Question concerning ear training

[youns]

Hi,

I practice ear training a lot : I learn to sing the intervals ascending and descending. I have no problem identifying intervals but singing them with just a reference note is harder for me, especially the descending ones.

I started working singing chord tones and extensions of blues and standard progression, it seems that it helps me more for improvising than just practicing singing intervals not in the context of tunes until I'm bored.

What do you think : should I stick to learn to sing every intervals ascending and descending like ive been doing for a while, or should I do the second approach which seems more practical and seems to have more potential to help me play what I hear ?

I hope that make sense,

Youness

[brwnhornet59]

Absolutely. Singing arps and their extensions is putting the vocabulary to work and getting it in your head in a very musical way.

Like playing scales, learning intervals is a needed skill, but once you have the basics putting them to use is the next logical step. Scales and intervals are not music by themselves, just the building blocks. Now the fun part begins.

Let her rip!