![]() I think what you are after is ear training more than music theory.Īnyway, do both, learn basic music theory from online resources, but make sure that you train your ear to hear it. But you will not likely use it in your playing. Music theory can be complicated at the advanced level. If after this you want more ear training there won't be better training than learning the chords to songs that you like (and songs you don't like) and analyzing them to see how they fit (or how they diverge from) your current understanding of harmony. These tools are your technique, your ear and your harmonic understanding, but don't waste time overemphasizing the ear training. The objective is to build the tools to free your creative side. Just play around with these ear training apps for something like 10 minutes a day and not too much more, and focus the rest of your efforts on studying the instrument itself. OpenEar - An open source alternative which isn't as flashy but seems to work great.Functional Ear Trainer - Do the Intro Game then go to Basic Training and to the trainings in order.Most apps usually present the intervals isolated from a musical context, which just ain't helpful in the beginning stages, as you have to understand and internalize the sounds of the intervals a context. Instead of getting an ear trainer person I'd get an ear trainer app but one that focuses on the intervals within a musical context. Hey there! Regarding the ear training, I'd like to recommend something that has been helping me improve in strides. You can start noticing how music changes keys and scales it uses and try to understand it and when you notice a thing you don't recognize, do research or ask us. I recommend setting button labels into Movable Do La minor and singing the notes out loud.Īlso /u/DRL47 is entirely right and I want to piggy back on him. This is the sort of 5-10 minutes a day for months kind of project. I found its desktop predecessor very helpful in learning to play melodies by ear, if you're into that, so I've recommended this app to my friends previously. ![]() If you don't do ear training, I recommend you to start as well as you probably now gather that most music only uses a a subset of the 12 notes for the most part. Playing scales with both hands at the same time is a more advanced skill and most practical when formal music education or exams require it and if you do decide to master them, you can put your single hand skills in good use later. That way you need to think more and that's a desirable kind of challenge. You can generate a random note/scale with this, which I think is better than just following a pattern such as the circle of fifths. You can also play scales one hand at a time 4 octaves up and down with a metronome, starting much slower than you think you need. Learning the minor scales would be a good next step. Similarly I learnt key signatures simply by osmosis, flashcards would perhaps have been more efficient. I learnt my scales simply by playing actual music for years and then just got used to actual decent fingerings for each scale. So what you're going to do next depends wholly on your goals. ![]() ![]() Functional ear training is the key to understanding what you hear. If you think of function instead, then once you figure out the key of a piece, you can start finding each part separately, so if you make an error (or some parts are hard and you want to skip them), you can just continue from the next phrase and get back on track. Never saw any progress with just drilling intervals despite singing and playing quite a lot.Īnd also it's more useful when playing by ear: Relying on intervals is hard because then you need to get everything correct or your entire piece gets shifted and you won't realize where you made the mistake and why it sounds so wrong. To me it's so much easier that way, and I can actually see progress when training that. You could start singing your favourite tunes in movable do solfege, or use a training app such as Functional Ear Trainer for Android. Instead of learning to recognize an interval out of context, learn to recognize where individual notes fall relative to the key. ![]()
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