Willoughby, OH Ear Training Lessons

Serving as both a Music Theory tutor & as a professional music transcriber, I have been teaching Ear Training tactics since 2007. In our lessons, we will study more efficient ways to hear intervals, chord tonalities, meter/tempo, key centers & accidentals. Whether on paper, at your instrument or in your mind's ear, Ear Training is a quintessential skill every musician should develop & be ever-sharpening.

I have taught ear training, music theory and sight singing for over 15 years. I can teach you about intervals (perfect, augmented, diminished) arpeggios, chords, jazz harmony, rhythmic and melodic transcription, etc.

I cannot count the times someone claimed to be tone deaf. Nonsense! I’m able to train all my students to sing in tune as well as look at music & hear it in their head before playing it. Ear training is very important, whether reading notation, or playing by ear. Of course I had much ear training in my Music Conservatory education. I have several decades experience. I learned the most of ear training while teaching my blind students.

Intervals, triads and progressions.

I recently graduated from the College of Saint Benedict with a degree in Music Studies. I have been teaching private lessons for two years.

I teach from the Music for Sight Singing Book in order to help you hear and dictate simple melodic lines in conjunction with their rhythm. I also teach major and minor intervals throughout one and two octaves, triad and seventh chords along with their inversions.

I teach ear training using the movable doe solfege system. This system is what is used at most contemporary music schools. It is ideal for jazz, and pop as well as country and other similar styles. If you plan to attend a classical conservatory this will most likely not be the system used.

If you feel your musical skills are suffering because you are having trouble picking out and hearing certain musical ideas, motifs, or voices, this is the perfect place and opportunity to build your ability through ear training. Ear training is important as a musician, especially when playing in an ensemble.

We will work together to learn to hear, recreate, and understand melodies, harmonies, and sonorities through playing and listening to our own instruments and others' instruments and voices.

Christopher Oill provides innovative piano lessons, where students discover their unique musical goals and quickly develop applicable musical skills. Christopher has brought many dreams to life for classical competition pianists, pop musicians, composers, DJs, and more. With up-to-date technology, a beautiful 5'2 Weber piano, and a highly credentialed teacher, the Oill Music Studio is equipped to engage, motivate, and guarantee progress for students of all interests, ages, and skill levels.