Exercises to Hear (Almost) Every Chord - 1 Hour of Ear Training 

CORRECTION- at 38:25 the check mark is correct, but the voiceover is incorrect. The chord is a minor 6/9. Thanks to Wendy Guler for spotting this. There is also a graphic missing for the major 9th chord - Maj9 should be 1-3-5-7-9 (I left out the 9.) I assure you that whoever is responsible for these errors will face the most severe punishment imaginable. LESSONS 1-3 OF MY EAR TRAINING COURSE ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO THE FREE TIER ON PATERON: www.patreon.com/collection/90196www.patreon.com/collection/90196 FOLLOW ME FOR THE LATEST NEWS ON CONTENT AND MY HORRIBLE MISTAKES Facebook: facebook.com/JoeLuegersMusicAcademy Instagram: instagram.com/joeluegersmusicacademy Website: www.luegerswriter.com/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@joeluegersmusicacademy

they're never gonna let me have the aux again

Don’t worry everyone- I’ve settled the strings vs non-strings debate. On my videos from now on, I’ll be using an accordion that washed up in the ditch by my house. Enjoy!

Thought I knew all my chords and was humbled. Thank you.

Thank you. I can't afford music classes or courses so this channel as a whole is a gift. God bless you.

You are right ; staying with C will be better for us beginners to absorb. Thank you for teaching

I'm 35, never read, played, or understood music but i followed along quite easily. Very well put together, thank you.

dude i was literally looking for a good chord ear training and i have been listening to your interval training for the last few weeks and this is amazing! thanks for dropping it!

just discovered this site and jumped in at level 11. Loving it! Thanks Joe...

I was on a roll at the beginning, derailed near the end, but learned a BUNCH of new chords, even ones I was looking for forever!

Really great work ! I am a drummer with a minimal one year at a concervatiry mallet training . But ive played jazz with top leval musicians , some names that are recognisable , so , i hear these incredable chords on a regular basis. This work will help me understand a lot of things better.

I found this very insightful. I listened to it first through then ised my keyboard to practise. That’s all I needed.

I listened to a ton of videos, downloaded apps for games. No one helps me like this videos. I really hate it when people say major happy minor sad, but when they all play together they sound the same. After 5’ through this video i can spot out all for basic chords. Thank you dude

Thank you so much for this. I'm struggling at level 9, still working on it!

THE. BEST. EAR TRAINING FOR CHORDS. HANDS DOWN (no pun intended). Subscribed and can hardly wait to delve into more.

Made it the first 25min, now definitely time for a break. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!✨✨

This is very helpful, usually I’m so focused on finding the note when I play I don’t pay attention to the variation in sound. I was surprised by my ability to discriminate. Will check out your other videos. This is a great training to use hen I’m on the exercise bike. I remember things better when there is lots of blood going to the brain. So happy I found you!

I find the combination of chord name, sound played multiple times and learning to recognise it to be better than any tutorials I have seen about chords, and those did not even attempt to train my ear while at it. Might actually remember them after this, thank you

Great content! Thanks! Very useful.

You did a very job! Please don't give up!

Made it to level 10 pretty comfortably, when you played the notes out I processed them quicker. However, when played together I struggle to isolate the common voices in each chord. Great great exercise before bedtime!

Thank you, excellent ear training method: clear and sober

Much harder than I thought it would be. Guess I’ll keep listening/practicing. Thanks.

Esse exercício eh mto bom. Parabéns parceiro

Joe! I absolutely love your lessons! I injured both index fingers recently and can't play piano or guitar for about 8 weeks. I realized that was an opportunity to really hone my ear training skills...when fishermen can't fish they mend their nets. Your ear training lessons and tips are perfect for me. I play them while doing other things and it's definitely improving my skills! Thanks for all your time, effort and energy to produce quality products! Huge thanks!

Thank you - this is very useful! 🙏

Incredibly useful video. String sound is fine when using headphones, and it is very useful for intonation for singers and those training sustained sounds.

awesome dude !! just can't thank you enough. !! a much needed harmonic tutorial VERY well presented clear simple non obtrusive. a GREAT help n Ear training !!!

