How to train your ear to hear harmony

1. How can I improve my hearing harmonies?
2. Is it hard to harmonize by ear?
3. What is ear training and harmony?

How can I improve my hearing harmonies?

Here are four effective (and fun) ways to learn how to sing harmony:

1. Sing along with the harmonies of your favorite recordings. This is how I taught myself to hear harmonies. ...
2. Join a choir – (anything but 1st soprano) ...
3. Practice harmonic ear training exercises. ...
4. Apply your music theory knowledge.

Is it hard to harmonize by ear?

Creating barbershop harmony by ear is very difficult if that kind of sound is not already resident inside. It's often surprising to learn just how little time most barbershoppers spend listening to barbershop music. ... Memorizing notes and words is very different than listening to harmonies.)

What is ear training and harmony?

Ear training or aural skills is a music theory study in which musicians learn to identify pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, solfeges, and other basic elements of music, solely by hearing. The application of this skill is analogous to taking dictation in written/spoken language.