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The First Week: Flawless Ear Training

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  • 9 Lessons

Seven days of Flawless Ear Training, free. One audio lesson a day from Unit 1, ending with your first quiz. You'll know by day seven whether this works on you.

Why this exists

Most ear training never touches your inner ear

You drill intervals. You get faster at the app. Then you sit down to play and you're still guessing.

The app trained your reaction time. It never trained your hearing.

Nobody taught you to hear. There's a good chance nobody taught your teacher either.

Flawless starts somewhere else. Two notes. You hear them, you hold them, and you learn to find them again in silence before you play them. That's audiation, and it's the thing the drills were standing in for all along.

One lesson a day

The seven days

Each one opens the morning after the last. Thirty minutes or less. You keep all of it.

Day 1

Headphones on, and something to write on. That's all you need.

Read the primer first. It's short. Then start Lesson A, which runs twenty-one minutes.

A new day opens each morning for the next week. You keep all of it.

Read First: Two Notes, Honestly Heard
Lesson A: Two Notes, Up Close

Day 2

Lesson B: The Same Two Notes, Across Octaves

Day 3

Lesson C: What the Pitch Actually Sounds Like

Day 4

Lesson 1: The Fifth as Tonic and Dominant

Day 5

Lesson 2: A New Pair of Notes

Day 6

Lesson 3: Three Notes, Compared and Isolated

Day 7

Quiz 1: What Can You Hear?

Your Next Step

The week is done. Here's what to do with it.

Where This Goes

Before you sign up

What seven days won't do

They won't build your ear. Unit 1 is 26 lessons, seven quizzes and a six-level final exam, and it's the first of sixteen units. Thirty minutes a day, most days, for a long time.

What seven days will tell you is whether this works on you. That's the only question worth answering today.

On day seven you take Quiz 1. You find out what you can hear and what you can't, and nobody has to tell you the result. If it makes you want the other thirty-four sessions of Unit 1, they're there. If it doesn't, keep the week and we're square.

Every lesson carries exercises for beginners and for advanced ears. You're not too early for this, and you're not too far along for it either.

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