Learn to Play Songs by Ear. No advanced knowledge needed

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Comments:

acousticwie: Is that your new career jim? =)

colintx800: At Last, Yes!!! a New Video Thanks Jimmy.

PlainOlJoe: I love the way you explained things with the cats.

theenglishtutorial: nice one jimmy, nice to see new vids

ArandomNutter: hey jimmyrcom nice new video and i am looking forward to the next one. Keep up the great work dude.

driubi: willy wonka was a scary movie!

kunglekidd: you are ridiculously smart - thank you for all your videos.

weggles: Great new vid. I'm taking a year off between highschool and college, so I deff have time to do this. Thanks :)

ufo19831026: i love you man

hey im just curious, what instrument do you play? if you play any

lugaluga4000: so are you going to start making videos every week now or are you still going to make one of every 2 months????

kezzielegs: Hey....welcome back Jimmy!

Great vid...

Do not go awol again.

lol

mdifpabsis: Just a question: How do you determine the distance with sharp and/or flat notes?

jimmyrcom: I don't know what you mean. They are notes too. The distance is in halfsteps. Lets say your on A. If you move 2 notes up, moving up 1 is A#, moving up again is B for a total of two notes moved.

mdifpabsis: Ah yes! Thanks. I forgot all the basics about music since I quit piano lessons, so I needed this kind of help. Thanks again man.

dentzoi: Willy Wonka was actually scary as a kid XD nice video though..

kezzielegs: What!!!???
You saying Gene Wilder was more scary than Johnny Depp???

lmao

iwurzel: Great Work Jimmy...
I'm sure this will come in very useful

bindingdeath: yeah. welcome back!
good job too.
do u actually play the piano?
i personally think its gay.
great job though!
5/5

lukessummer: Concise and to the point, I especially liked your nod towards speaking plain English, James you are a Genius!...Slàinte

lendrahcir: Fair play jimmy.

This is really sweet. Keep up the good work.

thechiliman500: How in the world was he able to do longer then 10min. I don't understand that...

thechiliman500: That so dosen't answer my question....

Mumum2: it was a joke....

anyways, it's also part true, it's because he has so many subscribers.

Or another choice is because he signed up before a certain time.

royboy1955: hi nice to have you back "fab" vidio keep up the good work T.T.F.N

casttoro: can u somehow also use this method on a guitar?

welcome back jimmy!!!

jimmyrcom: It's the same thing for any instrument. The intervals are the same. You just have to know how to count up or down from the root note.

Lostsolider: your the best !!!!! i play piano and guitar and this will help me alot thx jimmy :)

gh3770android: great software!!

thanks...you rock!

Aconyne24: im a straight male.

and i love you

Jake1722: this was better than any teacher,

stupidvidiot: Perhaps before calling someone an "idiot" make sure you use correct grammar in the process so that you won't look like an idiot yourself.

It is "you're" not "your". Second grade stuff.

Snight101: google the word "shorthand" okay care bear?

fabian23rock: nice, good work men but I cant find the link to download the program.

jimmyrcom: it's in the video description to the right of the video or trainear doht cohm

dedominator: 1. The thing about the stupid cats sybols ect. was funny!
2. You can explain really good :p
3. I did not understand one thing you just said!

trunks252: Awesome! A new video from you :)

QueenRocks191: jimmy you are badass
lol willy wonka randomly poped up

arcannobi: Impressive! Thank you very much for all your work. :)

JKx: i dont think u can learn this is more like a born with talent

jimmyrcom: This is very learnable. In fact if you take music theory in college they force you to work with intervals to some extent. You must be thinking of perfect pitch, which has been also documented to possible to learn later in life. It's impossible only if your lazy.

Zerozx11645: Did you take music theory in college, Jimmy?

pokefan96: Wow! This is amazing. So are you! Greatly appreciated Jimmy, Thanx !!

AnyOriginalNamesLeft: Is there anything you don't know how to do on computers? Thanks for another great video.

jumpmansbro: i like your videos and i wish you would make more

gustavo2wire: your the best jimmy!

5 stars

barbariandoom: You have amazed me. I am going to try this ear training this out.

robtran: Jimmy, your generous spirit never ceases to amaze me. Your videos are like an oasis of kindness in the desert of hatred, drama and animus that is YouTube. Thank you so much.

erillanos: nice to see you post a new video
as allways great videos your the man
jimmyr

ZoomaKabooma: God this would have been perfect for last years music class.

snouter: Cool stuff. I wonder if your program would suggest possible scales as the melody is being figured out. For example, the Willy Wanka song going from Root to 7 (in major scale terms) immediately indicated it was either Ionian or Lydian mode. By knowing that, once we find a whether or not there is a b5, we will know the scale and thus increase the chance of figuring it out.

Dollars8319: I didn't understand any of that.