You are the greatest. I love your videos. Keep up the good work it helps me a lot with keyboarding. I must learn them on the guitar as well. Awesome awesome job thank you I’m glad I found you.

Great work - I’m going to make videos like this for Advanced Jazz and classical chords

I'm so happy I did great up until Level 7, guess I'm better than I give myself credit lol, thanks for this!! Just found out your channel and as a beginner it's a pot of gold

One of the best videos on the net!

Hello, well explained, great job, this is what I need it, some hear training, I read and write music, but I've never had an hear training. Thank you. 🎼🎶🎹🎵🎸.

Nice! I appreciate the amount of work you put in it as well

An excellent tutorial. Thank you very much. 👍

Awesome! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this. Very helpful.

Thanks this is great for learning.

I needed to comment…Your page is very resourceful and I enjoyed your hour long lesson!

I'm trying to get into ear training and your videos are SO useful

fantasic, im looking for this !

This video is a great help, thanks a lot!

¡Excelente!🎉 ¡Muchas gracias!🙏 Ahora hay que practicar a diario hasta hacerlos parte de mi ADN. 💪🦻👌 ¡Siempre Salud y Éxitos! 💪🎶👌

Great work!! Really useful

Fantastic work very useful for students and teachers. Congratulations

Thanks a lot ! It's helpful !

26:02 as soon as I heard this chord (Cadd9) I thought of Close to You - Carpenters, that chord will forever be just that song to me

Bruh, im so glad this video popped out on my yt page. This is just fun to do. I tend to scroll yt mindlessly, cuz i need to zone out quite often. With this i can zone out as well, but at least im learning useful stuff, and its satisfying as if that was just a fun game to play. Thank you. I surely will be checking out your other videos once i get bored with this one. Intervals would be great as a next step. Thanks for your hard work around those videos.

This video is SO USEFUL. Thanks so much

Very very very very good! Thank you very much!

I have just found you from suggested videos. I watched the first 3 minutes of this video and have Subscribed and set the bell for all notifications, as I believe this is the start of a very productive relationship, for me at least! Although I will be recommending you on my channel, which is in it's infancy but you never know, I might be able to point people your way. Back in 1973, I picked up my first guitar, at the age of 12 and I wrote my first song when I was 15. I have been playing to audiences since I was 13 but I am completely self-taught and at nearly 62 years old, I now want to find out all about the theory behind what I do and delve deeper into understanding what makes the stuff that comes out of my head work, technically. Your content, layout and presentation are awesome. Thank you for helping all of us on our musical journey, at whatever stage we're at, and I look forward to delving deeper into your lessons.

Wow this is so hard ,I didn’t expect that.

it all went downhill at level 11. truly amazing video... shows me that there is still so so much to learn :)

You are the savior, thank you infinitely

Kudos Joe, I want to echo others' sentiments and express that I too am finding value in your content -- I just discovered it a day ago, but I'm hoping to find the discipline to go through the ear trainings repeatedly. The video title advertises 1 hour of ear training, but I got much more than that because of having to pause to hum the notes and think about it, and repeating chapters frequently. Funnily enough, currently my mental health treatment includes taking a medication periodically which has been shown to increase neuroplasticity for 3-7 days after each dose -- so I'm hoping I can leverage this to increase not just my music knowledge but also my music *sense*. Note: At 38:25, the chord is Minor 6/9, and that is what the checkmark indicates on the screen, but the voiceover says "Major 6/9". I agree with your decision to keep everything in C for this intro video. I too would eventually like to try my hand (ear?) at recognizing the chords in all different keys, but I think this was a good introduction as you said, to help get a sense of the sound and color and shape of the chords, before trying to modulate all over the place. Plus it was difficult enough as it is :'D I'm fairly sure that if this video had included all that, my brain would have melted, which would be bad because I live in a rental and you know that stain's never coming out of the carpet. I can assure you I'm not two kids in a trenchcoat; however, in the past I have been observed to be three raccoons in a trenchcoat (the one on top is Jerry), so I hope it's still OK to watch your videos.

