{"id":380,"date":"2010-12-01T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T11:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/?p=380"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:30:01","slug":"ear-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/ear-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Ear Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/einstein2.jpg\" alt=\"einstein2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1333\" \/>In a previous post we talked about solfege. Solfege is translating notes on paper to sound without help of an instrument. Going in the opposite direction is interesting as well; analysing melodies and harmonies, in other words, notating music by ear.<\/p>\n<p>In ear training you are practicing to analyse melodies and harmonies. This may consist of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analysing the <em>intervals<\/em>. Whenever the notes are sounding successively, we are talking about <em>melodic intervals<\/em>. And when the notes are sounding at the same moment, they are called <em>harmonic intervals<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Analysing the <em>rhythms<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Analysing the <em>chords<\/em>. Just like the intervals, the notes of the chords can be played successively or simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li>Analysing the chords in <em>scale degrees<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><h4>Practicing<\/h4>\n<p>What is the best way to do ear training? By working actively as a musician! Every time you try to find out what exactly it is what you are hearing, you will be training you ears.<\/p>\n<p>The most complete way to do ear training is to notate songs without using the piano and analysing the chords as well. You might do this as follows. Pick a song by your favorite artist. Use the piano to find out what the key is of the song. (Or better: try to figure it out using your tuning fork.) Then go on by ear:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Notate a part of the melody. When you&#8217;re finished, check the notes on the piano.<\/li>\n<li>Write down the bass line of the same passage. Probably this is the part of the bass guitar, or perhaps the left hand of the piano.<\/li>\n<li>Try to figure out the chords. The bass part you wrote down will help you a lot with this, because each time the chord is changing the root of the chord will probably be played in the bass.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><h4>Computer<\/h4>\n<p>For writing down a song as described above, you need a lot of concentration. Luckily, there is a less exhausting way train your ears. You might use the computer or iPad to provide small exercises. The best software for that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earmaster.com\">earmaster<\/a>. The best free software is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solfege.org\">solfege<\/a>. And the best sites to do free ear training are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teoria.com\">www.teoria.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musictheory.net\">www.musictheory.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/einstein2.jpg\" alt=\"einstein2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1333\" \/>In a previous post we talked about solf\u00e8ge. Solf\u00e8ge is translating notes on paper to sound without help of an instrument. Going in the opposite direction is interesting as well: analysing melodies and harmonies, in other words, notating music by ear.<\/p>\n<p>Ear training is practicing to analyse melodies and harmonies. Ear training may consist of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analysing the <em>intervals<\/em>. Whenever the notes are sounding successively, we are talking about <em>melodic intervals<\/em> and when they are sounding at the same moment, they are called <em>harmonic intervals<\/em>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-piano-playing-and-harmony","category-5-choral-sound-and-warm-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}