Chord Qualities
by Abram Poliakoff
Description:
In Chord Qualities, Abram guides you through a focused ear training tutorial designed to help you recognize, sing, and distinguish between major, minor, augmented, diminished, and 7th chords. After a short intonation warmup, you’ll explore how small changes—like adjusting the 3rd or 5th—completely transform a chord’s sound and emotional quality, while practicing targeted exercises to strengthen pitch accuracy, harmony skills, and overall musicianship. As the lessons progress, you’ll stack additional chord tones to master major, minor, and dominant 7ths, finishing with an interactive ear training test to challenge your ability to identify each chord quality by sound.
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Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.