Test your ear, intervals. Go ahead I dare you.

[superblonde]

https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-interval/wineyyngneyyyyyy

Do it for 10 mins, post the total number of questions answered and percentage score.

Update- you can use a guitar if you want but it will show in the final score because it will take a lot longer to answer that way.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[Igglepud]

I tried 20 or so and got 1.

MY ROCK IS FIERCE!!!

[superblonde]

Okay here’s an easier one, same thing try for 10 mins and post total questions answered and score.
https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-interval/wfybyyngneyyyyyy

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[Igglepud]

62/134            46%

MY ROCK IS FIERCE!!!

[MotleyCrue81]

Was getting about 50% haha. I’d probably hear a guitar better than a piano though.  🙂

Bring hair metal back!

[j dogg39]

Wow, I am horrible at this 😞

[superblonde]

Yeah it’s enough to make a grown man cry. I have been working on this with a keyboard for the past 3 weeks. I can get 100% with the keyboard if I verify with the keyboard and count intervals. The major 2 and major 3, I can get those purely by ear almost always. But 4th and 5th I get confused, 6th and 7th also confused. It seems important to do this practice every day. and it is a very very slow process of improvement. My last 100% score was 51 questions in 20 mins on the ‘easy’ one. If I try the ‘easy’ link without verifying on a keyboard I think I got 70% with 60 questions or so.

The purpose of this is that I want to be able to find melodies (vocals especially) as notes, for transcribing or writing stuff. When I try to find melodies, or the key of a song, sometimes I am wildly off like I am sure it is in one key but the real key turns out to be a 5th away. Or a melody note that I find is 1 half step from where I thought it was (which is horrible if attempting to sing, it will always seem off or bad).

I read something somewhere.. a concept like “vocal melodies in rock music don’t really exist”.. certainly true of DLR or Robert Plant or Ozzy or classic blues etc. (And definitely metal screamo does not have much vocal melody). The genre is not like pop where melodies are very important. The melodies in rock were from the guitar solos. I wonder if that is why some of us may not have a knack for vocal melody recognition, simply because it’s not part of the music generally. I might be wrong about all this though.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[Doug Marks]

Yes, it takes practice but it is a very good thing to practice. Sarah does a good job of demonstrating and explaining the sound of intervals.

Metal Method Guitar Instructor

[superblonde]

I’m glad you guys took the challenge and reported that it was very hard because it makes me feel a lot better. I am getting slammed in this berklee musicianship class – barely passed one of the quizzes on ear identification after retaking it a dozen times. It is a hard won skill to be sure.. definitely not something that can be gotten in just 2-3 weeks :-/

One interesting thing is, I am a champ at hearing certain progressions, definitely 1-4-5, I can hear and predict a mile away, like I can hum the 5 before the music changes. From listening to so much blues over the years, and live blues bands in pubs. So I have to remind myself: I just need much more practice on this, to “get it” with other sounds too. Obviously I feel the metal and minor-2nd when I hear the tone in a metal song (METAL!! 😀 ). Identifying notes arbitrarily tho, is a different thing.

MotleyCrue81 wrote:

I’d probably hear a guitar better than a piano though. 🙂

I think this is false.. the several research papers I ran across on studies with vocal groups, concluded that piano was the easiest to hear/train with/ear identify, better than strings and also much better than another human voice. (Which drives me crazy because the vocal guys I sing with, continue to believe their best way to learn is to sing along with a practice recording, instead of using a piano/keyboard.. their old habits die hard I guess) Doing ear training on strings like guitar or violin, there’s just too many additional harmonics, to easily pick out the fundamental in beginning training.. according to those studies (they seemed legit).. Basically, notes from piano are easier to identify than from either a guitar or a singer.

Isnt this the big complaint, “bah, musicians and music students today, have weak ears, compared to prior generations like the 70s” ? If so, then it would seem, more forced work is necessary to resolve this weakness..

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

Without warmup first.. my score.

100% 17/17 10 min https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-interval/wfybyyngneyyyyyy using pop up piano for reference https://www.musictheory.net/piano

Try the chord progression ear quiz:

https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/hp.php

Here’s my quiz settings and score this morning.

`Harmonic Progressions

2017-10-01 10:30

Duration (minutes): 10.5
Exercises: 5
Total chords: 30
Correct: 30
Errors: 5
Score: 86/100

Chords: I, IV and V degree triads;
Inversions: Root position;
Major keys: F;

Tempo: Largo
Show key`

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

Here is an ear training quiz that threw me big time today.

Determine the Scale after listening to the audio. Pentatonic, or Chromatic, or Whole Tone, or Major. Sounds simple right? I couldn’t get above 70% score today (not using a guitar to check), maybe you guys can beat this?

Try it out:

https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-scale/by4rbyygbhy

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[. W H U N E .]

that was fun

yo ‘blonde
you’re really super at finding great links

15 mins…
i got 25/29 86% on the second link (2nds, 3rds 4s, 5s)

but i sat with guitar and hunted around to match pitch

[Anonymous]

Have said it before and will again: if you have the time and $$$, take a college aural skills course at a school with a serious music program. Your local U at which most of the students are future HS band directors does not count because the standards will not be sufficiently high. Take the full two years. Theory will probably be a co-requisite; this is a GOOD thing. When you come out the other side you will be able to identify all intervals including compound ones instantly by ear, sing arpeggios of complex chords in multiple inversions, write out rhythms as you hear them, read a musical score in standard notation the way you would read a book. Once again the standards vary wildly; you want a place that will flunk your ass if you’re not taking it seriously.

[. W H U N E .]

i think it’s helpful to start easy and work to more difficult

for me that’s interval comparison
(Which interval is larger)

I really like this site.

EarBeater Classic

80% or better you proceed to next level.
With this i just do it by ear, rather than hunt around with guitar to match pitches

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