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18 Sessions / 1 hours of work per session
Skill Level
Beginner
Topics
Identifying Music Intervals, Major & Minor Intervals, Harmonic Intervals

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Ear Training & Aural Skills: Part 2 Intervals

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Identifying Music Intervals, Major & Minor Intervals, Harmonic Intervals

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Course Description

Mastering the art of learning music by ear on any instrument.


Are you a music maker, performer, composer, or aspiring songwriter looking to up your game? This is the place to start.


Ear Training and Aural Skills is the practice of learning to play music by ear, learning to notate music by ear, and learning to understand music on a deeper level just by hearing it. In this course we are going to learn techniques for listening, analyzing, and notating music (writing it down) just by listening. Perfect Pitch is not required.


Part 2 focuses on recognising intervals, using familiar melodies, identifying Major and Minor intervals and identifying Melodic and Harmonic intervals.

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Session 1: Getting Started (April 24, 2026)
Welcome to this course on Ear Training and Aural Skills, where you'll focus on identifying intervals.
6 lessons
1. Introduction
2. What is Ear Training?
3. Why Intervals?
4. What is Dictation?
5. Practice Makes Perfect
6. An Example to Get Us Started...
Session 2: Techniques for Interval Identification (May 1, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Memorization
2. Colors & Synethesia
3. Numbers
4. People
5. Textures
6. Familiar Melodies
Session 3: Interval Tricks: List of Melodies for Reference (May 8, 2026)
13 lessons
1. How To Use These
2. Minor Second: Jaws Theme, White Christmas
3. Major Second: Happy Birthday
4. Minor Third: Greensleeves, Hey Jude
5. Major Third: When the Saints Go Marching In, Sing Low Sweet Chariot
6. Perfect Fourth: Amazing Grace, O Come All Ye Faithful
7. Tritone: The Simpsons Theme Intro
8. Perfect Fifth: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, The Flintstones Theme
9. Minor Sixth: The Entertainer, Love Story
10. Major Sixth: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, Nobody knows the Trouble I've Seen
11. Minor Seventh: Somewhere (West Side Story)
12. Major Seventh: Immigrant Song
13. Some Cool Sites To Help
Session 4: Identifying Major Seconds (May 15, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Our Goal Here is to Get These in Your Head
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 5: Adding in Major Thirds (May 22, 2026)
5 lessons
1. Practice
2. Answers
3. Practice
4. Answers
5. More To Practice
Session 6: Adding in Perfect Fourths (May 29, 2026)
5 lessons
1. Practice
2. Answers
3. Practice
4. Answers
5. More To Practice
Session 7: Perfect Fourths and Perfect Fifths (June 5, 2026)
6 lessons
1. What Makes These Sound Different?
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 8: M2, M3, P4, and P5 (June 12, 2026)
5 lessons
1. Practice
2. Answers
3. Practice
4. Answers
5. More To Practice
Session 9: Adding in Major Sixth (June 19, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 10: The Major Seventh (June 26, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 11: Working with Melodies (July 3, 2026)
4 lessons
1. Connecting the Dots
2. Hearing Intervals In Context
3. Answers
4. Time For a Pep Talk!
Session 12: Minor Intervals: The Minor Second (July 10, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 13: Minor Thirds (July 17, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 14: Minor Sixths (July 24, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 15: The Minor 7th (July 31, 2026)
6 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. Practice
5. Answers
6. More To Practice
Session 16: The Tritone (August 7, 2026)
4 lessons
1. Let's Think About This One...
2. Practice
3. Answers
4. More To Practice
Session 17: Harmonic Intervals (August 14, 2026)
1 lessons
1. Practicing Harmonic Intervals
Session 18: Wrap Up (August 21, 2026)
Thanks for taking this class! The next one to follow on with Ear Training and Aural Skills is Part 3, where you can focus on Melodies.
2 lessons
1. What Comes Next?
2. Thanks for Watching!
Learning Outcomes

Below you will find an overview of the Learning Outcomes you will achieve as you complete this course.

Instructors And Guests
What You Need to Take This Course

Some blank sheet music and a pencil is all you need to take this course in Ear Training and Aural Skills.


In the Resources section, you'll find some files for blank sheet music that can be downloaded and printed, if you don't have any yourself.


Other resources that might be handy (but not essential) include:

  • tuner
  • MuseScore (free music composition and notation software). See: https://musescore.org