You don’t have to sit in a tedious aural theory classroom to improve your ear training. Everyday technology like the internet, your cell phone, video games, or even your car radio can help you train your ears to discern pitches, rhythm, and harmony. You can work on your music listening skills and have a ton of fun, too!

Sing along

Ever sing in your car? Practice matching pitch on your commute to work. Next time you turn on your satellite radio station, choose a station that has singable tunes. The station can have any type of music from the latest pop songs to country music to fun musicals to kid songs (I bet you didn’t know you could combine watching the kids with ear training!). Click to read the rest…

Around this time last week we held the EasyEarTraining.com launch party, upstairs at the Union Chapel in London. The Union Chapel is one of the most incredible music venues in London – a beautiful old church with fantastic acoustics – so there couldn’t be a better place to launch a new site dedicated to helping musicians reach new heights!

We had guests from across the musical spectrum – Music lovers, hobbyist musicians, professional musicians (like the wonderful Annalie Wilson; if you haven’t heard her album, go listen now), Gilbert & Sullivan fans, experts in digital music and ground-breaking audio technologies, backstage concert crew, audio software developers, music-loving journalists, and primary school teachers – all gathered together to learn more about ear training, and how new technology can help make developing your ear easy and fun. It was fascinating to hear different people’s thoughts on ear training, and learn about their own experiences in developing their musical ear.

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