How to Train Your Ears | #1 Ear Training Exercise for Guitar Players

In this video, you will learn how to train your ears with my #1 ear training exercise for guitar players.

All you need is your ears and your guitar to practice these.

There are 5 steps; It starts easy and progresses to difficult.

Feel free to skip ahead using the timestamps to find the right challenge level for you.

Enjoy!

0:00 Welcome to the #1 Ear Training Exercise for Guitar Players
0:57 What is ear training?
2:12 How I learned ear training on guitar
2:41 Step 1 - Sing a note back
4:13 Step 2 - Sing 5 notes up and down
7:00 Step 3 - Singing triads "top down"
11:48 Step 4 - Ultra-challenging variation
14:16 Step 5 - ULTIMATE CHALLENGE

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[adamrafferty]

Questions? Comments? Hey - let me know and leave a comment below!!! Enjoy :-)

[jacqueszins]

Thank you Adam .I’m 66 and i play guitar for 20 years with a lot of pleasure but i never try that .You are right, i will dive now into your useful lesson!

[JohnHorneGuitar]

One of my first guitar teachers studied with Oliver Nelson! Nelson said that one of the ways of learning music is to "take the surprises out of it." That sounded a little depressing to me as a young player - who doesn't like surprises, right? - but what I understood later was that Oliver Nelson was saying that if you hear something that surprises you, you should learn to identify that sound so that it eventually becomes part of your toolkit as a composer or improviser. That's where ear training comes in. Great tutorial, Adam!

[gbattle]

Adam, this is, as always, no nonsense training regarding ear training. Using ones instrument and voice, then add the other triads (aug+dim) and even move to four voice chords. I love it!

[Renategrund]

Thank you. Adam! For this real good step by step lesson. Think I should give it try to make the training regularly. 😊

[fgcvbng]

so much fun to watch that video
and sing with u 😄

[bluefoxfox]

This really motivates me to finally do ear training exercises regularly, thank you!

[ryel]

You always presently surprise me Adam. Have the notes by voice. Have the tones, by whatever instrument I chose to play. Thanks for being so cool man👍

[AnhDuong-hhqv]

Very interesting lesson to me. Thanks you so much.

[dardodini]

great and usefull lesson. Thank You Adam!!!!

[CaptainCyril]

Greetings from Lebanon. God bless you! Awesome video!

[daveabrams]

Great lesson Adam I am working on it Now. Very Important. Thanks Dave A

[gdn]

Thank you Adam!! Absolutely 100% what I needed right now in my ear training.

[guitarista]

Thanks Adam. I have a fairly decent ear, but not good enough. I've never seen anything like what you are suggesting.
I can see, however, that your method, if taken seriously, would greatly improve my ear. Will do!

[glyniss]

I surely need more of this. Thanks Adam.

[RobertoColombo]

Amazing video! Really opening my mind and...ears to a new target to reach. Thanks a lot, Adam

[camarasaguitar]

You are like a triple A game. Amazing Adam Angel.

[oliverklapproth]

This is a very cool and helpful tutorial. Thanks!!!

[NelsonRiverosMusic]

Thank you for your video and lessons. I studied with Mike Longo for 3-4 years. He always spoke highly of you. We were going to get back to lessons then Covid hit. I miss him dearly. What is the mic your using? It cuts through great!

[rocketpost]

Hey Adam, I found no problem in mimicking the notes that you sang but failed on the final hurdle. I could not sing the notes of the individual triads but that's just practice I suppose. I think that I'm pretty good at playing melodies that I can hear in my head but sometimes I don't really know the melodies that well especially the middle eight or turnaround. So it's important to get inside a melody and understand how it works before trying to play it. I enjoy watching your videos because you are a likeable person and also a great player. Thanks.