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Epic Ear Training
Improve your ability to learn and understand music by ear with these lessons and exercises from the Joe Luegers Music Academy.
Epic Ear Training
It's all about the Tonic
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Learning music by ear is a learnable skill, although most musicians don't know where to start. Using the tonic as a point on an aural map to pinpoint all other notes against is arguably the most valuable ear training skill a musician can have. This lesson will teach you how to identify each of the 7 major scale degrees by ear and give you 3 exercises for continual practice and improvement.
For more practice with scale degrees, check out my collection of 120 progressive ear training exercises.
View the video edition of this episode for notation and the pitches displayed on a keyboard.