Questions tagged [ear-training]
Learning to make distinctions in pitch and/or rhythm when hearing music.
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To what extent do performers “hear” sheet music?
Sheet music enables instrumental performers who are able to read music notation (a pianist, orchestral instrument players, a jazz band, etc.) or singers to perform a song or piece.
Presumably some ...
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How to recognize harmonic intervals?
I've been doing some ear training, I'm quite at ease when recognizing melodic intervals, whether they are ascending or descending intervals, yet when it comes to harmonic intervals, I don't know how ...
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How to find/hold vocal pitch within tone clusters
I sing in a choir that performs a lot of music containing very close, tone-cluster type harmonies. We stand mixed rather than in sections, so it's especially challenging to find my pitch and maintain ...
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Melodic Dictation Practice
I am getting stuck with melodic dictation. My process goes:
1.) listen to melody during the first playing. But, do I try and memorize the melody or the rhythm?
2.) I try to memorize the first half of ...
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How can you detect seventh chords by ear?
I've been trying to detect seventh chords, major and minor seventh for at least one week, doing them unsucessfully...
My method have been, for the moment, going to musictheory.net and trying to learn ...
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Why is it easier to remember a melody as opposed to a simple interval?
There's already a question similar to this here, but most of the answers raise questions like, "If you can throw an object a certain distance but not tell precisely how far you threw it, how do ...
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Which note to start the melody on?
I am trying to learn to play melodies by ear. I was trying to play Twinkle Twinkle by ear. Justin Guitar taught that a melody can be played anywhere on the fretboard and when I tried to do so, I found ...
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Identifying chord and understanding its function in Loco's “Can't Sleep” [closed]
I am trying to identify the four chords in the beginning of this song.
My guess is Emaj7, C#m11, C#m/G#, B11sus4
Is my guess correct? I am must uncertain about the third chord.
I am having trouble ...
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I can recognise intervals, but why do I have difficulty in hearing them in a song?
I have been transcribing music without an instrument for quite some time now, if I have my instrument in hand I am able to almost always quickly figure out what is being played but when I step away ...
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Sometimes I naturally sing songs in the right key. Do I have perfect (absolute) pitch?
Sometimes I'll be singing a song, and then I'll play a recording and discover I was singing in the same key. Does this mean I have perfect pitch?
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Audio Equipment for Transcribing
I have been having a blast transcribing pop songs to piano, but I have some trouble hearing the bass clearly. Even when I use EQ, the notes from the bass guitar don't feel very distinct. Is this just ...
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Ear training - Did I correctly transcribe this harmony? [closed]
(Not exactly sure this belongs here, but I wish there was a Code Review stack exchange site for music ..)
I'm training my ear at recognizing and transcribing vocal harmonies (because I like to analyze ...
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Transcribing by ear, is it done with the root as reference, or the previous note?
To all the people with good ears:
when you're figuring out a melody by ear, are you listening to the sequence of notes and figuring out where each note sits relative to the root of the key?
Or are you ...
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How can I slow down a YouTube video I'm trying to analyze or transcribe?
[Note] This is a "compendium" question, intended to address a general concern that arises in a variety of contexts. Please add additional answers with any techniques not yet addressed.
I'm ...
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What part of the sound of notes to focus on while ear training to correctly identify notes?
I am using different instruments from my Keyboard to do ear training. In practicing ear training, i have learnt from the forums here that I should focus and pay attention to the pitch of the note. ...
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Learning to identify Chords Progressions by ear
I have no problem identifying instruments, the different role they play in a song, the scales and modes of a song etcetera etcetera. I even understand harmony and the logics and theories surrounding ...
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Which instrument to select on keyboard for ear training?
As a part of my ear training routine, I am practicing different scales and exercises. I am randomly selecting any instrument from the tone bank for that practice. Is that a good approach or is there ...
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Hearing the difference between VIIdim7 - Im and Vm - Im
I've been using EarMaster to practice hearing progressions. For most of them, I can pick out a certain interval and slowly improve my accuracy.
Major against Minor triads ā I try to pick out the 3rd
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Singing and hearing quarter tones
Iāve just received a choir piece that contains some (rare) quarter tones on long held notes. For example, a B which slides into a Bį“ (that's a half flat).
Iāve tried singing the part where it happens. ...
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I can't hear the chords in this song, are there any or am I mistaking chords for melody? [closed]
I'm trying to train my hear to listen and separate out the chords, melody, bass, and drums in music I enjoy listening to, and practice my music by re-creating these styles.
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How do you determine the Chord progression of a song?
Any tips or strategies that you guys would like to share on how you determine the chord progression in a song or a musical composition ? Though I understand chord progressions and the musical theory ...
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Moveable Do Piano for Ear Training Verification [closed]
I have been working on moveable-do ear training for a while now. I would like either a keyboard app where you can change the pitch of the C note or an app that will let you play some kind of solfege ...
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How to Improve aural memory
I'm playing the guitar for years, MANY years, there's nothing wrong with my ears, I can hear and understand individual notes, I can even identify them without a reference tone BUT ... I can't remember ...
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Finding intervals on an instrument vs. naming them
I would like to piggyback on this question: If someone can sing a melody, why can they not also recognize the intervals within that melody?
The OP is asking why it is easy to sing a song we know, ...
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How do you decide which key signature a certain music is in by ear, from hearing it?
When I hear a song or a melodious tune, I can often figure out the relative pitches and play the tune on the piano. But I usually only play it on C major (the simplest scale for me--occasionally G ...
