DEVELOP YOUR MUSIC EAR.
“A GOOD
MUSIC EAR” simply means the ability to identify notes, pitch, chords, rhythm and
instruments! A good Worship leader/ musician should have a good music ear in
order to be able to coordinate music, arrange music and write good songs! It’s
true that the best way to develop music arrangement and songwriting craft is to
listen to the music of professionals; but if you are unable to identify what
you are hearing it’s quite useless! Before you start trying to develop your
music ear you should first understand that music ear goes hand to hand with
music theory; Therefore developing your basic music theory would really help
you develop a good music ear. You can also try the following:-
1. Find somebody to play a major scale for you;
for example, C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C= (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or do, re, mi, fa,
so, la, ti, do); Then have him/her play random notes from the scale while
you name each scale degree of the note
he/she plays; eg. If “D” is played you name it “3” or “mi”, if “F” you name it “4”
or “Fa” and so on! Mind you the example I gave was according to the major scale
of key C (major) but you can do it in any key you want!
2. Get yourself
some ear training software from different sites! It’s easy just type “online ear
training” in a search engine!
3. Use
numbers when referring chords in a song; for example, if the song is in the key
of G major and you find that G, C and D are the most common chords then you’d
name them 1,2 and 3 consecutively! That will help you help you identify chords
in every key!
I believe
that will gradually help you develop your music ear and once your music ear is
developed, you’ll find yourself writing better songs, arranging better music
and even singing or playing better!
*BE BLESSED AS YOU MOVE
TO THE NEXT LEVEL*