Singul4r1ty: Jimmy is back, awesome, so this is what you have been doing! Looks great (why not in Java), you should also make some sort of game of it (just like typeracer on facebook) with a ladder!

jimmyrcom: Java = slow / big / less supported than flash.

coolaidman125: u sound like leeroy from the leet world (a machinama)

ThatFreakinRandy: That was amazing. Thank you so much, Jimmy. This was extremely helpful and I will be using this every day. Thanks again for helping me be more musically inclined ;)

ahantu: jimmyrcom, Thanks a lot. I've been looking for ear training software (for beginner) for years.

Musso1127: Finally another vid! Awesome one too.

squerby: i took music theory last year. and it was almost a complete waste. i basically learned everything how you explained it but my teacher didnt like it and wanted me to say minor 3rd etc. i would just say youre only making it more complicated, and she would say well thats how its done correctly.

haha.

Kirioger: xD I think I love you for that cat thing tossed in there about standardizing

Great explaining as always and a great application you have there for training. I will defiantly be checking that out! Any chance on something like that for chord recognition?

SublimePsychedilics: mmm not sure if this is same but I learn most of my songs on drums from listening to the song,I kind of developed and ear for it after a while.

RandomScrewed: You are a wonderful person. Thank you very much!

mitchhsansom: I've played guitar for 6 years. You've simplified that's been way over complicated. Came. Rated. Commented. Enjoyed.

rebukey: when I was in college learning music theory I had to buy this crazy expensive program. this would have been great! hope people learn about your program!

danbearking0: lol @ 4:55

great video 5stars

TerryCPiano: Good for beginners, but not for me a teacher :P

ScaroDj: But you can tell your students... ;)

ge0rge187: thanks jimmy now sing a song lol

PlautusM: Bravo Jimmy!
Your hard work, cleverness and generosity are appreciated!

LinkinSwordSlayer: Its so easy XD. Although I don't know how to position my fingers on the right keys.

roryos: long time no vid eh? ^^ awesom vid might give it a download looks interesting

dzudre: something usefull on youtube.. haha!

jlumley: i am not a jazz man, jazz is dead. I play the blues.

XxSconeManxX: ever heard of victor wooten? i'm pretty sure he's still alive.

aznshrimp90: can u play the piano on your computer?
and if so where do i get the program?

DJNSider: You just jogged my memory of Music Theory classes... boy those days sucked...

Flomasta223: Your dentist hates you cuz ur breath smells like butt

TheGuyOnTheScreen: im glad you have started making videos again, nice one!

bodyguard218: this is very nice, great work.

joefon11: willy wonka was a very wierd movie but a good one, thank you i need some ear training

kelvar24: jimmy r = sexual chocolate
yea boy

Blacklabel369: Thank you very much for this video
ive been looking for this for quite the while

downhill240: Thanks for sharing. You're a natural born teacher!

Psycatalyst: Nice this is useful in combination with FL Studios

codywalkCO: You are a great teacher but lately you have not uploaded much and when you do it is ether not really interesting or not really useful. Sorry I do not mean to put you down or be mean. But can you start uploading stuff like you used too?

craksy: that was actually how i learned to play the harry potter theme song -.-
anyway: Great video! keep it coming!

AutomaticAsian: i am watching the olympics at this website, w ww.tv4pc. tv

xTorrent: This is really funny actually. I was just the other day explaining to my friends this exact property of music, and how intervals are what you recognize, not the notes.

You explained this very clearly, and I appreciate how you've included the correct vocabulary along with the lesson. You never let me down when it comes to clear and easy explanation, thanks.

rannosgoldfish: i am very glad your doing this jimmy. i need to send this to some friends that are struggling with just this. i greatly appreciate this, and out of curiosity are you perfect pitched? just the way you hold your voice and the way you speak about pitches hints at that or just highly ear trained.

ic300x: through the fire and flames
by ear using this method
would take years and years

jimmyrcom: Playing simple melodies is still worth getting. If you get that far you can't tell me you won't use it, and using it is only practice. How long do you plan to live. Maybe it'll take years to isolate super fast super harmonic songs but if you ever get there you'll be a badass.

blackdevil4321: Neat. So when you put your own song, do you use an mp3 or a midi or what?

jimmyrcom: You use your ear to identify the intervals and manually put the song in. For beginners, Guess and check and play over and over will prevail.

ps3cube123: lol wtf how many accounts do u got

tetranoob: Just brilliant!

I love you jimmy

abcmsaj: Jimmy.
You're brilliant :D

itschinyo: you're so nice and helpful. :D haha thank you for this video!

JapsEye2: You are great man Jimmyr. I like very much.

rubysp: Wow. Thank you very much. I was never really interested in music and music notes even less but the concept of replaying any songs by ear definitely intrigued me. Also the fact that you've taken time and effort to create a tutorial video and even going further as a create a program for us hopelss people prooves time and time again that you are one super awesome human!! Thanks again!

ilia1233: thank u man
ur 1 of the best

iLachva: man, you're one smart man. i love your videos. :)

aKitten123: what the hell make it downloadable!

jimmyrcom: right click save as on the click here part in the website.

thecommentatorman: OMG THIS IS AMAZING THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR IT you are just the best guru on youtube

data66: dude your amazing i need this bad

Maxamillion777: Cool Post Jimmy. I also use annotations and have you noticed that you cannot add a link with &fmt=18 in annotations? that's too bad cuz that extension allows for stereo and HQ viewing .. so .. what link are you using in your annotation? when I clicked it the video was still fuzzy .. I clicked on the more info link and voila .. HQ ..

