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Ear Training & Aural Skills, Part 1: Rhythms
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About Ear Training & Aural Skills, Part 1: Rhythms
Introduction
What is Ear Training?
Why Do We Care About Ear Training?
What is Dictation?
This is a Skill that Takes Practice!
My Tortured History with Ear Training
What is Perfect Pitch?
What is Relative Pitch?
Something Strange Called "True Pitch"
How to Know If You Are Right
Just Rhythms - For Now.
Using a Tuner for Pitch Detection
Using Software Like MuseScore
Using a Phone or Tablet Computer
Using a Metronome
A Melody A Day Keeps You On Track
Finding Things to Practice
My Favorite Practice Game
Review Notation!
Writing It Down
Your First Dictation Quiz
Attempt No. 1
Answers
Attempt No. 2
Listening
My Attempt and The Answer
Adding Whole Notes
Practice
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Adding 8th Notes
8th Note Practice
Looking for Patterns
More with Patterns
Repeating Patterns
Why Focus on Rhythm
Practice with Pitch
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Let's Try That Again!
Clues
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Identifying Spaces
Practice
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Practice with Pitch
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Practice with Pitch
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Checking In: How We Doing? (A Little Pep Talk...)
Adding in 16th Notes
Review on Counting Syllables
Practice
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Practice
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Triplet Patterns
Counting Triplets
Practice
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Practice
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Quarter-Note Pulse Meters
Eighth-Note Pulse Meters
Practice in 6/8
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Practice in 6/8
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A Bunch of Practice Melodies
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What Comes Next?
Bonus Lecture
What You Will Learn?
- 100% Answer Rate! Every single question posted to this class is answered within 24 hours by the instructor. .
- Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start..
- Ear Training and Aural Skills is the practice of learning to play music by ear, learning to notate music by ear, and learning to understand music on a deeper level just by hearing it. In this class we are going to learn techniques for listening, analyzing, and notating music (writing it down) just by listening. Perfect Pitch is not required.If you don't know me, I've published a lot of music theory classes here. Those classes have been really successful, and the number one request I've been getting from students is to make an Ear Training sequence of classes. So here it is! This series will have 6 parts: .
- Part 1: Rhythms.
- Part 2: Diatonic Intervals.
- Part 3: Melodies.
- Part 4: Diatonic Harmony.
- Part 5: Chromatic Melodies.
- Part 6: Chromatic Harmony.
- Each of these classes comes with about 4 hours of training, and a LOT of things to practice with. And of course, access to me with any questions you have at any time..
- Here is a list of some of the topics we will cover:.
- Why Do we Care about Ear Training? .
- The Myth of Perfect Pitch.
- Relative Pitch.
- "True Pitch".
- Using a Tuner and Metronome.
- Dictation Practice Quizzes.
- Notating Rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4.
- Working with Pitch.
- Adding in Rests and Ties.
- Adding in 16th Notes.
- Notating Rhythms in 3/8, 6/8, and 9/8.
- Adding in Triplets.
- A whole lot of things to practice with!.
- And Much, Much, More!.
- My Promise to You:.
- I am a full-time Music composer and Educator. If you have any questions please post them in the class or send me a direct message. .
- What makes me qualified to teach you?.
- In addition to being a composer and educator, I also have a Ph.D. in music, I am a university music professor, and have a long list of awards for teaching..
- But more importantly: I use this stuff every day. I write music professionally, I am an active guitarist, and I stay on top of all the latest techniques, workflows, and styles. As you will see in this class, I just love this stuff. And I love teaching it..
- You will not have another opportunity to learn Ear Training in a more comprehensive way than this..
- Let's get started! .
- See you in lesson 1..
- All best,.
- Jason (but call me Jay...).