Halloween is Almost Here: Whooooo Wants Improved Listening Skills?
Autumn and Halloween are excellent opportunities to mix up your students’ musical ear training. Get some top tips and a fun rhythm game in this article.
Christopher Sutton
Founder and Director of Musical U, Christopher Sutton is a lifelong passionate musician, dedicated to the mission of helping people to achieve their true, full musical potential.
Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA) and Queen Mary, University of London (MSc) Christopher founded Musical U (then, Easy Ear Training) in 2009 to pioneer new ways to make musicality training easy, fun and effective.
He is the creator of best-selling iOS apps Relative Pitch and SingTrue and the viral sensation ToneDeafTest.com. He has authored hundreds of articles and tutorials on Musical-U.com as well as countless other websites and publications, including Making Music Magazine and Total Guitar Magazine.
He is the host of Musicality Now the popular audio/video podcast focusing exclusively on musicality, where he's had the chance to interview over 100 world-leading experts, as well as sharing his own insights and guidance based on the methodology and frameworks created inside Musical U membership.
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Posts by Christopher Sutton
New Ear Training Album: Popular Progressions!
The new Popular Progressions ear training album teaches you to recognise the most commonly-used chord progressions in real music so you can play songs by ear.
This October: Learn Your Instrument Free With dlp!
Today marks the beginning of our favourite month here at EasyEarTraining.com and this October we’re delighted to celebrate with a very special offer from our friends over at the Dallas School of Music: SPECIAL OFFER Throughout the month of October, every Easy...
Interview: Learning to play by ear with Trixie Deckert Hennig of hEarItAbility.com
Trixie Deckert Hennig is the author of the hEarItAbility series of books which teach musicians to play by ear using an innovative “Eyes and Ears” approach. We invited her to tell us a bit about this new approach and share some tips on ear training and...
Practice with Triad Chord Ear Training Exercises
If you’re working on chord ear training, an effective approach to learning to recognise chord types (e.g. major, minor, diminished, augmented) is to practice identifying them by ear from audio examples. We’ve just added a full set of triad chord examples...
Practice with Interval Ear Training Exercises
Interval ear training exercises are a great way to improve your sense of relative pitch and get a better instinctive understanding of music. We’re making a full set of ear training exercises available here on EasyEarTraining.com to help you learn intervals....
Chord Ear Training How-To: Chord Progressions
Learning to play chords by ear and improvise freely over chords are essential ear training goals for many musicians. Chord ear training is a big topic but can be broken into two main skills: recognising chord types and identifying chord progressions. In this article...
Bass Ear Training: How-To
Bass ear training can help any bassist develop their musical ear in several areas, including relative pitch, playing by ear, bass tone and sense of rhythm.
Chord Ear Training How-To: Chord Types
In “Chord Ear Training: What is it and What can it do for you?” we discussed the reasons musicians train their ears for chords, looked at the benefits of chord ear training, and gave an overview of the two main areas you can focus on. Now let’s look...
Chord Ear Training: What is it and What can it do for you?
Chords are a fundamental part of music.Musicians consider melody, harmony and rhythm to be the three core components of any piece of music. Chords are how we tend to think about harmony. Why are chords important to musicians? Take all the notes playing at any given...
Interval Ear Training Tips and Tricks
Here are the top tips, tricks and advice to help with interval ear training. Learn to recognise intervals more easily and reliably in the music you hear.
