The concept of "musical ear" should be considered in terms of the ability to quickly capture, identify, memorize and reproduce the sounds heard. For artificial development, growing musical ear requires the use of systematic methods with which you can achieve the best result.
Proper quality testing of musical hearing will allow you to identify abilities that should be developed in a child, and not only in a child.
When is it necessary to diagnose a musical ear?
In principle, at least when! In general, there is an opinion that a person gains musical ear at a genetic level, but this is only half true. In order to become a professional musician, no special talent is required, and even the presence of some "rudiments" of such guarantees the possibility of obtaining high results in the process of regular classes. Here, as in sports, everything is decided by training.
How is the hearing test going?
In particular, an exclusively professional musical teacher should conduct diagnostics of musical abilities and testing of musical hearing. The process itself consists of several stages, as a result of the passage of which it becomes possible to draw certain conclusions (although it is not necessary to rely on the reliability of the findings - often they often turn out to be wrong simply because the child perceives the test situation as an exam and is worried). It is important to diagnose hearing on the three main criteria:
- a sense of rhythm;
- voice intonation assessment;
- musical memory abilities.
Rhythmic hearing test
Rhythm is usually checked like this. The teacher first nastukivaet pencil or other object on the table (or plop in the palm of your hand) a certain rhythm (best of all - a melody from a famous cartoon). Then offers the subject to repeat it. If he accurately reproduces the real rhythm, we can talk about the presence of hearing.
The test continues: examples of rhythmic patterns are complicated. Thus, it is possible to check the musical ear for a sense of rhythm. It should be noted that it is the sense of rhythm - in the matter of the presence or absence of hearing is the main and accurate assessment criterion.
Intone voice: is it singing cleanly?
This is not the main criterion for “sentencing”, but the procedure to which all candidates for the “hearer” title are subject. To identify the correct voice intonation, the teacher sings a familiar, simple melody that the child repeats. In this case, the purity of the voice is revealed and the perspective for vocal lessons (timbre beauty - this applies only to adults).
If a child does not have a strong, melodic and clear voice, but the presence of a hearing is detected, he may well attend the lessons of the game on some instrument. In this case, it is the checking of the musical ear that matters, not the presence of excellent vocal abilities. Yes, and also: if a person sings dirty or does not sing at all, then it is wrong to think that he has no hearing!
Guessing notes on the instrument: playing hide and seek
The one who is checked turns his back to the instrument (piano), the teacher presses any of the keys and then asks to find it on the keyboard. The test is also carried out with other keys. The potential “listener” must guess the notes exactly by pressing keys and listening to sounds. This is somewhat reminiscent of the well-known children's hide-and-seek, only in this case it is a musical game of hide-and-seek.
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