How to Practice Without Sheet Music: Tips for Professional Musicians

Learn how to practice without sheet music and improve your musicianship with this unique method! In this video, I’ll teach you how to wean yourself off sheet music and focus on ear training, improvisation, and music theory. Perfect for music students and professional musicians looking to enhance their practice routine. Download the PDF from my website to follow along and take your skills to the next level!

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00:00- Intro
01:41- Tour
03:19- Lesson
07:25- Minor Seconds
09:35- Major Seconds
10:40- Minor Thirds
11:50- Major Thirds
12:53- Perfect Fourths
13:24- Augmented Fourths
15:04- Honeysuckle Rose lick 2x

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[lyndafoster]

I have been doing the chord walk down. Without looking at the music. I will do this now. Thank you

[pickls]

you're truly an inspiring person to me

[joenremmer]

Hi Gregory, thank you so much for the routine, I absolutely love it. I haven't been so challanged for weeks, my brain is boiling.
The beauty of it in my opinion is, that you take those little building blocks of major triads (which are more or less hardcoded in your muscle memory) and you start combining them in a greater harmonic context. So whilst playing/learning this excercise, you can focus your mental effort on keeping track of the intervals, whilst paying minimal attention to the individual triad (fingering).
It really opens up my comprehension of harmonic relationships, and allows me to experience the sound off it in a much more inspiring way than simply playing single pitches in certain intervals.
I'm deliberately doing it without a sheet in front of me, but when in doubt (so as not to hardcore mistakes) I briefly check with the video.

[samuelbrown]

Great! Now do augmented 4ths in whole steps! Hahaha. Not really but that does make me think you could also compound your interval skipping in a similar way using two different intervals. Like major thirds in minor thirds. So major triads in this order, grouped in pairs: C-E, Eb-G, Gb-Bb, A-C#. With this sequence you could even reverse the direction of every other triad and get some half step voice leading: C-E-G, B-G#-E, Eb-G-Bb, D-B-G etc!! The possibilities are endless!

[quentinmorales]

Some are quite interesting musically, some others not so much 😊