Questions tagged [ear-training]
Learning to make distinctions in pitch and/or rhythm when hearing music.
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Best way to spend practice sessions in order to play by ear?
I'm 23 years old, I've been self-learning to play the piano for 2 years. Im super dedicated and seeking improvement- investing almost 2 hours daily which is most of my free time.
My practice sessions ...
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a question regarding playing by ear [closed]
I was always wondering if there are any well experienced musicians in the world who can play on their instruments immediately what they hear, even if it is a complex piece of music or a fast guitar ...
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Tips on how to transcribe string parts from a song by ear
I am a huge fan of ballad type music and want to get better at writing for strings but have not been able to find some scores or transcriptions of songs that I like so I have decided to try ...
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How to Learn Classical Piano pieces by ear without the sheet music
Yesterday, I was reading about how the famous jazz pianists would play music by ear from recordings and I was appalled to find that I had never tried myself. I have a perfect pitch and so so relative ...
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Is there a specific way to learn what chord progression a song uses by ear?
Lately I've been practicing to learn songs by ear on the piano. The melody is usually easy, but figuring out the chord progression seems to be really difficult. I don't seem to get any better at it ...
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Having learnt all the intervals by ear, how does one learn whole melodies? [duplicate]
This might seem like an easy step, but having learned how to recognise all the intervals upto an octave: ascending, descending and harmonically, how does one figure out a melody by ear? I can pick out ...
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Help With Transcription of Vocals for “Broken Lungs” by Thrice [closed]
I have the lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, and drum parts for this song. I cannot, however, hear what note Dustin starts singing on so I can transcribe it. What is the very first note and/or ...
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Why am I not hearing concepts I'm aware of? [closed]
I've been playing guitar for more than 10 years, although not very seriously. I'm not at all gifted, but I'm not tone-deaf either. I've always thought that I'm not meant to understand music, so I didn'...
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How do I work on retaining the DO during melodic dictation?
I've been working hard on my ear training and am now at the point where I can sight-sing (the right notes at least!) fluently in major (with no accidentals).
I do this by retaining the root and ...
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Chords and Progressions Ear Training
I'm getting pretty good at transcribing melodies, but chords are really difficult. This may be because the underlying harmony is mixed in with the bass as well as other instruments. It also may be ...
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Who plays classical music by ear? [closed]
One of the things I'm working on is playing classical music by ear. I've figured easier things like Canon in D, Prelude in C. But I'm trying to work my way up. I'm wondering if it's possible to play ...
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(How much) should I focus on sight reading if my end goal is being able to play by ear on piano?
So my technical ability is ahead of my sight reading ability. And I haven't practiced my ear at all. My end goal is to eventually be able to play any song by ear and put my own variation on it. I'm ...
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How do I aurally differentiate the tritone, min 6th and major 7th intervals?
I have made good progress in identifying most ascending intervals up to the octave, but am really struggling with the tritone, min 6th and maj 7th.
All three sound dissonant and very similar.
Is ...
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How to tell major, minor, augmented, dominant and diminished chords apart?
I am currently learning level 8 Royal Conservatory of Music piano syllabus.
I am not sure how to tell major, minor and augmented triads apart, as well as dominant and diminished 7th chords. Are ...
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What are the solfege syllables? [duplicate]
Are they C,D,E,F,G,A or do re me fa so la to do? I have an online assignment due and my classmates say it’s CDEFGA but I’m confused.
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Transcribing as music and relative pitch practice?
I've read some good transcriptions recently and watched transcribe videos from 8-Bit Music Theory on YouTube and I was thinking if it's considered to be a good relative-pitch / interval / music ...
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Is relative pitch trainable from scratch?
I know perfect pitch is not obtainable for adults (I'm over 20.) and I accepted it, okay. I even watched Rick Beato's video about it (youtube.com/watch?v=816VLQNdPMM) and read about it on the internet....
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Modus Vetus in a Semester?
I was wondering if I can do all 18 chapters of modus vetus in 16 weeks. About 6 days per each chapter.
Also, what do you think of Elementary Training for Musicians in tandem? It is 11 chapters and ...
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How to use solfège to identify chord inversions
my music teacher states that to differentiate first from second inversion triads listen to where the perfect fourth is. 1st inversion it is on top second inversion on the bottom. the tonic note is ...
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What feelings or words are associated to the different major scale degrees? [closed]
I'm using the Alain Benbassat method for ear training: Listening to major scale notes in the context of the scale (e.g. after hearing I-IV-V-I) and trying to hear the scale degree.
I keep reading and ...
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is it possible to learn instrument based perfect pitch?
Perfect pitch is impossible to learn especially since I'm 19 years old but I have heard of people who developed perfect pitch on their instruments. For example, Aimee Nolte is able to listen to the ...
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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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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.
I ...
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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?
Prof. R. ...
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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 ...
