No matter what level of player you are, developing your ear training skills is one of the most important tools you need to play music! The video below focuses on ear training exercises for dominant 7th chords - an essential harmony found in jazz, blues, pop, and classical music that every musician should be comfortable recognizing and using by ear. 🎵 Why Dominant 7th Chords Matter Dominant 7th chords are everywhere in music. In theory, a dominant seventh chord is built from a root, major...

Hey, flute players! We had an absolutely AMAZING class on vibrato with  ​ Flute School ​  in November... and I wanted to further spread the vibrato joy by making a YouTube tutorial and blog post that has all the juicy vibrato-practicing details! Vibrato is one of those things that is hard to describe. Where exactly does it come from? What type of sound are you actually creating? How do you teach it? I think every teacher has their own approach, and for ME: it took a combination of decades of...

One of the biggest breakthroughs I had with jazz improvisation didn’t come from learning more scales — it came from ear training . In this video, I walk through a simple ear-training exercise I use to help students (and myself!) hear harmony more clearly before trying to improvise over it. The goal isn’t perfection — it’s building a stronger connection between your ears and your instrument. The exercise focuses on Major 7th chords and moving through the Circle of Fifths . Instead of...