Classical Music Ear Training Bach Chorale Five BWV 267
Bach’s Chorale Five BWV 267 is an excellent place to start applying contextual ear training skills to real classical music. The overall idea hear is to first hear the entire Chorale in one key center. Secondly, you will be quizzed on hearing or singing any pitch as the Chorale is played. MP3s are also included to help you learn each part of the Chorale if you so desire. This is an excellent addition for those musicians who work with choirs.
Developing your key retention to the point where you can hear the whole Chorale in one key center can be challenging. There are other courses that will help you develop better key retention such as the Key Retention Builder course. But the idea behind using real music in the Applied Classical Ear Training Series is to get you hearing and staying in one key when you hear real music. This may seem like a fine point but as humans we learn in one “context” at a time. Think of learning a language as a good example. Just because you can read a language doesn’t mean you can speak it. So putting ear training exercises directly into real music will help you bridge the gap between rote clinical exercises and real music. You will find that even working through one of these Classical Music Ear Training Studies will totally transform your understanding and ability to hear music. Once you see how this works you can apply it to every new piece of music that you learn.
The Practice Perfect Applied Classical Ear Training Series of courses provides multiple ways for a musician to hone their ear training skills through exercises that use real music. That is, these exercises place a musician in a real live music situation simulating the contexts most associated with performance.
The Applied Classical Ear Training Series includes the following kinds of exercises:
Each classical music courses vary if difficulty. Listen to the examples on this page to see how you do.
Keep in mind that for each exercise there are either a Soprano, Alto and Tenor voice used sing the answer. There are 277 exercises found in this course. There are various examples of all three of these below:
Each exercise plays a brief drone before the organ enters to establish the key center. Listen with headphones to hear separation of parts and exercises. There are listening and singing exercises with and without a drone:
Each exercise plays a brief drone before the voice enters to establish the key center. Listen with headphones to hear separation of parts and exercises. There are listening and singing exercises with and without a drone:
Really appreciate you guys putting out some classical music for ear training. Pretty unique I have to say. I’ve never seen such courses anywhere. I love the fact that you include both vocal and organ examples. I have a much harder time separating the voices when it’s an organ so the separate parts really help me to focus on these inner melodies. E. Newgard
I’ve been working on the Jazz Standard Applied Ear Training but have to say that including solo melodies in which I have to decipher the key center is brlillant! A. Vanderlinde
I’ve been working with the One Note Ear Training and find these Applied Ear Training Books to be a very good baromitor of my success at learning this Contextual Ear Training method. Appreciate all the hard work Muse Eek is doing to help musicians like myself. A. Miller
I sing in a choir at church and these Bach Chorales are really helping me to quickly learn my parts every week for service. I’m so glad to find these books they are right to the point and are making a marked difference in my ability. P. Henderson
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