Hey,
I thought I compile a list of useful websites focused on ear training (either technical or musical), so here it is:

Musical:
http://tonedear.com/
http://www.trainear.com/

Technical:
http://technicalear.training/
https://www.goldenears.philips.com/en/ - Down (temporarily according to phillips)
https://pae.izotope.com/
http://harmanhowtolisten.blogspot.ae/

Feel free to add yours, I'll put them on the list

 

Last edited: Mar 31, 2017

Great idea. Thanks Andrew

 

Here's one i used extensively.
http://www.trainear.com/

 

My questions transferred to this thread if you don't mind. Answer any of them you want regarding the musical ear training.

1- How does it help you to choose what you want in your composition?

2- Does it make your ears more sensitive to what? Does this sensitivity work in reality in a way you expected?

3- Does it enrich your foresight in selections without trial and error? How? Please give a practical example about how it helped you.

4- Why do you boast about it when you become aurally trained? I mean what's the difference before the ear training and after that?

 

@foster911
Belated reply, however hopefully comprehensive.
Rhetorical question for you - when you think, in what language are those thoughts? In most cases your mother language.
What if you can't speak ANY language? Then your thoughts are what? Images, sounds, tastes, smells, touches, ... something else?
Human senses work in very close relation with (short term) memory, and always in context of what happened in the past.
In this very exact moment you might be hearing tones, but what makes music music is that "echoic delay".

By taking ear trainings, you can expand your thinking abilities - for as you'd think in words, you can put music in thoughts as well.
When someone plays a snippet on piano, you know exactly the tones they produced and are able to replicate it on your own.
Thinking music in context is expanded with learning intervals, harmony and progressions.

In other words, it's not just theory, e.g. "necessary evil" to become musician. It's like learning a new language - some may prefer to study it at school, others move to another countries and talk to people.
BTW, I don't think anyone here boasts with their aural training, there are certain individuals in the industry, but it's not a norm.

 

@foster911

Ear training, as one example, allows you to identify chords' and melodic lines' qualities/attributes on the fly, recognize long chord progressions, and to make decisions on the fly, or to take your time and plan and compose with a bigger toolkit. It strengthens whatever you already know.

You can be OCD/nerdy about it and allow it to hinder your creative flow, or you can allow it to non-intrusively re-enforce the skills that you already have - at whatever level you currently are.

It does take a while of doing it every day to notice results, that's why a classroom setting - starting in High School and college - really makes you do it on a no-s*** scheduled basis. And, integrating it into your instrument practice regimen. For ex. look at EAROPE software and try doing those lessons everyday.

Don't forget about the melodic & rhythmic dictation/vocalization side of things, as well as studying theory and fundamentals, from 101.

If you do this everyday, yo WILL see a difference in your perception, interpretation, cognitive response, decision making, and your ear. You're relative perception of pitch will improve, your voice and pitch awareness and options will improve, your rhythmic options will grow immensely, in general your crayon box will go from 8 colors to 64. Your brain's musical monitor display will go from monochrome to vga - so to speak. lol

 

Last edited: Apr 16, 2017

you have to have audiophile grade headphones or monitors and then everything is "critical listening" without them you are lost

 

Listening gear is a part of the experience, but not necessary the foundation - anything called "audiophile grade" should be taken with a grain of salt IMO.