{"id":6780,"date":"2011-11-07T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:04:16","slug":"learn-toplay-by-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/learn-toplay-by-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Learn to play worship music by ear<\/h2>\n<p>Previously we told you a little about our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/sneak-preview-to-our-new-ear-training-tests\/\">Play by Ear<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/new-learn-to-play-by-ear-dvds\/\">Understand Chords DVDs<\/a> which are now available. Click through to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/playing-by-ear\/play-by-ear.html\">buy from the webstore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We thought you might like to see a break down of the chapters and lessons &#8211; You\u2019ll learn about:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keys, notes and scales &#8211; the basic building blocks of playing by ear<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Finding and understanding keys<\/li>\n<li>The major scale<\/li>\n<li>Three types of minor scale<\/li>\n<li>Improvising<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Chords \u2013 learning their notes, sounds and construction for ear training<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Major, minor diminished and augmented chords<\/li>\n<li>Suspended, add9, &amp; power chords<\/li>\n<li>Extended chords<\/li>\n<li>Inversions and slash chords<\/li>\n<li>Other chords that come up in songs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Ear training in worship<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hearing diatonic and chromatic intervals<\/li>\n<li>Hearing the sounds of different types of chord<\/li>\n<li>Hearing chord progressions &amp; bass lines<\/li>\n<li>Hearing chords outside the key<\/li>\n<li>Playing songs by Ear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Transcribing worship music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Working out a song by ear without sheet music<\/li>\n<li>Songs in both major and minor keys<\/li>\n<li>Songs with chords outside the key<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Transposing worship music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Putting songs into other keys by ear<\/li>\n<li>The Nashville numbering system<\/li>\n<li>Key transposing for orchestral instruments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Arranging worship music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Chord Substitutions<\/li>\n<li>Developing chord knowledge for Song writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over 8 hours of lessons, tips and backing tracks demos and tests on 4 DVDs &#8211; Suitable for guitar, bass, keyboard &amp; orchestral players, even singers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Learn to play worship music by ear Previously we told you a little about our new Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs which are now available. 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