New Quiz! Frequency Bands and Harmonics
Following on from the previous quiz on Percussion Frequencies, we’re opening up a new quiz today: covering Frequency Bands and Harmonics. Once you’ve got to grips with the starting material in the Frequency Fundamentals course, you should find you’re...
Wired For Sound Part 2: Amps and Speakers
Missed part one? Catch up here. Welcome to part two of my series helping you gain new enjoyment from ear training by showing you how to get the best sound quality. This week we are going to be talking about amps and speakers. This is a huge subject and you could...
How to write better songs (…by developing your ears!)
Songwriting and ear training are two concepts that are strongly linked together, which is often overlooked. The goal of songwriting is to create music for an audience to hear. The goal of ear training is to develop a sense of hearing better able to listen to musical...
New Quiz! Percussion Frequencies
If you’ve been working on the Frequency Fundamentals series here at EasyEarTraining.com, you may be looking for a way to practice the skills it teaches. Fotios has created a special quiz for the first half of the series, covering drums and cymbals. The Frequency...
Wired for Sound Part 1: Playback
You don’t need a fancy Hi-Fi system to have fun ear training, but good sound reproduction can inspire your creativity, reveal unheard detail in a familiar recording and is less tiring for extended listening sessions. In this series of articles I will be...
Broken Chords and Arpeggios
There are a number of ways for a guitarist to play a chord that can have a significant impact on the song. Train your ears and fingers for each of these.
Harmonics And Distortion
Missed the rest of the series? Click here to start at the beginning. Up to this point in the series we’ve focused on characterising each sound with a single frequency representing its pitch. In today’s article we’ll consider the other frequencies...
Inversions of Diminished and Augmented Triads
Diminished and Augmented chords each have distinctive sounds and you can use the intervals within them to help you reliably recognise their inversions by ear.
Let Your Ear Training Soar with Noteflight
Ever pick up a piece of sheet music and wish that you could hear the notes on the page? Working on ear training can be frustrating if you can’t hear the melody and don’t know how to pick it out on a keyboard. Noteflight’s online notation software can...
Background: EQ Feathering and Spectrum Analyzers
Spectrum Analyzers are a powerful tool which belongs in any audio pro’s toolkit. Learn how to use them with the powerful “EQ feathering” technique here.
