There's more to singing than the voice - the ear plays almost as important, if not as important, a role. So while you're training your voice, make sure you don't neglect the ear. These books, book/CD sets and DVDs are from renowned instructors and directors from the Berklee School of Music, the Musicians' Institute, The Westminster Vocal Institute and other prestigious organizations dedicated to making beautiful sounds. You can't go wrong with anything you find here, and you'll hear the difference in your work quickly.

Roberta Radley: The Real Easy Ear Training Book

Singing The Major Sale With Numbers and Solfege Syllables Building Other Major Triads Building Major Triads Identify The Minor and Diminished Triads Sing Root Position Arpeggios with the Cycle 5 Progression Transcribe The Voice-Led Chord Lines Hearing Inversions of the I Chord Identify the Chord Tones In The Melody Write Out The Imaj7 and IVmaj7 Chords Rewind...Harmonize The Melody Building Natural Minor Scales Sing The Chromatic Scale Using Solfege Syllables Explore Minor Key Harmony Hear the Bass Line in the Major Key

All great singers have one thing in common - to a great extent, they know what the harmony is as the chords of songs go by. Do you? If not, here's a practical guide to get you up to speed! For all musicians, regardless of instrument or experience, this is the most comprehensive book on hearing the changes ever published! Using musical examples that reflect all contemporary genres (pop, rock, Latin, fusion, jazz, etc.), emphasis is placed on making ear training real, as Prof. Radley shows how to apply the harmonic ear training studies in the book to your own musical needs. Covers both beginning and intermediate ear training exercises. Trusting your ear can be challenging. However, doing so provides great personal satisfaction and self-confidence. So what steps does this book take toward trusting your ear? Music Teachers! You will find this book invaluable in teaching ear training to your students - as a stand-alone course, or in conjunction with your current ear training methods.

Steve Prosser: Essential Ear Training

Lesson One: Conducting Patterns Lesson Two: Rhythmic Studies Lesson Three: Sight Recognition Studies Lesson Four: Sol-fa Studies Lesson Five: Melodic Studies Lesson Six: Supplemental Lessons: Visualization-Improvisation Workshops 1 - 10

The Ear Training curriculum of Berklee College of Music is known and respected throughout the world. Now, for the first time, this unique method has been captured in one comprehensive book by the chair of the Ear Training Department. This method teaches musicians to hear the music they are seeing, notate the music they have composed or arranged, develop their music vocabulary, and understand the music they are hearing. The book features a complete course with text and musical examples, and studies in rhythm, sight recognition, sol-fa, and melody. A vital introduction to ear training for songwriters and performers looking to improve their listening skills and become better musicians. Starting with the bass line, you'll learn a step-by-step approach to help you break down the hearing process, internalize the music, and then identify the elements of the progression. Harmonic Ear Training will help you to: * Recognize chord progressions quickly and confidently * Incorporate chord progressions into your writing and performing * Learn to listen to music more analytically, and apply this knowledge to all your projects

Musicians Institute: Ear Training for the Contemporary Musician

Pitch and Tonality The Major Scale Major Melodies Melodic Skips Meter and Rhythm Transcribing Melody and Rhythm Harmonic Intervals Major and Minor Triads Triad Progression Melody and Harmony The Natural Minor Scale Sixteenth-Note Rhythms Minor-Key Melodies with Harmony and Rhythm Seventh Intervals and Seventh Chords Diatonic Seventh Chord Progressions Modal Interchange Secondary Dominants Inverted Chords Extended Chords Chromatic Progressions Modulation

This book and double CD pack takes you step by step through MI's well-known Ear Training course. Complete lessons and analysis include: 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 to visualize on your instrument. Take your playing from good to great! Over 2 hours of practice exercises – with complete answers in the back.

Jamey Aebersold: Jazz Ear Training

Chromatic Scale Exrecises Major And Minor 2nd Intervals Major And Minor 3rd Intervals Perfect 4ths, Augmented 4ths, And Perfect 5th Intervals Major And Minor 6th Intervals Major And Minor 7ths And The Octave Chord Qualities And Arpeggios Major Triads, Root Postion Minor Triads, Root Position Major And Minor 7th And 9th Chords - Modern Voicings - 4 Bars Each Mixed Major 7th, Minor 7th, And Dominant 7th - Random Movement - 3 Bars Walking Bass Line - Major, Minor, Dominant - 4 Bars Major To Minor Or Vice Versa - 2 Bars Each Half Diminished 7th Chords - 2 Bars Each Diminished 7th Chords - 4 Bars Each Whole Tone Chords And Scales Random Qualities - 2 Bars Each (Final Exercise)

A no-nonsense approach consisting of two hours of recorded ear training exercises with aural instructions before each. Beginning to advanced. Starts very simply, with intervals gradually increases in difficulty until you are hearing chord changes and progressions. All answers are listed in book.

