![]() This is easy for some kids… nearly impossible for others.Ĩ. Make this increasingly difficult by changing the rhythm to a melody and asking him to hum the transposition. Have your student hum the same rhythm on a new note you provide. Then, have your student play a phrase that would answer that question (see example below for clarification).ħ. Play a phrase that creates a “musical question”. Teach your students to create “answers” to melodies that ask a “question”. Up the challenge by moving to a full octave and then to minor scales using the same method.Ħ. Make it increasingly difficult by playing just 3 notes, then just 2 (your student hums the remaining notes in the scale). Play the 4 notes of a pentascale and have your student hum the final note. Have your student hum the resolution (the I chord).ĥ. Play a simple melody line that ends in a perfect cadence, but only play the V chord. Have your student hum and then play the next note in the melody.Ĥ. Play the first few bars of a well-known melody and abruptly stop mid-way. This can be harder than it sounds, but it’s training them to hear distances between notes correctly and creates a really solid “aural map” of intervals.ģ. Instead of simply naming intervals, have your student sing the notes in-between the two given notes (for example, if you are playing the interval of a 5th with C as the root, your student would sing DEF. This forces him to hear an underlying beat and to naturally anticipate and create rhythm.Ģ. Instead of clap backs where your piano student mimics what they hear, instead clap two measures of rhythm and have your student then create two more measures (different than yours) at the same tempo in the same time signature. ![]() Here they are (in no particular order and with no prep needed)….ġ. Today we’re sharing my 13 ways to improve ear training skills delve beyond the typical “ear training” tests that take place during piano exams and help to create some really musical kids! And the way you teach these skills can go so much farther than just clap backs and interval recognition. But this doesn’t mean that good ear training skills can’t be taught. Some kids are naturals when it comes to ear training whether this is genetics or the effects of their home environment… for some kids it just comes easy. And if you have a student who can sight read AND who has “good ears”… well that’s pretty much heaven on a piano bench! But another thing I love is seeing a piano student who has, (what we would probably refer to as) “good ears”. I just LOVE seeing piano students who can sight-read well.
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