Post by ninworks on Jan 20, 2024 15:47:20 GMT -5
I have a better than average musical ear but there are some things I have trouble with. I got Rick Beato's Ear Training course back in October and breezed through most of the first section with very little effort. I went through a lot of ear training in college but after not doing it at that level for 40 years I have lost a lot of it.
I worked my way through all of the different 7th chord varieties. Maj7, min7, Dom7, Maj7sus2, Dom7sus4, Maj7sus4 and minor Maj7 chords are very easy for me to pick out. Then it got to Augmented Major 7th and Diminished Major 7ths. It took a few weeks of work but I have a pretty good handle on them now. Then the mac daddy's of them came up. Lydian and Phrygian Dominant 7ths, then Lydian and Dominant Major 7ths. Those mess with me. I worked through all of the individual exercises and drills and did pretty well with them. Then at the end of the 7th chord module it throws all 15 of them together into a single drill and I have to select which one is being played. That's when it got difficult. I could still get the ones that were easy for me but the weird ones still throw me about 60% to 70% of the time. I do much better if I go through them slowly. I'll get it. I had it at one point decades ago but my hearing isn't anywhere near as good as it was in my 20's and I have trouble hearing and identifying note clusters in lower registers. I do pretty well at and above middle C, but the lower ones throw me off.
Chord identification is the main reason I wanted to brush up on my ear training. Primarily the weird ones. I have no problem hearing and identifying the chord's diatonic harmony designations. I just want to get better with hearing complex extended chords and just know what it is instantly without having to find or sing the notes in order to figure them out. It's going to happen. I have made this part of my daily practice regimen.
I'm such a nerd.
I worked my way through all of the different 7th chord varieties. Maj7, min7, Dom7, Maj7sus2, Dom7sus4, Maj7sus4 and minor Maj7 chords are very easy for me to pick out. Then it got to Augmented Major 7th and Diminished Major 7ths. It took a few weeks of work but I have a pretty good handle on them now. Then the mac daddy's of them came up. Lydian and Phrygian Dominant 7ths, then Lydian and Dominant Major 7ths. Those mess with me. I worked through all of the individual exercises and drills and did pretty well with them. Then at the end of the 7th chord module it throws all 15 of them together into a single drill and I have to select which one is being played. That's when it got difficult. I could still get the ones that were easy for me but the weird ones still throw me about 60% to 70% of the time. I do much better if I go through them slowly. I'll get it. I had it at one point decades ago but my hearing isn't anywhere near as good as it was in my 20's and I have trouble hearing and identifying note clusters in lower registers. I do pretty well at and above middle C, but the lower ones throw me off.
Chord identification is the main reason I wanted to brush up on my ear training. Primarily the weird ones. I have no problem hearing and identifying the chord's diatonic harmony designations. I just want to get better with hearing complex extended chords and just know what it is instantly without having to find or sing the notes in order to figure them out. It's going to happen. I have made this part of my daily practice regimen.
I'm such a nerd.
