Ear training gets short shrift among music students- who wants to be occupied with such a mundane task when you can spend your time learning Herbie Hancock licks? Well not so fast. The benefits of well trained ears are huge. Every facet of the music will be more immediate and accessible to you whether you are transcribing, comping, improvising- whatever- well trained ears will allow you to assimilate and manipulate melodic lines and chords with ease. Click on an individual lesson to learn more about it:

7th Chords
Triads
Diatonic Intervals
Chromatic Intervals
Diatonic Tendency Tones
Chromatic Tendency Tones

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