How to develop hearing?

Singing is loved by everyone, but not everyone is good at it, most often good performance is hampered by the absence of musical ear. It is believed that this ability is innate. Therefore, those who do not have a hearing, usually do not even wonder whether it can be developed. And they do it in vain, because this quality is quite amenable to training.

How to develop hearing?

When a person says "I do not have a hearing", he most often implies his inability to reproduce the melody. But this can only mean the lack of coordination between voice and hearing, in addition, it is impossible to say that a person has absolutely no musical ear. The fact that distinguish several types of hearing, one of which is certainly present in humans.

1. Rhythmic hearing - the ability to feel the emotional load of music, the ability to move it emotionally.
2. Aural hearing is the ability to determine the difference in chords and melody segments.
3. Intonation hearing - understanding of expression, the nature of music.
4. Internal hearing is a clear mental representation (usually from memory or musical notation) of melodic constructions and individual sounds.
5. Interval or relative hearing is the ability to determine and reproduce intervals in chords and melodies, determining the pitch of sound and comparing it with the standard.
6. Absolute hearing is a unique ability to accurately determine the pitch of any sound without comparing it with the standard.

Naturally, the last skill is the most desired, but only a few are born with it. So can you develop an absolute hearing and how? The presence of a musical ear and its appearance depends on the degree of saturation of the nerve fibers of a specific area of ​​the brain. If this site is poorly developed, then a person may have a rhythmic or fretal hearing, with better development one can rely on internal or interval hearing. It is clear that the more steps to the desired absolute, the harder the work.

If you need to improve the rhythmic hearing, then a good option is to read poetry to music, singing and dancing to simple and familiar melodies. Also, the development of musical ear will contribute to playing musical instruments and listening to music thoughtfully. All these techniques are not particularly complex and time-consuming, the main rule is regularity. But how to develop an absolute hearing with the help of these methods? But in any way, to train such a hearing a person needs to know the sound of notes and to recognize them by ear, and this is taught by a special discipline - solfeggio. It is taught in music schools, but you did not get there as a child or skipped these lessons, then you can ask for help from a private teacher. If this is not possible, then you should try to develop an absolute hearing yourself, using special programs. For example, Ear Master Pro, Noteris or Uhogryz. A full-fledged replacement can not be named, because the purity of the sound will depend on the quality of your speaker system, but in the absence of other options, the method has the right to exist.