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I discovered a book on the internet called Ear Training for Instrumentalists by Matt Glaser. I tried many ear training methods and softwares and they all failed to give me a good ear. The book contains 6 cds and I like the content of what's on it, but maybe they are just hyping me up to buy their product. The ear training method that I find most effective are those methods that have singing on it or singing what you play. This book has singing in it.
Is this book a cure to give me a good ear or is it another scam? Anyone here using this book or have heard of this book?
I placed this post on the Improvisation section because the benefits of the book is that I'll be able to transcribe instrumental solos in one hearing and improvise freely over blues chord changes.
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11-23-2014 08:54 PM
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Seems to be a couple approaches to ear training I see these days. The traditional isolated interval recognition and I'm seeing other teaching pitch within a key center. The first way they just hit notes and you recognize the interval, you figure out melodies interval by interval. The other method they a I IV V cadence first then hit a note, the idea you hear the key center and recognize the pitch within the key center. They say the second method if you know the key then you know the note names more like having perfect pitch.
Then there old school and transcribe lots of music and transcribe via learning to sing the line and transcribe from your singing.
My ear has never been a strong suit for me so I'm always working on it, and would like to hear others comments on the various methods and suggestions.
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In my music colledge we had a solfedgio class( US analog of ear training), and most of what we did was dictations. Melodic dictations, harmonic dictations, or both. The teacher would play a piece on the piano, and we had to write it down, after like 3-5 times. She would joke that for 'specialy' gifted she would play one more time. The singing or even humming was not allowed. It was told that we need to devolped an inner ear. I was way behind in my class, to be honest. Years later, being in US college, i was going through something like that again, and this time it was allright. Either I ve grown, or American ear training wasnt as tough as Russian.
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
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Originally Posted by docbop
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I owned this years ago. I honestly don't remember if I learned much from it.
I have learned quite quite a bit from various IOS apps. Much cheaper as well.
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I finally purchased Ear Training for Instrumentalists by Matt Glaser. It was on sale, and my Mom used her credit card to pay as my Christmas gift. Back in 2012, I got the David Lucas Burge Perfect Pitch Supercourse as my Christmas gift. I have come a long way from buying ear training products. Hopefully, it will work for me this time.
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Originally Posted by Jason Sioco
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"Ear Master" software might interest you.
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Originally Posted by Jonzo
Ear Master helped me in my Aural Test in University. When we were doing Intervals, triads, and modes recognition, my classmates were wildly humming, while I just recognized it without even trying. As if, I was just practicing in my computer. Lol.
I want to go to the next level in my ear training with the program by Matt GlaserLast edited by Jason Sioco; 12-22-2014 at 04:56 PM.
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Originally Posted by setemupjoe
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The thing I've been seeing lately is people teaching harmonic or key center based ear training. So instead of learning distance between note the typical interval training, they teach hear notes as what pitch they are in relation to key. So they play a cadence to establish key, then play a note and you id the note as to what scale note it is 3rd, 5th, etc.
Is that a direction ear training schools are taking or just another approach being sold?
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Originally Posted by Jason Sioco
Last edited by smokinguit; 12-22-2014 at 10:57 PM.
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Originally Posted by smokinguit
also this is a funny app to learn to "see" interval on the fretboard http://www.fachords.com/guitar-ear-t...o/#.VJjxDKAIZALast edited by Takemitsu; 12-23-2014 at 12:36 AM.
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Originally Posted by Takemitsu
Hippohoppu wa ongaku de wa arimasen
Are you Japanese? I'm learning Elementary Japanese in my school.
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Originally Posted by docbop
1) Learn to hear melodic intervals and patterns.
2) Learn to hear a harmonic interval.
3) Chords, progressions, etc.
(2) is really what you're talking about. If I play two notes and you can hear that the top one is the fifth, everything kind of comes from that. I'm not sure how you could get to that point without first learning what a fifth sounds like melodically in isolation, but maybe there's a fast track that I don't know about.
I've gotten pretty good at lifting things off of records, and can hear most simple progressions now in pop tunes, etc. Still working towards the jazz stuff. All those extensions...
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Originally Posted by ecj
That's their explanation is so many beginning programs focus on recognizing distance between notes a 5th apart or 3rd apart. That hearing within a key that a note is a 5th if you know the key then you know the pitch name, so that gets you closer to being like you have perfect pitch.
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