Ear Training

What is Ear Training?

Ear Training is about connecting your ears to your musical-brain. If you hear sounds, can you understand how they relate to each other musically? You can if you have good ear-training.

How Important is Ear Training?

Ear training is probably the most important facet of musical training, in general.

How do I Practice Ear Training?

Practicing ear training as an absolute beginner is actually quite challenging. However, it is doable with the help of an expert–or with the help of a computer program written by an expert. While there is the ancient GNU Solfege, I wanted to write my own program to handle various Xenharmonic situations.

If you are a bit more experienced, then you can hold yourself accountable to sight-singing and dictation exercises…

Material

To that effect, I have made the following: