Udemy Flawless Ear Training Unit 1

Flawless Ear Training is a revolutionary new way to train your ear. The course has been carefully created to provide you with personalized instruction. Kevin Ure developed the ideas for this program while teaching in a university for nearly decade.

It's like having your very own private ear training instructor in your home.

Unlike programs that have you guess until you learn to recognize intervals and chords by ear, this course walks you step-by-step through the process and gradually builds your ear by laying a strong foundation first.

The Benefits of Ear Training and Why Most Techniques Fail
When you ask music students to conjure up images of ear training, they typically think of the long hours of interval training and sight-reading brief musical examples. Students often refer to this kind of training as ear straining.

The truth about ear training is that it doesn't need to take hours a day or require the relentless drilling of intervals and chords.

The Flawless Ear Training Course is unique in that is it designed to first open up your ear to hear inside musical structures.

Ear Training by itself won't help you hear the inner parts of a musical work. Most ear training is designed to be slow, and only the most talented will find success.

The Flawless Ear Training Course teaches a method that is designed to help you hear inside of a musical structure and recognize intervals, chords, and progressions with greater ease.

Most ear training methods ultimately fail to produce results because they involve an automated process. The concept followed by most programs is to introduce one interval at a time until all of the 12 basic intervals have been learned.

Not only is this method boring, it fails to produce good results. These programs also tend to offer too many different options, which leaves the student confused about the best path to follow.

Musicians need a multi-faceted ear training approach that includes exercises that complement and support each other.

The Flawless Ear Training Course is professionally designed to include complementary exercises so you can complete your daily ear training and go about your day.

...Opening Up the Ear...

If you want to open up your ear and hear more deeply into the music you love, you need a process that gradually improves your ability to hear the inner workings of music.

When attempting to identify an interval, many musicians use one of the following methods:
Using a familiar tune such as the opening notes of "Hear Comes the Bride" to hear a Perfect Fourth, or "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" for a Major Sixth.
Mentally play a major or chromatic scale to "count" up to the interval they are trying to uncover.
Use a familiar "anchor interval" to determine other intervals. A common anchor interval is the Perfect Fifth, which is often used to hear a Minor Sixth.
Invert an interval that is smaller and then singing it down or up an octave to hear the larger, seemingly more difficult interval. (This works because of the way intervals invert, a major third ascending becomes a minor sixth descending when the ascending third is later sung an octave lower).
Using solfége syllables to internalize various intervals.
Visualizing a keyboard to mentally hear the half steps and whole steps in an interval.