Your awesome ear

[LayDownABoogie]

I Anthony.

I recently viewed a clip on you tube where you talk about the "infinite field of ideas".

Man. Wow. Your ear is second to none !

I've noticed you've mentioned before how important ear training is to you and that your always using ear training apps on your phone and the like.

Are these mainly interval recognition ?

would you say this is the primary way you got your ear to that level ?


Thanks for your time.

 

[Ant Wellington]

Hey Boogie,

The programs I use and my personal practice routine for ear training includes interval recognition, scale recognition and chord recognition. But it's ALL interval training because scales and chords are still made up of intervals.

I'm inclined to say that I hear the color of the scales and chords but I'm sure a scientist would say it's still just high level ear training.

But the problem with most trainers is that there's always a note followed by another note. Or a chord or chord progression followed by a note. But in the real world you have to be able to recognize the note while the reference(music) is playing. So my own personal practice routine consist if randomly playing notes while music is playing and identifying the note(by degree) and making music from the point.

Most people think that the best musician is the one who plays the fastest. I don't agree with that. I feel that the best musician is the musician who 'hears' the fastest. Music is a medium that moves in time. And our reaction time is critical. But you can't truly react to what someone plays(or says) until you understand what it is that you've heard.

peace,
anthony

 

[Ewo]

Howdy! I enjoyed your playing on VW's Groove Workshop very much. (Still practicing my paradiddles, y'know?)

Regarding ear training, I've been working with Bruce Arnold's method for about a year. It's not based on melodic intervals, but the relation of tones to the key center. I've got a lot of good out of it, and it's conceptually similar to what you said about "colors" of pitches in a key center context.

 

[Ant Wellington]

Yea, I'm in support of both methods. I think one without the other is an incomplete system.

Never heard of the method you mentioned but I'll check it out.

-anthony