Questions tagged [ear-training]
Learning to make distinctions in pitch and/or rhythm when hearing music.
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How do I identify the keytone by listening to a set of chords or a phrase?
I recently took a musical listening test and one of the sections involved listening to a set of chords or a musical phrase, then listening to 3 different notes played individually, and identifying ...
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when Audiation only one part is somewhat clear
I don't know if you train this Audition it will really seem like your just wearing your headphones. but I'm no where close, I can hear the melody in my head. But I have to sing it with my inner voice, ...
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What is the best way to learn to play songs by ear using chord patterns?
Is there a simple technique to construct or memorize chord pattern of a song If I know the main chord of a song? Also, how to guess the next chord while playing a song. Specially with a guitar.
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“Along the way” ear training in your daily routine
I am an amateur musician, not good at ear training. But I want to improve, unfortunately my time is limited as music is just a hobby. So in this post the author suggests doing ear training in your ...
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Problem with playing music by ear
When I was learning to play piano, I only learned how to read notes and all those rules so I can play a piece of music if I have sheet music, but I don't know the music theory at all... But I really ...
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Hearing through distortion
Are there any tricks to figuring out the (exact) chords of a song that has really strong distortion or other effects?
I can vaguely hear what chords there are but can’t figure out the exact variant.
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I have semi (explained) perfect pitch but can't handle harmonic intervals. What do I practice?
As the title suggests I have a form of perfect pitch that is not exactly perfect pitch. So let's say I hear a melody. I can name the notes as I hear them if they're not insanely fast of course. The ...
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What are the common problems when it comes to ear training and how do I fix it?
I can think of a few, first in formost, there is 2 different type of struggles
transcribing in real time which requires you to hear and identify chords and melody
and improvising, which requires ...
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Perfect pitch inside a scale?
I was reading how a very small amount of people have perfect pitch and how it's very hard for adults to develop it.
So I was wondering if maybe there's a hack where I can only limit the notes to a ...
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Intervals or scale degrees?
A couple people were saying in a previous post how for ear training one should think in scale degrees and not intervals. So if I'm on note E and I want to get to note G. then I shouldn't think of "...
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Do melodies often use the same combination of intervals?
I've been a touch typist on the keyboard for a long time, and the reason is that I've internalized the shape of every word in my mind because I've typed the same words so many times throughout my life....
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Should I know the chord name and scale degree when I play by ear?
Just to give a bit of context; say I'm playing a song in a certain key, F major. and let's say I'm playing the I IV V chords. I'm playing a song I learned by ear, right now it happens to be bicycle ...
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for a person who is still beginner at ear training how does one hear the difference between modes and other keys?
I've been doing ear training and I have to say my scale degree identification (after playing cadences) is pretty good, I can identify the #4 and the b2 and the b7 etc well
but the problem is that as ...
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Movable Do vs Fixed Do [duplicate]
I'm trying to train my ear, I had 2 teachers before, one of them recommends me to use scale degree in context of the key (which is basically movable do) and the other teacher recommends me fixed do.
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How do train yourself to transcribe in real time?
One of the things I have done is scale degree training where you play a cadence and play any note to see if you can identify that note. I can probably be as accurate as 98%. 90% if you add chromatic.
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How to discern the key/tonic when they are key changes in song
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Taking this song as example,From the beginning of the song, I was thinking that it must be a Bm, since the songs also end in a Bm. But after looking up the score, it was actually written in ...
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Ear training for 12 bar blues chord changes
I am relatively new to guitar, having started some three months ago, with daily practice of about two to three hours.
Having advanced past the nitty-gritty of the early beginner stages (at least ...
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Program or app to practice “Copy-Playing” [closed]
Is there any program or app to practice ear training with "Copy-Playing" (guitar is my instrument)? I means basically a phrase is played, and you have to repeat it on your instrument. I read about it ...
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How to hear the root note of a chord?
Any tips for how to hear the root note of a chord, especially when that chord could be inverted.
Context: what I'm trying to do is figure out chord progressions by ear. And my understanding is if I ...
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Interval song for a Perfect 4th where the note ascended to is not the tonic?
I've been trying to develop my relative pitch, and I've seen the suggestion of using "interval songs". This makes sense to me, but I've noticed something about every song I've seen suggested for the ...
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Recognizing intervals without interval songs?
I would love to know all my intervals by ear but where ever I search for help it says to learn interval songs e.g. Jaws theme for minor 2nd. I find this to be pretty ineffective honestly. I don't hear ...
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Any studies on ear training, or musicality out there
Are there any established and scientifically backed-up facts about what is possible, and what time it takes for ear training? Any studies out there that look at these questions? Like letting people ...
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How to harmonize a melody without knowing the scale?
I've been doing this thing lately where I randomly pick a note on the piano, and use that as the starting note of whatever melody I'm playing, every time I do this I'm in a different key. I find this ...
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Unable to properly hear myself singing, but can hear well playing or singing others
I'm looking on a voice (singing) a little like an instrument where you don't use muscles on fingers, but muscles inside your neck/throat.
I got some practice in playing bass (guitar/double-bass) and ...
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I have perfect pitch but have trouble identifying the note of human singing and the note I hear in my head. Any suggestion on how to practice this?
When I hear a note played on an instrument, its name (like A, Bb, etc.) immidiately pops up in my head. But when I hear human singing nothing like that happens. So I'm wondering how should I practice ...
