Eps 627: getting your music to many ears
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The short answer is: ear training.
At EasyEarTraining.com we define "ear training" as "any activity you do to improve your aural skills" - and so the process of developing a good ear is: ear training!
Whichever area you focus on and whatever methods you choose, if you want a good ear for music you must spend time improving your aural skills with ear training.
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Melanie Wagner
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One of the easiest and most effective methods to practice hearing training is the use of the voice. Although the human voice is an instrument that everyone has, it is not the only way to learn musical hearing skills through ear training. Hearing training can help improve mood and intonation, help with vision and help develop a wide range of other musical skills such as rhythm, melody, harmony and harmony. Singing can help you practice your hearing training and use it as a means to improve your hearing and hearing abilities.
Some people learn an instrument, write a song, make music and use hearing training to improve their ear for music. Some people write songs, learn to sing, practice singing and even practice making music as part of their listening training.
Some audio professionals use listening training to sharpen their sensitivity to the details of the sound, such as sound engineers, musicians, sound designers and sound engineers. With ear training, audio professionals have the upper hand, because to get an improved ear, you need to hear every detail, identify problem areas, and apply tools directly to achieve results.
However, these tests are quite limited in scope and can be taught in a variety of ways, such as music videos, audio books or even online. Many musicians start with ear training because it is the most effective way to train their ears for sound quality.
The main advantage is that the sense of relative pitch developed through ear training gives you better intonation, so you can never sing out of tune and see you - sing with confidence, using interval recognition skills to reliably judge note jumps and sing them accurately.
Singing and hearing training can ensure that you make the most of your inner instrument, your voice, and build up your ability to bring music from your head to your instrument. Singing harmony becomes easier because singing is a form of improvisation, where you improvise with your ears and not your hands. When you sing and play different sounds, your musical ears are embedded in your body so that you can sing and play them in harmony with the other instruments in the room.
Instead of being trapped in a particular scale or known pattern, you can use the relative pitch hearing skills you develop to know which tones you want to play to achieve the intended musical effect.
Whether it's rock, jazz or blues, learning to improvise is a very encouraging experience and can lead to a confidence in your instrument that is hard to achieve if you always rely on the music that has been written for you rather than playing other people's compositions in front of your ears. When you learn to read music and how to move your fingers to play the notes that have been written, you connect your music to the instrument.
When you look at the notes on the page and actually hear in your head what the music would sound like, the notation comes alive. If you also practice perfect pitch training, your skills can be anchored in a certain key, because you know exactly which notes represent which note. Training relative pitch helps you to work out chord sequences by playing the song by ear, writing down what you hear in your head and improvising freely and creatively with your instrument. Relative pitch and hearing - training adds up and if you practice perfectly - pitch ear training, your skill can be anchored in certain keys so you know exactly which note to write down!
People often assume that if you have a good ear for music - that is, if you write songs, play by ear, and have a perfect pitch - you do not have to be born with a talent for it.
But musicality can be learned, and even the most impressive and natural - seemingly from us - can learn through targeted ear training. This training is simple, fun and effective because it is perfectly matched to our love of music with modern technology.
We can practice guitar or piano for hours and yet never play by ear, and we still don't know how to improvise a great solo or write a moving song. We can play scales for hours on end, but we don't know yet how a good solo differs from an excellent solo, or how the two work together. Although it can be an effortless gift when the best musicians do it, playing by ear is actually a learning skill.