Hi, ear friends, I´ve got a question.
Have any of you reached the highest level of... for example interval comparasion? And if you did so... Are you a kind of incredible musician now?
Do you think one of those jazz master would manage to do it without a real effort? I wonder... 10 years old Mozart would do it?
Have any of you reached the highest level?
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I have reached the highest level on interval comparison and interval identification, and I can give the correct answer to all the questions without effort, but no, i'm not a great musician, because belive or not, this is only a basic level.
Identifiying standalone intervals is the basis of ear training, not it's goal. After that, you have to identify all the intervals you hear in a row, one afther the other, ie in a melody.
I'm working now on the melody dictation exercise, at the begining it was imposible, I felt lost after the first interval. I slowed down de rhytm to 30 bps or so, this way I could hear the intervals like single ones instead of in a row. Then i began to increase the rythm gradually. After some months, I've reached 75 bps, and when playing or listening to music, I do hear the intervals from time to time, but in real music the notes are played with short durations and faster rhtymhs, so still is not enough.
And by the way, there are more things in ear training than identifying intervals, like chords, inversions, scales, scales degrees, chord progressions, and the rhythm stuff.
I also work on this, and i also have a basic level, but still have much to go.
Identifiying standalone intervals is the basis of ear training, not it's goal. After that, you have to identify all the intervals you hear in a row, one afther the other, ie in a melody.
I'm working now on the melody dictation exercise, at the begining it was imposible, I felt lost after the first interval. I slowed down de rhytm to 30 bps or so, this way I could hear the intervals like single ones instead of in a row. Then i began to increase the rythm gradually. After some months, I've reached 75 bps, and when playing or listening to music, I do hear the intervals from time to time, but in real music the notes are played with short durations and faster rhtymhs, so still is not enough.
And by the way, there are more things in ear training than identifying intervals, like chords, inversions, scales, scales degrees, chord progressions, and the rhythm stuff.
I also work on this, and i also have a basic level, but still have much to go.
I have to agree with Guest. I reach a high level in interval identification and I just play guitar for 3 years now and I'm not that good. But now, I started to be able to tab myself the music I listen, not complicated one but it's better than before, few months ago. I wasn't able to do a simple song
Reaching the highest level
I have to say that I once reached the highest level of Interval Comparison, but then I stoped exercising for a time, and when I got back to it, I sucked. So, it is very important that you practise constantly, otherwise, you will forget what you've already learned.
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