Just wondering.

PS Love you channel!

ikkuj: wow jimmy, i like how you can make an entire program without telling us until it is completely finished

Nuggiestein: Great program, I've been looking for something like this for a while..

Nuggiestein: It's annoying that it keeps changing pitch, cant you do something so it's just plays the some route all the time?

Nuggiestein: It's also annoying that it skips octaves sometimes..

jimmyrcom: It doesn't skip octaves. I don't know what you mean by that. It can't. The program only has 3 octaves pre-recorded and it always starts from the middle one. It starts at a random pitch so you can't easily use relative pitch from the last questions 2nd note. Ear training is supposed to be annoying, the annoying feeling is called learning.

Nuggiestein: I found a program from your website that is more to my likeing:)

cesarq3: Not only do you know about computers, your an expert in music. your a genius.

11moonelf: clicked the wrong button! meant to add a thumbs up! omg....but i was thinking the same thing. jimmy is a genius...i fell off the cliff of dryness and boredom while taking piano lessons as a child. i'd swear the teacher didn't even like kids. was a nightmare but all these years later there is hope!...gratitude (o:

jimjimereeya: Don't worry, I erased your accidental thumbs down. Yeah, Jimmy pretty cool.

genaminna03: You're a genius, dude XD thanks! :)

ratemyshi92: WOWW veryyyy good video man, im gonna try out that program, but i have a question for you, what program are you using to record your screen? ive been looking for one but dont know where to look?

shDwfthSUN: I use a program called camstudio. It doesn't follow your mouse pointer but can record the entire screen or a fixed portion of it.

MrcVirus: I want to know that too, but he might have it built in when he brought it if its a laptop, i think some do that =/ not sure though

jimjimereeya: He actually talks about what program he uses in one of his vids. I forgot what program or the video. I used to use the program Snagit until my free version ran out.

ratemyshi92: yeah i watched that vid and found after i posted this comment tho, thanks tho

alternativemusiq1: Well an app called Camstudio is actually able to follow your pointer if you enable a feature called autopan. Jimmyrcom has a vid on it too.

crimsonsoccer55: I love your videos jimmy keep it up and theirs no sound in the last 3 seconds of the video but other wise good stuff

MikeMarino: Thanks, I think I shall be using this

slayerpianoman: Very nice work, i'm very impressed with your nicely laid out and informative video

AnhKiaa: dude ur videos are cool and stuff but it gets real boring real quick...

1urbandevil: Thanks Jimmy, good to see what you have been up to. I've been meaning to learn to play music for a while now. This should help a lot. Cheers. ;-)

videoman921: Great tutorial video.Gonna try this thing.

FunBunMan: the sound cuts out at 13:53 on high quality... whats up?

jimjimereeya: Thanks again for sharing what you know, and making an awesome free program for us!

Bassnoob21: Man where was this 4 years ago? Thanks man. This will help a lot!

b1qsab: 5 Star again Jimmy, great.
Rick

n310ea: How long have you been playing music?

nietaki: great program for ear training, really, this time, wtg

mytuba: wish you used a guitar instead for your example....thanx tho.....

richmurray2006: I'm starting to wonder what you cant do jimmy!!

jimmyrcom: What the title and first 20 seconds say its about. I got it over 13 minutes by making it over 13 minutes long, then uploading it.

Thisisgam3: but i thought youtube took that right from everyone.

fucknotyou: nice answer Jimmy haha :D nice VID! ur a young talent you're going to be rich.

BlkSerialKilla: "aggregate sum of Felice catus" lmao omg

mitsman89: cool vid cool program! 5* keep up the amazing job man!

dudewhatthehellman: OMFG UR A GENIOUS!! im gunna learn this when i get back, i soooo need this

PGFUNK: Awesome work. Those associations are really helpful!

Pennys1: I've learned only two songs without tabs (Death metal songs), of which being "Cleansed in Pestilence" by Morbid angel, and "Laying Fire Upon Apep" by Nile. Extremely difficult at first, but takes practice, especially in metal.

