
We will learn to recognize and convert the sounds to note values.
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Recognize Whole, Half and Quarter notes
Recognize eighth notes
Recognize sixteenth notes and triplets
Listen to empty metronome bars to infer the time signature, then bars with notes to write and check; observe up-beat quarter notes and syllable emphasis for ⅝ and 6/8.
Discover how rhythm translates to note values by recognizing the beat; follow the beat to locate where notes sound and convert them to values.
Discover how to hear melodies by identifying notes, their values, and whether the melody moves up or down. Learn to remember and recognize melodic moves, such as steps or jumps.
Recognize the musical intervals
Engage in three-note ear training starting from C4 to identify moves up, down, step, and jump, remember first and third notes, and practice on your instrument to hear intervals.
Find a Melody A
Train your ear by listening to a two-bar melody played twice, selecting the correct option from three, and focusing on melodic moves like up-down and step-jump.
Perform the same exercise as before, now using the A minor scale to reinforce your ear training.
Find a melody B
Listen to a melody once and label it mentally with 'happy' for major and 'sad' for minor to train your ear.
Develop ear training with a 4/4 piece in D major, repeat the piece three times, and mirror the previous exercise while noting the absence of large melodic jumps.
Find a melody C
Listen for a melody with octave jumps in G major, identify the time signature and bar count on the first pass, then write the melody on the next two passes.
Develop ear training by identifying third intervals in a melody in G minor, 4/4 time, heard three times.
Explore how rhythm blends with melody, using steps, leaps, and scales to hear a melody. Build memory by recognizing notes and developing a repertoire of sounds to write or play.
Explore harmony as the foundation of melody by recognizing chords and chord connections. See how three or more notes sound together to reveal harmonic content and link melodies to chords.
explore major and minor chords by root plus four then three semitones for major, or root plus three then four for minor, and see how inversions and voicing affect mood.
Enhance ear training by listening to chords played in all positions, including root and inversions, and recognizing whether they are major or minor.
Develop ear training by recognizing open or close positions and identifying major or minor chord types, with all chords in root position.
Understand and recognize chord sequences from major scales
Understand and recognize chord sequences from major scales
Understand and recognize chord sequences from minor scales
Practice ear training by identifying a four-chord minor sequence with up to two accidentals, starting on the tonic, across three listens with pause and rewind options.
Recognize the dominant and the secondary dominant chords
Explore a four-chord sequence in a major or minor scale with up to two accidentals, starting on the tonic, featuring a secondary dominant; hear twice and check answers at end.
Listen to the bass, recognize the inversions
Listen to three chord progressions, identify the scale and tonic with at most three accidentals, and analyze the third or seventh bass moves to uncover the underlying logic.
Practice recognizing the tonic and identifying the second chord, while tracking bass melodic moves. Hear each sequence twice, with answers shown afterward; playing the sequences helps you understand the sound.
Recognize the sound of 4 voice chords
Engage in a four-chord ear training exercise in major or minor with up to two accidentals, starting from the tonic, hearing twice, then identifying the chords and reviewing the answers.
A taste of more advanced harmonic moves
Recognize harmony concepts, from major and minor chords to dominant chords and secondary chords, and train ear memory to connect scale degrees through leading tone to tonic movements.
Listen to a whole musical piece and recognize it A
Listen to a whole musical piece and recognize it B
Develop your ear by applying theoretical knowledge to sound and building a robust memory of it. Organize and recognize sounds by storing them in memory from this ear training course.
Many times in music we say that “he has a good ear”, meaning that someone can listen to a melody or a song and find out the notes that he listens to.
How many times has happened to listen to a song and want to play it on your instrument?
And then start searching on the internet to find it? And many times this search may not have a good result…
For you that play music you say that someone has a good ear or another guy doesn’t.
This happens for all of our talents, one talent to be better than another. It can happen to someone to have a good ability to hear and find out what he hears.
We’ll give the tools to guide our ears to understand the context of what we hear.
Using our theory knowledge we can find ways to approach this.
We’ll pass through the 3 elements of music that we must learn to hear.
Rhythm, melody and harmony, and we’ll see step by step how we can decode them.
I always say to my students that knowledge is the most important tool to move on,
but practice will give strength to knowledge and will take us forward and improve us.