Contextual Ear Training Memorizing Sound Through Singing
by Bruce Arnold
Developing aural recognition skills is a two pronged process.
It consists of listening and singing. The listening side as
represent in Ear
Training One Note Complete allows you to develop your skills
to recognize a pitch someone else is playing. Singing allows
you to develop your ability to recognize the notes you hear in you
head and to facilitate high improvisational and compositional
skills.
Contextual Ear Training takes the "one note" exercise found in Mr.
Arnold's popular book "Fanatic's
Guide
to Sight Singing and Ear Training" and presents an exercise
that can be practiced anywhere that you can listen with a CD or MP3
player. With this portable audio exercise a student can
practice
no matter how busy his or her schedule may be, thus accelerating
progress.
Mr. Arnold states. "I have found that students using
"Contextual
Ear Training" audio files along with "Ear
Training
One Note Complete" and/or "Fanatic's
Guide
to Sight Reading and Ear Training" improve at a much faster
rate."
"Contextual Ear Training" contains four CDs that are available with
this book that really help a student to focus in on this technique
in a
structured way. It also includes a music theory section and FAQ
sections. The music theory section explains why the knowledge
of
music theory is integral to ear training. Please note that much of
the
material from the first few chapters of Fanatic's Guide is included
in
this book. If you already own "Fanatic's
Guide
to Sight Singing and Ear Training," "Contextual Ear Training"
will help you to learn the "one note" exercises faster.
"Contextual Ear Training" is also a good place to start when
educating
children in ear training. (recommended for children 7 years of age
or
older) Please read Mr.
Arnold's
blog entry to understand the process of teaching a child
and to find out more information on how the whole ear training
process
works.
As with all Muse Eek Publishing Ear Training Books there are
editions
that contain CDs and some that don't. Please make sure to
check
before ordering. Most descriptions will plainly show whether
the
CDs come with the book. The four CDs for this book (no book
included) can also be
found in MP3 format HERE
Please note: Mr. Arnold highly recommends you consider
purchasing this title as an ebook. This will allow you to
immediately transfer your audio files to an MP3 player. MP3
player like an ipod are great tools for organizing various sets of
exercises and allow you to do your ear training anywhere which is
crucial to your fast development. Digital download customers
at Muse-eek.com get 3 downloads with every purchase. This
allows you to use one copy, archive another and leave one on our
server for safe keeping.
Get the digital download of this book HERE
Price: $39.99 with 4 CDs
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