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Old Mar 15 2008, 7:24 PM

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Good ear training exercises?

Does anyone know of some good exercises for the beginner/intermediate for developing relative pitch, identifying chords, singing melodies etc. using a piano?
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Old Mar 16 2008, 9:42 AM

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Yeah, transcribe recordings
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Old Mar 16 2008, 11:54 AM

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There is a very good program (free as well), called GNU Solfege. Also, there is a book by Samuel Adler called "Sight Singing" or something, and also a book by Hindemith on musicians' training.
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Old Mar 16 2008, 3:36 PM

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Wow, looks like a pretty helpful program

... although the drawback is that it does not run on Mac
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Old Mar 16 2008, 3:46 PM

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Old Mar 17 2008, 9:06 AM

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Wow, looks like a pretty helpful program

... although the drawback is that it does not run on Mac
GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Solfege / InstallingSolfege
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Old Mar 17 2008, 10:59 AM

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What, and pay 130 pounds for something which you can have for free? No thanks
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Old Mar 17 2008, 11:04 AM

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I got 10.3.9

Although I am planning on buying that cute black MacBook
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Old Mar 17 2008, 1:28 PM

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Sight singing helps, I've found, as does listening to music while reading the score. For recognising intervals it's sometimes useful to remember intervals by a tune - for example I learnt the sound of a perfect fifth from the first two notes in the Star Wars theme
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Old Mar 17 2008, 2:30 PM

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Yeah, sight-singing is good

Kodaly's method is also pretty good, as it works very simply and gradually and builds up your ear and singing.

Uhm.. that's a fourth, Mark...
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