Ear Training 2

Strengthen your musicianship skills by learning to accurately identify and transcribe complex rhythms, intervals, chords, and musical phrases by ear in both major and minor keys.

This four-week course builds more advanced listening skills through targeted exercises, expert feedback, and guided transcription practice. You’ll deepen your understanding of compound meter by working with beat, division, and subdivision rhythms, including syncopation. Each week introduces more sophisticated melodic patterns and harmonic content, from identifying all interval types to transcribing full musical periods and themes.

By the final week, you’ll be comfortable working with root-position triads in short progressions, hearing and notating extended melodic phrases, and analyzing thematic material. Whether you’re preparing for college-level music studies, aiming to improve your improvisation and arranging skills, or simply refining your ear, this course offers a focused and supportive environment to sharpen your aural skills with confidence.

What you will learn:

✔	Apply structured listening and dictation strategies to strengthen your musicianship
✔	Identify compound meter rhythms from beat to subdivision level, including syncopation
✔	Hear and name all simple and compound intervals, triadic chord qualities, and short harmonic progressions
✔	Transcribe 4- and 8-measure melodic phrases and themes by ear in both simple and compound meters

Prerequisite Skills:

Completion of Ear Training 1, or equivalent knowledge and/or experience

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Ages

Teens: Grades 6-12

Adult Learners: 18+

Expert guidance
Receive direct, personalized feedback from a professional artist.

Learn on your own schedule
Explore meaningful instruction in about five hours a week, over four weeks.

Collaborate
Work with your instructor and peers through messaging or optional real-time weekly classes.

Real growth
Develop artistic skills and projects that are important to you in 30 days.

Computer or mobile device with Internet and camera. Internet speed must be at least 1.5Mbps download and 800Kbps upload. For students using a mobile device, download the Canvas mobile app and select “Interlochen Online” as your school.

No, course sections are designed for their respective age groups, either for adults (students 18 and older) or young people (students under 18).

Yes, there are eight sessions of courses per year. View the academic calendar for more session dates.