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It took me 15 years to realize this: if you practice singing along to your musical instrument, and you play melodies you know on the instrument while singing along, you develop an intuitive feel for the intervals on the instrument then you can practice without your instrument
For me it’s the guitar, right and in the past 3 months or so I’ve developed a mental “sound-feel” Eg “here comes the bride” is root → 4th I know how it sounds to sing it And now my fingers also know how it feels to play it there’s a kind of overlap/overflow here
Then you start noticing matching intervals in all melodies - that might not be obvious when you’re singing them (for me at least) but become obvious because of the finger-feel. Eg the 3rd and 4th notes of the Batman diff are the same interval as “root 4th” https://t.co/RLggE46qk1
“Dafuq are you talking about. I don’t hear it” ok gimme a sec... here https://t.co/BqSFxHW9ks
And there are a very small number of intervals in most music!!! So if you develop an intuitive feel for semitones, tones, minor and major thirds, fourths, flat fifths, fifths, you can intuitively figure out almost everything!!! 🤯🤯🤯
better understand the intervals you already use https://t.co/xkAshPcpHf
Music isn’t actually my primary interest - the thing I’m probably most into is the art of words. But/and I’ve always had a distaste for the idea of forcing yourself to learn esoteric vocabulary - it’s so much more interesting imo to better understand the words you already use
hear and play each interval in multiple contexts https://t.co/XsqPgjMtbk
This radical contrast informed his economic pedagogy. Learning economics is like learning a language; it’s important to start slowly and see each idea in multiple contexts. “If you find this way of learning superior, tip your hat to my Nepali language Instructors.”