but George is underrated so they're all great I don't know why even answer the question John Deacon or John and joy whistle I think people forget about John Deacon because Brian May Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury are such big personalities the Bohemian Rhapsody feeling has helped to remind people of him and of course you know Quinn had some amazing bass lines like under pressure and one bites the dust and joy actually why didn't I think John Deacon wrote you're my best friend which is one of the Queen's best songs but anyway John Entwistle was also amazing if you listen to the bass playing on Tunes like my generation he he plays it like it's a guitar it's such no and he basically he's playing like a punk about you know five to ten years before punk was even a thing so they're you know they're both amazing and both probably you know they're least known members of their respective bands because even though I did say that John Deacon is overshadowed by the rest of Queen Entwistle was you know he's that he's overshadowed by by the other members of the who is they more massive personalities as well [Music] oh it's Tom hello Tom I'll see you in the in the quiz on on Sunday why is a minor nine such an amazing chord I didn't see who's name who asked that question by the way because it just went off the top but why is a minor nine such an amazing cause [Music] - seven I think just nines in general I think you don't hear them enough particularly in guitar based music on piano based music it's quite easy to you know even if you don't know much about theory of being on top of got yourself or mine at nine chord but on guitar if you're playing an a minor 7 there's not an easy way in the standard shapes to to add that nine in a comfortable way so I find that you don't get upper chord extensions as much which i think is one of the things that keeps guitar music from being interesting anymore that I think that's one of the reasons it's disappeared as people have already written everything they can write with the standard shapes maybe if people started writing with some slightly less standard shapes of guitar need to see some more guitar music in the chance who knows the doors really Maple Leaf Rag I haven't practice that a little time how do you modulate to a new key a tritone away in it's capable isolation so inescapable isolation asks how do you modulate to a key that's a tritone away and now in case you've not familiar with what a tritone is a tritone is three tones but what's notable about tritone [Music] makkhi tritones the halfway point in the octave so therefore it makes it hard to motivate you so you could certainly the way you'll learn to modulate the stuff if you study functional harmony or you know study music at a music school it's something like a two five one modulation so much relate to F sharp major which is a tritone away you would do a G sharp minor C sharp dominant [Music] and see actually when I get back for them I'm still going a tritone this C is a tritone away from F sharp and F sharp is a tritone away from C so [Music] it's super smooth doing a two five one and you could do it as a tritone sub because so try to understand if you didn't know what that is is when instead of a two five one basically using the five chord to modulate to the new key a bit like you were talking earlier we're talking about perfect Cadence's earlier and the five so in C and that's kind of how you normally change key so if I do that five [Music] so if I was in Sea [Music] so that would be how I answer that question tritone sub because then they have chords that are a tritone away the tritone sub of that happens to be in both keys now I haven't really explained what a tritone sub is so tritone sub is when instead of using the five chord to modulate or to perfect a dance you use the chord that's only a semitone above your destination so if I want to go to C I will use D flat and the reason they're similar is because they get a little notes that combination notes [Music] nice nuts which are important too because g7 and D flat 7 they both can be used two occasions us to see and what I was talking about with how you can use that to modulate to a key let's a tritone away is because when your tritone away that tritone sub chord happens to be a chord that also belongs in the key that's at rising away so if I'm in see my tritone sub is sharp C sharp anyway chokes up so it's one of those things that you can keep getting deeper and deeper into let's look at some slightly advanced questions what is the piano you're playing asks mark van de Kaap good question this is a Nord piano 3 it's a piano the melody for a very long time and I finally got it about two years ago I'm not endorsed by Lord I wish I was sponsored by them but I'm not I'm still going to tell you that you know I'm probably the best you can get without getting a real piano mainly because they were the totally [Music] my realistic sound really nice keyboard to fill the gap where a piano should be then get an orde they are the best opinions on the zombies I love the zombies who ask that we reach rocks er or red red rocks yeah zombies yes Odyssey in Oracle is one of my favorite albums and I only really discovered that a couple years ago because they're one of those