Selig's Ear Training ReFill!

Just saw this post on the PUF for Selig's Ear Training ReFill:

"Happy Music Making Month, Yall!!!

In honor of Music Making Month, I wanted to contribute something that could possibly help take EVERYONE'S music making up a notch.

Introducing Selig's Ear Training ReFill!

Now I know ear training isn't glamorous, but I truly believe it is one of the fundamentals that can go a long way to making your music production more enjoyable and productive. The ReFill includes 18 combinators that run random ear training drills in increasing difficulty, designed to 'strengthen' your musical ear.

I have also included a 2000 word PDF file (available to read online here) that gives tips for using the ReFill as well as basic background on intervals and chords.

Hope this brings you as much musical productivity as it has me! :-)

This ReFill will also be available in the Props 'Free ReFills' download section.

Here's the concept:

Selig's Ear Training ReFill
The benefits to ear training are many - but the main two for me are for learning other folk’s songs quickly (in the studio especially), and for learning the songs I hear in my head quickly (they tend to be fleeting, so the better and quicker I can identify the intervals and chords that I’m hearing in my head, the more likely I am to find them on the keyboard before I loose them forever!

What’s it Do?
This ReFill simply plays randomly selected intervals or chords so you can try your hand at identifying them. This ReFill covers the first octave of Intervals, and triad (three note) Chords. The intervals are divided into two groups, Basic Intervals and Advanced Intervals. Basic Intervals are the Unison (P1), Perfect 4th (P4), Perfect 5th (P5), and the Octave (P8). The advanced intervals include thirteen intervals, covering one octave. The Basic Chords are Major and Minor. The Advanced Chords add Diminished, Augmented, and Suspended.

Combinators in this ReFill:
Here’s a list of the Combinators included with this ReFill, in relative order of difficulty, followed by a brief description of the terms used to describe each Combinator.

01-Intervals-Basic-Melodic Up
02-Intervals-Basic-Melodic Down
03-Intervals-Basic-Harmonic
04-Intervals-Adv-Melodic Up
05-Intervals-Adv-Melodic Down
06-Intervals-Adv-Harmonic
07-Chords-Basic-Melodic Up
08-Chords-Basic-Melodic-Down
09-Chords-Basic-Harmonic
10-Chords-Basic-Inversions-Melodic Up
11-Chords-Basic-Inversions-Melodic Down
12-Chords-Basic-Inversions-Harmonic
13-Chords-Advanced-Melodic Up
14-Chords-Advanced-Melodic Down
15-Chords-Advanced-Harmonic
16-Chords-Advanced -Inversions-Melodic Up
17-Chords-Advanced -Inversions-Melodic Down
18-Chords-Advanced -Inversions-Harmonic


Melodic means the notes are played one after the other.
Harmonic means the notes are all played together.
Interval means two notes.
Chord means three notes (there are no ‘4 note chords’ in this ReFill).
Basic Intervals are the ‘Perfect’ intervals of Unison, Fourth, Fifth and Octave
Basic Chords are just Major and Minor, first inversion
Advanced Intervals are all intervals in the first octave
Advanced Chords include Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented, and Suspended, first inversion.
Basic and Advanced Inversion (Inv) Chords include all three possible inversions, I, II, and III (1st, 2nd, and 3rd inversions) for each chord."

-Selig

Download Selig's Ear Training ReFill for FREE @ http://web.me.com/gilesreaves/Seligs_Ear_Training_ReFill/Download_the_ReFill.html

And don't forget to tune in to Selig's "Live From the Nashville Synthlab" broadcast on May30th, one of Propellerhead's Music Making Month events!