Ear Training Games with Adam Neely and Ben Levin

Adam and I play some fun and challenging ear training games! Try making your own and practice with a friend!

[meep]

2 bros
Sitting in a studio
1 feet apart
Coz they're musicians

[randylahey]

3:34 adam picks up mug only to put it back down without drinking

[sixmonthssleep]

The cartoon of Adam looks so wrecked :D Good job Ben!

[TheCompleteGuitarist]

Here's my favourite game that also helps your voice. Play a given note, then try to sing a given interval above (or below). Really strengthens inner ear.

[BIitzkrieg]

are you guys ever gonna make an album together? wish i could say you'd get millions but i wish to ear it, pls i love both of you

[narkotikniklas]

Can you do THIS for 5 hours? That would actually be very helpful! <3

[Adrimixmi]

I just wish I had a buddy to play ear training games with... 😢

[figy]

Its so cool that both of them + me had three different ways of identifying the Bb D G. Ben said he heard a fourth from D to G. Adam said he heard the Bb6 chord relation in Bb to G. I never thought of those ways because for me the more obvious route was hearing a Gminor first inversion. Perhaps it’s because of my background primarily in piano or something. So cool how one thing can be heard in so many different ways.

[boaminikam]

Its amazing to see how you guys dissect everything

[LionelAlbert]

Oh my God ! I've always thought that people as deaf as I am couldn't be good musicians, that's not true. Thanks guys !

[davestarns]

I found it really comforting that the answers came to me more quickly than they did these two ear monsters. I suspect that they were faking their confusion in order to slow the games down, making them more accessible, like the guy on the children’s show Blue’s Clues used to.

[GreenPointMedia]

I had two years of university music theory, complete with ear training, and hear the intervals very much like Adam. Thanks for the fun video, guys!

[Mr_Kirk_]

This was dope! I LOVED how you said what you were thinking. Please do more stuff like this on ear training where you think out loud. It's super helpful to compare your process to the way I'm trying to learn. Thanks for this!

[davidkrepel]

I want more videos of you guys playing these games. It's a fun way to test and build my ear training.

[philnewton]

As a violinist I was brought up with a piano at home and benefited because listening to such "games"
as above set it all in my imagination in a linear spectrum -just like a seen piano keyboard -
and therefore playing chamber music with cellists and pianists was /easy to associate their range to each other and my violin.
I suggest both discarding their instruments and sitting at a keyboard might achieve more efficient listening habits
than 2 guitars.

[eljestLiv]

That Eb-F-Bb thing that Ben played at 2:58 are the first three notes to Intermission by Kraftwerk

[oletrenner]

Thanks for these games. I think the third game is much harder than one and two, but arpeggiating really helps. Anyway, Merry Christmas to both of you :)

[davejanssenmusic]

I love these videos guys, thank you for making great, accessible content that inspires awesome musical shenanigans

[zionjaymes]

I definitely hear intervals more like Ben. I'm fascinated by Adam's functional ear though

[iansalinas]

It's really helpful when you guys explain how you figured out the interval or chord. Great games thanks