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In music what is style as it relates to instruments?
In music what is style I mean accompaniment styles? How does one play with style as it relates to instruments? Like make their own 16 ballad style. https://musicterms.artopium.com/s/Style.htm ...
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What is the best METHOD in acquiring perfect pitch? [duplicate]
What is the best/easiest/most efficient way of developing perfect pitch?
Note: What I mean by perfect pitch is the ability to distinct a certain note from another. In other words being able to ...
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Ear and singing training
I have read plenty of different questions related to ear training, even way more answers, but I'm still struggling to obtain a clear-cut answer (provided that it exists). I have taken up on singing ...
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Do Musicians Who are Trained on Other Instruments Automatically Acquire Singing Ability?
I watched a guitarist on YouTube discuss some concept about harmony, and he played a note and sang an interval above. He prefaced with "now, I am not a good singer but...", and proceeded to sing notes ...
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Music recomendations to get my ear used to non-western scales
As the title says: Iād love to know about bands, orchestras, artists, etc. that use non-Western scales [1]. The reason is that whenever I try to listen to examples of music out of the 12-note ...
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Transcribing Jazz Piano Chord Voicings
I have just started to play jazz piano after many years of classical piano and one of the big things I have to do as a jazz musician is to transcribe (by ear) famous jazz recordings. When I am ...
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Is it important to practice ear training with different instruments/sounds?
In ear-training, specifically interval/chord recognition, is it important to mix up the intruments/sounds we use ?
Will it somewhat hinder my learning if most of my ear-training is done through, say, ...
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The discriminating power of experienced listeners
Consider a choir of n singers who sing the same tune in almost perfect unison.
When asked how many singers they do hear, test persons may say:
don't know
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Exercises to go beyond basic relative pitch, and notice if any given interval is out of tune, by how much, and in which direction [closed]
Some people set a lot of store by "perfect pitch" but I feel that really good relative pitch is more important. What exercises can you suggest to improve this ability?
EDIT : perhaps I am not clear ...
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Transcribing as ear training
My favorite thing to do is try and transcribe my favorite solo's. But what I find is that most of them actually start off easy ( and slow ) and can progress with either faster riffs or embellishments ...
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How can I transcribe music by ear?
I have attempted to transcribe an easy piano piece by ear via a score writer software whilst listening to recording, although it is going well - I am unsure whether or not this is the best way to ...
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Will transcribing music improve my ability to play a song by ear?
I have been playing the piano for 2 years and I have a dream to be able to play pop and some EDM music through my ears without sheets.
What I used to do was practicing scales with their cadences and ...
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How to differentiate between Plagal and Perfect, and Imperfect and Interrupt cadences
I'm trying to practise my aural skills except I really need some tips on how to properly differentiate and tell cadences. I know the basic characteristics of each cadence, perfect sounds complete, ...
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Hershey kiss Christmas handbell commercial
This is something I've wondered for a long time but could never get a straight answer... There's a famous TV commercial for Hershey Kisses where the kisses are handbells, playing we wish you a merry ...
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What is the method to figure out the key of a song?
What is the method to figure out the key to someone else's song?
Let's assume you've never played the song on an instrument and it's not your own song.
Is it faster to try to figure out chords and ...
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How to hear the numbers?
There's this guy on youtube that I'd watch, he has a channel called 'Jazz Theory'. Anyway, one profound thing I heard him say is that you're not playing by ear until you can hear the numbers in ...
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Can people can tell exactly in which octave a note is played?
I have done some pitch recognition tests. No note was given, and between questions a very chatty piece of music was placed to erase your mind. I got a 4/20 and for the rest I was off up or down a ...
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Aurally distinguishing between head voice and chest voice
This is a query that does not involve producing a head voice or chest voice, but how to distinguish between them in what I hear. Granted there are ways or techniques in properly creating sound that ...
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What are some good techniques (tips and tricks) to practice Melodic and Rhythmic dictation that isn't really basic? [closed]
I find that a lot of the techniques I use to practice melodic and rhythmic dictation are good but often stay at a really basic level. I want to get better at it but it's hard to stay focused when you ...
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What is the instrument that begins playing at the beginning of this video (dreamworks animation theme) [closed]
at 0:01 of this video a soft-muted sounding instrument begins playing and I can not figure out what it is (the one that plays 3 notes and pauses for a short while).
Was also wondering what specific ...
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Why can't I identify major and minor chords?
I am playing violin for 6/7 years now and doing ABRSM grade 7 this year.
Problem is I still can't identify chords. Sad/Happy feeling doesn't work for me even a bit.
Because of this, I can't identify ...
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Am I Hearing Bansuri Tune Correctly
I am learning to play Tum Hi Ho via this tutorial
Harsh Dave sings out the saptak (he doesn't write it), hence there is a lot of pause, slow-play, and repeats to understand the notes.
Here at 2:30 I ...
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How can I develop relative pitch if I have perfect pitch?
As someone with perfect pitch, I can do the usual things associated with perfect pitch such as name a note instantly without a reference note, name the key, and name a chord. Sight-singing comes ...
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Transcribing and Ear Training with speakers or headphones
I have these really good JBL Studio monitors that I use in with my DAW. But I have a hard time using them with my ear training/transcribing. I don't know what it is but I seem to be able to pick out ...
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Are there any methods to identify intervals in Solfege?
I have a test in Solfege and I have trouble identifying intervals.
I don't have musical hearing and I have never studied piano professionally. Therefore I struggle with identifying intervals through ...
