Ear Training Lessons in Kapolei. Amazing Teachers.

"Study music while experiencing lessons to an enjoyable and relaxed approach!" This has been my goal and approach for students from young children to professional musicians in college. Let's see how you learn best and make this a positive experience for you!

4 on AP Music Theory Exam, high grades in 2 Aural Skills courses in college.

Ear training, or aural skills, includes abilities such as identification of scales, chords, intervals, as well as harmonic dictation. The goal is to be able to identify these musical sounds, only using the sense of hearing. This skill is valuable for all levels of students, and for every instrument, but is especially helpful for intermediate students, planning to major in music, prior to attending university, as it is typically a required core curriculum for all music majors.

If so desired, these lessons can extend beyond just ear training and cover other aspects of music theory and aural skills, including sightsinging, understanding solfege (Do-Re-Mi), sightreading, etc. I customize all lessons to my student's goals, experience level and interests.

Many people want to be able to play their musical instrument by ear training. An important part of ear training is learning the intervals (musical distance) between notes you hear. This is something that got touched on when I was a music major in school & college. I taught myself intervals related to common songs I've heard. By applying this knowledge to the guitar, my fingers will automatically go to the right notes I am "hearing in my head" without really thinking about it...it bypasses my intellect. This can really help decide which position to play a certain musical phrase on a guitar, for example.

On an intermediate level, I can train your ear to tell the difference between major chords, minor chords & more complex chords. I can show you how to find the first note or chord of a song. Then you can learn how to tell what the next chords are in a song, based on its relationship with the first chord.
Also whether your instrument is in tune with other instruments or ...

Ear Training

Interval and chord recognition. Rhythm analysis.