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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

Answers

Adding 8th Notes

8th Note Practice

Looking for Patterns

More with Patterns

Repeating Patterns

Why Focus on Rhythm

Practice with Pitch

Answers

Let's Try That Again!

Clues

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Identifying Spaces

Practice

Answers

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

Answers

Practice

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Triplet Patterns

Counting Triplets

Practice

Answers

Practice

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Quarter-Note Pulse Meters

Eighth-Note Pulse Meters

Practice in 6/8

Answers

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...).