Ear Training Methods Explained
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A musical ear is the single most important skill for musicians, if they want to improve their musical abilities. Ear training makes you a better musician. Ear training is a process by which musicians learn to identify all the basic elements of music.
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Ear training educates a person's ear to recognize pitch, intervals, chords, rhythms, and other basic elements of music and develop a sense of harmony and musicality. Even professional musicians can enhance their musicality by enhancing and sharpening their ability to identify and produce the musical notes both mentally as well as physically.
The different exercises such as sight reading or sight singing, dictation etc, should not be regarded as an end in themselves but as a means to attain musical sensitivity. In order to learn ear training, a voice recorder is necessary to record and review your voice as you sing or play the notes along. Alternatively, a musical instrument that is tuned to perfect pitch, preferably a keyboard, piano, guitar, violin or any other stringed instrument can also be used.
If you play a particular music track and try to reproduce the notes on an instrument or vocally through singing, then you must record your voice or the notes produced by you using the instrument and match the pitches of the two. You must repeat the exercise until the note reproduced by you and the note originally present in the sound track do not match. Once you learn to strike the correct note, you can proceed to learn the next note. One can learn rhythm recognition and reproduction by breaking up the music into smaller, more easily identifiable patterns of melodies.
If you are using a keyboard instrument such as a piano or a synthesizer to learn ear training, the techniques for ear training lies in practicing the notes along with the 20 notes of a keyboard, provided the keyboard is properly tuned to precision. The drawbacks with keyboard based ear training system is that one does not learn to judge functional pitch recognition using this method of ear training. For playing instruments such as the violin or the saxophone, the person playing these instruments must be able to identify the pitch of a note in order to be able to reproduce it correctly. Similarly in the case of singing too, the more accurate the singer is in identifying the notes, the more accurately he can sing and reproduce the notes vocally.
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