bands that you know if you tune self you know time of the season and she's not there and maybe some others but you perhaps don't really listen to their albums and I think they only had two albums and it's a bit of a rubbish story they had because they were one of the British Invasion bands in the 60s and their first album was received all right and then they had a second album which was Odyssey in Oracle which is a really really good album if you like the Beatles which I'm guessing most of you do check out Odyssey and Oracle but I think what happened is after Odyssey Oracle which it didn't really take off that the album and they broke up but then after they've broken up time of the season was a massive hit in America but they weren't able to capitalize on that success because they're already broken up so they've sort of I wouldn't say being forgotten but they're certainly not the first band you think of when you think of British Invasion bands and but yeah they're a real gem zombies why are we standing this low you like jazz I do like jazz and I like jazz from all across the errors from Swing to bebop and contemporary jazz but when I play jazz I'm basically out of my debt from Bebop and anything like be Bob am i dead for free jazz but I can play swing so [Music] this would be the [Music] okay David Bowie of course an idea Burberry and I would Bowie I really really really like his early seventies stuff so hunky-dory spiders from Mars Aladdin Sane and I do like other stuff but that's the end of three albums I really love and beyond that there's there's at least 20 amazing songs but I'm not as much of a fan of albums like lo or heroes like you know each of those albums have classic songs on them but they're not albums I put on and just to listen to yeah Bowie I could play somebody if you like and do you have the Rolling Stones I do like the stones and tip my favourite stone songs Gimme Shelter and you can't always get what you want who's that spring style they're tender that's one of my favorite songs so that's actually my favorite blend of song and Blair one of my favorite bands I saw Blair on their reunion concert about ten years ago now and that the I'm not gonna sing it because I'm gonna Barriss myself but in tender that vocal chant when they stopped playing blur when they stopped playing tender the crowd just kept seeing it on a loop and even when they try starting another song the crowd was still going that was nice um I think below are quite an underrated band as well actually I think they're becoming one of those bands where as time passes people only really remember them for their hits and actually they've got some really really good albums unlike a wases that's for some reason that has become a classic rock band and I'm not saying I don't like a basis but I don't think they're as good as blur someone keeps asking Prince or Michael Jackson I think there's only one politically correct answer there I'm not gonna clocks by Coldplay please kind of clocks locked in among those songs I should know [Music] I'd be interested now actually this is a question for you I want to see what you say in the comments what do you think of : so at least here in England they're a really divisive band there it's sort of it's really uncool to that Coldplay but I I'm gonna go out there and say that I think they're really good they're not my favourite band but they've had some really really good songs and some really good albums so write comments do they like do these people like Coldplay they're not saying much locally okay band Coldplay is yeah I thought you guys rush it but at the head is great that's true nice true to get was said there it's going too fast now people were two people go over excited about color played Travis were better than Coldplay Travis a really underrated Travis are great as well and I find Coldplay really say me I think they're say me on any given album but they have managed to change style over the 20 years that they've been together which is I think is impressive because a lot of bands for example The Rolling Stones stay the same all the way through their career some bands like Co client you know more notably like Radiohead or the Beatles or Bowie change style and it keeps things interesting but yeah I'm not you know not transplants and so Coldplay fan club but I just don't really get why people hate on them so much people are saying stuff waited for us can you talk about when I talk about 7 8 the signature can I talk about 7 8 I don't know who said that oh well so 7 8 2 2 I think I'm sorry if I mispronounced that has asked can I talk about 7 8 so 7 8 is a time signature which basically means there are seven eighth notes or quavers in any given bar now I need to try and think of a song that's in seven eight but so if I I mean the thing that seven eight sounds like is it sounds most of the time it sounds like four four with a missing eighth note because it's only got seven eight notes whereas for four would have eight eighth notes so if I play something in fall forward to start with [Music] wasn't the perfect demonstration but the idea is that seven eight sounds like a shortened fall for the problem is I find it very hard to count signatures as I play so I couldn't as I was playing actually make sure I was in