Before you can master an instrument like the guitar, students
need to first learn the art of listening. When you can quickly
recognize certain things like intervals, chords and scales, your
playing ability will greatly improve. Read on for a great ear
training exercise from Elk Grove, CA teacher Loren R… When music
students first hear of “ear training,” they might not understand
what it means. It sounds important and basic, but what is it?
When we hear music, we know that it’s our ears that need to be
“trained,” because music is only for ears, not for the eyes. We
also know that hearing is not just hearing. There’s hearing and
then there’s knowing what we’re hearing. If we learn to know
what we’re hearing well enough, we will have the skill to go to
our instrument and reproduce the music, either in part, or with
an arrangement that is manageable by our single effort on our
instrument. We can learn to hear how to represent the various
instruments in the band playing the music. When people see these
skills in a