Course Highlights
  • Students will be able to notate music by ear after finishing this class.
  • Students will develop a deeper understanding of notated rhythms.
  • Students will develop skills for listening, repeating, and writing music down completely by ear.
  • What is Perfect Pitch?
  • What is Relative Pitch?
  • Identifying rhythms in 4/4
  • Identifying rhythms with rests and ties
  • Identifying and notating rhythms with 16th notes
  • Notating rhythms with triplets
  • Identifying rhythms in 6/8, 9/8, and 3/8
Curriculum

6 Topics
Introduction
What is Ear Training?
Why Do We Care About Ear Training?
What is Dictation?
This is a Skill that Takes Practice!
My Tortured History with Ear Training

3 Topics
What is Perfect Pitch?
What is Relative Pitch?
Something Strange Called "True Pitch"

6 Topics
How to Know If You Are Right
Just Rhythms - For Now.
Using a Tuner for Pitch Detection
Using Software Like MuseScore
Using a Phone or Tablet Computer
Using a Metronome

4 Topics
A Melody A Day Keeps You On Track
Finding Things to Practice
My Favorite Practice Game
Review Notation!

15 Topics
Writing It Down
Your First Dictation Quiz
Attempt No. 1
Answers
Attempt No. 2
Listening
My Attempt and The Answer
Adding Whole Notes
Practice
Answers
Adding 8th Notes
8th Note Practice
Looking for Patterns
More with Patterns
Repeating Patterns

6 Topics
Why Focus on Rhythm
Practice with Pitch
Answers
Let's Try That Again!
Clues
Answers

8 Topics
Identifying Spaces
Practice
Answers
Practice with Pitch
Answers
Practice with Pitch
Answers
Checking In: How We Doing? (A Little Pep Talk...)

6 Topics
Adding in 16th Notes
Review on Counting Syllables
Practice
Answers
Practice
Answers

6 Topics
Triplet Patterns
Counting Triplets
Practice
Answers
Practice
Answers

6 Topics
Quarter-Note Pulse Meters
Eighth-Note Pulse Meters
Practice in 6/8
Answers
Practice in 6/8
Answers

25 Topics
A Bunch of Practice Melodies
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice

3 Topics
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Ear Training & Aural Skills, Part 1: Rhythms

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