seven eight and then every time I thought too much about it it all went wrong so that's another lesson remove signatures don't overthink them just play um Canada says Sophie let's play one by an Augmented chord sounds tense though being a sharp of the fifth asked by gigabyte so an Augmented chord major chord but the top lobe has been raised that's my taxes I think when you ask why it sounds tense printed is two major thirds stacked on top of one another and major thirds are usually considered really pleasing they sound really really nuts but it's the contrast of two major thirds that is what causes the tension well then I would say it's not as tense as some other activity tense chords like a diminished chord the main reason that chord is tense and it's the same reason that a c7 if you've got a note doesn't belong in this case the G sharp could result back down to G is a resolution itself but often notes want to resolve up to once upon the a is the main reason I think the thing is an Augmented chord is going to always be chromatic almost almost always going to be chromatic ie one of the notes in it is not going to belong in the key and that note is therefore going to sound tense so because it has a note it's going to sound tense and that note needs to come into the key result I actually was planning on doing a video on augmented chords soon so maybe our I will elaborate on that okay I think money is a tricky one spring still yeah I think yeah pink floyd's I think that's in 74 and 7/4 was slightly easier than seven eight I thought I five seven four was a bit like having a bar of 4/4 and in a bar of three four and you're just switching between them whereas seven eight is a bit like you're cutting short bar for four so you need to be counting the eighth notes rather than the quarter notes which can sometimes be harder I'm not saying that it's actually hard to play these signatures I'm just saying that I'm a bit rubbish at them okay so I keep saying Norway I altered chords and it's and extended stretches the same I don't actually know what you mean by extended structures is that something to do have extended couple extensions a an altered chord though it's kind of like what I was saying with the Augmented chord and it's altered cordis is a jazz term where imagine I mean she's going to see [Music] that's kind of what an altered chord is but the interesting thing about altered chord is whereas with most chord names it is telling you to play a precise selection of notes so if it says C minor seven you more or less need to play a C in E flat a G and a B flat but an altered chord is leaving it open to interpretation it's saying play that play some sort of dominant chord with some tensions thrown in and that's and you can kind of tail from that that it comes from the world of jazz where the chords are there as something to interpret rather than something to abide by strictly yeah of course I'm not really sure what the upper contract thing was but that's fine wonderful the dude Oh wonderful David defender third maybe you should add a moderator David you could do that if you want David but I don't think it well it doesn't matter if it's live or if it's it doesn't matter if it's in person or if it's on the internet if you're playing this life people will request Wonderwall I haven't really played it on on as a solo challenge [Music] okay do you play any other instruments what do you think of Creedence Clearwater Revival and the kinks asks James H instruments a keyboard obviously that's my main instrument but I actually started learning keyboard and guitar at the same time and then when I went to uni I say I would say went to uni I was sort of keyboard was just about my main instrument and guitar was just behind it but I soon realized that everybody and their nan played guitar a uni but nobody played Keys so I quickly wound up on the keys so any time we had jam or in a lesson when someone needed to play keys I would always wind up on the keys and then through through that really I wound up being a Keith blade because people knew me as I put as a key player and I got better I got better and better keys and guitar kind of stayed where it was so over the years I've really got into the keys but guitar and by extension bents are instruments I play and I have played them live and I played them in particularly based I played in a professional capacity before but I'm I often describe myself as somebody who owns a bass not a bassist but I am a keys player definitely a keys there and as for Creedence Clearwater Revival I've never really got into Creedence Clearwater Revival but the old song I'd really like but I've never given them the time the kinks I really like the kinks particularly Village Green Preservation Society yes all my favorite albums kinks I wasn't one of those bands where they still changed their sound they went they started as quite rocky and punky or proto-punk because punk didn't really exist yet and then they became more I don't know the psychedelic rock pop if you want to call it that okay Ella Bryan's new album I didn't know here an album actually I've never I've never ever listened to Ed O'Brien's solo work so I should check that out actually it's a good idea Thomas trying to get me 200 Mike's how many I forgot I've got 200 