Product Description

Eartraining is a vital (and sometimes neglected) skill that enables musicians to "hear ahead" in their playing and writing. These unique, modern courses have been used by hundreds of students (from beginners to working pros) at the acclaimed Grove School of Music in Los Angeles. These methods use SOLFEG (the syllables Do, Re, Mi, etc.) to apply the techniques within a key-center based "relative pitch" framework. Level One works on hearing and transcribing melodies, rhythms, intervals and bass lines and moves on to identify triads and simple progressions. Level Two covers hearing and transcribing triad and four-part chord progressions, key changes, chromatic tones, modal scales, and combining melodic and harmonic dictation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #397577 in Books
• Published on: 1998-08-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 222 pages

Customer Reviews

In the curriculum
I have been playing keyboards for about three years. I've taken a few lessons, but I'm mostly self-taught. The more I have learned, the more I want to know. You get to the point where you would like some structure. Both structure in the sense of an orderly accumulation of knowledge and in the sense of where does what I know fit in?

This is your book. It starts off very basic- how scales are constructed. Good comprehensible explanations of diatonic triads. The first explanation of modal scales that made sense to me. Good practice recognizing and writing inversions. Also four part chords, suspended and altered chords.

The best part is that after I completed this book I found my practicing much improved because I had a far better understanding of what I was playing.

I highly recommend this book for beginners or early intermediate players.