A new, transformative approach to ear training.
Listen fully... immerse yourself in sound...
... and unlock the secrets hidden within music.
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Transform your ear training skills with manageable daily sessions.
Imagine transforming your musical ear with just a short daily commitment. Our Flawless Ear Training course is crafted for maximum impact without overwhelming your schedule. Every lesson is guided—you simply hit play and follow along. No guesswork, no tedious drills.
Why This Matters:
Seamless Integration: Your practice becomes a natural part of your day, not a burdensome task.
Guided Mastery: With step-by-step instructions, you can focus on absorbing and internalizing the music.
Consistent Progress: Regular, focused sessions lead to remarkable improvements over time.
Flexible and User-Friendly
We know life gets busy. That’s why our course is designed to be:
Accessible: Start anytime, anywhere. Whether you have 15 minutes or an hour, you can make meaningful progress.
Efficient: Structured lessons ensure that every minute you invest moves you closer to mastering relative pitch.
Engaging: Say goodbye to boring drills. Our interactive approach keeps you motivated and immersed.
Your Journey, Your Pace
There's no one-size-fits-all in music education. While some days you might dive deep for an hour, other days a quick 20-minute session keeps the momentum going. The key is consistency and enjoying the process.
When music students think of ear training, they often picture long hours of monotonous interval drills and tedious sight-reading exercises—it's no wonder they've nicknamed it "ear straining." But ear training doesn't have to be a time-consuming grind filled with relentless drills.
The Flawless Ear Training Course offers a revolutionary approach designed to open your ears to the intricate world within musical structures. Our method helps you listen deeply and immerse yourself in sound, transforming not just how you play music but how you feel it.
Take a moment to listen to this excerpt from Sibelius's String Quartet.
As you listen, consider:
Can you clearly hear all four parts—the two violins, viola, and cello?
Are you able to identify the intricate interplay between the instruments?
Do the opening chords, intervals, and progressions reveal themselves to you?
If not, you're not alone. Most ear training programs don't equip you to hear inside a musical work. Traditional methods often fall short because they rely on automated processes and isolated exercises—learning one interval at a time until all 12 basic intervals are covered. This tedious and ineffective approach can leave you confused about the best path forward.
Musicians need a multi-faceted ear training approach that includes exercises that complement and reinforce each other. The Flawless Ear Training Course is professionally designed to provide just that. By engaging with our program, you can efficiently complete your daily ear training and go about your day while continuously improving.
Imagine being immersed in music, hearing each inner part with clarity and confidence. Our unique method helps you effortlessly recognize intervals, chords, and progressions with greater ease. That's the power of our course—it transforms your musical experience from the inside out.
So, are you ready to hear music as you've never heard it before?
I have been studying music since I was four, and I have trained with some of the best. I have attended a handful of different universities and attended multiple different music camps in my pursuit of becoming the best musician I can be.
Recently I had one of my guitar instructors (Grant Gordy) tell me that my technique is great but the only way forward for me to advance to the next level (pro level) of musicianship is for me to really work on my ear. That was six months ago.
I have taken Kevin's course seriously since the first pre-course lessons. My hard work is starting to pay off.
I want to develop a pro-level ear more than anything. I am starting to see that if I continue with Kevin's course, I just might achieve my goal!
Fellow musicians and fans have already started to take notice.
Hi Kevin, thank you so much for doing this project. Please keep doing what you are doing. You make the impossible becomes possible. I never thought I could do the Pitch Breakdown, Interval or Chord exercises. Up to this lesson, my ears can tell with confidence. I am listening to a major triad or a perfect fifth. The Pitch Breakdown becomes straightforward. I am still struggling with memorizing the six measures of pitch notation. However, this will improve with practice. Once again, massive thanks!
It’s working! I can now hear both notes in the intervals. Bass clef is still a bit of a challenge to my ear, but it is getting better. Thanks!
Thanks for the advice, and the course. It really works! I've started ear training a few weeks ago and, after having done introductory lessons A, B, and C, today I finally managed 100% in the chord vs interval recognition exercise of Lesson 1, while about one week ago I thought I would never make it.
I think we should make a Nobel Prize for music and give it to you, your channel is really special with a lot of knowledge that I didn't find anywhere else... Thank you
Thanks again Kevin for keeping this going. The more I dive into your lessons, the more certain I feel that you are creating something unique in the world that very much needs to exist. I am a trained musician, so these lessons are all very simple for me at this point, and probably will be for several months. However, I feel that I'm learning to listen more deeply into the individual pitches and intervals, like probing down to the vibrational cycles themselves. I can only imagine your composition course is equally as powerful if you are using this same incremental approach. I'll be sure to check that out soon!
