Ear Training
Weekly. Test your ears and discuss — music, mixing, and more. Included with residency.
Test your ears and discuss — music, mixing, and more. Interactive listening exercises with fellow residents to sharpen your critical listening skills.
Upcoming Sessions
- Aug 24 Nathan
- Sep 02 Scott Hampton
- Sep 08 Nathan
- Sep 15 Jam
- Sep 21 Nathan
Recent Sessions
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We ran an interval and chord identification exercise using a Portal-based multiplayer bingo game, working through a series of chords and asking students to name the intervals present. Discussion covered close voicings, chord inversions, the relationship between intervals and their inversions, and how a minor 6 chord is constructed. We also worked through the use of melodic reference songs as a tool for interval recognition.
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Worked through learning a song by ear — specifically the chorus of a student-submitted track — identifying chord quality (major vs. minor), chord voicing, bass motion, and passing tones by listening alone. Also discussed live arrangement and band management: how to balance working with available musicians against the ideal production a song calls for, and how to leverage each player's strengths rather than forcing a predetermined arrangement.
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We worked through a high-difficulty chord identification exercise using an ear training app, analyzing a complex chord that turned out to be an E-flat major 7 (with a 9) in first inversion. The exercise surfaced the distinction between hearing a chord functionally versus hearing its explicit voicing and intervals, and illustrated how spread voicings can mask the intervals your brain already recognizes. Multiple guesses were worked through collectively before arriving at the answer.
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