Description: Would you like to improve your ability to hear music, especially for the purpose of quickly mastering a new song in a jam setting? In this course we will cover practical tips on how to better hear a song, then play it in a jam.

Particular subjects covered include:

• Hearing chord changes, recognizing the current chord, and predicting the likely next chord

• Hearing and recognizing the melody notes given the current chord, and predicting the likely notes in the melody

• Hearing intervals in a musical line

• Hearing the harmony lines that one can sing with the melody

We'll have a set of songs to study, and with each song we'll work on hearing the phrasing of the melody, the chord changes, any special rhythm patterns, and of course the melody for singing and soloing. Songs to study will be shared via YouTube links (YouTube playback allows slowing the song without shifting the pitch of the notes). You also may bring and share songs you'd like the class to analyze. We'll do some jamming, sometimes with modifications to use as an exercise in ear training, so bring your instrument be it guitar, mandolin, banjo, dobro, bass or anything else!

Prequequsites: Basic ability on your instrument(s) and reasonable sense of timing

What to Bring: Your instrument(s)