What is Ear Training? A short and sweet lesson that sets the proper tone for how to hear, internalize, and perform music like a real musician…
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Lesson Goal
To understand that Ear Training is simply the process of connecting musical experience with musical knowledge… in such a way that it elevates and expands your skills in hearing and performing music.
Prerequisites
LOVE of music and the discipline to study and practice the right things the right way.
What is Ear Training?
Ear Training is the process of connecting the way you hear and feel the music with the way you think about the music.
Ear Training is the process of connecting a [right brain] musical experience with [left brain] musical knowledge.
Ear training is the process of connecting the sounds and feelings you’re experiencing with something you can store and retrieve from long-term memory. This something can be a declarative memory (a name) or procedural memory (a skill).
Ear Training is the process of storing a sound-feeling in your mind’s ear while connecting it to other information that enables you to retrieve and express that sound-feeling in performance. Such information may include a scale type, solfege syllable, melodic fragment, interval type, chord type, chord progression, roman numeral analysis, notes on a score, visuospatial layout of keys on the keyboard, or sequence of physical gestures.
Ear Training, done right, enables you to understand what you are hearing.
Ear Training, done right, enables your mind’s ear (not your intellect) to be the leader when you perform.
Ear Training, done right, teaches you how music works.
Ear Training, done right, teaches you how to listen like a musician.
Ear Training, done right, teaches you how to listen for meaning.
Ear Training, done right, teaches you how to hear (comprehension) and speak (fluency) the language of music.
Ear Training, done right, enables you to play what you are hearing and feeling rather than what you are merely thinking.
Ear Training, done right, enables you to play “by ear” rather than “by dot”, “by finger”, or by anything other than your ears.
Ear Training, done right, is about performing better, not about getting better grades on a music theory test.
Ear Training, done right, enables you to “speak” the language of music naturally, by ear, just as we learn to speak any spoken language… by simply expressing the sound-feelings in your mind’s ear directly as physical execution and choreography at the piano.
learn more… Ear Training Fundamentals
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