Find out the interesting things which have been happening in the world of aural skills development and ear training. Have we missed any?

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• Making Time for Improvisation
• The most relaxing song ever created?
• Silent Practice: The Art of Inner Listening
• Free Jazz Visualisation eBook
• Why Sound?

Making Time for Improvisation

In the post “Making Time for Improvisation” Joy Morin recently advised teachers to “encourage the student to play whatever sounds good to them” and provided some examples of simple exercises which can be used to draw out the student’s creativity at the keyboard.

The most relaxing song ever created?

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Here are a few things you might have missed in the world of aural skills development and ear training lately. Let us know if you have any to add!

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• Halloween Sound Design Contest
• Theta Music Marks 1 Year With a Major Update
• Expert learning advice from the Dallas School of Music
• Black keys improvisation (video)
• Win an app with the Discover, Learn, Play blog

Halloween Sound Design Contest

It’s October, and you know what that means… Halloween!

The Designing Sound website put us onto this exciting and fun contest from

Prizes include a copy of SONOPEDIA 2.0 from Blastwave FX, an autographed set of limited edition Hollywood-is-Dead poster prints from Matt Busch, an autographed copy of the Halloween 4 Soundtrack by Alan Howarth and an autographed copy of “The Sound Effects Bible” by Ric Viers.

Read the full contest information at BlastwaveFX.com. And then what are you waiting for?

If you need a little help getting spooky, keep an eye on EasyEarTraining.com over the next few weeks……

Theta Music Marks 1 Year With a Major Update

About a year ago we covered the launch of Theta Music Trainer, a new suite of online games designed to make ear training fun. We couldn’t agree more with the spirit and goals of Theta Music’s games, so we’re delighted to congratulate them on a successful first year – and the major update they’ve just released. Check out the video below for a tour of the training on offer and the new additions to the Theta Music programme:

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We are excited to announce our new ear training app for iPhone and iPod Touch:

Step and a Half will be released on the App Store this Thursday, 8th July, and we wanted to give EasyEarTraining.com readers a sneak peak of the new app in advance!

What’s it for?

One of the most common requests we’ve heard from RelativePitch users has been to provide training of more than one interval in a row. It’s the natural progression – once you can recognise each interval correctly, you want to start using that to figure out tunes, chord progressions, new improvisations, and so on. But it can be a bit of a stretch from identifying an interval in isolation to identifying it in among other notes of a melody, especially if it’s a long melody or you’re trying to work it out live.
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