brilliant thank you Tom thank you for doing it yes 200 likes yeah all my loving by the Beatles core progression what do you think Jacob Hirsch that's a good one it's quite a jazzy progression actually it's um you can you can feel how Paul I think I'm pretty sure Paul wrote that song he was the main songwriter on it you can hear his jazz upbringing because his dad was a big lover of jazz and the reason I say you can see the Jazz in [Music] it's that they're using a lot of jazz changes of typical changes particularly to 5-1 which you may have heard of a lot if you don't know what a two-five one is it's a really typical chord progression in jazz you can think of it a bit like the classic axis of awesome axis of awesome chords everyone uses cords well Jess kind of does the same thing not quite but it has its own but the reason I mentioned to all my loving by the Beatles is it starts with isn't really in the key to it [Music] I'm not saying it is Jess I'm not saying that has purely jazz changes but it's kind of a hybrid between jazz and the more typical rock and roll that the Beatles were writing at the time so you can kind of hear how Paul's influences from his dad and his influences from the music that he listened to blended into into a progression what's your favorite song ever and why hugo de Burgh that's a good question that's a really difficult question I've actually got a playlist on Spotify of my seventy favorite songs I find it really really hard to just choose one I'm not sure I can do it because different songs are useful at different times like some songs make you feel really energized some songs fit make you feel reflective and emotional some songs make you understand check but I made like if you three that come to mind so my favorite Beatles song is hey bulldog mainly because it's incredibly nostalgic for me because it was the soft the song that got me into the Beatles back when I was about eight years old um I also really really loved reckoner Radiohead and that's actually one of those songs that I listen to too much that I sort of golf it for six months and now I hear it again and I'm so hooked again and a bit of a wild-card I really really love Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell I think that is not only a beautiful cinematic instrumental arrangement of a song but the lyrics are just so is such an original story such an original heartbreaking story of this of the sky working out in the open plans fixing the telephone lines headed switch to Lyman and you know hear his thoughts and how when and him him reflecting on whom he on the person he misses it's just a really original way to write a love song and there's a absolutely brilliant lyric in it which is I need you more than I want you and I want you for all time great lyric yeah which diamond one out of people saying can you plan any running man please you know what it's called that's the song that I put on at the end of my videos the I haven't played it the reason I had felt very pale is because that was actually an improvisation that I wrote well I say broke improvised it a couple years ago just because I thought I want some music to go and like underneath my videos and I didn't have any wish in a music recorded that was appropriate so I just sort of made something up but I cut if I if I sat down and and you know spent an hour on it I'm sure it will come back [Music] it's just a charity culturally and maybe favorite mode favorite mode good question mixolydian mr. pokey a bit more reflective and the good thing about [Music] because it hasn't got that it doesn't have it really obvious so it's something I don't set out a bit so memos out takes the edge off but if you were in normal G G major GI ionian if you hung out on the seventh degree G so it I wouldn't say it's an unusable cord but it's so [Music] can you explain paranoid android chords I would like to do that I don't know them off the top of my head unfortunately but maybe I should do a analysis video with that soon Chicago or Kansas I'll take a question Kansas because I really like carry on my wayward son that's just such a tune what's that something like question Chicago did if you leave me now if you leave me now it's also such a tune I think both of those are in my favorite song playlist so I'm not sure I can choose a favor out of those actually favorite Radiohead album to hear Hussein okay favorite Radiohead album is in rainbows closely followed by Ok Computer closely followed by the bends closely followed by kanae they're sort of the four golden chart children but I do also really really like King of Limbs I really really like what's it called moon shape all I wanted to call it daydream but wish it fall and then and easy a comic as well and easy I find it's sort of the part two of kid a it's like the sequel which means it's got a hard act to follow but kid amnesiac has got pyramid solid which is one of my favorite tunes so that carries album am I missing any albums Pablo honey I think you'd all agree that public honey is sort of in a different class when it comes to Radiohead album it was sort of before they found their feet creep is obviously a classic but I think my favorite song on padlet honey is actually anyone can play guitar that's a really good tune so yeah in rainbows