How Do I Go About It?

[Retrospectre]

Hello, People of EasyEarTraining.com.

First off, I would like to say thank you for taking the time to set up a
website like this one, dedicated to the education of music for any and all
who are interested. I haven't seen so many USEFUL resources in one place at
a time. Most of the time, on other sites, I find links to websites that do
nto really offer anything, or maybe it's just not what I'm looking for.

Anyway, I have a little problem. I do not know where to start for the ear
and frequency training.

I would like to be an Audio Engineer, a singer and a multi-instrumentalist,
so all your resources interest me since they respond to all that. The
problem though is, where do I start so I can make efficient progress. Since
singing is a minor goal, compared to the Audio Engineering and
Instrument-playing, where I'll be focusing much much more, I would like to
know if you have any suggestions for where I should start, and how often i
should practice and the like.

[CantThinkOfaName]

Hello, Fotios here; first off, my sincere apologies for such a late reply. (I was battling a bad bronchial infection courtesy of a worse winter!)

Anyway, moving along...boy did you hit it. Resources like this didn't exist at all when I was coming up. That's what initially exited me to contribute to this site when Chris was putting it together.

So far as your question; Simply put; prioritize!

I don't mean to "plug" or "pimp" my own series......but a good place to start learning about engineering is first digging into the whole "Frequency series". Learning the alphabet of sound is always a solid bet that you can spring board from later. Put it this way; it's must have knowledge for anyone in the far encomassing audio field. Its not "specialized" knowledge that you might or might not end up using. You will ALWAYS be using it, even if you are unaware that you are.

Take that above paragraph and apply it to the music theory portion of this site. The other writers takle that particular topic with equal aplomb!

Those two topics will serve you in ANY audio/instrument/singing endeavor that you choose.

As far as practice.....Usually more is better right? In this case, no. Go for consistency and quality. The ear fatigues rather easily, and then everything degenerates into sounding the same. Avoid that. A little each day, every day. Your practice time will increase much like an athlete training.

A good rule of thumb is the old food adage. "walk away from the dinner table when you're about 85% full" (or something like that)
Same here, don't wait untill you're at 100% fatigue. Walk away at about 80-85%

I wish I had a giant bomb of wisdom to impart....but really it just come down to common sense and logical planning and logical steps. The secret is that there is no secret!

Good luck,
F