Metatronzx: your voice is so soothing lol.

b33p: I like your videos jimmyr, but as a musician I can tell you that this video is ridiculous.

jimmyrcom: How is this ridiculous? As someone who can play melodies by ear just by interval identification I can tell you that you're confused.

b33p: It is a lot faster to figure out a tune by trial and error (especially if you do not play an instrument) than it is to identify the intervals and then play it; as you will have to try by trial and error to play it anyway. Do you know what I mean? I learned guitar and piano by ear. btw, I take it you have seen the late and great Eric Roche.

jimmyrcom: Comparing someone whose mastered interval identification to someone whose using guess and check is like comparing a 4 year old reading to a 20 year old. Associating songs to intervals in a coordinated way is an infinitely faster way to gain a relative ear than haphazardly molesting your instrument until it sounds correct. Practicing either way will get you better but I guarantee my way is faster.

b33p: 'haphazardly molesting your instrument' is just being extreme. When I learn songs by ear, I don't molest anything; I play notes. Some are wrong, more often than not they are right. I just disagree with your video which says it's faster to learn your way.

jimmyrcom: haphazardly molesting = fingering in an approximate but still reckless style. It's a good parallel. Yes, it's faster to learn a song with guess and check for you than it is by thinking in intervals, because you are level 1 interval identification. Level up it up to around level 50 and you'll be much faster than guess and check.

b33p: Yeah, and I wouldn't agree with you that it is reckless and it is constructive. We'll just have to agree to disagree. From your videos I can infer that you're not a musician, so maybe you don't understand what it's like to get out there and do it. I mean, you can read 100 books on how to surf, but the first time you get on that sucker, you're going to fall off.

jimmyrcom: Assumption fail. I play an unnamed brass instrument from age 12 to 21 and piano for the past 5 years. By guessing and checking you're also practicing interval identification, but in an uncoordinated inefficient way.

b33p: Sounds like you played the tuba.

thenonamedloser: so this is what you've been doing for the past few months! Also this program is amazing, thank you for doing this for us!

gammypage: yeah but when you play notes trying to find the right one.. you're trying to find the note that is the right interval from the previous note.

b33p: Having beginners rely on identifying intervals is a stupid idea. Beginners that are not musical by nature can even find it hard to sing up half a semitone at a time.

Zaijen4: Pretty cool!! Good Job and Thanks for sharing!

nickeeeeeeeeee: you should get paid to make these videos. theyre like professional man

Sub4SubFreind4Freind: There was 3 cat in the picture

jpomac360: you must have done some deep thinking on this one or logic thinking NIce vid

KillingTheSystem: this is a pretty good idea. i sorta do this, like trying to listen how far high or low the notes are from each other.

RandomNewb: if you don't mind, can you release the link for the piano you're using in the beginning?

thanks! good job on another amazing tutorial ;) i'm gonna be using this to learn how to play final fantasy songs by ear XD woooo

RandomNewb: noooooooo that means you just animated it in flash

alright, thanks anyway. maybe ill get off my ass and use my piano that's like 15 feet away from me.

nixart: Hi Jimmy, I like this musical interval training video. In the UK we call the tritone interval of 6 semitones a diminished 5`th.

Is it possible to join separate Windows Movie maker project timelines together?
I would like to copy the entire contents of a windows movie maker project time line. Then paste it onto the timeline of another WMM project?

Thanks,
Nick

Sandonthefl00r: Get A better software such as Vegas 7-8 or Adobe Premiere Pro

R-Stands for Pirate-from their-bay org

eliminate the -- in the last sentence

jimmyrcom: I don't use windows movie maker. I do things the hard (better) way with virtualdub / avisynth / megui. Augmented 4th / diminished 5th are correct and relative descriptions of tritone, though a note distance of 6 makes infinitely more sense.

nixart: Thank for getting back. It does make sense to call it a tritone.
The diminshed scale tertachords are such intervals. I like dminished chords because when you flatten 1 of the 4 notes you get one of 4 dom7`th chords, leading into different and otherwise, unrelated keys.
I will look at those movie making programes.
Nick

nixart: I got that the wrong way round a bit.
Suppose you are in the key of D major, then sharpen the root A notes of the dominant7`th chord. Then you have a diminished E G A# or C#. As there is only one possible diminished chord (being tritone intervals)in the 12 tones of the scales. Flattening the C# gives a C7 leading to the key of F.
The transition I like is flattening the E. The Eb7 chord leads to Ab!

jimmyrcom: Either relative to the scale, relative to the note above or below, or its given name based on dissonance relative to the other intervals, the absolute definition is still a difference of 6 between notes, that's what I meant by makes infinitely more sense. I wish they'd given the stupid notes numbers assignments instead of letters too.

nixart: I think that too. I conceived a diagram (stave to guitar interface)to teach music without any need for note names. And it worked too!
You can translate a note or chord written on the stave, to the guitar (or other stringed instrument) fingerboard with ease!
They give the notes a different letter in Germany anyway. Bach wrote his name in notes. B is Bb and H is B. How confusing is that!?

