Ear Training Course for Guitar

Intervals, Chords & Scales | Practice That and Become Great at Guitar Playing | A Music Lesson You Don't Want to Miss

By: Julia Whitlock

Narrated by: Sarah Duarte

Length: 24 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Hi, fellow music lover! Congratulations on starting your music-making journey.

Ear training is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop, and it’s one that you can work on every day. Which makes total sense: Music is an aural experience, after all. Ear training helps you turn the music you hear into music you make on your guitar. This works for your own musical ideas, too: When you dream up a great riff or chord progression, you naturally want to sit down and play it right away. Ear training helps you do just that.

This lesson is broken into several chapters, each of them focusing on two to four related intervals, chords, or scales. There are plenty of examples for each interval, chord, and scale, so you can work straight through the lesson or hop around as much as you like.

The last chapter is a sort of final exam. It brings together all the intervals, chords, and scales we’ve covered and mixes them up for an extra challenge. Give it a go every once in a while to measure your progress.

Best of all, every concept we discuss here is played on a real guitar by a real guitarist.

Oh, and before I forget, the most important tip of all: Have fun!

Inside the audiobook:

• Nice and encouraging female narrator
• Real guitar recordings throughout
• All intervals from prime to octave covered
• Well-chosen interval comparisons
• Ten-plus hours of interval recognition
• All triads, i.e., major, minor, suspended, augmented, diminished, covered
• All commonly used seventh and ninth chords, e.g., major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, minor major 7, covered
• Well-chosen chord comparisons
• Eight-plus hours of chord recognition
• All commonly used scales, i.e., major, minor, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, locrian, covered
• Additionally, harmonic and melodic minor, major and minor pentatonic, covered
• Well-chosen scale comparisons
• Six-plus hours of scale recognition

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Julia Whitlock (P)2021 Julia Whitlock

Take your ear training to the next level!

Finally an ear training course performed on real guitars!
Really nice to not be dealing with piano or synth tones then trying to relate that to guitar.

This course is not a music theory primer.
If you just started playing music and don't know theoretically what a third or a fifth is - this isn't the course for you. It will tell you what your hearing** (eg minor third) but not the theory behind it (eg a whole step and a 1/2 step) nor the note names (which are not really relevant to what you are trying to learn here).
**and the accompanying PDF file will tell you how to play the interval and give you tips discerning things.

If you're willing to put in the work this course will aid you on your journey.
I'm only like 1/2 way through and I've made more progress thanks to this course than I have in the past 15 years with other courses. I find that the format helps me stick to the lessons. Being an audible book I can have it playing in the background while doing household chores or other things and it's great to be able to rewind and review what you've gotten wrong and figure out why (i.e. "Alexa rewind 20 seconds"). At times it has been challenging - there's been a couple of times where I broke out my guitar to figure out what was being played and set my ears 'right'.
I may not be going through the course fast but I am definitely seeing progress and growth.

I do wish with the chord book that there had been an additional section on major/minor triads where the chord inversion was given. e.g. 'minor, 2nd inversion'; it would have helped sharpen my ear further. Nonetheless this course was one of my best music purchases last year.

It doesn’t make sense

There isn’t any explanation of what to do or how to do this. Just twangy sounds with a narrator saying “major third” twang “minor third” twang. Maybe not at my level? Doesn’t identify the note and no explanation how to gain anything from this. It’s not what I was looking for.