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Category Archive: Aural Comprehension

Aural Comprehension: Ear Training Recommendations

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Feel free to give Absolute Pitch a try, but whether AP is your bag or not, you absolutely must invest your precious time and energy understanding and developing Relative Pitch…

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2010-07-06 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training

Aural Comprehension: Is Absolute Pitch a Learn-able Skill?

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The long short answer is “It depends” and requires some explanation…

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2010-07-05 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training

Aural Comprehension: Absolute Versus Relative Pitch

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What are the relative merits and challenges of Absolute Pitch and Relative Pitch?

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2010-07-04 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training

Aural Comprehension: How to Listen

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If Yogi Berra were a musician he would have said: “You can hear a lot just by listening”…

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2010-07-03 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training

Aural Comprehension: Three Skills

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Three aural comprehension skills may be of interest: Sight Singing, Playing by Ear, Dictation…

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2010-07-02 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training

Aural Comprehension: The Why, What, & How of Ear Training

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Isn’t it so much more fun, natural, and satisfying to play what you are hearing and feeling than to play what you are merely thinking?

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2010-07-01 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training

Aural Comprehension

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Aural Comprehension is the process of integrating the way we think about the music (theory) with the way we experience (hear and feel ) the music…

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2010-07-01 Aural Comprehension, Ear Training, The Basics
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