FinalAnswerJesus: Thank you for taking the time to make a webpage to learn our minors and majors. This really makes sense thanks again =)

pkhamidar2com: i still dont get this, its so random, what is ear wig thing

jimmyrcom: what the title and the first 20 seconds say.

pkhamidar2com: sorry i think i missed it, i wasnt listning properly because it was to fast.

jimmyrcom: by getting high blood pressure

pkhamidar2com: oh cool, thanks, so you need high blood pressure to play this thing, got it

jimmyrcom: no you need to get high blood pressure for "how does your ear make sounds"

lilpeacebrother: dude u outta sell this u would make a shit load of money

constantyoutoober: oh my gosh...this program is PERFECT. good job, and thanks so much. I'll be needing this a lot :D

koobydotnet: Yeah good work, still, I challenge you to a 'listen off' using your skills vs mine.

jimmyrcom: Alright.
Doot - Doooo
What interval was that?

coquerer: i thought u were supposed to play by ear! not just hit one note and let a computer guess the song and play it for u.
if u really want to play by ear, sit down with an instrument and just tink around for hours. there is no magic way to learn.

jimmyrcom: Fail. Read the description. My program guesses nothing, it associates the song to the interval. Sitting down with your instrument is faster than thinking in intervals for you because you're not good at intervals yet. You can continue to read kids books all your life, but if you want to advance you got to read harder stuff, you'll get faster eventually even if your slow at first.

kmcknizzle: Thanks for this jimmy. I love your videos.

DrPersonman: man your a little to brilliant yes yes a little toooo brilliant im watching you... alien witch!!!

Masrawy78: lmao now jimmy trying to give music lessons i dont know what is your proff in life but i belive that knowing alot about one thing is much better than knowing little about alot of things

jimmyrcom: Specialization only helps in getting paid. Learning a little everything helps in being independent and being able to connect the big picture yourself.

themadtapper: well said. it is like a phd. ppl think that oh you are smart, and indeed you are, but all that means is you know a lot of info, about a very very specific little thing. not a master of knowledge, just of that 1 topic

Masrawy78: goodluck still you are doing great and i am never bored of your videos keep it up you may have one day worlds no1 web site to explain how to do stuff like howstuffworks web site but with vids should be gr8 keep it up pal

chucktaggart: Lol, you said the song at 3:00 wasn't going to be from some wierd movie and it ended up being Willy Wonka, that is a wierd movie!

jimmyrcom: From some weird song. The imagination song definitely isn't weird.

rekkolvl80: jim i think u should do a vid talking about the stock market and stuff like that. u know something good for ur older viewers.

fritoebola: dude, I love you..... why can we have tutors at the uni just like you....?

wibrle: Wow, thats really cool. Thanks for this :)

greenfreeblue: Wow@the cat analogy. I love it.

feathersfall: You are an amazing teacher, and speaker. =3

Ibanez4metal: This is a really great video. I play guitar and this is how I learned to play by ear.

ColacX: The hell why havent anyone told me that in school? WTF are my teachers doing.

sswpp8908: It takes a great person to put together these programs for our free use. Thank you for all of your incredible contributions.

xxxkaranikolosxxx: Where did you get this file with the flags on .ico format?

jimmyrcom: don't remember. google flag icons

redsox42311: how the hell can you use windows 98?

McAfeeCenter: Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!
Very Cool.

blashed: wow i havnt tried this yet, but it seems like a very good program
well done!

Shinigami37: How do you change the maximum amount of memory that windows is allowed to allocate to a single program? I keep getting a "failed to allocate enough memory" when I run pcsx2, and i have 3GB of RAM so it shouldn't be a problem.

jimmyrcom: click ctrl+shift+esc click mem usage and see wth is eating all your ram (lol probably vista if that's what your using).

Shinigami37: Nope, XP after a clean restart with nothing running. The TLB (non-VM) version works but it's not as good as the VM one.

jimmyrcom: Dunno then, you gotta ask in the forums. It ran fine for me with 2gb ram. It ate the processor but I don't remember it as super ram hungry.

Shinigami37: Ok, thanks anyway. Great vid btw, totally worth the 2-month wait.

ticodude: Man, I don't know how you do it, but you are one smart cookie. Glad I subscribed!

caffination101: Yeah this is the kinda stuff I did in my music class last year, relating intervals to certain songs and stuff. It is really helpful and this is a cool wee program so thank you =]

VenVile: Excellent work Jimmy. Much thanks to you.

PrexicKehdaki: "that interval sounded like here comes the bride"

do-do-dodo! ^^

macexplorer: this one is better-> watch?v=1UEOZGFzPas

TheL8Great2: nice now i can really learn by ear thanks

stitchawl: Fantastic! Exactly what I was looking for!

1sts7: ``````Verrry nice job , again , Jimmy R . You consistantly produce some of the very best , practical , video guide/ tutorials of anything I've seen on the internet ,not just YouTube . If you can , keep going ``````````almost forgot , thanks

daasianboi: yess finally someone on youtube that teaches you something way to go jimmy im gonna subscribe

daasianboi: your next vid should be about singing

max97230: Using mnemonics is a crutch and it is not fast to think of song associations with the intervals. It's ok if you are starting out, but it's faster to know the intervals as the intervals themselves. Yes, mnemonics are good for speed learning, but not good for speed recall, which might not matter for figuring out a song, but if you want to play by ear on the fly, you need to go beyond mnemonics.

max97230: Also when you use mnemonics, you need one for the interval going up and going down. I am not bad mouthing mnemonics as they are useful, but they are training wheels that must be set aside in the end. You learn faster with mnenonics, but the learning is linked to previous learning which means it is slower to recall the newer learning. You trade speed for easiness in remembering when using mnemonics. Whether you use them or not in the beginning is your choice.

