Ear Training for Greater Musical Proficiency

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Beginner Topic: Reference Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Welcome to this tutorial on ear training techniques! I’m sure many of you have already had some kind of ear training in school, and are familiar with the concept. What I want to do here is to perhaps give you some new exercises that will help strengthen your ear even more, and fill in any gaps that you might have in your hearing. We will go through s...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Reference Style: Any Style

Excerpt: As discussed in the introduction, there are 2 sides of the “hearing coin”. One side is Absolute Pitch (Color hearing pitch, perfect pitch, it has many names). What this entails is the ability to hear any note played to you, and be able to name that pitch correctly, even within chords. It also entails being able to think of any pitch, and then sin...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So, this is our first exercise, not counting the preparatory one you just did, singing all up and down the neck in your chosen interval. As mentioned in the video, I recommend that you start out with one of the following intervals b3, 3, 4, 5, because these intervals will be most readily available to most of you, since you have heard them so many times. Us...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: In this exercise we make the whole thing a little bit harder. Instead of playing the root note of the interval, singing that, and then singing the target pitch, we will now sing the target pitch only. For example, you are practicing your major sixths. You then play the note C, and then do NOT sing that C, but rather try to listen to the C, imagine the interv...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So, we need to be able to TEST ourselves right? To confirm that we really DO have these intervals firmly established in our mind. So how do we go about this then? Well, the testing should be done in 2 parts as I see it. First, you should either test yourself by randomly drawing cards, and naming and singing these intervals up and down. However, this is just...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ok guys, in this part we will start to sing melodies over chords. There is no shame in having a less-than excellent singing voice, heck listen to my “strangling a wolverine in a coffee jar”-wavering voice, and you should feel just fine and dandy about your vocal proves =) What we want to do here is to allow our ears to guide our playing, instead...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: In this final part we will try to establish the “sound-character” or individual scales. When we previously sang and played notes over a chord (recorded, a friend playing, or what not), we had a back drop, and a frame of reference that tells our ear what scale we are playing and how it fits over a chord. What we want to do now, is to try to get th...

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