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There’s an old joke…

Mozart’s little sister would walk into the room, go to the piano, and play:

C, D, E, F, G, A, B…

Then walk out.

Mozart would frantically run to the piano and hit the note C to resolve the tension he felt. This was how she would tease him.

But that’s the power of a good ear.

I believe, it’s one of the most valuable skills a musician can have.

Why?

The answer is simple: music is a hearing art. You’re only as good, as what you can hear. Below I’m going to be talking about the benefits of having a good ear and developing your relative pitch. Relative pitch is simply a discovery of how your own mind interprets sounds.

So let’s get started with the 7 ways ear training makes you a better guitarist, beginning with:

1. Tonic recognition
Music at any given point has a tonality or a “home” key. This is talked about when musicians say things like, “The song is in the key of E”. In the key of E, the tonic would be the note E.

The ability to hear a progression, a melody, or any piece of music and sing the tonic without the aid of an instrument is an essential skill in ear training.

2. Identify Melodies
With a strong ear, you have the ability to identify melodies of songs, without the aid of your instrument. This means you can analyze a song while you're driving, or anything you hear.

For example, you might hear a siren go off in the city or an alarm and discover the two notes being played back to back are a tritone apart.

A tritone is a specific type of musical interval that spans three whole tones (whole steps), which is equivalent to six half steps or semitones. It is also known as an augmented fourth (A4) or a diminished fifth (d5). The tritone has a distinctive, dissonant sound and can be quite alarming.

3. Identify Chords

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