Want to be better performers, writers, singers...anything musical? Train your ears! Your ears are the direct link to everything musical, so make them the best they can be. Understand pitch, rhythms, tonality, overtones, moveable Do (not doh!). Connect your ear to your instrument and instantly become better.
At CTMS, you can take any 5 minute topic and walk away with an improved skill set at a bare minimum... and take it as far as you would like to go! It is all insanely affordable and available 24/7! The Courses below each include many "Subjects" presented in varying degrees of "topics"- all working progressively to teach you as much as you would like to learn!
Ear Training 1: Pitch
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- Developing Relative Pitch
- The Theory of Key Centers
- Melodic Tension / Resolve: What Makes a Melody Work!
- Practical Applications
- Movable "Do": The Modern Day Solfege
- Transcribing Melodies
Ear Training 2: Rhythm
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- Basic Rhythm Notation
- Advanced Rhythm Notation: Duple and Triple Time
- The 28 Prepositional Rhythm Clusters
- Time Signatures
- Transcribing Rhythms
Ear Training 3: Harmony
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- How Harmony is Derived
- Diatonic Harmonic Progressions
- Model & Constant Structure Harmonies
- Trending Harmonic Chord Structures
Listening Analysis 1 / Styles
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- The Basic Music Styles of the 20-21st Centuries
- Trending Music Styles: What are Elements
- 400+ Musical Traits: The Pandora System Use of The Music Genome Project
Listening Analysis 2 / Artist and Repertoire
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- Decades of Musicians and Their Music
- The Singers
- The Instrumentalists
- The Composers
- The Songwriters
Transcription Workshops
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- Level 1 Workshop
- Level 2 Workshop
- Advanced Workshop
- Go to the Movies and Write What You Hear
- Score Analysis
Sight Reading Workshops
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- Basic Sight Reading
- Advanced Sight Reading
- Requirements of Reading the Gig (Orchestra, Casual, Jazz Band, Latin, Recording, Broadway Shows)
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