For ear training, one of the first thing I tell my piano students is to simply listen to music. And the next thing is to make sure they do their exercises.

There is a whole scale of music difficulty. Some music is extremely complex and some, easy enough to start understanding what you learned in ear training.

A good example of this is listening to blues. I recommend to my student to listen to a selection of easy blues song. As the student listen to them, he/she can start to hear what the theory sounds in real life. There are some very simple blues. And as you listen to these blues concurrently to doing the ear training exercises, you start to simply hear (understand) what these are all about.

This is good for any style of music, not just the improvisation piano students.

I’ll talk more about this later but wanted to give a quick mention of this.

Patrick
lapianolessons.com

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