Ear Training – Interval Crash Course

Instructor

Yannick Lambrecht

Course Type

Workshop

Skill Level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration

02:44:08

Have you ever wished you could hear a melody and figure it out on the piano? It all starts with intervals, the distance between two notes. Intervals are the building blocks of music, and learning to recognize them is the first step to training your ear. Don’t worry if you think you don’t have a “good ear.” This workshop takes it one simple step at a time, and anyone can build this skill with practice.

You’ll start with a few musical basics, like major and minor scales and simple chords. Then comes the fun part: learning each interval by connecting it to a familiar song. For example, the opening notes of “Amazing Grace” can help you remember one interval’s sound. Once you’ve linked a song to each interval, you’ll be able to recognize them much more easily.

Next, you’ll put your ear to the test with listening games. You’ll hear a short pattern of notes, then try to play it back. The sheet music includes blank pages to write your answers on, plus an answer key to check your work. Finally, you’ll use your new skills on familiar melodies, starting with “Ode to Joy,” then “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” and finishing with “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a bonus challenge.

For software ear trainers, we recommend the following: Keyboard Relative Pitch, Note Relative Pitch, Intervals, Scales, Chords

Featured Reviews

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Patrick Muto   verified

Great intro to ear training

felt like this opened a lot of doors with me and helped me look more analytically at how songs are constructed and why things work, don't work, etc. Very excited to take this knowledge and keep growing with it!

Joseph Sarrouf   verified

ear training never been more fun

Its very nice to associate the interval with songs

Anton Steenman   verified

It made me slow down, again... :-)

This course taught me again to slow down my learning impatience, and making sure I get all these fundamentals right. If you get the fundamentals right with every piece you start, it will help so much in accelerating learning later. So often, I skip over the fundamentals because I want to play the piece and be able to play it within a week. Inevitably, I get stuck later on, plateau, and never really learn the song correctly or get it smooth. Focusing on why things are the way they are, dissecting it, looking at intervals, experimenting with harmony, really discovering how the melody is integrated into the piece and singing it with playing... it all has helped me a lot to get better!

Louis Rodolico   verified

Interesting, challenging and a bit frustrating because Im not used to hearing in this manner.

Opened up a new way to hear and develop musical ideas

salvatore caputo   verified

Interesting ideas

Useful for personal development

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