jimmyrcom: Wrong. If you memorize the interval without having the associated mnemonics people tend to not be able to reproduce the interval in their head and end up trying to associate the mnemonic later. The more you use them the more instantaneous the association is and pretty soon you don't have to think of the song to make sure its that interval.

max97230: Is there any experimental basis behind this? It sounds like you pulled it out of your ass.

jimmyrcom: Sounds like you pulled it out of your ass saying mnemonics makes things slower. Associating songs has always been the way most teachers help students try to remember the intervals. Wikipedia ear training, I took a lot of songs from the list there. It's obvious that thinking of a song is an easier way to reproduce the interval than trying to think of its dissonance. I learned it this method and I can tell you the song association is instant after plenty of practice

max97230: Your theory idea sounds like it could be reasonable, but since you have only one bad piano video, you have no credibility. Not to belittle your efforts though. Your other videos have been most helpful. Thanks Jimmy

jimmyrcom: You have videos about sledding, you also have balls credibility to argue with someone that has one bad piano video if I take your logic.

maxim3L: "not to belittle your efforts"? STFU

ScaroDj: I'm at your feet!! I was looking for this all over the frigen internet! Thank you veeeery much

WizzimProductions: great vid. To bad the anime section of your website is gone.... =(

jc215flip: Amazing tutorial. Clear, simple--this will help, and probably has helped, a lot of people.

SandTiger18: I learned how to play the intro to Black Parade..

munchmunch112: You're a smart cookie, you are. This helps bunches and makes it easier to figure out the songs by ear, especially since you're associating it with common, everyday songs that are easy to recognize.
Kudos ;D

z2d2: Thank you so much this will be so helpful this year with music theory...

I'll be sure to show all of my bando friends...

ChrisIanD: You r the best, i mean, seriously great.
U know so much, i know so little...

taspats: No, no no! If you associate distance (interval) only to a song, then you will be limiting the other patterns that will help you "play by ear" at a much faster rate. It is worthwhile hearing triads (three note chords) not only the distance between 2 notes.
We read by seeing a whole word, not just separate letters.

jimmyrcom: the song association becomes instant with plenty of practice. Learning the interval just by its dissonance makes it harder to reproduce. Chord identification is really easy once intervals are mastered. You learn to read the words after you have mastered the syllables.

qwertypluss: Hi Jimmy, I randomly stumbled upon this video when I was extracting wisdom from one of your languages videos and all I can express is a lot of gratitude, because it's obviously a gem to anybody. I actually have perfect pitch, and while individuals would say that this alone would be sufficient to play any song by ear, I would disagree; it doesn't mean I have relative pitch. It's honed my relative pitch + transpositional skills quite sharply and it was all down to your program; thanks so much =D!

drzchulo67: PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED more... more...READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS OVER TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS THIS ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!!

smguser1: you are a champ for putting that website together

FmkTheDragon: its way too hard for me i dont udnerstand..well i could but the only thing i udnerstand is M3 everythign else is too complicated <_<...isnt there some kind of way to start out?

shinjiemisato: Problem is, indentifing notes intervals can be trained, but simple is a talent wich ure born with. I have 3 friends who never studied piano.... I played 1 single note in the keyboard, and asked then to find it. One could easily, other had some time and the other never found it... With intervals, things gets worse, some ppl simple dont have memory and ability to recognize a note and intervals... its something wich ppl are born with unfortunuteley, it can be trained, but is harder for untalented.

jimmyrcom: wrong. Intervals are music theory 101. If it wasn't learnable they wouldn't force tests on college students. Perfect pitch is something different, and it's not something people are born with. Studies show kids can learn it if introduced and immersed in music before the age of 5. There have been many people to get perfect pitch later in life, but it's much more rare. People that use tone based lanuages like vietnamese tend to reproduce the same tones within a fraction of a semitone. Not in-born.

shinjiemisato: thats true, but as i said, ppl may be born with music (lissening) talent or not. Even if they dont, they still CAN learn music of course, but since your vid is intended for audience who doesnt know music, i imagine that still will be hard for ppl with no ear talent to try and pick a random melody in a piano. As i said i spent some time with some friend of mine with different levels of tallent, and is amazing how hard is to someone with no ear to grab a simple 4 note sequence...

jimmyrcom: This vid is intended for people who play an instrument or sing. No prior music theory knowledge is required. It's even hard for musicians to pickup a 4 note sequence but that's what my program is for, it associates intervals to songs which makes them easy to memorize and you can train with just two intervals at a time and progress. People with "talent" just have more practice. Intervals are very learnable. Just like learning to add and substract, it's not impossible, even though some learn fast.

