Ear training: improve your musical ear without pain
This ear training course is not designed to acquire perfect pitch (there are methods on the subject), but relative pitch: that which enables you to find the name of a note, or its function, with a prior reference (either another note, or a chord). This is what we mean when we say “playing by ear”.
In my opinion, the musical ear (which in our case is relative) is THE skill that musicians need to master the most in order to broaden their sense of freedom when creating or playing. In fact, this is what self-taught people use, since they obviously can’t use theoretical rules they don’t know. And it’s essential! Improving your musical ear means being able to sing, compose or improvise on guitar, bass or any other instrument with the greatest possible ease. A good ear enables us to recognise intervals, to sing them, to identify the nature of a chord and its state (inverted or not) and to arpeggiate it with the voice or the instrument, to recognise scales and modes, and to perform a whole range of manipulations on the notes available…
In this course, we will work on the following points:
– improve your listening skills to better understand music.
– Developing inner hearing,
– as well as the ability to apply to the instrument what one hears internally
– Don’t get lost in the changes
– Making your own transcriptions
– Writing your own compositions and distribute scores to musicians
– Recognising rhythms (because it’s a related skill)
Exercises (dictation, aural recognition of intervals and chords…) alternate with the transcription of themes, bass lines, chord charts…
And for those who already have an “alert” ear, we can go even further: chord chart analysis, modulations, transformations, as well as a host of exercises that allow us to explore the limits of our ear (or rather of our brain!): single-pass chart transcription, chord dictations, mode changes, singing notes that are not played, improvising on anything that comes along…
initial free one-hour lesson!
