intervals
Online Interval Ear Training Resource
Many interval ear training resources can be found online, where you can test and train yourself with hearing musical intervals to develop relative pitch. However, you will often find these resources to be slow, clunky, and difficult to customize your ear training session. This interval ear training resource is not like that at all! Its [...]
Practice Your Relative Pitch Anywhere!
Practice hearing melodic and harmonic intervals just about anywhere with relative pitch ear training mp3′s! With relative pitch ear training mp3′s, you can load intervals into your mp3 player, allowing you to take your relative pitch practice wherever you go! If you want permanent relative pitch, practicing consistently is the key. These relative pitch ear [...]
Interval Ear Training Best Practices
Have you been ear training for quite some time and still find yourself forgetting the sounds of intervals? Are you unable to hear and sing a tritone or a minor sixth without mentally calculating the distance of the two notes? Try this effective ear training method and learn to permanently hear, recognize, and recall, any [...]
Measure Your Pitch Perception
Here’s another hearing test created by music and neuroimaging researcher Jake Mandell. This test is called the Adaptive Pitch Test and it measures your ability to hear highs and lows between two tones. This test measures your pitch perception abilities by adapting to your responses: The better you are, the closer and closer the stimuli [...]
How Tonedeaf Are You?
Music and neuroimaging researcher Jake Mandell created a unique Flash driven application that measures your level of tonedeafness by playing musical phrases back to back. Your goal is to listen to both musical phrases and determine if the two musical phrases are played the same or different. If you’ve struggled with ear training the past, [...]
Hear Notes In Chords
The Oscillation Technique is an effective ear training technique for learning how to hear every note being sounded in a chord. Application of this ear training technique, for a few minutes a day, is all that is necessary in order to start noticing your ear’s ability to hear the notes within a chord.
Interval Inversions
When the notes C and E are played together, the sound of a major 3rd is created. If you were to drop the octave of the higher note E and played E and C instead, you now have the sound of a minor 6th. The same sound of the minor 6th could be created by [...]
Basic Intervals
The space between any two notes creates an interval. Keeping your mind organized can help accelerate your ability to understand and articulate the music that you are hearing. Here are the basic intervals of music and how they should be spelled.
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 [...]