To truly immerse yourself in the music you love and hear deeply into its essence, you need a process that naturally enhances your ability to perceive the inner workings of sound.
Many musicians, when attempting to identify an interval, resort to common methods that often fall short of fostering true musical understanding:
Associating Intervals with Familiar Tunes Using songs like "Here Comes the Bride" for a Perfect Fourth or "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" for a Major Sixth to recognize intervals.
Counting Up Scales Mentally playing a major or chromatic scale to "count" up to the interval they're trying to uncover.
Relying on Anchor Intervals Using a familiar interval, like the Perfect Fifth, as a reference point to determine others—often using it to hear a Minor Sixth.
Interval Inversion Techniques Inverting a smaller interval and singing it up or down an octave to identify a larger, seemingly more difficult interval. For instance, recognizing that a major third ascending becomes a minor sixth descending when shifted an octave.
Using Solfége Syllables Internalizing various intervals through solfége (do, re, mi...) to map out pitches.
Visualizing a Keyboard Mentally picturing piano keys to calculate the half steps and whole steps within an interval.
Some even attempt less conventional methods, like trying to manifest a better ear through sheer willpower or listening to intervals repeatedly while they sleep, hoping for subconscious absorption.
While these techniques might yield limited results, developing your ear can actually be a natural and straightforward journey when approached correctly.
Most importantly, effective ear training doesn't demand hours of your day. With just 30-45 minutes of focused practice, you can make remarkable progress. By incorporating the right techniques, your ear continues to develop naturally throughout the day, even as you attend to other activities.
Within just three weeks of starting a comprehensive ear training program, you'll begin to notice exciting changes in how you perceive sound. Here are some signs that you're on the right path:
Nature's Melodies Unveiled You hear birds and can identify the intervals they're singing.
Rhythms in Motion While running on a treadmill, you notice the hum resonates as a major or minor second.
Musical Machines The beeping of your car's warning lights reveals itself as a major or minor third—even if slightly out of tune.
Discovering Overtones You begin to hear additional notes, known as overtones, that weren't apparent before when listening to intervals.
Speech Becomes Song Conversations take on a new dimension as you naturally hear intervals within spoken words.
Listen to William Shatner. His expressive speech patterns are rich with intervallic relationships. Can you hear the musicality in his words?
Understanding Active and Passive Listening in Ear Training
To fully develop your ear, it's essential to combine two distinct categories of ear training: Active Listening and Passive Listening. Together, they form a comprehensive approach that enhances your ability to perceive and internalize music.
Active Listening
Active listening involves ear training activities that require conscious thought and effort. These exercises engage you directly with the music, honing your analytical and perceptual skills. Examples include:
Mentally Identifying Intervals: Recognizing and naming the intervals you hear in melodies and harmonies.
Breaking Apart Chords: Analyzing chords to identify their individual notes and understand their construction.
Melodic Dictation: Writing down melodies you hear, a process known as dictation, which sharpens your ability to internalize and reproduce music.
Sight Singing and Audiation: Singing or internally hearing (audiating) printed music at sight, connecting visual notation with auditory perception.
Passive Listening
Passive listening encompasses activities that require minimal conscious effort but are equally important in shaping your musical ear. These exercises allow your subconscious to absorb musical patterns and nuances. Examples include:
Looped Interval Listening: Listening to specific intervals played at different octave registers on repeat, helping your ear become familiar with their sound.
Rote Singing: Singing melodies by memory, such as "Happy Birthday" or songs you love, reinforcing pitch and rhythm recognition naturally.
Daily Routines and Mirror Exercises: Completing consistent exercises that, over time, become second nature, solidifying your foundational skills.
When Active Listening Becomes Passive
In essence:
Active Listening requires effort.
Passive Listening requires minimal or no conscious effort.
There comes a point where active listening drills become passive—a transition that signifies true internalization of musical concepts. This is the goal of the Flawless Ear Training Course.
A Tale of Two Approaches
Consider this excerpt from my original composition, "Pitch and Heave for Tuba."
There are two basic ways to learn this melody:
Memorization Through Repetition Play it on the piano repeatedly and memorize how it sounds—a common approach among music students.
