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Ear Training News

Christopher Sutton — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:37 +0000

It’s an exciting time for musicianship, aural skills and new methods of ear training. Here’s our top picks for the news you need to know. Contents: New Musicianship Initiative Launched Theta Music at TEDx Tokyo Teachers (video) How important is the silence? Download new interval packs Ear training for composers Easy Ear Training on Soundcloud [...]

Ear Training News

Contest Winners Announced!

Christopher Sutton — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:30:49 +0000

Thanks to everyone who entered our iAction Giveaway competition! We had lots of great entries and I wanted to take a minute to showcase some of those ear training goals people shared, as well as announcing our 3 winners! Without further ado, our winners (selected at random from the 10 entries) are: Daniel, who said [...]

Future Technologies for Music Education – guest post by Eugene Cantera, DLP

Christopher Sutton — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:30:53 +0000

Today we’re excited to bring you a guest post from Eugene Cantera, partner at the Dallas School of Music, whose innovative Discover, Learn, and Play training system is helping lead the way in learning music, instruments and ear training online. At DSM we often say “one of the great things about music is the people [...]

Howto: Use iAction to plan your ear training

Christopher Sutton — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:00:41 +0000

Last week we introduced you to iAction: a fantastic new iOS app for goal setting, progress tracking, and the support you need to keep you on course. We think it’s a great complement to our ear training apps and today we’re going to look in more detail at how it can help you in your [...]

Recommended app: iAction helps you reach your goals

Christopher Sutton — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:25 +0000

Talking to our readers and our iOS ear training students, we’ve learned that one of the biggest problems people have with ear training… isn’t actually anything to do with ear training! Time and time again we hear that students get off to a great start, but then struggle to remember to practice, or keep motivated [...]

Introducing our new app, Chordelia: Triad Tutor!

Ear Training Downloads – MP3s, sheet music, and more!

Christopher Sutton — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:35:30 +0000

We have lots of ear training downloads here at EasyEarTraining.com but until now they’ve been scattered across articles and series. It seems about time to gather them all together in one place. Just click the images to learn more and download these free ear training resources: Training packs These packs of free ear training MP3s [...]

Learn intervals with this free MP3 download

Christopher Sutton — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:30:25 +0000

One of the most common questions we get here at Easy Ear Training is “I want to learn intervals but I don’t have an iPhone for your apps! What can I do?” Well, today we’re releasing a new option you can try: a free pack of interval training tracks. Grab your free download now! Our [...]

Listen Close: “Pagan Poetry” by Björk

Nick Long — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:00:15 +0000

As I noted in the recent Open Your Ears post on Björk, I had quite a challenge in choosing just one song to encapsulate the sound of Björk, as her band line-up and instrumentation tends to change for every album! After some careful deliberation and a thorough review of my Björk CDs I decided on [...]

Open Your Ears to the Music of Björk

Nick Long — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:00:35 +0000

Spend a little while making small talk at a party and eventually someone will ask you to name your favorite recording artist… But for a music geek giving a definitive answer is not unlike being asked which one of your children is your favourite! After a bit of “umming” and “ahhing” with a suitably furrowed [...]

Don’t get stuck writing ‘four-chord songs’

Andree-Ann D. — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:00:32 +0000

If you’ve started to write your own songs, you’ve probably been faced with the same type of ‘blank page’ syndrome all writers face. You know how to play your instrument but whenever you try writing some songs of your own, you get stuck in a 3-chord or 4-chord progression with no way out. Does this [...]