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Learning Outcomes To integrate the way we think about the music (theory) with the way we hear and feel the music. Links to Lessons The What and Why of Ear Training Three Skills How to Listen Absolute Versus Relative Pitch Is Absolute Pitch a Learn-able Skill? Ear Training Recommendations
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The Minor Blues Scale is the blues scale that most people are familiar with, so much so that it often just called the Blues Scale. C Minor Blues Scale: Notation, Scale Degrees, Solfege, & Keyboard Layout… Notice that the Minor Blues Scale has only six notes… and is yet another existence proof that scales are not
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Learning Goal To recognize the unique sound/feeling of the five most commonly-used seventh chords: major 7, minor 7, diminished 7, dominant 7, and half-diminished 7. How to Use This downloadable study consists of dozens of MP3s compressed into a single *.zip file. Simply download, unzip, create a playlist, set to random play, and do ear training
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Learning Goal To recognize the unique sound/feeling of each of the four triad types: major, minor, diminished, augmented… How to Use Download zip file: Study-Aids-Ear-Training-Triad-Recognition containing dozens of MP3s: Unzip Create a Playlist Set to random play Each mp3 follows the same sequence: First, a random triad is played. 2) Identify it by type: major, minor, diminished,
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Learning Goal To recognize the unique sound/feeling of the following intervals: minor 2nd, major 2nd, minor 3rd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, tritone, perfect 5th, minor 6th, major 6th, minor 7th, major 7, octave… How to Use Download the Zip file, unzip, create a playlist, set to random play, and do ear training on the run! Download here: Ear Training: Melodic
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Check out his video of a super simple, but effective way to do Solfege ear training…
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Learning Goal To learn to recognize the unique sound/feeling of each of the twelve possible pitches with respect to the key center Do, a skill that will pay enormous dividends in your ability to sight sing, sight read, learn new pieces, transpose, and play by ear. How to Use Download here: Ear Training: Solfege Pitch Recognition,
Continue readingA prerequisite to Transposing a Melody like a musician is to conceive of and hear the melody in meaningful musical terms, not as some random sequence to be manipulated with calculations. Enjoy this simple example of how to transpose a melody like a pro… learn more… The Musical Way to Transpose Harmony
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Study the i-V7-i Chord Progression (the minor counterpart of the major I-V-I) and you will understand the harmonic tension and release formula that makes an incredible amount of music tick… Using the i-V7-i Chord Progression in the key of C Minor as an example, we are going to integrate reading, roman numeral analysis, solfege, and ear training…
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