Thought I'd share

[Raylien]

Hey folks. I was hoping to improve my speed of interval identification and ended up making a quiz sheet. I must take a moment and clarify, I didn't initially intend for this to be used for ear-training, but I suppose it could function that way as well ("hum [interval?] above/below [specified note]." Which is surely something I could improve a few tons in. I had intended it to be used in more of a "What note is an [interval?] up/down from [specified note]?"--writing the answer below. Anyhow, for the past couple of days, I'd get on random.org and have it generate me a big list of random integers from 1 to 15, then I'd translate each one to an interval (1 = b2, 2 = 2... 13 = bb7, etc...) and write it down in my notebook. Since I was spending more time making the damn quiz sheet than I was answering it, I decided to make a sort of master quiz sheet.

I returned to random.org, generated 50 numbers, then cut/pasted them into a word processor and did a find&replace for each of the values. I took a minute to eliminate duplicate intervals directly beside each other (although I may have missed a couple). It doesn't include extensions or anything wacky; just basic intervals with alterations and a dim7th.

Anyhow, again, intention was such: 50 random intervals proceeded by "___from___" as I'd write "down" from "F", or whatever, hoping to do one set per day from different notes.

I must apologize to the Euro posters, as The format fits perfectly on one US-sized paper (20 rows, 10 columns at 11pt font). You guys'll have some space at the bottom if you use this for yourself or students.

Index of /intervalHomework

If the link stops working, my tiny site has run out of bandwidth, but I'm hoping you guys wont need any more than a few thousand downloads.

Hope it's helpful to someone out there.

[ksjazzguitar]

Cool,

It reminds me of when I was learning ear training, and I try to find ways to do it. I couldn't just pick 2 notes on the piano because my fingers could "feel" the notes. So to fool them, I used to hold a long pencil in each hand (erasers down) and cross my arms and play the notes that way. I could guess the interval then open my eyes. The other method was to pluck an open string on the guitar and play random notes on the piano.

Whatever works.

Peace,
Kevin

[Raylien]

Hah!

Luckily for us now, there's musictheory.net. If it ever goes down, though, I will have to try the pencil-keyboard trick.

[ksjazzguitar]

Originally Posted by Raylien

Hah!

Luckily for us now, there's musictheory.net. If it ever goes down, though, I will have to try the pencil-keyboard trick.

Yeah, when I went to school, we didn't have the internet. Back then it was still the inter-abacus. Connection speeds were really slow, sometimes you could only get 2-3 bps (beads per second.)

For me, one of the best things for my ear training was just spending time singing from scratch the intervals and chords. Once I could sing a Bb7#9, I could hear it easily.

Reminds me of a guy I new once. We all learned to sing the chromatic scale to help our ears. I caught this guy singing the chromatic scale in quarter steps. I asked him why. He said, "Hey, if I can sing it in quarter steps, half steps will be child's play."

Peace,
Kevin

[604bourne123]

thanks for the lesson also .