FREE Ear Training That Works (my two favourite exercises)

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[@khizerrizviofficial]

Truly grateful, thank you for sharing. Love and respect from Pakistan!

[@FBT]

You're welcome, I'm really glad that you found this helpful!

[@pl566]

This was great! I've been using Functional Ear Trainer for a couple of months and your recommendations (and the second method) are very helpful. Glad I found your channel!

[@FBT]

Happy to help! Best of luck with your ear training journey, I've always found it the hardest and slowest area of practice.

[@steelcantuna]

This was very educational. I have already been using the first app for a few weeks. I apparently practice for too long an interval at a time. I have noticed the longer I practice, the worse I become. I seem to do my best the first or second time around.

[@FBT]

Ears get tired easily, especially in the early stages of training. Five minutes is plenty to start with!

[@gmtgsong4635]

Thanks for your great channel and wonderful transcriptions with analysis! I just subscribed. Regarding ear training, I agree that functional ear trainer is really good. I think hearing chord progressions is one of, if not the most, useful abilities for musicians, and have slowly improved this over the years. I'm sure you're great at it. Might you have any further suggestions as to how to improve this valuable skill? Thanks again.

[@FBT]

Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and transcriptions. Hearing chord progressions is one of the hardest but most important things, and I'm not sure that I'm very good at it... I'd suggest starting out with simple pop songs and seeing if you can hear any of the chord changes at all without an instrument in your hands to check. Do any of the sections have the same chord progression? Which chord feels like home? Chances are you can already pick up movements like I - vi or I - IV, so it's really a case of building a mental library of how those chord sequences feel and going from there. Good luck!

[@FBT]

Glad to hear that you're enjoying the transcriptions and videos. Hearing chord progressions is one of the toughest but most important things to do, and I'm not sure that I'm any good at it... Start with simple pop songs and see if you can identify chord movements like I - vi and I - IV without using an instrument, it's then a case of building up a mental library of how those chord movements feel and going from there. Good luck!

[@stephuprightco7297]

Hy! I’m a french professional bass player, i would like to make a transcription book of my personnal works. So when i saw your works, i have to tell you, it was a very good work. And i want to knouw what software you use to make your sheet of bass, please? Thanks

[@FBT]

Thank you for the kind words about my transcriptions! I use a very old copy of Sibelius from 2006... A lot of my students get great results from Musescore, which is free, so you don't have to pay for software to make decent charts.