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How can I to learn sight-singing, transcribe, and sight-reading?
I'm curious what the best route would be to become proficient in sight singing & ear training, along with polishing my technique on my preferred instruments (guitar & piano). I have a broad ...
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Timing: Would listening to a metronome for hours on end help at all?
Adam Neely, my new favorite music Youtube person, suggests listening to a metronome for hours on end to improve your sense of rhythm/timing/tempo.
If my goal is to ...
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Eartraining: What to learn after mastering interval recognition?
(This is for relative pitch, absolute pitch gods please don't descend from heaven)
I've been learning to recognize intervals for the past year or so, and I have to say I'm very good at it. (Mostly by ...
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How can I hear an octave-displaced version, as easily as the popular piece?
I've listened to the following octave displacements ("8D") that both professors intended to be easily identified, at least 20 times. But I still can't. How can I correct this hearing flaw?
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Which octave learning can be postponed by beginner while eartraining from 7 octave computer software for piano?
If a beginner wants to ear train absolute pitch of piano from computer software which is showing 7 octaves, which octaves can he can omit at beginning ? 7th ,6th octave or 1st ,2nd octave? Or should ...
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Is ear training for piano is 100% sufficient for ear training flute?
If a person ear trains pitches of piano will he be automatically able to understand the pitches of flute or should he do some extra ear train for flute ? For example can we say if a person ear trains ...
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Problem distinguishing certain P4 and P5
When I was doing ear training, I found it's very difficult for me to distinguish some P4 and P5 intervals (harmonically), mostly around C3 or lower. For instance, if a perfect fifth, C3 and G3 are ...
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What is the purpose of studying intervals
As a composer and a piano player i am very confused why do i need to study intervals? I understand it is for ear training but what quality and purpose does it have realy? Is it necessary? I cant see ...
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Learn to generate musical tones in your mind? [closed]
I'm working on training my ears, and I have absolutely no ability to generate a pitch relative to another in my mind. Given C, I cannot move up an octave to the next higher C in my mind-- I can't ...
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What constitutes a more effective skill development in self-teaching piano; aural skills or music notation? [closed]
I am currently a year 12 student.
As part of my research, I would love to hear some answers in which you think is better -gaining aural skills or knowing music notation- when wanting to improve your ...
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Ear training - help recognizing intervals
I've been a guitar player for years - I've done covers so far. But all the covers I've played were taken from online tabs - the reasoning behind this is that I'm absolutely awful at recognizing ...
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Solfege not working for me
I am taking some ear training lessons and we started out with singing One,Two....
Well, that didn't really work. Now we are trying solfege, but that seems to be just as bad. Many years ago i was ...
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Hearing separate notes when played together
I just started taking ear training lessons and my teacher was surprised that I can't hear 2 separate notes when they are played harmonically.I can hear that it's not a single note, but she can sing ...
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How does ear training help me find the key of a song?
I want to understand how ear training to identify different intervals helps me figure out what notes are in a song, and what key it's in.
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How to know singing is in a particular key
At Deering's web site, they have a blog entry Learning Banjo by Ear for Beginners. The third step says, "Sing that melody aloud in the key of G. (keep strumming that chord if you need a reference ...
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Program for ear training that plays song associated with the interval [closed]
I remember that I have once used a program (or an app) for interval ear training that asked you for intervals, and if you did it wrong played an associated song (the melody) beginning with this ...
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Is absolute pitch acquired by training, genetic or both? And if possible, is it much harder than relative pitch?
I have heard many different views of people that absolute pitch is ONLY acquired by training, ONLY by genetics, by genetics but also possible with training or ONLY both. But what is the truth?
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Optimal harmonic audiation techniques
I am trying to learn to audiate harmonies in order to be able to compose without instruments. I can already audiate melodies, but harmony is a real beast. (Edit: To be clear, I can recognize chords, ...
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While playing fugues, do pianists follow each voice simultaneously?
I'm learning the piano and my teacher always says to me: "just focus on the melody, sing it in your head, and voicing and phrasing will go along", which works greatly as long as the piece is a mix of ...
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What will help transcribe what I hear in my mind to actual notes
Sometimes I hear music in my mind and the more complex it is the harder it is for me to transcribe to singing or to the melody or chords that I hear.
What can help? Is it ear training and if so how ...
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Straying off pitch in acapella
When I sing acapella my voice has a tendency to creep up during the song and I usually end a verse a semitone higher than I started. Is this an issue? Are there any good methods to prevent this?
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Looking for Jazz recordings to practice transcribing bass lines [closed]
I don't play bass but I've read before that it's a very good excercise to transcribe walking bass lines from jazz recordings while figuring out the changes. The problem with doing this, I find, is ...
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How to train my ear only by listening?
I am in a bit of an odd situation: I need to sing for my church choir but I don't have regular access to a place where I can sing out loud without bothering others (it's a long story). However, I have ...
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Singing what you're playing vs playing what you're singing
I’ve heard the advice :- play what you sing as a means of practicing playing what you hear in your head.
I've realised that I tend to sing the stuff I play instead of playing what I sing.
I already ...
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Guitar player, music theory and ear training enthusiast. I love to learn what other great players play [duplicate]
I am always interested in improving my musical ear. What is the best way to do this? I know this is a pretty vague question. I wish I knew how to be more specific. I would love to hear about your ...
