Ear Training and Aural Skills
Develop accurate listening, faster musical recognition, and stronger performance through practical ear training.
This Music course in Ear Training and Aural Skills helps you hear patterns with greater clarity so you can perform, transcribe, and understand what you listen to with confidence. Through practical exercises and guided listening, you will Develop accurate listening, faster musical recognition, and stronger performance through practical ear training.
Strengthen Your Music Listening Skills With Ear Training
- Build a reliable listening foundation with pitch, rhythm, and tonal awareness
- Improve your ability to identify intervals, chords, and progressions by ear
- Develop practical transcription strategies for melodies and rhythms in real Music
- Strengthen sight-singing, memory, and critical listening for better performance
A practical course that trains your ears to hear, identify, and reproduce Music more accurately.
This course introduces the core principles of Ear Training and Aural Skills through a clear, step-by-step approach. You will begin with a focused listening mindset and move into the foundations of sound recognition, including pitch, register, tuning, pulse, meter, and subdivision. These skills give you the tools to hear Music more precisely and respond to it with greater confidence.
As you progress, you will learn to recognize intervals, major and minor scales, scale degrees, and tonal function. The course then expands into harmonic awareness, helping you identify triads, inversions, voicing, and common chord progressions in tonal Music. Each topic is designed to connect listening with understanding so you can hear structure instead of isolated sounds.
You will also practice melodic and rhythmic dictation, sight-singing with solfege and scale degrees, and aural memory exercises that improve recall and reproduction. Additional lessons focus on error detection, transcription workflows for real songs and excerpts, and methods for building a sustainable independent practice routine. By the end of the course, you will listen to Music with sharper focus, recognize patterns more quickly, and apply your ear skills with greater accuracy in performance, study, and transcription.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Introduction and Listening Mindset
1 lesson
Foundations of Sound Recognition
1 lesson
Foundations of Time and Subdivision
1 lesson
Hearing the Distance Between Notes
1 lesson
Recognizing Tonal Patterns
1 lesson
Listening Within a Key
1 lesson
Building Harmonic Awareness
1 lesson
Hearing Chords in Different Forms
1 lesson
Recognizing Harmonic Motion
1 lesson
Transcribing Notes and Phrases by Ear
1 lesson
Writing What You Hear Accurately
1 lesson
Reading Music Internally and Out Loud
1 lesson
Retaining and Reproducing Musical Ideas
1 lesson
Listening Critically in Performance
1 lesson
Applying Ear Skills to Songs and Excerpts
1 lesson
Building a Sustainable Listening Routine
1 lesson
Professor Amanda Davis
Professor Amanda Davis guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.