Ear-Training

The most slept on waveform in audio.

Speakers are kind of like a pair of new shoes.

Your condenser microphone needs power.

When was the last time you used something like this?

There are a few reasons that pro audio connections often run over balanced cables like this or this.

This isn’t a stereo connector.

Recording every instrument comes with its own set of challenges, but this one, it can be a real beast.

(beep) - What’s happening here might not be exactly what you think.

I arrived in New York in the late 90s.

How tetrachords combine to form every mode and scale. Interval patterns, visual breakdowns, and practical applications.

They say monsters aren’t real, but I’m not so sure.

Don’t look for a job in audio if you don’t understand this.

Raise your hand if you have trouble hearing compression.

I want to accomplish two things with this video.

If you’ve already trained your ear to identify the sonic footprint of a room, a sharp clap can be a great way to do a quick evaluation.

This cable goes one way.

Today was ear training gym.

(playing bluesy music) Playing the blues in D, by a harmonica in G.

If you told me a year ago that I’d have a video about cables that had a million views, I would have laughed.

I think it’s important to set benchmarks for yourself.

It’s time I showed you how to wrap a cable.

It was the great Greek physicist Archimedes who said, "Give me a lever long enough and I’ll break your keytar.

An ear training exercise: identify the note that never changes and name the chord at the end — by structure or by function.

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

I can’t believe I’m saying this.

John Carpenter's Halloween theme — 70% of you identified it as minor. But there's no third in the structure. Music theory isn't about a right or wrong answer.

If you ever notice that six steps up the scale this is a major sixth but if we invert it this becomes part of a minor chord.

Getting comfortable with keyboard chords means getting comfortable with inversions.

Right ring, red. How do we get signal from here to here? These are both TRS cables. This one is carrying a stereo signal. Tip, ring, sleeve. And if it…

Once upon a time, there was a kid, and that kid was you.

Okay, fair question. Beat building jams are an opportunity for a variety of instructors to identify inefficiencies in your workflow. They’re one-hour morning gym workouts in which each week a…

The practical application of a multiband compressor comes into focus when you consider not just how it differs from a regular compressor, but how it differs from a traditional equalizer.

Sometimes the naming conventions in music theory almost seem cruel.

Do you ever get confused about major or minor chords?

Time and time again, I see students run into trouble because of assumptions they make around the word "stereo." I’m not trying to take you down a notch by making you feel like you don’t understand something that you thought you did, but signal flow legitimately trips a lot of people up, so I want to challenge you by thinking about this example.

One of the most effective ways to learn to identify intervals and chords is to associate those with songs that you know.

Stereo is a dangerous word because most of you started producing music assuming you knew what it meant and most of you didn’t.

Three steps to identifying a chord.

It was the great Greek physicist Archimedes who said, "Give me a lever long enough and I’ll break your keytar." In my experience, a cable like this is pretty much guaranteed to break a jack like that, which is why in the time of the pyramids, they invented cables like this.

Co-prime sequences are a backbone for evolving variations in pattern-based music.

These two passages are indeed different and then stumped my ear training group in gym.

When you play most chords, what you’re getting is a blend.

Today, I’m ripping apart my studio.

Learn why focusing only on success stories can be misleading. Discover how survivorship bias affects creative learning and why failure teaches more than success in music production and creative endeavors.

Essential beginner's guide to music production equipment: from headphones and MIDI controllers to audio interfaces and microphones. Start making music without breaking the bank.

Yesterday, during lab hours, one of our members shared a story about a challenging situation that came up in the industry because they’re a woman.

Welcome everybody. This is Mark Jaffe from Five Bridges. Mark is a wonderful attorney who really takes a focus on creative stuff and he’s agreed to come in and talk…

Music theory starts with your ear and learning the names for stuff doesn’t really matter if you’re not hearing with specificity I can help you learn the names for things and I would love to but you can train your ear for free by yourself I’ve been giving you about three chordals a week for like a year But you don’t actually need me you can do it in front of your own instrument.

It may look like it to you right now, but my musician Basics Elective is not all math.

There are some lessons that come up over and over again and they’re so meaningful you realize you can apply them in almost every discipline.

A harmonica is an instrument that plays two chords, which makes it a perfect illustration of the plagal and the perfect cadence that I demonstrated earlier.

Some lessons are more important than others.

Hey, there’s nothing inherently wrong with presets.

Today is part three in our series on identifying chords and we’re looking at the edge cases.

Three steps to identifying a chord.