For years I was telling my ear training students to drill until they scored a perfect 100%. I watched it slowly put their ears to sleep.
This video is about the practice model that actually works. Why momentum beats perfection, why a frustrated ear is functionally the same as a deaf ear, and why a few honest errors in your training material may help your development rather than hurt it.
If you've been grinding the same interval drill or chord exercise for weeks chasing a perfect score, this is for you.
Chapters
0:00 — The confession
0:51 — Thesis: momentum over perfection
1:58 — The 7-day rule
2:48 — Why this works (desirable difficulty)
4:02 — The physical layer no one talks about
5:19 — When the definition of mastery has to flip
6:52 — Music works like spoken language
8:23 — What happens when the training material has errors
9:15 — Pillar 1: Categorical perception
10:29 — Pillar 2: Overfitting and noise injection
11:23 — Permission to move on
Tell me in the comments
The single interval, chord, or exercise that's tripping you up the most right now. Be specific. I read every one and pull the most common ones into future micro-exercises.
About
I'm Kevin, a composer and ear training educator. I've worked with over 1,400 students refining how musicians actually build their ears — not by drilling harder, but by training smarter. More at [UreMusic link].
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