The Jazz Ear Startup Guide: Five Master Tools
Discover the five master tools used by expert jazz improvisers and the easy steps you can take to develop them for your own jazz ear.
What’s the point of using a metronome?
Although it is often misused and disliked by beginner music students, a metronome can be the ear trainer’s best friend. Let’s look at some of the ways you can use a metronome to improve your ears. Before we get started though, what metronome is best? You...How to Hear Chord Inversions
As part of chord ear training you will want to practice with all inversions of chords. Here are some techniques to help you recognise triad inversions.
Raise the Fifth! Listening for Augmented Triads
What is an augmented chord, and how can you pick it out from a crowd? Musical U teaches you how you can listen for and differentiate these special chords.
Announcing SingTrue: the app which can teach anybody to sing in tune
Announcing SingTrue: the new iPhone app which trains your mind, ears and voice to help you become a pitch-perfect singer and creative, confident musician.
About the Ear Training Trap
If you’re losing enthusiasm with ear training, it’s likely that you’ve fallen into the famous Ear Training Trap. Learn how to steer clear of this roadblock!
Hear It, Write It, Play It: Solfege Helps You Get It
Can you transcribe music by ear? Use the solfa framework taught in this series and you’ll be able to easily write down music just like in this example.
Chord Ear Training 101
Learn to play the most common chords and chord progressions by ear and find out how they are used in a variety of genres – rock, jazz, and classical.
Listen to Les, Part 3: Audio Effects
In this, the concluding part of our series on the genius Les Paul, we are going to be looking at his contribution to the world of effects. For a modern guitarist, effects pedals are an integral part of their sound. There are a dizzying array of boxes available to feed...
Listen to Les, Part 2: A Recording Revolution
Last time we talked about Les Paul’s role as the father of the electric guitar. Nobody can question the significance of his innovations there, but that was far from the limit of his contribution to modern music. Next up we’ll be learning about the part he...
Ear Training Q&A: Your Questions Answered
Here are some recent questions we’ve received from students about ear training and the answers we gave. Intervals, audio, chords, singing, planning and more.
How can I get better at hearing intervals in music?
One disadvantage of the interval songs and “Nike” method of interval learning is that you can get very good at recognising isolated intervals but still struggle to use that in your real musical life… There are a few ways to progress past this and...
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