EAR TRAINING EXERCISES FOR CHOIRS

I’ve been meaning to publish this resource here for awhile. These three pages contain a bunch of the ear training exercises I’ve used with my groups over the years. This was the primary handout from my 2019 session at the national ACDA conference in Kansas City: “Singing with Big Ears: Using Vocal Jazz Exercises to Improve Ear Training Across the Entire Choral Program.”

Thanks to Accent for letting me reproduce the progression I saw them warming up with. As far as I know, that’s the only one of these that was borrowed, although I’m sure many others have created and used similar exercises. I hope having these clearly notated and all together in one PDF will be useful for directors of vocal jazz groups or any other type of choir. Have fun challenging your singers!