Ear training, when should you start?

If you are just learning about music and perhaps learning an instrument like the piano or guitar the question comes up: when should I start to learn about ear training? Should I wait until I learn to play my instrument better?

My simple answer is to start right away! Any delay will hinder your progress and full potential!

So how do you begin?

The following links will provide you with the education and resources you need:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Relative Pitch Ear Training

Music Theory Course

Virtual Sheet Music - Sheet Music Downloads

I hope this helps and please let me know how these courses are helping you!

Vasili-

Ear training, is it for you?

Some musicians I talk with say they don't have the patience or "endurance" to get through any ear training courses or exercises. They would prefer just to play the music they know and be content with just that.

How about you? Is ear training for you? You might have doubts about it from the beginning of doing any course or even from your friends who might be critical. You might even be unsure if you'll be able to make it through any course or program and think that it's just a waste of time.

Well let me be very honest with you if you even slightly feel this way. A good ear training and music theory course and study is never a waste of time. Quite the opposite, if you don't seriously and intensely undertake such things then this would be the biggest waste of time because it would take 100 times longer for you to learn songs and memorize music and progress as a musician.

I know, I've been there and now I'm glad that I paid my ear training dues and it's paying off very well for me. Even to this day I do a little ear training each day. Like a bodybuilder or athlete who trains every day you need to approach it the same way. Where do you begin?

The following tools are highly recommended to help you start:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Relative Pitch Ear Training

Music Theory Course

Virtual Sheet Music - Sheet Music Downloads

Ear training, can anyone do it?

I've heard some comments from others that some can learn and develop their ear through ear training and others can't. This may be due to various reasons, being tone deaf, etc..

So the question is, can even the tone deaf open up their sense of hearing and learn such skills as perfect pitch and relative pitch? Absolutely!!!

For those who are tone deaf there is hope and a light at the end of the tunnel! What they need to keep in mind is that it will take more work and effort as opposed to someone who already has a good sense of musical hearing. But anything can be learned with the proper guidance, motivation to learn it, and hard work and persistence.

The following tools are highly recommended to help you start:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Relative Pitch Ear Training

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Click here for Virtual Sheet Music - Virtual Sheet Music - Sheet Music Downloads

Ear training, when to start?

For most musicians the question of when to start ear training is obvious, they begin when they undertake a study of music. Others never do any ear training but rely solely on their technical skills and memory when performing.

What about very young children? When should they begin? As early as possible. One way to make this fun is by incorporating games into the ear training routine. Have them practice the intervals and even practice spellings.

The obvious answer to the question of when to begin is right away. Any serious musician without any ear training will always be second best to those with it.

A great place to begin is by using the following 2 courses:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Relative Pitch Ear Training

Are you training your ear every day?

So, do you have a solid ear training routine which you follow each day?

Most likely you do not as most musicians don't have one and aren't aware that it's lacking.

What should you include in your ear training routine? Well there are 21 different intervals to practice as well as their spellings. There are also many variety of chords and scales and their modes with their respective spellings as well.

By learning to unlock and drill these all every day you will feel like your musical awareness and understanding is coming to life whereas before you might have said that it was simply dormant.

The best courses I've found and used for ear training can be found here:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Relative Pitch Ear Training