![]() My singing has probably improved though lol. Guess what still cant pick out a single note and name it in real music. So i can read or name a scale degree and then sing it after I've established a tonic. So I've been doing sight singing every day since then and I can now accurately sing random scale degrees in context to an established tonic. The theory is that if you can sing the scale degree from recall then you have the scale degree internalized (scale degree relative pitch by the way not absolute pitch). Then playing the note afterwards to check if you have sang it correctly. Which are basically writing down a bunch of random scale degrees and then singing them after playing a I-IV-V-I chord progression. I discussed my issues with Scott the head teacher from ear training hq and he directed me towards sight singing exercises. I began to grow frustrated as again I was getting better at the tests but once again no real application. Which has lots and lots of stage by stage instructional material on how to internalize the scale degrees (again its based around scale degrees in relation to the tonic similar to FET) This was the stage at which i was spending hours a day going over and over the exercises. ![]() I then took out a subscription to ear training hq. Pretty good i thought right? But no, i still couldn't hear and name even a single note in real music. I spent about 6 - 7 months doing daily practice with this and was getting around 90% results in both minor and major scales when using the tests on the app. By singing to resolve the note to the nearest tonic. I then found an app called functional ear trainer which teaches you to recognize a scale degree in context to the tonic of a chord progression. ![]() So after more research the mass internet consensus is that interval recognition isn't much use as i discovered. I however very quickly realized that for me at least it was completely useless as a method for hearing notes in a melody in real music despite getting 95%+ results in the phone app tests. I got quite good at this in a couple of weeks even at higher bpm. i.e major second is happy birthday, major 7th is superman theme. The problem is that there doesn't really seem to be an exact science to ear training and its all a bit muddled and often conflicted opinions.įirstly I started with the learning intervals by song association. Here's the following methods I've tried with my experience on them. I do not have that kind of time at the moment so i'm down to one sight singing session plus some APP training whilst walking the dog per day ) ( i was told to stop with the extreme ear training as it was not helping and just leading to more frustration and that 2 or 3 20 minute sessions a day would be better. Most days its about 20-30 minutes a day but for several weeks i was ear training for anywhere up to 5 hours in a day. I've been working on ear training pretty much daily for the last 11 months since i restarted playing guitar after a 20 year break. (at least that's what i've been told is possible.) Ok so the goal is to be able to hear a melody or chord progression and be able to name/play the relative scale degrees or chord numbers without having to fish around for them on an instrument and find them by trial and error. The meat and potatoes kind of ear training. I'm looking to have daily 10 to 20 minute sessions, with or without the bass (without is even better), and I would like some "functional" ear training centered on melodies and harmonies and chord progressions. So I want to start ear training, and I need your advice. I throughly impressed by people capable to play things on the fly, identify tonality and chords in a matter of seconds. I have trouble transcribing melodies, and even more so when there are several instruments layering. ![]() I often have trouble identifying the tonality and especially the chords (I can for example identify a chord as minor instead of major, or take the fifth for the root). Well, I've been doing music rather seriously for 4 years now, and I hear and reproduce rhythm rather easily, I know basic music theory (chords, chord tones, scales, chromatisms) and can apply them when playing or composing. Hello, everyone, my name is Belzebass, and I have a problem with hearing notes and chords.
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