Have you seen the Create Your Own Interval Examples page on the EarMaster website? What a fabulous resource! Our Music Progressions evaluations are in April each year, so I’ve been assigning several of my students to work on specific ear training exercises at different websites. This is with the hope that maybe they won’t all bomb the listening test like we do most years…aural skills is not one of my strengths and it’s an area I rarely devote time to in the lessons, other than having students pick songs out by ear and compose original arrangements, so unless they are naturally gifted in this area, they usually don’t fare so well.
Anyway…I’ll be passing along the link to this interval example page. I love that it has links to YouTube videos so that students can immediately listen to songs representing each interval! (Maybe I should spend some time there, too… 
) Do you have any other good resources you’ve found for working on aural skills with students? Please do share – I can use all the help I can get in this area!
Wow, awesome resource. Thanks to you and Wendy. I enjoy doing ear training with my students, but it’s usually the last thing on my priority list, and I often never get around to it. Some kids catch on easily, and some really don’t, so I’m not sure I’m doing such a good job. I hope some others chime in with good tips.
My students have struggled to identify intervals by ear also. This summer as one of our “olympic events” I had them sing and play “Interval Scale Tosses.” For example for the C pentascale they play
“C-D, C-E, C-F, C-G, C-F, C-E, C-D-C”
while singing
“A 2nd, a 3rd, a 4th, a 5th, a 4th a 3rd a 2nd.”
The more advanced students played up to 6ths or octaves. I think this helped some of them, but my younger students are still really having a hard time. I’d love to hear more ideas.
I also played “Interval Bingo” with them at a group lesson. On a grid with 9 squares they chose an interval to write in each square. Then I played interval samples for them to identify and cover the appropriate squares until someone had 3 in a row.
A couple of websites I send my students to do interval ear training practice are:
http://www.teoria.com/exercises/ie.htm
and
http://www.ossmann.com/bigears/
Both sites allow you to select what types of intervals the students will hear. I like teoria because it also shows a percentage of how many they got correct and includes the option of hearing both harmonic and melodic intervals. I like bigears because the intervals seem to be played more slowly. Some younger students tend to get frustrated with these drills on the computer because the starting note is always different, so for them I start with playing intervals on the piano for them only within the C scale starting on C.