Invisus944: I don't get it. You have a friend who has no knowledge of the piano, yet after playing a note, could locate it within seconds? You have got to be kidding. Even with the latent ability, it still needs time to develop. With perfect pitch, you still need to know how a piano works, and I doubt that your friend figured out that each key separation is a semi-tone in such a short span of time. Intervals, contrary to your belief is extremely easy compared to other stuff. Ever heard of melodic dictation?

shinjiemisato: I think i missunderstod. I played a random note in the piano. He wasnt looking at the piano. Then i asked those 3 friends of mine, to try and point wich note it was. They played some notes in the piano till find it. One of my friends tried tree different notes and when he hit the right one, he asked: "this one?" i said yes. the other however, coudlnt find the note, take much longer time, and when he tought he found the note, it was wrong. That talent is absolut. bot of then don know piano.

Invisus944: Impossible. You are not born with the complete knowledge of where every note is on the piano. You must first have some sort of musical training. Perfect pitch is the ability to relate a sound to a note which you must learn. For example, if I played a song in C major, your friend wouldn't be able to know what key I was in despite having perfect pitch if he never learned what a key is.

shinjiemisato: iam familliar with the concept of perfect pitch. I studied classical piano for 3 years. However, i think ure been radical. Perfect pitch indeed is the ability to hear a note and say "this is a C" or "this is an A" whicheve note the person hear at any time. However, any person with some talente has some degree of quick memory. They can compare 2 differente notes and say if they are differente or equal. This mean they can memorize a note for a short period of time and identify it.

jimmyrcom: Temporarily remembering a note is called tonal memory. If your friend lost the tone it's because he wasn't playing it back in his head every time he tried to compare a different note to it. It's easy to get flustered and impatient looking for a tone.

Invisus944: Is it REALLY possible to identify a note with absolutely no knowledge of music or the piano with just two key sounds as reference? For some reason, I seriously doubt that. I too am quite familiar with the concept of perfect pitch and I know a lot of people who were born with it. I have studied music theory and ear training for nearly 10 years and have played the piano for 12 years.

shinjiemisato: Well invisus, i haven´t studied music as long as you, and neither do i live by that, but i think im not been able to explain to you what im trying to say, my bad, my first language isnt english... Im not talking about perfect pitch, but as jimmy said, "tonal memory", I do not know those techincal terms in english, in my coutry we use the itallian "do, re mi fá" istead of A B C.... But wtv, nvm about that.

iamemmak: you are right in saying that no one is born with the complete knowledge of where every note is on a piano or any instrument for that matter, but just from listening to a song, i can sit down to a piano (which ive never learned in my life) and play the song quite accurately.
it fascinates me that people rarely can listen to a song and be able to replicate that themselves on an instrument, because its so easy for me. i dont know how to read sheet music, but i love music and play by ear

DoublePenetration0: Thanks for your time creating this very awesome instructional video and your website!

MijaeDjinn: Very cool! I used to do this trick for only one interval - perfect 5th with Star Wars. For some reason I never thought to try it with other intervals on purpose...

MILLIONMARIO: help i want tomake a video using cam studio and zsnes how do u recored volume from a mic and the video game sounds

flipp151: this guy is the biggest loser ever.. go get laid and dont say you do because you're already lying to yourself

ltjx7: ahaha i was born wit that gift, without cheating, i learn by ear only

jawdaddy: Jimmy...you are great.
Thanks for your contribution to the betterment of the world!
'Peace if you want it'(John)

psychef1: Amazing! I've tried other ear training programs, but yours has the features I wished for (statistics, ability to choose which intervals to focus on), plus some I hadn't even thought of (including song clips for easier association).

xXH3LP3R101Xx: immy, u must REALLY be running outta topics cuz dis shit was boringggggg

JoeFielding72: This is amazing.I totally enjoyed this teaching video and I will defiantly be checking out more of your videos.Have a great day and thank you again for sharing your knowledge.God bless you and your family.

afa86: "So we can say that the distances between notes is what lets your brain recognize this song as Silent Night"
- nice.

afa86: The Willy Wonka's song also starts like, in my opinion, Pictures of You song. Just saying.

songcovers: you're exactly right. i picked that up to

n1n9tean: Thanks for the video and the training tool is great. One thing though: I thought you said we could download it. I don't see an option to download your program on your site. I would like to be able to use this offline. Thank you.

jimmyrcom: right click save as on the part that says click here for full screen.

NightRushX: I was wondering which program you use to record your desktop. I've been meaning to look for a program that can record within programs and the desktop.

Korkmaz11: Camstudio
when you search camstudio in youtube 1 or 2 videos of jimmyrcom should show up.
He'll teach you how to make the videos high quality such as in his videos.

KerickOrland: You are the best
I'm glad that i find your channel year ago !
Keep it up dude

d07a: no musical background required. what if you dont know many songs.

jimmyrcom: I give a bunch on the website / program

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Jothepink: Couldn't you just sing the first note and memorize how it sound then go throught the do,re,mi things and find the note that is the same....?

jimmyrcom: Doing that is slower than memorizing the interval quality.

Jothepink: Oh well in my music class thats we he tells us to do :) but this just takes alot more memorizing

jimmyrcom: It's the same thing, except your not assigning a name, instead you're just moving up or down from some random tonic pitch. It's like memorizing your multiplication tables instead of using a calculator, you can keep doing it the easy way but...

