Ear Training Exercises using BigEars

Here are some articles on ear training for beginning students that incorporate the use of BigEars.

1. Happy or Sad? Distinguishing between major and minor triads
2. Finding Your Roots Identifying the root note of chords
3. The Importance of Singing

Why ear training?

Ear training is the most important part of a musicians development. The good news is that in just 10 minutes per day you can make considerable progress. But you must drill on your ear training exercises every day for a while until you master them. Start simple with intervals and triads, then progress into inverted chords and eventually into extended chords and altered harmony.

• Transcription
  Ever want to learn a song, just by listening to it? How about learn a part or entire solo by your favorite artist? Ear training is the key to helping you transcribe music faster, until you can learn whole songs in just a few listenings.
• Composition
  How can you create music if you do not first hear it in your head? Ear training will unlock the creativity inside you. It adds more colors to your musical palate as new intervals and voicings that were once foreign become common place to you. Also, you'll learn to hear what makes other established chord progressions work so well.
• Improvisation
  Improvisation is the highest level of playing. It is spontaneous composition. Often you start improvising by imitating artists you like. Ear training will aid you in transcribing their solos. Ever wanted to "play by ear"? What that really means is you have trained your ears to recognize chords, progressions, modulations...basically to hear the music as clearly as if the chords were written out infront of you.