Ear Training for Guitarists

Introduction to Ear Training

What You Will Learn

An introduction to Ear Training as it applies to popular music.

Areas of focus include.

• matching pitch,.
• major scale melodies, .
• and melodic intervals in the context of examples drawn from contemporary popular music.

Topics include.

• meter and rhythm,.
• eighth-note phrases, .
• sight singing,.
• transcribing melody and rhythm on the staff, .
• harmonic intervals,.
• triad qualities, .
• and diatonic major chord progressions.

Key Recognition

Recognise and transcribe diatonic minor-key melodies and chord progressions.

• Play sixteenth-note rhythmic phrases.
• plus variations in minor-key melody and harmony.
• Triplet rhythms, .
• blues harmony and melody, .
• seventh chords,.
• secondary dominants, .
• non-diatonic root movement .
• and quality, inversions.

Advanced Transcription Skills

Applied transcription skills,.

• including chart notation,.
• rhythm charts,.
• lead sheets.