I know you didn't ask will you ever do merch I don't know I don't know if merch is really something people would want from me I don't know maybe they do I'm not sure why I would have made actually maybe if if Nord could endorse me then maybe I could get like a signature Nord that would be my match maybe I could get it in a different colour thoughts in the band REM I'm really like REM I'm always blown away by how varied their music is like they don't seem to have a consistent style like it's all over the shop but I do really love somewhere tunes everybody hurts obviously a classic shiny happy people losing my religion is my favorite REM song the end of the world as I know it that's really good surely listening to pyramid song now I wish you much success in your life god bless you thank you the fishermen and okay I'm gonna play a tune and what change should I play for you guys I'm going to play you with a little help from my friends by the Beatles [Music] [Applause] [Music] string stool the big resolution at the end of the song is great that is great that that cadence although this song predates what about reference is sometimes called the Super Mario cadence the musical and if you know issues electric By Voices they literally lift that ending from women little hug from my friends and stick at the end of she's electric which is the most blatant time that they ever referenced the Beatles in the video strawberry fields or Penny Lane Strawberry Fields I you know I love Penny Lane but Penny Lane is one of those McCartney songs that is cheesy and I'm not saying about my cheese but is cheesy Strawberry Fields is far more creative and I don't know like it's you know I'm comparing to that two of the Beatles greatest songs and the thing they do like about Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane though is they are the perfect example of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's writing styles put together in a perfect contrast because they were released as a double a-side and obviously written around the same period so you get a really good comparison of what Paul liked to do in his music and what John liked to do in his music and in Penny Lane you get quite a old-fashioned nostalgic sort of sound sort of harking back to older music you know once again his jazz inspiration from his dad's music um of John you get slightly more experimental type of music with quite psychedelic and answer the symbolic lyrics whereas Penny Lane although obviously not written as a literal lyric has more of a story to it you know you can follow the narrative in Penny Lane where Strawberry Fields is a far it's a far more and so psychedelics of the summer yeah strawberry field is my favorite I'm not sure about you guys but he was it a Bohemian Rhapsody please genius the musician Bohemian Rhapsody I thought someone might ask for Bohemian Rhapsody I actually learned it a few years ago for a Christmas party sing-along and it was a good excuse to learn it because it's it's like learning five different songs and they're not easy songs so learning five songs stitching them all together that's hard enough but the hardest the hardest thing about Bohemian Rhapsody is at least in England but this is probably true everywhere everybody knows every moment of that June they know you know not just every lyric but every little crescendo and chord change so if you get it wrong people know you've got it wrong but usually with of tunes you can fudge the edges and get away with it but not with the human Rhapsody but that says I'm going to give it a go I'm gonna say right now it's not going to be no perfect but it will be it will be [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah I told you I wouldn't get it perfect but 90% perhaps it's a particularly difficult song I'm just going to get some more water one second talking nonsence for an hour and 20 minutes requires some hydration okay more questions Elvis Presley or Jimi Hendrix asks speeder Brewer man um Hendrix Elvis is great I really like Elvis he has loads of great tunes and he's incredibly important person when it comes to the history of what role but I don't really listen to his music Hendrix on the other hand he's not my favorite artist but maybe 10 of his songs I regard as as some of my favorite songs of all time particularly all along the watchtower obviously I know that's Bob Dylan but Hendrix's arrangement of that is you know mind blowing Spanish classical magic that's one of my favorites of his window Christ Mary if six was nine Matt depression and crosstown traffic in Hendrix is just what Hendrix is more my style but Hendrix and Elvis are both incredibly important to the story of an role for different reasons how do you train your ear just in villain you've Eve how do you train your ear that's a good question so ear training is when you improve your ability to recognize intervals recognize chords by here without any reference or at least with very minimal reference which is incredibly useful as you can imagine to be able to hear what the notes of something are different from what people call perfect pitch which it which is when you can actually hear exactly what note it is so you would hear that but if you haven't trained ear you probably have what's called relative pitch