When I started playing guitar, it was all by ear – I had been sentenced to the piano for 3 or so years, and all I had for guitar lessons was piano music, some Dire Straits and Yngwie Malmsteen tapes – and guitar player Magazine.

I didn’t know anything about ear-training. We didn’t even have music as a subject in my school!

However, I realized it was going to be good for me to develop my ear – I wanted to transcribe my David Lee Roth tapes and learn those Yngwie licks.

This would have gone a lot easier if my ear was developed and I had learnt to recognize intervals and bass movement.

Of course, now that ears are pretty good – I wanted software to make these abilities as fast as possible!

So, in my dream software – ear training should be like this:

* Learn to recognize intervals. I want to hear the reference melodies not just read about them in a book (example a half step or minor 2nd is jaws)
* Learn to track bass movement – that way I’ll learn what chord to play.
* Learn what intervals make up a melody.
* Learn to sing an interval over a bass note.
* Learn to recognize an interval over a bass note (all truly good improvisers can do this)

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