Ear Training
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?
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you also may want to check out this site:
https://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.
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.
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by Scot Ranney on 11/09/2004, 19:47
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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