![]() ![]() At the beginning you’re like, “I have no frickin idea. It’s actually fun and almost kind of addictive. It’s on EarMaster 7 now, I bought it when it was on EarMaster 5 about 20 years ago, and I spent SO MUCH TIME doing it. BTW - I’m not getting any money from them for sharing this with you. It looks like they have 2 options: you can pay $3 or $4 a month to subscribe on all your devices, or you can pay a one time fee of $60 to have it just on your computer. If you really want to get serious about this, there is a resource that I’d highly recommend called EarMaster. When I studied music at Oberlin way back in the day we had to take classes called Aural Skills that were these kind of ear training exercises: I’m sure you could search “Ear Training” or “Ear Training Games” on YouTube and you could find a whole bunch of stuff. Major 6th - My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Perfect 5th - beginning of Twinkle Twinkle Perfect 4th - beginning of Here Comes the Bride Here’s a few I remember using for recognizing ascending intervals: Singing them will help you be able to hear and recognize them, and vice versa.Īt the beginning it can be really helpful to have some kind song reference to help. The first game a described above is a great primer to being able to play this second game, but all these exercises feed each other. The next game is to have somebody else play an interval and you have to recognize what it is. And then once you can sing from 1 up to a 5 (or whatever interval) then can you sing from 1 down to the same interval an octave lower? This sort of process is a GREAT way to begin to train your ear to recognize intervals. You go through this sorta process with ALL the intervals. 1-5-1” Ok yeah I got it, or I didn’t get it. ![]() Can I sing a fifth?ĭid I get it? Let me check “1,2,3,4,5. You can play this game driving in your car, or walking down the street, or in the shower or just about anywhere (although it can feel kinda embarrassing to do it in front of people, lol.) I introduce this concept in my Scales for Beginners lesson. In my opinion, the best place to start is to learn the major scale, and to sing the major scale using numbers instead of letters. The first skill to learn is recognizing intervals, the distance between 2 notes. No matter where we are in our journey, there is always room for us to grow our ears to be able to hear things better. Thankfully, the answer is a resounding YES! There are things you can do. Is there anything I can do to train my ear to get better so that I can figure out songs more easily? So for those of us in this latter camp, the question may arise: Depending on our genetics and our upbringing we may have a great natural propensity toward being able to hear and recognize the intervals that a melody is composed of, or if you’re like I was at the beginning you’re just TOTALLY STUCK AND DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START! ![]() Our ability to learn songs by ear is aided or hindered by how well developed our ears are. you written down your answers? You can double-check your answers with the ones I have provided at the bottom of this page.Recently I wrote a post about Transcribing (learning a song by ear) and the subject of Ear Training naturally arose. Here is the demonstration music for Major Chords: ![]() I have also played the notes in the chords separately for you to be able to hear the individual notes better, and to know how a chord is formed! I will explain more about chords later on this page. Notice how the tone is positive and happy, compared to the minor sounds you will hear later. In the 1st demonstration clip, I have played a variety of Major Chords for you to get used to how a major sound is like. You may also wish to learn about some basic musical scales and intervals before you embark on the following ear training exercises, so that you have a better understanding of the basic scales used in singing. There are of course many aural training resources that we can use to train our aural awareness and listening ability, and I have also provided some useful self-practice exercises with music uploaded here for you to try out! Knowing whether the music we hear is major or minor will help us in our interpretation of the song, and also allow us to be able to harmonise better, since we would be more aware of the sounds in the chords being played! Ear Training can help us to improve various aspects of our listening ability for singing, and one of these aspects is to be able to identify whether a chord or sound is major or minor in nature. ![]()
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