which means if I played this see you know anyone maybe that's like yeah gee Pizza Pizza for you got it Adrian I'm sorry it's not that was very close [Music] Peter for eg don't Haley come everyone saying to you now I kissed it was just a black though because that first one don't wouldn't do it and now they're bloody spamming the comments of G and [Music] but your question was how you improve your ear training or how do you train your ear and do what I just did there you get somebody to test you and and see if you can recognize what they are because they do have a distinctive sound like in the same way that you can recognize a melody you know what that melody is that's just a bunch of intervals so if you play a very very simple melody it's just an interval right just one interval so if you can roll that sound and associate that with a perfect fifth [Music] then you'll be able to recognize it in other songs and then when you're listening to a tune or trying to work out a tune or improvising or writing or you know there's so many contact system which is is useful what that interval was one of the common methods for helping you with that helping you remember sounds like is associating it with a famous tune so you'll hear the first two notes and then you think all that sounds a bit like the beginning of Star Wars that's one of the common methods is choosing an interval choosing a song to help you remember each interval so that's an octave C to C and most people use somewhere over the rainbow to help them remember that because it's a really distinctive sound and if you can associate it with somewhere over the rainbow and you can remember that that is an octave then you kind of got a little sheet to help you hear an octave and what generally happens is people start with intervals and then when boards because you know chords are basically just a bunch of intervals and then you know you get denser and denser word and ultimately it's a combination of doing very clinical sterile revision like that when people test you combined with listening to lots of music playing lots of music so you actually have practical experience with playing those intervals and also just learning as many songs as you can because then you have more and more examples so if you hear a song and you think oh I think I recognize that interval from another example I can't think of an example if you that's the beginning of ladies a trap and because I know that inside out that song if someone paid to be there my brain might go and because I know that ladies trap begins like that they're not help me work out what that interval wars so although that wasn't the best demonstration the idea is if you can increase your repertoire of sums that you know how to play then you have more things to reference your what you're hearing against yeah it's as we learn anything in music and most in life it's just practice practice practice okay please play the Simpson soon - I like - I don't know how to play it something like that I learn it properly for next time that's it really interesting to note is an example of an a relatively rare scale that song uses f living dominant but either way Lydian scales are fairly rare lidium dominant dominant even more so so the fact that you hear is such an exotic scale in the context of a you know mainstream TV show thing is clones but it's quite interesting so maybe I should analyze this innocence the point have you written something of your own asks Steve BC I have I've thrown quite a lot of composing and songwriting in different contexts over the years around the time that started this you should you should channel or two years ago I was actually kind of fallen out fallen out of love with writing my own music but recently I very much come back into it and and you know I've been writing for years writing is what got me into music in the first place by falling in and out of love of it but I am planning on releasing some original music quite soon really I'm gonna start with a three or four song EP which will be on Spotify and then kind of go from there really eventually I'd love to release an album and of course that you know I'd quite like to do some sort of music video I don't know what to do that I don't know whether it should be typical sort of narrative style or something animated or I don't know but yeah I do write music and hopefully soon you'll hear some more of that otice names hey David you swearword rock my man and love your channel love you chuck yes thank you very much um David Boies and what about Rhapsody in Blue I can't play Rhapsody in Blue I'm afraid the amazing piece of music I used to listen to the because Rhapsody in Blue is it's quite an odd tune because for a tune that's so famous it actually appears in quite a few different arrangements so there's not like one standard arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue unlike he ever actually we were talking about Bohemian Rhapsody where there is one version of that song and everyone knows it Rhapsody in Blue everyone knows the the general melodies and different parts from that song but the version that I knew when I was getting into music was a half an hour long arrangement of it and I just assumed that that was the version but David Bruce actually did a video