Ear Training and Aural Skills is the practice of learning to play music by ear, learning to notate music by ear, and learning to understand music on a deeper level just by hearing it. In this class we are going to learn techniques for listening, analyzing, and notating music (writing it down) just by listening. Perfect Pitch is not required.
If you don’t know me, I’ve published a lot of music theory classes here. Those classes have been really successful, and the number one request I’ve been getting from students is to make an Ear
Training sequence of classes. So here it is! This series will have 6 parts:
•Part 1: Rhythms
•Part 2: Diatonic Intervals
•Part 3: Melodies
•Part 4: Diatonic Harmony
•Part 5: Chromatic Melodies
•Part 6: Chromatic Harmony
This class is the “Masterclass” Version, and it contains the complete parts 1, 2, and 3!
Each of these classes comes with about 4 hours of training, and a LOT of things to practice with. And of course, access to me with any questions you have at any time.
Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover:
•Why Do We Care about Ear Training?
•The Myth of Perfect Pitch
•Relative Pitch
•”True Pitch”
•Using a Tuner and Metronome
•Intervals
•Intervals in Music
•Dictation Practice Quizzes
•Notating Rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4
•Working with Pitch
•Adding in Rests and Ties
•Adding in 16th Notes
•Notating Rhythms in 3/8, 6/8, and 9/8
•Adding in Triplets
•Music Intervals
•Methods of Interval Recognition
•Using Colors, Numbers, People, and Textures
•Using Familiar Melodies
•Identifying Major intervals
•Identifying Minor intervals
•Notating a Melody by Ear
•100s of music exercises
•Identifying Melodic and Harmonic Intervals
•Commonly Confused Interval Groups
•Identifying phrases rather than individual notes
•Applying ear training to your guitar, voice, keyboard or other instruments.
•Ear training guitar
•Looking for “Pillars” in a melody as anchor points.
•Using Scales and Scale Fragments to help identify a series of notes.
•Identifying certain scales that will be helpful to melodic dictation.
•Working with chords and arpeggios
•Identifying a chord outline and implied harmony
•Notating a Melody by Ear
•Play music by ear
•A whole lot of things to practice with!
•And Much, Much, More!
What you’ll learn:
•Students will develop skills for listening, repeating, and writing music down completely by ear.
•Students will be able to notate music by ear after finishing this class.
•Students will be able to identify intervals by ear after finishing this class.
•Students will have an unlimited supply of practice materials after this course.
•Students will develop a deeper understanding of notated rhythms.
•Students will develop skills for listening, repeating, and writing music down completely by ear.
•What is Perfect Pitch?
•What is Relative Pitch?
•Identifying rhythms in 4/4
•Identifying rhythms with rests and ties
•Identifying and notating rhythms with 16th notes
•Notating rhythms with triplets
•Identifying rhythms in 6/8, 9/8, and 3/8
