EAR TRAINING

[Only4strings]

HOW?!?!? I have tried and tried to hear the changes on cds or radio. I can't hear the change let alone hear the interval. After working with an online ear training program, I can only get a small amount correct.I can hear them if I follow along reading a lead sheet. Is there any hope for someone that has to use charts all the time? Is it something that I can learn from a teacher?

 

[J-B'ass]

There are three main ways I do my ear training.

1. Through websites like [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. A great collection of really useful and highly customisable exercises.

2. Through transcribing music. Start with something easy; get some early Beatles and figure out the chords, get some Foo Fighters and figure out the basslines. If you read music that helps, but it's not necessary as long as you can figure out the line and play along.

3. Sing as much as you can; sing melodies that you can play, and try to play things that you sing. Sing along with stuff.


Hope that helps!

 

[Staccato]

In the General Instruction area where your post appears, I found a link under this sticky-very helpful...

Sticky: Music Theory/General Instruction Links....Learning Songs by Ear (BG)

 

[Only4strings]

Very helpful, Thank You guys, I think the most important points I've realized is that it takes time and don't give up. There is no silver bullet. There is a big difference between "Knowing" and "Doing". I "Know" the intervals, I can play the intervals, Now here is the rub..............I just can't ID the intervals (YET) when listening.

 

[Stumbo]

3. Sing as much as you can; sing melodies that you can play, and try to play things that you sing. Sing along with stuff.

+1

For me, it's easier to do ear training on my guitar with the chords as background. Piano is good, too.

Here are a few links to check out:
~Ear training
Goodear.com
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Free downloadable ear trainer (basic/advanced) Solfege. Xlnt program
Online Visual Beginning Theory, ear trainer
Discussion of Solfege

 

[Mark Perry]

I found Rage Against the Machine songs quite easy to figure out by ear when i started. Any music with repeated riffs and the occasional fill are quite easy to figure out.

Also, Gary Willis wrote a good ear training book.

 

[catyak]

Only4strings, I have a similar problem. The amp that I'm using supports playing exercises that progress though the intervals. It plays the root, then a note, then back to the root, working its way up the scale and down. I play along with the program and it's helping me to pick up on the intervals.

 

[Stumbo]

I can't hear the change let alone hear the interval.

Some slow down software might help. It has helped me.