LUCY Academy
Foundations: write and finish a song · Lesson 7 of 7
Training your ears so every other lesson lands
20 minFoundationalFree
Everything earlier in this track assumes you can hear what you just did. Most people can't, at first — not because their ears are bad, but because nobody taught them what to listen for. Ear training is the one skill that quietly improves every other lesson here: it turns writing from trial and error into decisions, and it turns mixing from nudging faders into fixing a named problem. Twenty focused minutes a week beats an occasional three-hour session.
What you’ll be able to do
- Hear intervals and chord changes instead of guessing at them
- Diagnose a mix problem by name rather than by nudging faders
- Build a listening habit that fits around actually making music
- Know which references to trust and how to use them
Inside this lesson
- 1Watch first: a method, not a mystery
- 2Start with movement, not note names
- 3Hear chord changes as movement
- 4Mix listening: name the problem
- 5Use references properly
- 6A habit that survives a busy week
In the app
Take this lesson in the LUCY app
Open it in LUCY and the lesson rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Free with your account.
- Rewritten around your genre and where you're at
- A coach that can see the releases in your account
- Narrated — put it on while you work
- A badge for the track when you finish it
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