This is a really good lesson thanks! and reveals my weaknesses easily...Chords and sounds I need to work on. It would also be helpful to have a lesson starting is a different register as the chords are all from the same place....

Thank you so much 🙏🤓🐣 it really helps, I'm getting better

Love it. Did all of them

This is dope. Thank you for putting this together

Thanks for this. It’s much appreciated

Appreciate you for putting this together! I’m new to this channel so I’m not sure if you’ve done this already but if not it would be cool for a more advanced version of this with different inversions and new keys.

I love this!!! ❤ Thank You!

This is amazing!! It's so fun!

Very useful thank you

I think this is actually a very useful video for beginners/intermediates. And I appreciate the clear and to the point speaking. i just uploaded a couple of videos about chord recognition, maybe not as advanced as this one, but i'm just shamefully but humbly mentioning it here. in case anybody is interested! thanks again for this video, it inspires me to go train haha

Thank you for bringing this! ❤

This is exactly what i've been looking for! Awesome! Thank you!

Started getting tricky for me on level 7 when 7th chords were introduced, ill defintely come back to that level and try again

This is awesome 🤟🤠🤟 thx

This is awesome.. I am a newbie..just came across your channel..

Thanls for adding mpre my knowledge in key of C family chords

Thank you very much! You are the greatest!

This is where I realized I’m having a hard time with sus chords. Which explains a lot about my problems with playing by ear sometimes. I use them in my writing because I know how they work conceptually but for whatever reason my ears suck at identifying them. I’ve got more problems than that, but it’s definitely the most basic one that’s causing a gap for me.

Incredible training! I'm glad all chords start with the root note...imagine all the inversions of these chords...pffieww

Thanks!

Wonderful vid

My teacher at UNO use to do a root note then a random Triad on top of it. That would be a dope next video

I thought I was quite good till I tried this! Thanks.

thank you so much for amking this

Graduated in 2020 with a bachelors degree - I REALLY enjoy solfège and always looked forward to my aural skills course. I would always zoom through listening exams because I’ve always had a phenomenal ear. However, We never touched on 9ths, 11ths, or 13ths. And for that matter, the only altered 7th chords we really focused on were the fully and half dimished. We never talked about minor major 7ths or any of the raised 7ths. So to get into all of that in this video was awesome! I only missed about 15 total in the entirety of the video, which, really surprised me and made myself pretty proud considering how quick I was able to pick up on chords I’ve never known how to listen for. The ones that stump me still are the minor major 7ths since they sound augmented thanks to the augmented 5th .. it really throws me around, and I also need to look at the raised 7th chords again. Lovely video

this is great, thanks mate. i’ve a lot of practice to do 😂

thanks!

Thanks

Thank you 🙏

Thanks so much!!!

Thank you!

subscribing!

Good lesson

this is very nice and useful. i don’t mind the strings that much but it would be better if they weren’t there

Would love more cadence videos. Your videos are a blessing. They are very well done, thank you so much for making them, I love your channel.

Thanks so much. Not only are your ear training vids super useful, they are fun and rewarding to do! You are improving my skills so much and more quickly than I thought possible!!

Damn that augmented and diminished section put me so on edge because I kept waiting for them be resolved

MAN, I've been looking for training videos like yours for a long time. I'll be using this every day now because while there are some good apps out there, none of them are handsfree so I can't practice in the car or while I do chores. Do you have any videos for identifying simple chord progressions? I'm trying to get better particularly at identifying the I chord in a progression. Can't wait to check out what else you have!

God bless you

Such a goated video

Thank you so much for this series! I'm trying to get learned perfect pitch, recognizing the notes of a chord, but always stumble on notes in the middle. It's much easier to distinguish the highest and lowest notes of a chord for me. Any advice?

Thank you

Dayum that was fun

very nice

Great practice resource! I made it level 12 before I started falling apart! 😂