Ear Training Tutorials: "How to Tone Hole"
This series of videos will get you started improving your musical ear with Tone Hole. You’ll get the basics of game play, how the levels progress from one to another, what makes playing it great for your ear, and so much more:
How to Tone Hole
Episode 1: How to Improve Your Musical Ear By Playing a Simple Game. Learn the basics of game play and some of the pedagogical underpinnings of Tone Hole
Episode 2: How to Improve Your Musical Ear in Three Synergistic Ways. Learn three ear training aspects that work together to supercharge your path to mastery: sense of tone, automaticity, and steady rhythm.
Episode 3: What’s Inside Tone Hole? (pedagogy + fun). Dive deeper into the thirty years of scholarship and practice that went into Tone Hole so you can get maximum improvement and enjoyment of music.
Episode 4: How to Improve Your Ear Without Reading Music. Don’t feel shut out of music learning if you don’t read music. Your ear can’t see a thing, and you can still go a long, long way in developing your musical ear without reading a single bit of music notation. Find out how.
Episode 5: How to Train Your Ear Using Melodies You Know. Find out how to connect songs you already know to your ever increasing listening abilities. It’s not as hard as you think!
Episode 6: How to Feel the Flavors of All The Tones in the Major Scale. Each of the seven notes in the major scale has a particular quality… you might call it a flavor or even a scent. Learn how to practice hearing and reproducing those tones on your own.
Episode 7: How to Train Your Ear Before Learning Music Theory. Many people believe that they have to learn a whole dictionary of technical terms and music theory in order to develop their ear. This is not true! Find out how and why.
Episode 8: How to Train to Win at Ear Training Games. Unlock Tone Hole’s new feature: Training Mode, which challenges you to sing the tones Tone Hole asks you to. This is not the regular game play of Tone Hole. Instead it’s a way to practice conjuring tones, and if you can sing something on demand, you can definitely recognize it when you hear it.
Episodes 9-11: How to Find “do” in Music. In this 3-part series, discover techniques for finding the home note in any key purely by ear. It’s really the most important thing to be able to do when playing by ear: find that one note that all the music wants to head to. That’s “do”, or the home note, or… the “tonic”.
Episodes 9-11: How to Find “do” in Music. In this 3-part series, discover techniques for finding the home note in any key purely by ear. It’s really the most important thing to be able to do when playing by ear: find that one note that all the music wants to head to. That’s “do”, or the home note, or… the “tonic”.
Episodes 9-11: How to Find “do” in Music. In this 3-part series, discover techniques for finding the home note in any key purely by ear. It’s really the most important thing to be able to do when playing by ear: find that one note that all the music wants to head to. That’s “do”, or the home note, or… the “tonic”.
Episode 12: How to Easily Hear Melodies Made of Steps. You might be surprised to learn that many melodies move easily up and down through the musical scale, one step at a time. In this tutorial, you’ll find out how to work that fact to your advantage.
Episode 13: How to Avoid One of The Most Common Ear Training Mistakes. Get out in front of this very common error people often make when first developing their ears: hearing “do-re-mi” as “do-mi-so” and vice versa.
Episode 16: How to Train Your Ear Using Your Favorite Tunes. While other ear training methods rely on short melodic mnemonics to help you understand melodic patters, Listen Up Games takes a more holistic and research-based approach. Sing songs you know, sing your favorite songs, and replace their lyrics with solfege! Doing this with a variety of repertoire helps adhere your symbolic hearing (solfege) to your long-term memory.