Jothepink: I'm really "slow" in comprehending things so i don't really get what you just said...

jimmyrcom: memorizing a word is faster than looking it up in the dictionary every time you hear it again. using the do-re-mi is just looking up an interval, associating a song is faster memorization.

Jothepink: oh... thats more on my thinking level. but ..umm i guess i will ask my teacher to help us learn how to do that better because he is like the best teacher so i will ask him.

jnkhd: Interesting program. Thanks so much for your efforts.

silverhil: what song did u use i did hear what u say at 2:00 - 2:10 what song did u say?

vidwatch101: Lol, I did not expect the cat with the gun.

PereMarquette1225: What are you talking about? Willy Wonka IS a scary movie.

iFcukYou: wow are you like 4 years old ?

sagelanoj: So correct me if I'm wrong, the thing we are memorizing are the intervals? I mean the distance of note A to note B? So it's just from this note to that note. So the numbers of intervals are just 12, and from this we can listen by ear right?
What I am afraid of is that listening by ear might take a longer time to play music, or isn't it?

sagelanoj: Can I download the program? I'd like to use the program even on the go, but I can't seem to find a download link on the web page. Please help.

kalopch: right click save as on the part that says click here for full screen.

pianoist3: Lol that song from willy wonka...yea..thats creepy lol pretty good stuff man

lispline: You said to ask a question in your latest video, How do I change the header in my XAMPP page since I changed to main files. I have a shout box set up and I want to change the header. Oh and I type in my IP and it says that it can't connect

asdi1234: Hi Jimmy, do a video about google chrome.

jimmyrcom: Google already did their own video about it. I can't beat that.

digitalfourtwo: The Missed statistics don't work for me.

jimmyrcom: Click the right answer instead of play to get it counted wrong.

DrJuice4ya: Hey Jimmy,

nice new website layout!! i like it x_x

Best Wishes
-Dr Juice xD xD

jimmyrcom: Thanks, I'm adding more random pages to parse.

Alexicutioner: Everyone that argues with you that "this doesn't work" or is "too slow" or "trial and error" works better is an idiot. Any music teacher or advanced/accomplished musician teaches/uses and swears by interval knowledge and ear training. Excellent video! I may use your app with my own students.

k0tiic: in your video Remove Vocals from Mp3s using audacity (Win/Mac/Linux) Free

??? how do u make it play on itunes after you are done?

jnkhd: Excellent program. Thanks for your work, Jimmy.

ChrisTitof972: Wow!
Awesome program there!
good effort!
Thanks, it'll be a very good help to those like I who don't take music lessons!
Thanks again

inthefade: I learned all the different intervals using numbers of semitones, it wasn't until 5 or so years after learning to write music that I learned the standardized names of the intervals. To me a fifth was 7 semitones, a fourth 5, so on. It is a much simpler way of learning how to play music.

jimmyrcom: You do the same thing when you associate it to songs, except with a song it's easier to reproduce the interval when you have to sing it or replay it in your head giving only a tonic....

inthefade: I love the idea of your program, but I've gotta say that I wish I could disable the songs it plays when you make a mistake. I just want it to tell me what the mistake was because the songs it plays are really really annoying.

jimmyrcom: That takes away the point of the program, but you could easily just delete the songs in the songs editor.

mttvmario: When are you going to accept my friend invitation? You only have 3 friends and why?

jimmyrcom: what's the point in adding 5000 people I don't know to friends

mttvmario: so, I just want to be friends with you because you have amazing tutorials that helped me with everything. and the defragment and also the converting youtube videos. those sites i never knew about. can u go to my page and click on Accept Friend Invitation?

jimmyrcom: Thanks for liking my channel. Since you like it you have subscribed to get updates when I post new stuff. This doesn't change the fact I don't know you. Your bugs bunny sawing off florida, textual carebear and non tech vids don't appeal to me.

mttvmario: so what do i have to do to get you to know me better and know you better. i also added my cousins and 2 back ups mttvluigi, and matatovarnold.

mttvmario: so, just go to my channel and add me cuz i think that u r cool 4 these videos. i m a guy though. just click on accept friend invitation. i always wanted to be your friend. and i think that u will get the highest degree in colloege for this

bob1757: Thanks a lot Jimmy music theory confuses the hell out of me, but you make it so much easier.

FreeInferior: Hi there, I have recently seen some of your video tutorials and I am amazed at how good the quality is without even using the 'High quality' option on Youtube. If you have the time could you please reply explaining: Briefly what you do to produce your video (from recording it to uploading it), what settings you used (in Camstudio) and what programs you used to edit/produce/convert or whatever programs you used. Also what autopan speed.

Hope you can reply, Thanks very much for your time.

jimmyrcom: I've made 2 camstudio vids with my recommended settings. Dunno about autopan haven't messed with cam studio lately and just reinstalled everything

DerekForPresident: Hey Jimmy - are you working on a Chrome review?

FreeInferior: My video quality never comes out as clear as yours even with your camstudio settings I don't know whats wrong. I have realised my 'Actual input rate' ends up lower than yours, if that has anything to do with it.

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