“An affordable online Ear Training course with participation flexibility”
This online ear training course is designed for musicians to develop our musical perception skills to function at the same level as our instrumental and vocal abilities, thereby achieving a more balanced, dynamic musicianship. Staple musical elements include: melodic and harmonic intervals, modes and scales, triad and seventh arpeggios and chords, chord progressions and core voice leading principles. Taught by Marc Mommaas, the curriculum will be a mix of formal and informal creative ear training techniques taught in Classical and Jazz Universities and Conservatories. It includes a comprehensive step by step outline supported with handouts and audio examples.
Above all, it will be enriching and a lot of fun. Connecting to sound away from your instrument is a fantastic vehicle toward developing and opening up your personal sound. Taking away the limitations you might feel on your instrument enables your ears to open up and purely focus on identification of sound. Ear training never stops. We strive to hear chord changes with more transparency enabling us to react faster in our story line development, and we always search for opportunity’s to refine our sound pallet with more shades and nuances.
Level is not important. You will get exposed to all the ins and outs step by step in a nurturing environment.
Schedule and Cost
Fall: September 14 through November 20, 2024: 12 session: $465
level 1: modes, intervals, triads and 7th chords – from the ground up: 10am
Winter/Spring: January through April, 2025: 12 sessions: $465
level 2: triads in inversion, fourth chords, modes in melodic minor, chord progressions, A/B form – includes theory.
Summer: May through August, 2025: 12 session: $465
level 3: upper extensions, extended progression, fourth and quartal voices – includes analysis.
Recorded Sessions and Auralia
Sessions are recorded and accessible for enrolled students, so you will not miss a beat! Students that can not attend in real time through the entirety of the course are eligible for two 30 minute private sessions with the teacher. We recommend to setup 30 minutes before the start the of the course and 30 minutes in the end of the course as an evaluation.
You will be able to access links of the recorded sessions in Google Drive to review at your own pace. The Google Drive includes PDFs developed by Marc Mommaas. It comprises ear training techniques developed over decades of ear training experience in collaboration with specialists Armen Donelian and Richard Boukas who are great friends of our NYJW community. You will have full access to all the links for an entire year.
Optional to this course is the addition of Auralia, a powerful online ear training curriculum platform which you can use as a member for a full year. Exercises will be made available on that platform which enables the student to work at home with a structured plan and specific goals in mind.
Auralia Membership through our school: $35 for a full year membership.
The second course will be offered at a 10% discount (composition/counterpoint/theory/protools).
About the Faculty
Marc Mommaas
This course will be taught by Marc Mommaas, faculty member and co-founder of NYJW and Hudson Jazzworks (HJW), and professor at the New School in NYC .
