Tag Archives: Ear Training

good-ear.com – Great Free Ear Training Tool! February 28, 2012

Tweet     While I was online tonight, I stumbledupon good-ear.com. It is a simple ear training tool with a lot of options. A lot of the hits on my site come from people doing google searches for “charlie banacos exercises.” Good-ear.com allows you to do exercises like those that are randomly generated in real [...]

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Ear Training Exercise #2 January 24, 2011

Tweet It’s been a few weeks since I posted my 1st ear training exercise and a variation on it. I’ve been working on them and have been making some improvements. I’ve just began working on a new exercise. It uses the same tools as the 1st exercise, flash cards and a piano/keyboard, but is a [...]

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Variation on Ear Training Exercise #1 January 8, 2011

Tweet It’s always good to try different approaches on an exercise when possible. It allows you to discover connections/associations you may not have been known about, or it can help you to solidify your understanding of concepts you kind of know, but you’d have to think about to apply. The development of skill in music [...]

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Ear Training Exercise #1 January 3, 2011

Tweet In my last post, I mentioned working on intervals and sharing the exercises I’m doing. So, without further ado, here is the 1st Ear Training Exercise for 2011. This exercise is a variation on a Charlie Banacos exercise I read about several months ago. In the Banacos exercise, you begin by playing a I-IV-V-I [...]

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2011: Year of the Ear January 1, 2011

Happy New Year! The new year is a cue for change and new beginnings. A lot of people set resolutions and I will be one of those people this year. I have been reading and thinking a lot about music lately, particularly the mind/instrument relationship, and one of the conclusions I’ve reached is that your mind is your instrument. And while we practice to gain technique on our instrument(s), we become better musicians by training our minds.

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