THE HOLY GRAIL OF ALL MUSIC EXERCISES | How to speed up your playing - permanently (brand new)
Take the INTERVAL TRAINER CHALLENGE & download the mp3 tracks at: www.themusicalear.com/interval-trainer-challenge LESSON NOTES: Intervals are everything in music. As jazz musicians, or composers, we need to measure out intervals all day long. A chord voicing is just a stack of intervals. A scale is a set of intervals. And how quickly you can find your way to the notes depends on how quickly you can count intervals. So when you master intervals (counting all 12 intervals, from all 12 notes) everything improves. It's much less energy to play chords, scales, etc. And it's much less energy to learn new things (chords, scales, modulations, etc). A lot of musicians are ok at intervals - but you have to get REALLY good at this: You have to be able to count out intervals in a split second. And you have to be confident about it - you can't second guess yourself. You have to KNOW what a minor 6th above F# is - without a shadow of a doubt - just as you KNOW that 2+2=4. So in this lesson I show you how I got good at intervals. I share a mental exercise that can be practiced daily, away from your instrument. If you practice this for a few minutes each day, you will notice improvements in all of your playing, and understanding of music. If you enjoy this video, I'd really appreciate a 'thumbs up' - OR - if you could share it with someone else who'd also benefit. Thanks for watching, and enjoy my Interval Trainer mp3 tracks which accompany this lesson: www.themusicalear.com/interval-trainer-challenge
