{"id":161,"date":"2019-04-16T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:46:26","slug":"hear-intervals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/hear-intervals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Intervals Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improvisation on the piano can be one of the most freeing experiences for a player. To be able to sit down at the keyboard and just \u2026. play. I find it one of the most powerful forms of self-expression because everything that I play is coming from within. It\u2019s not music written by anyone else. It\u2019s just me.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Really good pianists are able to hear a melody or tune in their head, and then transfer that to the keys instantly. That\u2019s the goal, a true mind\/body connection where your fingers are able to express what you are hearing or feeling inside.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it\u2019s not easy! I\u2019ll be the first to admit that. It takes a lot of practice. One of the best ways to practice is by simply sitting down at the piano, and experimenting with different intervals. In this lesson, Jordan shows us how to play around with intervals to see how they sound, and more importantly, how they \u2018feel\u2019. Each interval has its own characteristic. Its own identity, if you will.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:32px\"><strong>Limit What You Listen For<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important point that Jordan makes is to limit what you are listening out for. You\u2019ll notice in this lesson he is only using the first five notes of the C major and minor scales, anchored around the perfect fifth in the left hand. We\u2019re not trying to learn every interval at once. We are taking a few intervals, and noticing what they sound like in the context of chords and melodies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an unstructured practice. But it really gives you the freedom to learn. Because there are no mistakes. There are no time signatures to worry about. It\u2019s just you and the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And for me, those are some of the best practices I\u2019ve ever had.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/weekly-email\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train your ear to hear and play better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1111,1108],"tags":[1069],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ear-training","category-musicianship","tag-gsotp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10522,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/10522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}