Ear Training is one of the most important things to practice as a jazz musician.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it is one of the area’s that is most often overlooked and neglected.\u00a0 Many young students assume wrongly that people either can hear or can’t.\u00a0 Many students feel like they have\u00a0 “bad” ears and are embarrassed that they can’t hear certain things.\u00a0 In these series of lessons on ear training I teach you the importance of ear training and show you how to work on it to see improvement.\u00a0 If you are diligent and work on your ears, you will see improvement over time. \u00a0 It is of primary importance to train your ears to be able to hear different keys and chords.\u00a0 In this lesson I take you through a half hour of drills to test your ability to figure out what major\u00a0 7th chords I am playing.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a great lesson that you can play over and over again to get better at hearing the tonality of a chord and to help you figure out what major scale to play over it. (31 Minute Video Lesson)<\/p>\n
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