Questions tagged [ear-training]
Learning to make distinctions in pitch and/or rhythm when hearing music.
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What is the solfa method to learn intervals?
I am working on recognizing intervals. I am reading online material to determine which technique would be the most efficient.
I came across this article:
The second method is “solfa”. This is the “do ...
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Interval recognition : should I use reference songs?
I am at the beginning of my journey to learn singing.
To master interval recognition, my teacher and many people recommend using reference songs (the first 2 notes of the song corresponding to the ...
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Strategy for melodic dictation
I try to learn melodic dictation for an exam situation.
My current strategy is:
notating just the rhythm when hearing the whole thing for the first time
identify anchor points when hearing each bar ...
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How can I improve my ear for intonation?
I play tenor trombone, possibly switching to bass trombone. I need to improve my ear for tuning and noticing whether or not I am either sharp or flat. How can I practice in this area?
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It is possible to get the drum progression only by listening?
I want to get the drum progression from this
song on youtube at the minute 3:24, but I am unable to get the things very clearly, I can hear a Hi Tom on it, but no much more?
It is possible to get the ...
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Is Fixed Do automatically learned when you learn Movable Do Solfege, but not the other way around?
From what I understand, for example, if I perceive the Tonic note as "C" instead of "G" in a G major song such that I would sing "Do" on the note "C" instead of ...
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How is learning Fixed DO Solfege any different than learning Absolute Pitch?
In Fixed DO Solfege, you are essentially memorizing the pitch in association with the pitch's name. From what I can understand, you can hear any note without establishing a tonal center as in you can ...
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Interval Perception
I am learning to sing and I am pretty bad at it for now (I sing out of tune).
I was told that a good ear is important to sing well. This makes sense, so I looked for ways to quantify the quality of my ...
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How can I learn to hear chords from reading a score?
I’ve self studied my way through harmony, counterpoint (strict and free), free composition, can improvise at the piano in most styles without much thought, but I’m finding when I try to compose ...
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Is this bass tab wrong? [closed]
The following tab seems to have a mistake or typo (circled in red, with the way I play it in green below):
Am I right that what is shown as F (D string, fret 3) should really be played as an F#/Gb (D ...
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Ear Training Using Tanpura
Tanpura is most important instrument for learning and practicing indian classical music. One another advantage of tanpura is it helps in ear training as well. In tanpura there are 3 main notes (pa of ...
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How to "hear" polyrhythms?
I've ben playing drums for about 22 years now and am quite capable around the kit. I've been working on some more complex polyrhythmic stuff, like 9/8 grooves with 7/8 or 5/8 ostinatos on the hats/...
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If I can identify specific notes on specific instruments, does that mean I have perfect pitch (or train to achieve perfect pitch)?
If I hear a G, B, B flat or E played on a piano or string instrument, I can (most of the time) identify the Note. Whenever I hear a G, I think of Holst's Mars or Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker march, when I ...
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How to recognise chords and chord progressions by ear? [duplicate]
I am pretty comfortable with playing melodies by ear, but when it comes down to the next level, chords and chord progressions, i fumble pretty hard.
I tend to pick up the 3rd of a chord and play it as ...
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How do I make sure I'm hitting the right notes when I sing?
I'm a beginner. I think I will get a new vocal coach since my current vocal coach is ineffective and doesn't help me at all. I asked my question on reddit and asked a singer I know, my question is: ...
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How do I recognize notes in other key?
I have a relative pitch and I'm a beginner of jazz improvisation.
I have a problem in improvisation.
I used to follow the key when chord progression of key changed.
(like 'all the things you are' and ...
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Why can I pick out any singer's voice from a choir when I look at them?
Our choir often practises in sections e.g. the sopranos sing their bit while the rest of us wait their turn. I discovered by accident that as I look at any particular singer, I can very clearly hear ...
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Can I identify any note by ear by knowing one single note and all intervals?
