Ear Training Website
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Music students should know how important ear training is for their development. Also experienced professionals still need to stay in shape, especially with the rhythm. Even those not interested in music should realize that a "tone-deaf" ear will somehow affect their personality as a whole.
The very first requirement for a musician is to be able to imitate sounds. You hear sounds in your imagination or from the outside world. You should be able to replay those sounds using your voice or an instrument, and this is the real task for any player or composer.Technically this is what making music means. Musicianship starts here. A professional musician, especially one with the perfect pitch may consider this as childish. In fact even a pro should strive to improve the ability to memorize and replay sophisticated rhythm patterns. This contributes a lot to better musical phrasing.
It doesn't make sense for somebody to learn how to read music or play a musical instrument, and not be able to imitate sounds with the voice or the instrument.
Of course, music comes from the soul, it is not a mere juggling with sounds, but many times players from a lower spirituality platform look better just because they have "a good ear", and a common misconception is that this cannot be improved.
The author of this program has plenty of experience and I can assure you that the attentive ear can be improved to the highest levels, even for someone considered tone-deaf. It requires a lot of practice and discipline, of course.
There are various ways to measure the musical talent. We provide one here. It is most elementary. And we don't agree that whoever does not perform well is not talented. But it should be interesting for you to try and of course to improve.
You will hear a couple of sounds; if the 2nd sound is higher than the first press the Up Arrow on your keyboard. Or the Down Arrow if the 2nd is lower.
Start this test and select 'Open File', if your browser allows it. Or save it for later, it's free. It may take a few seconds (it's 22k) - if there is no traffic. ( It will only work on a PC. Sooner or later this will be replaced with a Java applet, so it will work from any type of computer; and faster).
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