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Ear Training Exercises - Work your ear as much as your fingers!
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As a musician, one of the most critical skills you can have is the ability to hear and identify tones.
Whether you are learning a solo note for note, trying to hear chord changes as they fly by or simply trying to get your own music out of your head, having the ability to know which note(s) you need will make playing easier and your music sound much better.
How do you train your ears? Just like you do your fingers when you practice. You have to spend time working on your ear identifying tones, interval relationships and chord qualities. And you have to do it a lot!
If you have never trained your ear, you have to start simple. Try to pick out a nursery rhyme on your instrument. Pick any note to start with and then find the next. At first, there will be a lot of missed notes. However, it comes down to one of three choices. Did the note stay the same, did the note go down in pitch or did it go up in pitch? A few good tunes to start with are "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", "Happy Birthday" and "Row, Row, Row your boat".
Yeah, doing this may make you feel silly at first, but who cares, right? You want to have a good ear!
To help you start, here are a few tones to listen to and try to identify the pitch. Listen to the sound several times, try to hum the note and then find it on your instrument. If you think you know the pitch, comment with your answers and we'll let you know if you're right!
Have fun!
Exercise #1
Exercise #2
Be careful with this one, it modulates to a higher pitch near the end...
Exercise #3
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As a musician, one of the most critical skills you can have is the ability to hear and identify tones.
Whether you are learning a solo note for note, trying to hear chord changes as they fly by or simply trying to get your own music out of your head, having the ability to know which note(s) you need will make playing easier and your music sound much better.
How do you train your ears? Just like you do your fingers when you practice. You have to spend time working on your ear identifying tones, interval relationships and chord qualities. And you have to do it a lot!
If you have never trained your ear, you have to start simple. Try to pick out a nursery rhyme on your instrument. Pick any note to start with and then find the next. At first, there will be a lot of missed notes. However, it comes down to one of three choices. Did the note stay the same, did the note go down in pitch or did it go up in pitch? A few good tunes to start with are "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", "Happy Birthday" and "Row, Row, Row your boat".
Yeah, doing this may make you feel silly at first, but who cares, right? You want to have a good ear!
To help you start, here are a few tones to listen to and try to identify the pitch. Listen to the sound several times, try to hum the note and then find it on your instrument. If you think you know the pitch, comment with your answers and we'll let you know if you're right!
Have fun!
Exercise #1
Exercise #2
Be careful with this one, it modulates to a higher pitch near the end...
Exercise #3
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This is one really neat exercise...I should quote you, it's excellent!
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Where are all the comments on this post???
Are the notes too hard to identify?
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If I am not mistaken, they actually sound polytonal and may even have some micro-tones. With that said, here are my answers:
#1- Stravinsky's Petrushka chord
#2 - Bartok's Diminished 5th
#3 - Not sure, but I think non-dairy creamer had something to do with it
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That's great, I never thought about Ear Training Exercises like that before.
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