I assume that learning to identify intervals by ear is easier than learning to identifying notes by ear.
So if one is capable of playing sound of only one note in his head and comparing it to the ...
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Improving ability to play along [duplicate]
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I have been trying to improve my pitch identification. I managed to improve it to within maybe +-5 semitones of a random note on the piano so I usually get to the right one on maybe the ...
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Are there any methods to improve ability to hear multiple lines in your head?
Over the summer I worked my way through Fux's strict counterpoint and am trying to write fugues without the aid of any instrument or computer. I have some ear training up to the point where I can ...
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How does one transcribe a fast rhythm from memory?
There is a song I know from childhood, and I'm in the process of transcribing it from memory. I can write down the pitches (I use numbered notation), and I can transcribe the rhythms except when the ...
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How can I learn to sing swaras (notes) correctly without an accompanying instrument?
I'm trying to sing swaras correctly without the harmonium or identify a swara when played. But I'm finding it very hard to do. What is the best way to gain mastery over swaras so that one can sing ...
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How do I practice relative pitch effectively?
The cause of a lot of my anxiety, and the reason I've been too frustrated to practice music for the last few months, is because I do not have an effective way to work on my relative pitch. I taught ...
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In Taeyeon Kim's "I", why does the Leading Tone or Seventh sound like the Tonic?
I'm assuming that Jenny Ji hasn't hoodwinked us by covertly consulting the score, before reviewing this song in this Youtube video. To improve my ear training, I deliberately refrained from reading ...
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How much ear training is required to identify chords and their progressions, without perfect pitch and reading any scores?
I'm impressed by Kevin Wang's ability to identify chords aurally. He graduated with a BM in Piano Performance from the Rochester School of Music in 2016. I'm assuming that
he has never seen the ...
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Can a song's chords be interpreted in many different ways?
From one of the songs I am trying to interpret, I am confused about which base chord is the right base chord. From the song, around the 00:59 part of the song(Where the chorus starts), I thought the ...
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How can I tell whether the bass note I heard is the right one?
I have been playing guitar for a while and I realized I should develop my skill for finding the chords by ear. However, in some songs like Driver's License - Olivia Rodrigo, I realized what I am ...
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I have been struggling at achieving pitch accuracy since forever. How can I prevent singing off-pitch?
An audio of myself singing to Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy":
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I have been singing for a year and 4 months now. When I started I had no knowledge of pitch, tone and dynamics. I ...
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How can I train my ear? [duplicate]
So, months ago I started to study how to play guitar and piano, I already got to play some songs, but I feel very awkward playing something by ear. Therefore, i'd like some tips on where I have to ...
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Find a chord progression [closed]
I am looking for the chord progression that appears in this audio file.
There should be : G/D - Bm/F# - F#m, but I am missing one. Thanks in advance !
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How can one learn to identify intervals by ear without singing?
Learning to identify intervals typically relies heavily on singing. This is evident in many posts here regarding ear training (see below). But what about those for whom singing isn't an option?
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Trouble listening to polyphonic music
I heard that Mozart heard Gregorio Allegri's Misere Mei Deus once at a concert and copied it down note for note from his head. I can copy down a piece note for note if I have it in my head, but I'm ...
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How to determine scale degrees by ear?
I am trying to learn to determine scale degrees by ear. I stumbled across this exercise: https://tonedear.com/ear-training/functional-solfege-scale-degrees, but so far my guesses are not much better ...
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How can I achieve the ability of playing the music's melody right after listening to it? [duplicate]
Recently I bought a new guitar for myself. After having a basic course, I can play some simple songs like Auld Lang Syne, and I've started wondering this question:
If I had such ability, I may learn a ...
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How to develop a musical ear when even singing poses great difficulty?
I love music and would love to develop a musical ear. My problem is that I can't get started. All tutorials that I find start at a more advanced point compared to where I am at. I can't carry a tune. ...
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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.
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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? [duplicate]
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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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.
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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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