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Questions tagged [ear-training]

Learning to make distinctions in pitch and/or rhythm when hearing music.

Ear training covers several skills, including pitch and rhythm recognition and reproduction, interval recognition, chord recognition, and melodic memory.

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What are the most effective ear training methods?

Ear training is a very important ability for any musician to develop. From intonation when singing or playing an instrument to playing and transcribing by ear. What is the best way to improve this? Is software like EarMaster or GNU Solfege any…
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Are there any games useful for ear training?

There have been several popular music games in recent years, but they seem to be most useful for developing a sense of rhythm. Are there any games that are helpful as ear training exercises? What would you recommend?
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Are we all born with the ability to detect a note out of tune?

I would like to know why humans can detect a note out of tune relative to the scale or harmony. We seem to be born with the ability to notice, so why can't every able-hearing person sing or play an instrument in tune?
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Is there a technique to "extracting" second voices from songs?

By extracting, I don't mean getting a separate mp3 file or something like that. What I meant was being able to discern the second voice behind all the other voices, instruments, etc. It's easy to know when a second voice is there, but the pitch is…
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Transcribing by ear, is it done with the root as reference, or the previous note?

To all the people with good ears: when you're figuring out a melody by ear, are you listening to the sequence of notes and figuring out where each note sits relative to the root of the key? Or are you figuring out what the next note is by the…
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How to hear the numbers?

There's this guy on youtube that I'd watch, he has a channel called 'Jazz Theory'. Anyway, one profound thing I heard him say is that you're not playing by ear until you can hear the numbers in anything you listen to. And by numbers, what chord…
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Learning instrument recognition

I want to be able to identify instruments when played. For example, if I'm listening to some symphony, I want to be able to identify the oboe from the bassoon, the viola from the violin, etc. I have searched software for learning instrument…
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Problem distinguishing certain P4 and P5

When I was doing ear training, I found it's very difficult for me to distinguish some P4 and P5 intervals (harmonically), mostly around C3 or lower. For instance, if a perfect fifth, C3 and G3 are played simultaneously, it sounds more like C4 and G3…
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What will help transcribe what I hear in my mind to actual notes

Sometimes I hear music in my mind and the more complex it is the harder it is for me to transcribe to singing or to the melody or chords that I hear. What can help? Is it ear training and if so how can I learn this?
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Music in your head

I'm a little confused on the concept of hearing music in your head. I dont think I really do that. Some people I know say they can hear specific instruments as they "listen". Do I not have the wiring, or is it less hearing and more trying to…
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Recognize musical elements in real time

I have practiced ear training for many years and I can recognize notes, tonal degrees, rhythms and chords very accurately, but there is one caveat, I have to slow down music, a lot. If I listen to music at normal speed, I am not able to follow…
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How to Improve aural memory

I'm playing the guitar for years, MANY years, there's nothing wrong with my ears, I can hear and understand individual notes, I can even identify them without a reference tone BUT ... I can't remember music to save my life. I can remember everything…
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Is it important to practice ear training with different instruments/sounds?

In ear-training, specifically interval/chord recognition, is it important to mix up the intruments/sounds we use ? Will it somewhat hinder my learning if most of my ear-training is done through, say, samples of piano ? Or will these skills carry…
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Hearing separate notes when played together

I just started taking ear training lessons and my teacher was surprised that I can't hear 2 separate notes when they are played harmonically.I can hear that it's not a single note, but she can sing both of them. Am I in a small minority?
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Playing songs by ear (steps)

I've been reading a lot regarding ear-training, and learning to play by ear. These are the conclusions I can to expressed as steps in learning to play by ear. Figuring out the key of the song. This seems to be foundational as all one's perception…
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