The Fundamentals of Effective Ear Training for Musicians

[@glenmartin9974]

Very useful and it makes perfect sense to isolate the fundamentals.

[@UseYourEar]

Thank you

[@culapantaka]

Thank you for your teachings. I participated in your course a few days ago. I felt a deep consonance with what you call like tonal gravitation. I think it’s a more fundamental way of perception than calculations on intervals. Especially I am sure about that, when I’m trying to find out the tonic in a chord progression. I’m looking forward to my reborn in this area.

[@UseYourEar]

Thank you! I'm glad you like the course.

[@angelamwatts]

I wanted to sing for a professional choir and so I tried out for it. I didn't pass the audition but the choir director liked my vocal and wanted me to get vocal sight singing training. I was so naive when I started this journey two years ago. I knew nothing about sight singing. Now I can read music pretty well but I still struggle a little bit with ear training and sight singing. Sing in a choir is really challenging when I have to sing against the melody and sing in harmony. I've learned so much about music that I think that I could probably learn to play a musical instrument fairly quickly. What I do is memorize melodies from church songs with specific key signatures in my brain to identify what the note sounds like for specific a key signature. I have found 2 perfect melodies one for C Major and one for F Major. So when I try out again for the choir, I will be better prepared for the sight singing test. Working with a professional vocal teacher also helped me immensely. It's really rough.

[@UseYourEar]

Thank you for sharing your experience. Check out other videos on our channel as they might help you further. Ear training plays a big role in what you are trying to achieve.

[@angelamwatts]

@Use Your Ear Thank you for responding. Ear training is critically important for vocalists who sing in choirs. In my humble opinion, singing in a choir is harder than playing in an orchestra because of the difficulty of singing against the melody. I love instruments too and would love to learn keyboard or the soprano recorder. My life revolves around music, I absolutely love it.

[@RanBlakePiano]

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[@thebeloved25]

Thank you for this teaching. I would love to know if pitch matching is same with perfect pitch. What then is the difference btw them both. Also, what can I do when my humming doesn't match that of the keyboard. My friend pointed to me once that my humming didn't match the pitch. Any advice pls. Thanks I await you response.

[@UseYourEar]

Pitch matching is very different from perfect pitch. Pitch matching is just the ability to hum a given note, perfect pitch is the ability to recognize notes just by hearing them. We treat training pitch matching in our course, would be difficult to do that in a comment. Thanks

[@nickbrouwer9643]

But what if you take this course and it gets clear you are not able to recognize keys at all? You can’t make progress if you don’t have this ability.

[@UseYourEar]

Hi Nick, we teach you how to develop that skill from scratch. You don't have to worry, the course is going to work no matter your current level. This is not a fancy statement, it literally works even if you are starting from zero. I started from zero myself (I didn't have that skill when I started), so I know what it takes and our method has helped countless students acquire that skill from scratch. So, I understand your concern but you don't have to worry.

[@pedroteixeira1937]

Dear Master i admire your logics thoughts,but,sometihng intrigues m,y mind: interval study has not utility? in solfege how can us ignore it?we have a tonic the next note what does it represent? colors of different intensities? how unsderstand them,what is its measure or references?

[@UseYourEar]

Hi Pedro, thank you for your comment. it sounds to me like you are mixing up interval-based thinking with solfege and other tonal-based ways of thinking. This video here might help you understand more about the big difference there is from one another and why you should avoid interval-based cognitive processes kzbin.info/www/bejne/boG5aoKbaLx4bKs thanks