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He would play a phrase, and I would write it down. I had a little trouble at first, but then worked with a classmate severals nights a week. Dictation wasn't so bad, just a Bach chorale. But as a college student, and even grad, I was not the best ear student.Īs a grad student, I had to take 6 practicum exams in dictation, sight-singing, figured bass realization, reading 4-part counterpoint in treble, alto, tenor, and bass clefs, score reduction, and piano sight-reading at the Chopin level.
After being paralyzed for two months, when I got back home, I found that music had become physical and concrete in the manner I just described. I am very good at picking things out and "seeing" music that I hear and walking around in it. While I have always been pretty good at playing, composing, improvising, teach theory and analysis, doing theory research, etc., my Achilles heel is my ear. If you scroll down this page you will see the materials he offers for ear training. I'd say that by and large the 'tried and true' approaches have failed miserably at providing the majority of students with an effective method of getting good results within a reasonable time frame.įor example Bruce Arnold who teaches music and guitar at NYU and Princeton has some unique and I think advanced approaches to teaching ear training. The goal of these approaches is to significantly improve the success of the student which is a good goal.
I think any ear training is better than none at all but I also think that there have been some important improvements and better designed approaches to teaching ear training that I see are starting to make there way onto the scene. The thing that interests me about the three programs in my OP is that they each have some unique aspects that go beyond the typical offerings available online. It looks like there's a v2 now which I haven't used. I think that's a pretty well thought out program where you're asked to identify intervals within an actual musical context rather than just hearing an interval on it's own.
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Of the free programs online that I'm aware of my favourite by far is the Functional Ear Trainer I and II. And personally I think there's lots of room for improvement. I was introduced to formal ear training in 1981 or so and it seems very little has been done to improve and enhance the approach to teaching it. I think there are a number of those online that are all very similar. I've really given this one a good look over and it seems like a very legitimate and well designed course. I may wind up signing up for this one at least to initially check it out. I assume this is what David Lucas Burge refers as hearing the 'color' of each note although Burge doesn't relate it to specific harmonics that are emphasised in each note. I haven't bought it but it's somewhat enticing. At least that's what I've got out of it so far.
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The software teaches you to hear the definitive harmonics in each of the twelve pitches. Essentially he's saying that each pitch is recognizable by it's unique emphasis of certain harmonics (upper partials). It was pretty easy for me to hear what he's pointing out as the character of each pitch. If you sign up he will email you some example lessons. It's an interesting approach that he uses and it's worth at least reading what the guy has to say. I can see this simple program having a real fast and useful impact on someones ear. Essenstially you use it for call and response practice either vocally or with your instrument.
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It's a user controlled melody generator where the user gets to set all sorts of parameters.
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This one has a free trial download and I like it a lot. I have absolutely no affiliation with any of these programs. I know that there's a lot of strong beliefs about ear training and I'm not trying to be controversial I just want to share what seems to me like some potentially useful opportunities for those of us who are interested in developing our ears. I know there are lots of them out there and I've seen quite a few. In the last couple of days I've come across 3 ear training programs that I thought I'd share with those of you who might have some interest.
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