Ear Training Lessons in Butler. Amazing Teachers.

Learn how your ear will help you to improve your music skills.

* learn how to tune your instrument using your ear
* how to pick notes, chords, and parts from your favorite songs
* sing notes by just hearing them
* identify major, minor, diminished, augmented, chords by ear
* learn all about intervals and how to hear them (Major 3rd etc)
* learn how to identify different scales and how to play them over a chord progression.
* learn instruments by ear which expands your hearing. (guitar, trumpet, piano, etc)

Ear training is fun and shows you how easy music can be once you hear it for yourself. When you hear an interval and answer, "a minor 3rd"...you will be amazed at what you can do and hear.

I will help you sing and hear chords, intervals and sight-sing music notation.

Originally employed and still used in serious study of music. Especially composition but also performance, this art improves the condition of both ability in music and health in life.

Can perfect pitch be developed? Many will tell you that it can, but the truth is that it can be improved, approached and at times even lost after you have it. So much of our hearing depends on the stress levels in our lives. Tension diminishes our powers and our health and a self aware, relaxed state of mind opens our hearts and our ears. I teach you how to listen and hear as well as how to absorb what you hear into the deep understanding of sound, music and emotion. My background as an internationally known and active performer, teacher, composer and educator as well as naturally being gifted with the rare quality of perfect pitch allows as an opportunity to bring you beyond your goals and into a place where you will hear life and its glory as never before!

I utilize the classic technique of

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 ...

I explain that having a 'good ear' can actually be taught. There are certain musical sounds which follow predictable patterns. If these patterns can be learned and internalized, then you will have a good ear.

I am a recently retired full-time professor from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. , where I taught for 27 years.
I taught all 4 levels of core ear training, in addition to a great course called "Performance Ear Training for Voice" (levels 1&2). I continue to teach for Berklee Online.

I also was active as part of the Audition and Interview team for Berklee, auditioning hundreds of students at home and abroad, for admission to the college.

My students have always appreciated my expertise, patience, and enthusiasm for teaching.