Aural training exercises
Start simple and gradually increase difficulty. For this reason, I recommend bookmarking your favorite exercises and doing them every day for a set amount of time. This is because, after you've spent time practicing something, your brain continues to work on it and make new neural connections in the background, even while sleeping ( especially while sleeping!). Who would improve faster: Stu, who practices once a week for 4 hours straight, or Merle, who practices every day for 20 minutes? I'd bet on Merle, even though Stu spends almost twice as much time practicing.
More direct guitar exercises will be added as this site grows.Increase practice frequency, not duration. Remember to try playing all these sounds on your guitar.
Find your own tags to help memorise the two note combinations of these "Simple Major Intervals" ("Simple" just means notes within one octave). The Perfect Fourth (P4) is 'Here Comes the Bride' or 'We Wish you a Merry Christmas'. For example the Major Second sound (M2) is the beginning of 'Happy Birthday'. Try to assign a fragment of melody for each pair of notes to help you as we did above. The next exercise is all the notes of the Major Scale. Happy Birthday, Frere Jaques = (M2) "Here Comes the Bride", Harry Potter = (P4) My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, Hush Little Baby (lullaby), NBC Chimes = (M6)įive Six Seven eight Perfect 5th Major 6th Major Seventh Perfect Octave Try Major Seconds Thirds and Perfect Fourthsįamiliar tunes Major Seconds's Perfect Fourth's and Major Sixth's The First Ear Training Exercise: Unison or Not? Keep checking back and/or get hooked into my RSS feed for the updates additions and developments on this page and this site in general. If you've had some experience with music theory or you have explored this site enough you can start your ear training journey here. Many thanks to Ricci Adams at for sharing the resources from his wonderful music education site. Progressive Ear Training Customised Exercises for Mortals If you are already familiar with the terms below go straight to Progressive Customised Training. If you want to just dive in and get started then all you need to get going is a few terms and their meanings. Having to 'take them by the hand' and physically show them the way" - See more Simple directions to a stranger looking for the local post office instead of It's kind of like being able to give a few Communicationīetween musicians is much of the time achieved by using the language and The day every one has to have some grip on the theoretical if nothing else toĬommunicate with other musicians. Remember (from Music Theory First Floor): ".at the end of It is also much of the time neglected, disrespected and even hated or You are really going to have to get to grips with some of the language used in In order to do this ear training malarkey If you already understand intervals go straight to the: You may have been told at birth or at school that you are "tone deaf" and you just want to have a go at improving or beginning to get some musical "aural perception". You may be at Uni and in the situation I was in and therefore have to go through the process but NOT the trauma. Thankfully you my friend don’t have to go through this trauma.