BACK COVER

The purpose of this book is to improve your key retention.  Developing a strong sense of key makes many aspects of ear training easier.  The idea is to slowly wean you away from having to hear a drone as a key reference and have the key center become a natural part of the way you hear.  To do this you will work through a set of singing exercises where we slowly remove the drone until you can hear a cadence and then sing all the way through any exercise in this book by only getting a key reference to start.  There are 4 CDs that accompany this book.  These CDs slowly begin to interject silence while you continue to sing the exercise.  You could also just pause CD1 and replay the drone if you need to reinforce the key center.

This Ear Training method has been developed to teach you how to hear the way musical sounds are organized within a key. With proper practice you will be able to instantly recognize:

•   what notes other musicians are playing.
•   what key a chord progression is in.
•   what the notes in a given melody are.
•   what the sounds they are hearing in their mind are.

Muse Eek Publishing Company hosts an on-line resource in conjunction with this book. There is also a free “Member’s Section” where book owners can download other files specific to this method and/or other help files to further their music education.

Unlike traditional situations where the reader is left on their own after purchase of a text, Muse-Eek Publishing seeks to keep the reader/ student engaged and interactive with the author. With each book you are beginning a relationship in which help and direction are always available to make sure you are learning correctly.
This book is a required text at New York University and Princeton University, and is recommended for beginning music students ages 13 and up.University, and is recommended for beginning music students ages 13 and up.