This is the most difficult melody ear training exercise I can think of. It’s hard because ear trainingĬhallenges are so fun! Melody Ear Training Exersice 7: Atonal Ear Training What I like, and 0 percent on how fun the ear training challenge is. I’m personally striving to make choices based 100 percent on Percent on what you like, and 40 percent on ear training challenge. Do not decide what to play or listen toīased on how challenging the music is. Let music affect your body, your emotions, and your spirit. Listen to music without turning it into an ear training exercise. So, how do you avoid the ear training trap? Make sure you retain the ability to I think most of the readers of this book are not too far down that rabbit hole. If this is the case, it’s time to take a deep look at why you make music. This means that the only people who areĪttracted to your music are people who are good at (or trying to get good at) playing the ear training It might be hard to tell if you’ve fallen into theĮar training trap, but if a high proportion of the people who listen to your music and come to yourĬoncerts are music students, this is not a good sign. Music is much deeper and more important than this. This is not music! This is an intellectual game. They have to try really hard and listen multiple times to pass your ear It might even become so complicated that nobody can understand Then, your music will become an enormous ear If you let ear training become the main reason you listen to music, then ear training willīecome the main reason you create music. Some music has melodies and chords that are soĬomplicated that they don’t stay in one scale for more than a few seconds, not to mention changing time signatures every bar as well. Unusual scales, which will challenge you even more. You might gravitate towards music that uses Maybe you will notice that some songsĬhange keys, which is a fun ear training challenge. Might begin to look for more challenging music to listen to. If you become obsessed with ear training like I did, you It was harder.” This is a slippery slope. You might start to think “this would be more fun if Major and minor scales, you might notice that listening to songs and treating them as ear trainingĮxercises gets boring once you get good at it. Many musicians fall into what I call the ear training trap. Which doesn’t have a beginning or an end, and uses all twelve notes! Songs like this are usuallyĬalled “atonal.” There are some beautiful pieces of atonal music out there, but you have to look hard Or maybe the song uses the “chromatic scale,” Your ears to sense the scale it is using at any moment. Maybe the song switches between different scales so fast that it’s almost impossible for They use all twelve notes, with no emphasis on a certain Some songs do not seem to use scales at all. See part 4 for an in-depth look at harmony. Harmony plays an important role in making these “outside” notes make sense to the “outside” notes, and when you hear them in your imagination, you'll know whay they are. Eventually, you’ll get used to the unique sound of each of these You could call that note a “flat six” or a “sharp five.” In this way, you can figure out any The scale, you can hear that it sounds, for example, higher than the fifth note, but lower than the Then, when you hear a note that is outside Very fast, without hesitation, and without making mistakes. Know the scale so well that you can do Melody Ear Training Exercise 1 I believe that the best way to be prepared to hear and understand these instances is to know the That A b will create a bit of tension which might be released by moving down ForĮxample, a song that’s mostly in the key of C major might have an A b in the melody at This unexpected note canĬreate moments of tension before a release, or a temporary shift in the mood of the song. Time but have few beautifully placed notes that don’t fit in that scale. There are times when going outside of the scale is called for. Advanced Ear Training Going Outside The Scale
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