Ear Training Practice
Hear Slash Chords
Triads may sound like basic chords. But when placed over a bass note, more colorful chords can become implied, expanding your harmonic palette. Learn to hear Slash Chords and focus on the notes that can open up your music to new harmonic territories!
Whole-Tone Chords
Chords created from a Whole-Tone Scale bear an unmistakable sound. Because of the symmetrical nature of the Whole-Tone Scale (created entirely from whole steps), Dominant 7 #5 chords are often associated with this scale. Adopting this sound to your vocabulary may be tricky at first. Apply this ear training exercise into your daily practice routine [...]
Diminished Scale Chords
The Diminished Scale is a unique symmetrical 8-note scale that comes in two forms. Because of its symmetry, hearing the tonality (the root note) of the Diminished Chord or Scale being played can often be tricky. Adopt this simple ear training practice for hearing Diminished Scales and Chords!
Hear Chords
Chords are 3 or more notes played at the same time. These notes can be any notes. Triads are also chords. They are call Triads because they are made up of specific intervals, explained on a previous article Hear Triads. This simple ear training exercise will teach you how to hear any type of chord!
Feel Triads
Ear training can be intellectual or it can be emotional. The intellectual route requires your brain to do quite a bit of calculating in order to determine the sound that it is hearing. The emotional route requires you to simply determine the sound that you are hearing through feel alone. Feeling music personalizes the music, [...]
Hear Triads
There are four possible combinations of triads. These triads are created by combining types of 3rds on top of each other. Each triad forms the foundation for a majority of chords that you hear in most music. Master the ability to hear triads with this simple ear training practice!
Hear Double Stops
To play a double stop on your instrument, simply play two notes at the same time. The notes can be spaced closely or far away. Although this is not yet a chord (3 or more notes sounded at the same time), a chord can become implied. Double stops are fairly easy to play on most [...]
