Ear Training & Aural Skills, Part 3: Melodies

Hey, everyone. Welcome to ear training part three, melodies. So in this class, we're going to focus on hearing melodies and writing them down, Hearing melodies and playing them back, being able to identify melodies. Now, there's a lot of tricks for this. I shouldn't say tricks. They're not tricks. Techniques. It's a better word. In the previous ear training classes, we focused on rhythm and then we focused on intervals. And both of those are going to be really valuable to us here when we have full melodies. However, there are some techniques that we're going to learn, such as identifying scale fragments that are going to help us a whole bunch. We're going to focus on not hearing individual notes, but hearing riffs or pieces of a scale. Then we just have to identify the scale in order to get the notes. That's just one technique. There's a whole bunch of techniques that we're going to focus on, all of which are things that you can easily learn to help you get better and more proficient at ear training, specifically related to melodies. I'm going to give you a ton of stuff to practice in here. At the end of this class, we've got a whole bunch of practice videos. So just a video where I'm going to show a melody or I'm going to tell you what you need to know about a melody and then I'm going to play it for you three times, you're going to write it down, and then at the end of the video, I give you the answer. There's a ton of those. It's really fun. I had a fun time making this class. I'm not someone who enjoyed learning going through ear training classes in college, but making these classes have been really fun. So I'm hoping that this will be an antidote if you're struggling to learn this stuff. So let's dive in.