By Gayle Kowalchyk; E.L. Lancaster
This Alfred's Basic Adult Ear Training Book is designed for use with Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Book 1. The book is co-ordinated page-by-page with the lesson book, and works to reinforce each concept presented in the lesson book, with specific focus on the training and development of the ear.
€13.10

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By Gilson Schachnik
These time-tested exercises will help you to play by ear.
This book introduces the core skills of ear training.
Step by step, you will learn to use solfege to help you internalize the music you hear and then easily transpose melodies to different keys.
Learn to hear a melody and then write it down. Develop your memory for melodies and rhythms. Transcribe live performances and recordings.
Listening is the most important skill in music, and this book will help you to listen better..
€16.40

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By Jorgen Jersild
This book is based on the principle that any one, wanting to play or sing music, will be better prepared for the task by first getting acquainted with the basic melodic and rhythmic patterns presented. It will enable the pupil to fully understand the melodic and rhythmic texture of a piece of music before attempting to execute it. The melodic and rhythmic problems are presented in a methodical, progressive way, very similar to the teaching of a language..
€46.10

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By Matt Glaser
This is a unique ear training program for any musician who wants to sing or play anything he or she hears.
Through a progressive series of interactive exercises, you learn how to recognize pitches and intervals, repeat complex rhythms and play back musical phrases and complete solos – after only one hearing!
Beginners and professionals alike, regardless of instrument or style of music, will develop invaluable skills and expand their musical consciousness.
Six CDs and written material. €82.40

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By Jody Fisher
This book starts with the basics of pitch recognition and leads you to distinguish between interval types, chord types, scales and chord progressions.
Everything is organized in a handy workbook format with correct answers provided for all exercises. Examples are shown in standard music notation and TAB.
A CD demonstrating all the examples played on guitar is included.
Book & CD. €26.30

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By Charlotte Hale & Constance Preston
Ear Without Fear is an innovative program aimed at building a foundation for reading music and developing the skills to perform it accurately.
This step-by-step method offers demonstrations, listening exercises, sight singing, and melodic dictations to help students of any instrument reinforce and hone melodic skills.
The accompanying CD features over 90 exercises, recorded by real instruments. ©2006, Book & CD, 32 pages.
€9.80

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By Charlotte Hale & Constance Preston
Ideal for all instrumentalists and will work with any method.
Ear Without Fear, Volume 2 continues where Volume 1 left off, introducing the following concepts:
letter names and ledger lines;
treble and bass clefs;
sharps and flats; moveable do;
intervals – 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and octaves; and more,
with demonstrations, exercises, and dictations covering the topics above.
€8.20

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By Steve Prosser
The Berklee College of Music is known and respected throughout the world. In this comprehesive book the chair of the Ear Training Department has captured for the first time the college's unique method.
This course teaches musicians to hear the music they are seeing, notate their compositions or arrangements, develop their music vocabulary, and understand the sounds they are hearing.
The book features a complete course with text and musical examples, and studies in rhythm, sight recognition, sol-fa, and melody. 144 pages.
€21.40

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By Roberta Radley
An excellent workshop from the assistant chair of the Ear Training Department at the prestigious Berklee College of Music.
This DVD is a vital intro to the topic for songwriters and performers looking to improve their listening skills and become better musicians.
You'll learn to: recognize chord progressions quickly and confidently, become a more analytical listener and apply this knowledge to all of your projects. ©2004, 73 minutes. DVD.
€28.00

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By Jamey Aebersold
This two CD set contains over two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instruction before each exercise.
Starts with basics and gradually increases in difficulty. The aural exercises are summarised in the 20 page booklet with all answers listed.
New revised book contains transposed parts for C, B Flat and E Flat instruments to allow you to play along.
€27.20

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By Steve Masakowski
Jazz Ear Training: Learning to Hear Your Way Through Music, focuses the student on developing the ability to hear and react to harmonic structures common to the modern Jazz idiom, while adhering to specific melodic phrases.
The book and recording include a variety of exercises derived from the major, harmonic minor, melodic minor and harmonic major scales and suggestions on how to play by ear.
It was designed with the intermediate to advanced Jazz student in mind who needs to enhance the connection between his inner voice and instrument. It will also help the student "hear" what he may intellectually "know".
Though intended for guitarists, this book can serve the needs of any aspiring Jazz improviser.
A basic understanding of Jazz theory is recommended before using this book. Companion CD included. ©2004, 40 pages,
Book & CD. €21.40

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By Keith Wyatt; Carl Schroeder; Joe Elliott
A book & double CD pack by the Musicians Institute. It takes you step by step through their well-known ear training course.
Included are:
basic pitch matching • singing major and minor scales • identifying intervals • transcribing melodies and rhythm • identifying chords and progressions • seventh chords and the blues • modal interchange, chromaticism, modulation • and more!
Learn to hear and visualize on your instrument. Take that extra step to catapult your playing to greatness.
Over 2 hours of practice exercises – with complete answers in the back. ©2005, Book & CDs, 122 pages.
€28.00

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By Gary Willis
The complete method for the practising musician.
The accompanying CD includes 99 full-demo tracks.
The book covers intervals, rhythms, melodic shapes, inversions, scales, chord extensions, alterations, fretboard visualization and fingering diagrams.
€16.40

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