
Learn to identify intervals by associating them with melodies you already know, such as using White Christmas for a minor second, and adapt to tunes from nursery rhymes and holidays.
Explore identifying perfect fifths and fourths through familiar melodies like Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and the Flintstones theme, with ascending and descending interval drills.
Analyze the major seventh interval, its half-step to an octave, and how Led Zeppelin's immigrant song demonstrates the major seventh in a descending line.
Develop your ear by recognizing intervals, especially major seconds and unisons, rather than notes. Use quick quizzes presenting twenty interval pairs to label unison or major second.
Practice a 20-item ear training drill on unison and major second intervals, including ascending and descending pitches, followed by a review of the answers.
Practice twenty intervals, for ear training, focusing on perfect fourths, major thirds, and major seconds, listening repeatedly to build confidence and trust your gut before reviewing answers in next video.
Learn major seventh intervals, their dissonant sound, and how to resolve them up to an octave, while distinguishing from tritone in melody versus chord context.
practice session on ear training for intervals, including major seconds, major thirds, perfect fourths, perfect fifths, major sixths, and major sevenths. visualize fingering on guitar to hear and identify intervals.
Practice identifying and hearing intervals, write down the notes to reinforce pitch relationships, and prepare to explore melodies and the tritone while updating the course website with new intervals.
100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor.
Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start.
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: Intervals (This one!)
Part 3: Melodies
Part 4: Diatonic Harmony
Part 5: Chromatic Melodies
Part 6: Chromatic Harmony
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 in this class (Part 2, Intervals):
Why Do We Care about Ear Training?
Methods of Interval Recognition
Using Colors, Numbers, People, and Textures
Using Familiar Melodies
Identifying Major intervals
Identifying Minor intervals
Notating a Melody by Ear
Identifying Melodic and Harmonic Intervals
Commonly Confused Interval Groups
And Much, Much, More!
My Promise to You:
I am a full-time Music composer and Educator. If you have any questions please post them in the class or send me a direct message. I will respond within 24 hours. And if you find this class isn't for you, I am more than happy for you to take advantage of the 30-day money-back guarantee. No questions asked.
What makes me qualified to teach you?
In addition to being a composer and educator, I also have a Ph.D. in music, am a university music professor, and have a long list of awards for teaching.
But more importantly: I use this stuff every day. I write music professionally, I am an active guitarist, and I stay on top of all the latest techniques, workflows, and styles. As you will see in this class, I just love this stuff. And I love teaching it.
You will not have another opportunity to learn Ear Training in a more comprehensive way than this.
Let's get started!
See you in lesson 1.
All best,
Jason (but call me Jay...)