Ear training, from scale degrees upward

The order below is deliberate. Scale degrees before intervals, intervals before chord quality, and everything before you attempt to take a full song down by ear. Skipping ahead is the commonest reason people conclude they have a bad ear.

Start here

• Solfege — Singing scale degrees, and why it works better than interval drilling.
• Kodaly hand signs — Making pitch physical and spatial.
• How to practice ear training — Structuring the daily session.

Core skills

• Interval ear training — Naming the distance between two notes.
• Chord quality recognition — Major, minor, diminished, augmented, by ear.
• Chord progression recognition — Hearing what the song is doing underneath.
• Singing back melodies — The exercise everything else feeds into.

Perfect pitch, honestly

Absolute pitch is rarer and less useful than its reputation suggests. These four pages explain why, and what to train instead.

• What is perfect pitch? — The plain definition, and what it is confused with.
• How rare is it? — Prevalence, critical periods, and adult training.
• Perfect pitch test — How a valid test is built and what your score means.
• Relative vs absolute pitch — Which one does the actual work.

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