Advanced Guitar Player

The Guitar Pro Tab Files for the first part of Perfect Your Pitch - Advanced Guitar Player's Free Online Ear Training and Sight Reading Course For Guitarists are now available to AGP Members in Downloads.

This first section concentrates on learning how to Sight Sing the C Major Scale using the movable solfege system - so after completing it you will able to apply your knowledge of the intervals to any major key.

Working on your Aural and Pitch Recognition Skills is essential for every musician - by improving your Musical Ear, you'll become a better improviser, songwriter or guitarist.

 In short, improving your ability to hear music and learning to distinguish pitches and scale degrees, will simply make you a better musician!

Perfect Your Pitch came about as a result of my studies at the Taller de Musics Jazz School in Barcelona. I did a summer intensive course (five months of study packed into three weeks) and I needed a way of checking that I was singing the right notes. I decided to programme some Tabs and realised that this kind of information would be useful to other musicians.

Consequently, this first incarnation of Perfect Your Pitch is almost totally based on the Sight Singing and Ear Training part of the Taller's Music Theory course. However, Ear Training has become a bit of an obsession and I plan to augment the course with supplementary ideas - relating particularly to intervals.

You can download the complete course for free as most of the lessons are self-explanatory, but I'm still working on the text for the tutorials - below is a list of contents which will be completed over the next week or so! ENJOY!

• Introduction to Perfect Your Pitch

• Practice 1 - Degrees I and III of the Major Scale

• Perfect Your Pitch - Guitar Applications 1

• Practice 2 - Degrees I, III and V - The Major Triad

• Practice 3 - The Major Triad including the Octave

• Practice 4 - The C Triad with the Octave and Low G

• Practice 5 - The C Maior Triad now including the High E

• Perfect Your Pitch - Exploring Intervals 1

• Practice 6 - Introducing Degree VI of the Major Scale

• Perfect Your Pitch - Exploring Intervals 2

• Practice 7 - Introducing Degree II of the Major Scale

• Perfect Your Pitch - Exploring Intervals 3

• Pitch Review 1 - Degrees I-III-V

• Pitch Review 2 - Degrees I-III-V-VI

• Pitch Review 3 - Degrees I-III-V-VI-II

• Practice 8 - Introducing Degree VII of the Major Scale

• Perfect Your Pitch - Exploring Intervals 4

• Practice 9 - Introducing Degree IV of the Major Scale

• Perfect Your Pitch - Exploring Intervals 5

• Perfect Your Rhythm - Pitch Revision 1

• Perfect Your Rhythm - Pitch Revision 2

• Perfect Your Rhythm - Pitch Revision 3

• Perfect Your Rhythm  - Pitch Revision 4

• Perfect Your Rhythm - Pitch Revision 5

   

Guitar Ear Training Programs And Links

The accompanying Guitar Tab Files for this Ear Training Course are available in Guitar Pro 6 format from the Advanced Guitar Player Downloads section.

If you haven't got a copy of Guitar Pro, Click here to visit the Guitar Pro download page.

Although they often don't provide progressive Aural Skills development for beginners, ear training software programs can be very useful. I personally use EarMaster Pro - Click here to download a Trial Version of EarMaster Essential, Pro or School.