Many people can control their vocal chords well enough to at least come close to the tone they hear in their mind and have therefore experienced the advantage in re-producing tones that vocalists have over other instrumentalists. Singers “play” the instrument “voice.” Because of the fact that they’re in fact one with their instrument AND have been “playing” it all their life, blabbering, talking and screaming with it, they have a major advantage over those of us that chose another axe for executing our music with – they can instantly “find” every tone they want to play.Įven those of us that aren’t real singers, but can simply hum or imitate a melody with their voice (or even whistle it) already know that when you “know” a tone -if you’re able to “think” / “hear” / “play” it in your mind- you can also re-produce it. However, being able to remember and re-play music in your mind, is in fact the very first step in being able to recognize intervals and play by ear. This part of the population actually just stumbles upon the biggest bump/obstacle for “playing by ear” a little sooner than the rest of us that hasn’t quite aced this skill: actually playing it.
Using our basic auditory capabilities, a large part of the population is perfectly capable of repeating the melody of a song by singing it, right? Then there’s the part of the population that simply aren’t stellar vocalists and -although they know the tune and can re-play it in their heads- just haven’t gotten the vocal control to intone the notes they intend to with their voices. Important to realize here, is that although you might not instantly be able to correctly name every interval, 90% of the population (fair chance this includes you) is in fact able to recognize and repeat. Not only does it enable you to sing the melodies (we in fact use this very skill if we copy melodic lines of a song by singing them the fact that 9 out of 10 people are able to recognize and imitate the vocal line of a tune, indicates that most people are in fact already quite proficient in recognizing and repeating intervals before any training) but more significantly, being able to use the skill of interval recognition to define bass changes, is the very first step in figuring out the harmonic structure -the chord progression- of a song. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF EAR TRAINING AND IS IT FOR YOU (HOW TO CHECK IF YOU’RE “TONE DEAF”) Ear training is the concept of practicing your “musical ear” to improve your ability to recognize certain things in music – so called musical “colors” – like for instance whether a chord is major or minor, whether or not it has any extensions (and if yes: which) and also -most beneficially- which intervals are being played.Īn interval in music is simply the distance between two notes.īeing able to recognize intervals within a piece of music is particularly beneficial if you want to copy a piece by ear.
In this post (part one of a quite extensive, two-part dive into this subject) I’ll talk about the concept of the “musical ear” and how training it by regularly performing so called “ear training” exercises benefits your overall understanding of music and your ability to play by ear.
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How to practice your musical ear to improve as an overall musician
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