Ear Training for Everyone (Session 1)

Ear Training for Everyone

Thursdays, two sessions: 10:30am to 12:00pm and 5:30pm – 7pm, February through April

Taught by Anna Patton

For singers, instrumentalists, and curious listeners; a class to sharpen the musical ears through harmonizing and re-harmonizing well known songs. Participants will learn to analyze the harmonic gist of songs by ear, finding bass lines and learning to make educated guesses about chord progressions. While finding vocal harmonies will be at the center of our methods, these skills are also at the core of improvisation, composition, and general music appreciation.

$150 for the 10-week course or $20 per class to drop in. Contact Anna if scholarship assistance is needed. anna@annapatton.com

About Anna Patton
Anna Patton is a versatile clarinetist, singer, composer, and educator driven by musical curiosity. She is a member of the internationally touring dance band Elixir which plays American and Celtic fiddle tunes with original trumpet-clarinet-trombone horn arrangements that are influenced by early jazz, R&B, and classical music. Other projects include duos with Andrew VanNorstrand and with Julie Vallimont, the Julian Gerstin Sextet, and the cello-oud-percussion-clarinet quartet Dunham Shoe Factory.

Anna teaches vocal and instrumental ensemble classes, music theory, and aural skills at workshops all over the US an in her home town of Brattleboro, VT. In 2006, Anna started the Soubrette Jazz Choir at the Vermont Jazz Center which performs her creative arrangements of historical and contemporary American music.

In 2015, Anna completed her Masters of Music in New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program. With a cohort of students from all over the world and all musical backgrounds, she collaborated on performances and studied with the school’s extraordinary faculty of composers, improvisors, and ethnomusicologists.