Listen Up: How to Train Your Ear

Some musical education can help expand your audio experience and have you hearing tunes in a whole new way.

A person doesn’t have to be a trained musician or musicologist to be able to enjoy audio. Still, the skill of listening, from a trained musical perspective, can help foster greater understanding of audio and improve your audio experience. And you don’t even have to be a tried and true “audiophile” to do so.



According to Chris Maggio, a professional, classically trained guitar player and co-owner of Wakefield, Mass.-based Sarrin Music Studios, people can learn the fundamentals of listening by examining simple passages within popular music. “I would say they could learn musical dynamics,” he says. “You can hear pitches and chords and how they work. You may not exactly understand everything, but you can hear, for example, the pitch of a drum. A great example is the Phil Collins’ song ‘In the Air Tonight.’ Everyone knows the part of that song when the drums come in and you don’t have to be a drummer to play that on your dashboard.”

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