101 Ear Training Tips for the Modern Musician

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Packed with over a hundred tips, tricks, ideas, and suggestions, 101 Ear Training Tips for the Modern Musician provides the help you need to improve your musical ear.

From the big-picture challenges of staying motivated and connecting ear training with music-making, right down to the nitty-gritty of intervals, chords and playing by ear, the book is designed to provide the help you need—even if you’re short on time.

The tips are:

• Suitable for all: From ear training beginner to advanced students, there are tips useful for all ability levels.

• Bite-sized: The tips are quick and easy, but can have a big impact on your learning.

• For every topic: Explore the topic you're most interested in, and use tips from other topics to develop a well-rounded musical ear.

Topics include: Music Appreciation, Practice, Active Listening, Audiation, Intervals, Chords, Relative Pitch, Scales & Modes, Rhythm, Improvisation, Playing By Ear, and Singing.

EXAMPLE TIPS

Music Appreciation:

Increase your general knowledge about music. Go to a jumble sale/car boot sale/yard sale and challenge yourself to find three CDs for a dollar or less, which you know nothing about – the more obscure the better.
Take them home and listen through, and then read about what you’ve heard. Look at the CD booklet, or look up the artist or composer online.

Interval Ear Training:

Take your favourite music player and choose a playlist with at least twenty songs.
Play the each song only until the first vocal, and stop after the first two notes. Sing the interval out loud, and then try to locate the first note on the piano .
Sing the interval again and try to name it as a fourth, fifth etc.
Press ‘Skip’ and go on the next song, and repeat!

Playing By Ear:
If you find it difficult to reproduce pieces on your instrument, use singing or humming as a stepping stone.
If you can sing a line of music, you are already playing it by ear – using your voice!
It may then be easier to transition to your instrument. It’s even more beneficial if you can sing the line while tapping or clapping the beat.

FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

The book is designed for musicians of every ability level to use in their own regular practice. It is also a highly useful resource for music teachers, providing fresh inspiration for including ear training in lessons, and new ideas that will encourage students to keep practicing.

101 Ear Training Tips for the Modern Musician is an Easy Ear Training book, written by authors from the leading source of ear training information and resources online: EasyEarTraining.com. Hundreds of thousands of musicians worldwide have improved their ears with Easy Ear Training products.