Overview
Frustrated that you can’t learn all your favorite tunes right off the record? Amazed how do other fiddlers pick up tunes right at the jam session and you can´t?
Free yourself from tablature and sheet music. Connect your ear directly to the music and play back what you hear right on your fiddle. With the right method and the right tools, you can do it.
Here’s some good news. Anyone can train their ear.
Here’s some even better news. You don´t need to learn how to read music or suffer through abstract music theory.
There is a mainline train and it runs straight through to your music goal. Get onboard of the Crucial Ear Training For Fiddlers course and be the musician that you have always wanted to be. It feels really good.
What’s in the course?
This self study course consists of 16 different, carefully designed, progressive ear training units. It’s 100% practical.
Additionally, when you sign up for this course you get 6 months access to the online ear training apps that will give you unlimited practice sessions for each educational objective.
Here’s even better news. 6 months of access too our apps usually costs $77, but when you purchase this course we give you that value absolutely free!
Additionally, the course is designed as a fiddle skill building method to help you build up your fretboard fluidity, tone and bow control.
This course does not teach you specific fiddle tunes, but rather helps you acquire all the skills and abilities that you need to go out and learn the tunes yourself; it’s a leap towards musical freedom.
Want to learn more about our ear training approach?
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Your musical freedom is within reach. What are waiting for? Sign up now and accelerate your music learning journey.
Course Features
- Lectures 21
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 6 months
- Skill level Fiddlers who are struggling to learn tunes by ear
- Language English
- Students 1
- Certificate No
- Assessments Yes
Curriculum
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Course orientation
Let's take 20 minutes to get familiar with how the ear training apps work and how you can get the most out of them. That will get you ready to roll up your sleeves and get into ear training.
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Step 1: Long tones on the A and D strings (For folks new to the fiddle)
The goal is to make sure that fiddlers who are just starting out can play a note cleanly and clearly. This step might not be necessary for folks who already play the fiddle.
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Step 2: Two Note Melody Dictations D, F# and A
Now it's time to really get into the ear training. Let's go.
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Step 3: Long tones on G, B and high D (For folks new to the fiddle)
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Step 4: Two Note Melody Dictations G, B and high D
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Step 5: Long Tones on A, C# and open E (For folks new to the fiddle)
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Step 6: Two Note Melody Dictations A, C# and open E
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Step 7: Long Tones on low E (For folks new to the fiddle)
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Step 8: Two Note Melody Dictations low E, G and B
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Step 9: Arpeggios
Arpeggios can be an awesome way to make a mental sound map of certain melodic combinations that pop up over and over again in fiddle tunes. Later on, they can also be a crucial ear training tool as well as a creative driver for compsition and improvisation.
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Step 10: Three Note Melody Dictations open D, F# and open A
It's time to add a new layer of complexity to the melodic dictations. We are going to use three notes, instead of two notes.
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Step 11: Arpeggio on the G chord
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Step 12: Three Note Melody Dictations G, B and high D
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Step 13: Arpeggio on the A chord
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Step 14: Three Note Melody Dictations open A, C# and open E
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Step 15: Arpeggio on the E minor
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Step 16: Three Note Melody Dictations open low E, G and B
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Congratulations!
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