recently about Rhapsody in Blue and he talked about the different arrangements and history of it because I think I'm right in thinking that it's recently entered the public domain which means there's no longer in copyright so that means that people can do whatever they like with it really so you could be seeing a lot more range 'men soviet lot more reinterpretations of it soon it's amazing tune the Eagles James Richardson asks the Eagles I love the Eagles although actually they're called Eagles not the Eagles sorry to be pedantic of course Hotel California I love but I've heard it too many times take it easy is my favorite Eagles tune and I also really like this Verado but take it easy and I know that was written by Jackson Browne but the Eagles version is I would say is their version the best John Williams song that's that's Laura Mitchell hello Laura Mitchell first-time viewer and John Williams song I know what yours is yours is et and it's my favorite John Williams piece I don't know how to play it but it's the I think it's called the rebellion fanfare from Star Wars you'd recognize if you heard it but it's it's the really dramatic piece of music they play when the rebels are having a fight in space but yeah that's not very good demonstration but that's my favorite John Williams piece Captain Nemo Elton John yeah let's play some ice and John can be paying somebody else to sit there Charlie says can you play any other job yeah I can play future absent John tunes I'll play you your song yeah your song because it's the one only the best and your song I think is one of those tunes which is played a lot and therefore people think of it as quite a cheesy Tillie show you sore tune but it's one of those classic love songs that actually if you look past the fact that it's so overplayed it's actually a really really earnest unique beautiful love song really so yeah let's play some album John [Music] yeah I love that song and something that some way to actually think of is I play that quite a lot live sort of background music gigs so restaurants hotels that sort of thing where you know you're in the background so you're not completely sure whether the audience are listening but a good test is [Music] he posted for a while someone will start singing so you know that they were listening [Music] thank you cake cake martyr very nice version of us on thank you thank you what else are people saying can you play your mother should know [Music] shrilling skidding I can't play that for me that's a really really good to like I was saying earlier about how McCartney likes to write I would sounding song with sort of jazzy songs that's a good example of that if you ever seen the quote-unquote music video for that from the magical mystery tour movie they're all dressed up as if they're in some old Rat Pack film or some sort of cabaret act so you know you can really feel McCartney's jazzy or vaudeville influence there and someone keeps saying can i play man enough my classical repertoire is is very thin I do I know I have played many classical pieces but I almost always learn them for a one-off event and then I can forget them and I'm often also playing from sheet music so I get them up to standard for that performance and then they sort of fade from my memory and a bit like oh saying about Bohemian Rhapsody most classical pieces of music you can't really watch the edges so you know most pop songs if you don't quite know the melody you don't quite know the chords you can sort of fill in the gaps and because most pop songs are really only one minute old fur material and then that's repeated you can get away with with not really knowing much at all of the song and you can still do a rendition of it but classical music has a lot more variety a lot more a lot more diversity in it so it's hard to black it which is a long way of me saying that I'm not going to black you many classical music tonight sorry about that what do you think of the film yesterday William Blake more that's a good question so yesterday is that film I think it's by rich Curtis where somebody I well first of all disclaimer I've not seen it but on a car journey with my one of my best friends he basically told me the entire plot I asked him to do that because it was a long journey and I wasn't planning on seeing the film so I basically had it read to me as a synopsis but I believe someone basically falls off their bike and then winds up in a parallel universe where the Beatles don't exist and there's a few other things that don't exist for some reason like coca-cola or something and it sounds like a fun premise and it sounds like they did the logical thing you would do with that premise which is sort of the guy kind of takes advantage of the fact that he knows all the Beatles songs and it's basically a big love story to the Beatles but from what I hear it kind of the film inadvertently places ed Sheeran as sort of like the greatest songwriter of our time and I know it's a little bit tongue-in-cheek but basically ed Sheeran appears in the film in quite a prominent role playing himself and he's kind of considered the greatest songwriter of the of the day and then and then this guy comes along who knows all of all of the Beatles songs and takes credit for those songs because no one