Gilson Schachnik: Beginning Ear Training

How To Use This Book Do, Re, Mi Do, Re, Mi, Fa Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti Scales Dictation Answers

These time-tested exercises will help you to play by ear. This Berklee School of Music Press 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 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

6515 BOOK & CD $14.95

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Marylyn Shenenberger & James Jordan: Listen! Introductory Harmonic Immersion Solfege

Tonic Chord Inversions And Patterns Dominant Chord Inversions And Patterns SubDominant Chord Inversions And Patterns Chord Progressions With Tonic, Dominant, Subdominant Accompianiment Supplement For Use In The Choral Ensemble Setting

Gain improved listening skills, ease in improvisation, and increased facility with notation with this foundational aural training method designed for individual and ensemble use. Repetition of these exercises lays the groundwork for the use of solfege in the choral ensemble rehearsal. Take the next step—sharpen your aural skills with Listen!

6416 BOOK & CD $24.95

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Arnold Fish and Norman Lloyd: Fundamentals of Sight Singing and Ear Training

Some Basic Elements of Rhythm Basic Pitch Relationships; Stepwise Melodies in the Major Scale Major and Minor Thirds in the Major Scale; Plainsong Meter; Elementary Conducting; Rhythmic Ratios of Three to One and Four to One; Melodies Beginning on Tones Other Than the Tonic; the Alto Clef Simple Subdivisions of the Beat; Melodies Beginning on Upbeats; Perfect Fourths and Fifths in the Major Scale; The Major Triad; Chorale Melodies Melodies Based on Primary Harmonies; the Dominant Seventh; Rhythmic Canons; Rests; Excerpts from Music Literature Dotted Notes and Tied Notes; the Minor Triad; the Diminished Triad; Leaps in All Diatonic Triads; Further Drills on Perfect Fourths and Perfect Fifths; Excerpts from Music Literature Forms of the Minor Scale; Further Subdivisions of the Beat; Excerpts from Music Literature Large Melodic Leaps; Triplets; Compound Meter; the Tenor Clef; Excerpts from Music Literature Chromatic Tones; Melodies in Mixed Forms of the Minor Scales; Syncopation; Excerpts from Music Literature Accents and Cross-Accents; Leaps in Triads in Minor Keys; Tritones; Chromaticism; Excerpts from Music Literature Changing Meters; Modal Music; Excerpts from Music Literature

An essential part of musicianship! This realistic first-year program of sight singing and ear training presents a broadly based approach to music reading as an essential and integral part of musicianship and exhibits a sharp focus on essential skills. The authors developed and tested the materials in their classes at the Juilliard School of Music, refining them to enhance accessibility and improve learning. Special features include: arranges specific concepts and problems in a carefully graded order based upon performance difficulty; isolates specific rhythmic and pitch problems and then drills them in a concentrated form but in a variety of music contexts; includes copious examples of each problem in actual music; stimulates readers’ creative imagination through the consistent employment of assignments that require original work.

6395 BOOK $14.95

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James Jordan: Ear Training Immersion for Choirs

Major Ionian Mode Harmonic Minor Mixolydian Mode Dorian Mode Lydian Mode Phrygian Mode Aeolian Mode Melodic Minor Mode Locrian Mode Octatonic Modes

Created by Dr. James Jordan and accompanist/composer Marilyn Shenenberger, the exercises in this book are part of an innovative new ensemble solfege method that helps choirs improve intonation through improving aural skills. Each exercise provides a rich harmonic syntax for singers to hear, while singing in different modes. The book contains intonations in all modes, singing difficult intervals within each mode, modal tuning exercises, and a modal choral example. These exercises may be integrated into the choral warm-up. Using this unique method of choral solfege, your choir's hearing ability will improve exponentially as will their intonation and reading abilities. These exercises are appropriate for all ages and for singers at all levels of development.

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Audrey Hunt: Complete Ear Training

Introduction High/Low Tones Random Tones Five Tones Ascending Five Tones Descending Familiar Tunes Duplicating Tones Ascending Interval Exercises Descending Intervals Test 1 Recognition of Maj/Min Chords Augmented/Diminished Chords Maj/min/dim/Aug exercises Maj 7th and Dom 7th Test 2/Final Remarks

Singers who vary from pitch even to a small degree, are unable to sing with full beauty and easy production. The pitch must be centered. If physically, we are capable of singing any tone, we can sing on pitch. However, we must be sure that the sound we sing is thought correctly on pitch. The "Ear Training" program is designed to train the singer to "think" the correct pitch then sing the correct pitch and in doing so will develop a more beautiful tone. Actually all musicians regardless of the instrument will benefit greatly from learning to duplicate correct tones.

6629 CD $19.95

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