You may even get good at, but this won't necessarily make you a better player. While it's important to be able to recognize the relationship between tones and hear chords, if taken at face value it can also be simply an intellectual game. I think you've hit on a very relevant point. whether FET helps improvement in terms of CET is another issue and remains to be seen. So, it seem it might "work" in its own terms. but I dipped ahead and could hear "Do" as G against a G chord etc. Not only does the tone sound and you hear "Sol" or "Do" in your (well, my) heard. I set FET to (movable) solfege rather than 1,2,3 and after some days of the first exercises. and it's a thin line between learning something useful and learning no more than how to peck the red button at the right time, which is what a lot of gaming is as well as behavioural experiments on chickens. Now I'm a little sceptical because a lot of "training apps" seem to riff of games. then other keys one octave, then other keys full range. Initially 1-4 then 5-8 then 1-8 one octave then 1-8 full range. Basically exercise one is, it plays a I-IV-V-I in C, then a tone and you have to pick which tone. This is what I find tough, though I'm scraping by (I'm better in some of parts of the range than others, I recon)įET is something else. Basically practising what (I understand to be) exam requirements. onwards and upwards, in all keys, full range. I've done Functional Ear Training app daily and also downloaded the "Complete Ear Training" app.ĬET is just what you'd expect practice telling M3-P8, then m3-P8, then M3-m3-P8. It’s amazingly fun and informative as well.Click to expand.so, for the record, after a week or so. Highly recommended for everyone who wants to learn this. But thanks to apps like this one, I’m finally getting back what was taken from me even though I’ll never be as good as if I had learned it from a young age but I never thought it was possible until recently. Back in my younger years I was told I didn’t have an ear for it and was refused as a student. I have no previous music education before that at all but always wanted to play an instrument. I have been teaching myself using mostly apps and online learning. I’m 54 years old and decided to take up playing the keyboard about 4 years ago. I still have quite a ways to go but I’m confident I will get there. I didn’t believe it would work this well and in such a short time. I have been using this app consistently over past several days and I have been improving my note recognition far better than I ever thought I could. I was so excited about this ear trainer that I have developed a mobile app based on the Alain Benbassat method. The only requirement is to practice for 10 minutes a day. what musical instrument you play (you don't even have to play one). how old you are - a 3 yo kid or a 90+ adult who you are - an absolute beginner in music or a virtuoso professional musician ![]() You begin to recognize the role (or function) of each tone in this key, which is incredibly similar to its role in other keys of the same scale.Īnd it is *guaranteed* anyone can gradually develop this skill. The main difference between the Functional Ear Trainer and other methods is that it teaches you to distinguish between tones in the context of a particular musical key. It is based on Alain's method to learn to recognize tones. One day I came across Alain Benbassat's program called "Functional Ear Trainer" and have been using it ever since. It is like when somebody is talking to you, you not only hear pleasant sounds, but you recognize words and their meaning. However, although such programs develop your ear, but can you actually play any melody you hear as soon as you listen to it? Most likely you have already tried different programs to learn to recognize intervals or even to acquire perfect pitch. A good musical ear helps when you are composing, improvising, transcribing melodies, or playing with others. It is so important for a musician to know what you are hearing. Have you (or maybe one of your friends) ever wanted to learn to transcribe or play music by ear?
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