Name: Aural Skills Identification Application Training
Price: 15400.0 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Description

This course equips learners with the ability to identify and apply aural skills in various contexts, including music, communication, and professional environments. Participants will develop critical listening abilities to enhance perception, analysis, and response to auditory information.

Learning Outcomes

Identify and differentiate between various auditory stimuli, including pitch, rhythm, timbre, and dynamics.
Apply aural skills to interpret and analyze musical or auditory sequences accurately.
Demonstrate active listening techniques to enhance comprehension and response in professional settings.
Evaluate auditory information for accuracy and relevance in given contexts.
Implement strategies to improve aural memory and recall of sound patterns.
Analyze complex auditory environments to extract meaningful information.

Target Audience

This course is designed for individuals seeking to improve their listening and auditory analysis skills, including musicians, audio engineers, educators, and professionals in communication-focused roles.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Day 1: Foundational Aural Skills and Identification

Objectives:
• Identify basic musical elements such as pitch, rhythm, and dynamics by ear.
• Distinguish between major and minor tonalities through listening.
• Recognise common intervals and chord types (major, minor, diminished, augmented).
• Apply listening strategies to identify simple harmonic progressions.
• Develop foundational vocabulary for describing aural phenomena.

Topics:
• Introduction to aural skills: importance in music and audio professions.
• Pitch recognition: identifying single notes and simple melodies.
• Rhythmic patterns: clapping and counting beats, recognising time signatures.
• Dynamics and articulation: loud/soft, legato/staccato.
• Intervals: identifying major, minor, perfect intervals.
• Triads: major, minor, diminished, augmented chord qualities.
• Basic harmonic progressions: I-IV-V-I in major keys.
• Listening exercises and ear training software introduction.

Day 2: Advanced Application and Practical Integration

Objectives:
• Identify extended chords and seventh chords by ear.
• Recognise chord progressions in minor keys and modulations.
• Apply aural skills to transcribe short musical passages.
• Evaluate and correct performance errors using aural feedback.
• Integrate aural identification into real-world scenarios like mixing, arranging, or teaching.

Topics:
• Seventh chords: major 7th, dominant 7th, minor 7th, half-diminished, diminished 7th.
• Chord progressions in minor keys and common modulations.
• Melodic dictation: transcribing short phrases.
• Harmonic dictation: notating chord progressions.
• Error detection: identifying pitch, rhythm, and balance issues in recordings.
• Aural skills in mixing: EQ, panning, and reverb identification.
• Aural skills in performance: intonation and ensemble blend.
• Final assessment: aural identification test and transcription task.

Practicals

4 hours of practicals To be conducted online or on-campus or in-house

Overview

Practical sessions reinforce theoretical knowledge through hands-on ear training exercises. Learners will use software and live instruments to practice identification and transcription, applying skills in simulated real-world contexts.

Practical Activities

Interval and Chord Identification Drill — Learners use ear training software and piano to identify intervals and chord qualities played by the instructor. (1h)
Rhythmic Dictation and Clapping — Learners clap back rhythms and notate simple rhythmic patterns from audio examples. (1h)
Melodic and Harmonic Dictation — Learners transcribe short melodies and chord progressions played on piano or audio recording. (1h)
Error Detection in Recordings — Learners listen to recorded performances and identify pitch, rhythm, or balance errors, then suggest corrections. (1h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded to delegates who achieve an overall mark of 50% or higher on the Final Total (Practicals 30% + Daily Average 20% + Final Test 50%).

How it works

Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.