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Secondary Dominants: Direct Ear Training
Application
Complete Book with 84 MP3s
by Bruce Arnold
At it's heart this is an ear training exercise to improve
a students ability to apply the Melodic Minor Ascending Modes to
secondary dominants and other dominant functions. These
exercises help a student learn how they hear secondary dominants
and in turn develop an ability to improvise over these chords
and recognize their existence via their aural skills.
Ear Training is learned in one context at a time. If you spend
your time just doing one certain exercise you will find while
you gain ability with that specific exercise, you may not be
able apply it to "real" music situations. This is why
applying ear training to common chord progressions is one of the
most important things to do once you have a working knowledge of
how all 12 notes sound within a key center. This book
contains simple singing and improvisational workouts over
chordal jam tracks to put yourself inside these "real" musical
situations. They are a fun way to strengthen and test what
you are learning.
Secondary dominant harmony is one of the most commonly found
chordal movements in music; "I Got Rhythm" wouldn't exist
without it! Being able to hear these chords and how they
interact is crucial to playing and writing music.
Secondary Dominant harmony chord scales are most commonly
associated with the modes of Melodic Minor Ascending.
That's why this book concentrates on these 7 modes of Melodic
Minor Ascending.
Developing your ability to instantly recognize what you are
hearing in any given chord change is an important skill for any
improvising musician or budding composer. This book
presents you with chord progressions specifically chosen from my
30 years of teaching ear training because they are likely be
heard in one way. This of course won't be universal with
all students, but in my experience I have found that the
progressions I have provided tend to lead a student's ear in a
certain direction. Above all, first use "your" ear
to help you decide which scale to use and then tackle these
chords progressions accordingly.
91 page book and 84 MP3s are included in various styles such as
Rock, Funk and Reggae. The MP3s allow you to work on this
exercise in all 12 keys. Seven MP3 solos examples are also
included.
This is a large download 566 MB. Only recommended for
customers with Cable Modems or DSL internet service.
Price: $29.99
IBSN: 978-1-59489-734-4
Status:
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