Intervallic Exploration Carefully work through the melody, sounding out each interval until you know what it feels like internally.
Both methods may lead to correct performance, and both students might receive an A for singing it accurately. However, the student who takes the time to understand each interval actively develops their ear more effectively and gains deeper musical insight.
Both processes use active means to achieve a passive result, but the quality and longevity of the learning differ significantly. The second approach transforms active listening exercises into passive skills, ingraining them into your musical intuition.
The Flawless Ear Training Advantage
The Flawless Ear Training Course is effective because it balances active and passive listening in the right proportions. Our program guides you through engaging exercises that require thoughtful effort while setting you up to internalize these skills naturally over time.
Begin Your Transformation
Start the course today, and experience how integrating active and passive listening can revolutionize your musical abilities. If you appreciate the progress and newfound depth in your perception, I invite you to continue this journey with me toward flawless ear training.
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62 Lessons
Unit 1 (36 Lessons): The Perfect Fifth + Tonic-Dominant Chord Progressions
Unit 2 (15 Lessons): Perfect Fourth and Fifth + Inversions + Basic Tonic-Predominant (IV) Chord Progressions
Unit 3 (15 Lessons): The Perfect Intervals + Inversions + Basic Cadential Progressions (I-IV-V-I)
45 Lessons
Unit 4 (16 Lessons): Major Third + Major Triads/Inversions
Unit 5 (16 Lessons): Minor Third + Minor Triads/Inversions
Unit 6 (16 Lessons): Thirds and Perfect Intervals
45 Lessons
Unit 7 (16 Lessons): The Minor Seventh + m7 and Mm7
Unit 8 (16 Lessons): The Major Seventh + Dm7 and M7
Unit 9 (16 Lessons): Thirds, Perfect Intervals, and Sevenths + Chords
Coming Soon...
45 Lessons
Unit 10 (16 Lessons): The Tritone + Diminished Triads
Unit 11 (16 Lessons): The Major Sixth Augmented Triads + i-VI-V-I
Unit 12 (16 Lessons): The Minor Sixth + Diminished/Augmented Triads + I-vi-IV-V-i
Coming Soon...
60 Lessons
Unit 13 (16 Lessons): The Major Second + d7/dm7 + I-ii-V-I and I-VI-ii-V-i
Unit 14 (16 Lessons): The Minor Second + Seventh Inversions
Unit 15 (16 Lessons): Refining Interval and Chord Identification
Unit 16 (15 Lessons): Ear Refinement
Coming Soon...
Answers to commonly asked questions.
The exercises are simple.
Simply listen and follow along with the guided examples. There is no Artificial Intelligence or automated programming in the creation of this course. I personally record everything in the series, which gives you access to an elite program that exceeds what you will get from any other ear training class, private tutoring, or software program.
Lessons are designed to be less than 30 minutes whenever possible. In some instances, the lessons may last as long as 45 minutes.
This will depend largely on your current skill level. Some students will be able to complete 1 lesson per day, while some students may need up to 3 days per lesson. No matter your level of experience, you'll be able to continually improve your ear using a flawless and easy process.
I am confident you will learn and grow from this program.
Other ear training programs will take you to a point where many students get stuck and can't continue to develop.
...This program is different...
With Flawless Ear Training, the exercises increase in difficulty for a period and then scale back. During the scale-back period, you'll notice that exercises become easier. Then, the program will gradually increase in difficulty again.
This process benefits both beginning and advanced students. The result is an ear that continually improves and opens up naturally. Students are asked to spend up to three weeks on a single lesson and then move on. This allows the student to keep training and building the ear every single day.
The final course will have more than 250 lessons for the entire course.
The course is broken up into 16 Units.
Each Unit is designed to be purchased on its own. You'll need to start with Unit 1. This Unit creates the foundation for the course, and it is also one of the longest levels.
You'll get 250 individually created lessons that are designed to provide you with the instruction you need to excel.
Along the way, you'll learn much more than ear training. You'll learn about the foundations of sound and start hearing music in an entirely new way.
I am creating this course in real-time based on student success and struggles. I think there is no other honest way to create a course.
When you create a course in isolation, even the most experienced teacher will have to guess at what the student needs. By bringing students along for the journey and getting feedback, I'm able to tailor the course to specific issues that crop up as students move through the course.
Think of this course as access to professional group private lessons. You'll get the benefit of live support as you continue to develop the ear.
And, when the course is done, you will have the distinction of being one of the founding members of the course.