Chord progression for aural training4/11/2024 ![]() My question is about how long does it usually take to learn to hear chord progressions. Or when I listen to a first inversion major chord, I sing the "mi" in the base, followed by "fa-sol-do", that is the expected movement of the bass for a I-IV-V candence. For example: the major seventh is usualy the IV7, so, when I hear "mi", I know this is it, and I sing in my head "mi-re-do", that is the usual movement this "mi" makes in order to go to I. And when practicing recognizing chords, I noted that it was easier if I sing the usual notes that follow the notes I'm hearing in order to form a IV-V-I cadence, or a ii-V-I cadence. When practicing intervals, I noted that if you solphege the harmonic interval that you hear, when you hear it again, you sing it before you even recognize consciously the notes. Yes, I quickly noted that I had to sing everything. Is it normal? How long does it take to be decent in aural skills? For example, to be able to listen to chord progressions in real music recordings? Is it ok to just stay with the cellphone app? How much ear-training do I have to learn to be a decent pianist? The progress with chord progressions is being very slow. I can't listen to these things in recordings from works I did not study. But I can listen to it just as I study the score. ![]() ![]() I can listen to an incredible amount of things that I didn't imagine were part of the music I play. It made a huge difference in the way I play. I can identify all intervals within an octave, the main types of chords (including major 7th, minor seventh, half-diminished, etc), 5 notes melodies, and I get about 60% of four triads chord progressions in my cellphone app (I'm just working on the major modes now). But, specifically about ear-training, I'm a bit ansious. I can see that theory is about what you should be able to listen to, ear training is the actual ability to listen to these things, and scales are the physical space where these things happen. They are all more or less the same thing. Indeed, I made an enormous progress since I began to study these topics. For about one year I discovered that I had to study scales, arpeggios, theory and ear-training. I never took proper classes, but I can play some quite advanced works, like Chopin's Ballade in G minor, Sonata in Bb Minor (all 4 movements), Revolutionary Etude, Scherzo in B flat minor, Beethoven moonlight sonata (all 3 movements), the first fugue of the WTC, book 1, etc. Hi! I'm 43 years old, and an amateur pianist.
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