![]() You see, it’s not enough just to recognize the sound of a chord type. I hope you caught the deeply ingrained part. Being able to hear chords not only helps us hear chord progressions, it helps us know what the important chord tones are, not on an intellectual level but deeply ingrained into our ears. And what makes up chord progressions? Chords. What do we improvise over? Chord progressions. One important ear training fundamental is hearing chords. So it looks like our community agrees, ear training is important and we need to be doing it. Further down we even got 10/10 memes! Not one person who commented said ear training wasn’t worth the time. This week on Facebook I asked, “On a scale of 1-10, how important is ear training for an improviser?” Check out the response!Įven in just those first 7 comments, you can see there, we got a pretty resounding 10…not to mention 1,867,989. While learning jazz language by ear will certainly help your ears get stronger, the fundamentals of ear training, such as hearing intervals, chords, and chord progressions are incredibly important. When it comes down to it, it’s our ears that have the ability to compose melodies in the moment, not scales and theory (though those can be great tools).Īnd if you’ve followed our blog or podcast for any amount of time you’ll know that I continually preach that learning jazz repertoire and language by ear is the best way to truly internalize the material. Ear training is of utmost importance for those of us who want to become better jazz improvisers.
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