else knows his music the piece was music and but I was Ed Sheeran out of the water and seems like a weird story to me I'm not really sure what they're saying apart from the fact that the Beatles are great so I think the best way to do that would be if they made a Beatles biopic similar to Rocket Man or him Namastey which were all pretty good which were both pretty good particularly humorously everything like that rocker man I thought was you know was good don't get me wrong it was good but I didn't like it anywhere near as much as Bohemian Rhapsody and if they could do something like that for the Beatles that would be good and also do something like that for David Bowie is that'd be great okay thoughts on king gizzard and the wizard lizard although you've written the backwards by a pair of X Terrell X asks do I like the band kink is it and the wizard lizard I do really like them they have a lot of material that's sort of one of their they're things I guess is that they're very productive very member to work for it but they create a lot of music that's one of their unique selling points I guess but therefore I find them a bit hit and miss because some some of their tracks I love and some of them I think are just sort of filler and the album that I do really like is flying microtonal banana which I've been listening to listening to a lot recently because I'm writing a video on songs that use micro tonality so that is a king gives it are a great example of some of a band who have used micro tonality without I would say without I wanted the same amount ruining the music but that's not the right word without sort of making the music too exotic the music is still still feels like normal rock music but you've got that microtonal spice in there which gives you just something a bit more interesting to listen to but then you know they aren't I using it kind of as a novelty for example the fact that the album is called firing microtonal banana but maybe they chose to do that because otherwise people may not notice that it even had microtonal intervals because they're they're relatively fleeting in the album you know you could listen to big chunks of the album and not hear any micro tonal intervals but King gives it in a Whizzer lizard if you've not listened to them go check them out is there one of those modern rock bands that I started pushing rock into into new territory which i think is exactly what Rob needs right now because you know we all know that rock isn't really in the charts anymore isn't really on the radio anymore at least you know this is where I am in England your heart pushed to hear a new rock song on the radio and you know the days when rock bands were the biggest pop stars in the world you know a quite far behind us now so what Rock needs to do in my opinion is to be more experiment - and that is exactly what King is it is doing so I think they're really on on to something with what they're doing so good band okay I'm going to answer one more question and then I'm going to play one more song and then I'm going to wrap it up because this has gone on this is much longer than I thought it would but it's been really good and so thanks for watching this is you know in case you weren't aware this is my first live stream so I was a bit nervous beforehand and it's actually gone really well nothing's falling over and I haven't lost my internet connection at least as far as I'm aware and I didn't butch up but he may actually too bad so yeah one more question Laura Mitchell why not favorite song to play in a function band hmm favorite song to play in a function band part of me wants to say livin on a prayer because a everyone loves it and B because we always put it at the end of the set I've kind of associated it with like the feeling of the relief of being on the final song which isn't a bad thing it's still about relief where you think you can finally enjoy the music that little bit more before you finish because you know you're just at the finish line now so you can just relax into it have some fun but I also really like playing I wish by Stevie Wonder even though I don't think the audience is really know what it is but it's a really funky song and it has some really cool cool changes in it and yeah that's good one I also like playing anything which I can take excessive solos on so like jailhouse rock that sort of thing where you can just keep keep losing over it for ages especially if max breaks guitar string and okay I'm gonna play one more song and then I'm gonna wrap it up but thank you for watching I'm definitely gonna do this again at some point so let me know I'm not sure if you you might I don't really know how these live streams work but if you can leave comments after the videos done leave some suggestions for things I should do next time songs I should learn questions I should answer that sort of thing okay why shall I finish oh I'm going to finish with I probably should the plan box this is true if I haven't planned it let's just see what happens [Music] [Music] thanks for watching I do another livestream at some point and look forward to my next video which will be out probably next week it's about bark and thanks again [Music]

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Published: Fri May 01 2020