| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: Ear Training | |
| Barry -- 11/09/2004, 11:40:07 -- #8788 | |
| A question on training the ear; What do you think are the best ways for someone with a weak ear to improve their aural abilities - specifically with reference to being able to play what they hear (and vice versa). I would be interested to see what you all think as I have come across many different approaches. Is there anyone here who has had difficulty with this aspect of their musicianship and overcome it. What methods did you personally find the most helpful? | |
| kennycasek -- 11/09/2004, 14:34:08 -- #8791 | |
| Sing. | |
| Billy -- 11/09/2004, 14:41:20 -- #8792 | |
| i think singing will definantly help. You hear the pitch, and then match it with your voice. It definantly helps out your ear. You also may want to check out this site: http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer Its an ear training program. It plays chords, intervals, cadences and other things and you have to guess the intervals/chords/cadences. If you do this for a while youll begin to be able to reconize different intervals/chords/cadences more easily. | |
| CynBad -- 11/09/2004, 18:09:32 -- #8797 | |
| Learn to recognize all the intervals, and you can apply that to everything else. | |
| Peteboypete -- 11/09/2004, 19:21:53 -- #8801 | |
| www.musictheory.net also has some good ear trainers. The key is to be diligent. Work on some aspect every day, whether it be intevals, singing, chord identifaction, etc. I know that I have made significant advancements in my hearing in just the last two months of doing this. | |
| Scot -- 11/09/2004, 19:47:14 -- #8807 | |
| Ear training is one of the huge benefits of transcribing. Here are my personal steps to transcribing: 1. learn the solo until you can SING along with it 2. learn how to play what you are singing 3. write it down for later If you really want to get deep into ear training, then transcribe the left hand comping chords as well, in the same way. Learn to sing the various intervals in the chords. It's really hard at first, but I guarantee that if you do this, even to one song, your ears will be stronger than you ever imagined. They'll start calling you Dumbo on the stage cause you'll be picking up on everything that's going on. | |
| Bonzo -- 11/10/2004, 08:49:25 -- #8816 | |
| I think transscribing is at least the less boring way to train your ear and in my opinion the most effective. (maybe because the discipline with using an eartrainer is low low low..) The problem I experienced is that I wasn't able to critisize myself, simply because I couldn't. I let my girfriend correct me and she picked out a lot of mistakes early on. This changed gradually over time and I am making really good progress. I used to think it was some sort of natural gift(partly because my girlfriend, who hasn't trained at all), but now I am more or less convinced it is a matter of practice. And in my case an awfull lot of practice. | |
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