More Info:
- Basic Idea
- Understanding the FET Learning Materials
- How do the Call and Response tracks work?
- How to get ireal pro to show scales degrees (NNS)?
- Call-and-Response Tracks: Understanding the Different Collections
- Nashville Numbers or Movable Do? Why FET Offers Both
- My Minimal Digital Ear Training Setup – Practice Anywhere!
- Hearing Notes in Context: Why Backing Tracks and Drones Matter
- About
About
Functional Ear Training is one of the most useful approaches to ear training I’ve discovered.
Rather than focusing on recognizing isolated intervals, it helps you develop a sense of how individual notes sound and function within a tonal context — how they relate to the tonic, the underlying harmony, and the notes around them.
On FunctionalEarTraining.com, I share my own Call-and-Response Tracks designed to explore these musical relationships.
The exercises range from easy-peasy sets using just three scale degrees to more challenging ones that introduce a wider variety of notes and harmonic relationships.
Each exercise comes in three versions:
- Instrumental: The notes are played by an instrument, leaving you to recognize and reproduce them by ear.
- Nashville Numbers: A singer performs the notes using their scale-degree numbers, such as “One”, “Two”, or “Three”.
- Movable-Do Solfège: A singer performs the same notes using solfège syllables, such as “Do”, “Re”, or “Mi”.
Whichever version you choose, the idea is simple: Listen, recognize, and respond — and gradually become more familiar with the musical functions of the notes you hear.