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(More customer reviews)I can't say enough good things about this book.
It is a comprehensive ear training program designed for jazz musicians and includes a CD full of exercises from the text. It covers all the important scales, chords and progressions found in jazz.
In addition to the standard ear training topics (solfege, intervals, arpeggios, inversions, etc) it also helps you to identify the chords and scales that are important in jazz rather than just the ones more relevant to classical music. Another great feature of this book is that it provides a detailed study of jazz rhythms and articulation, providing a sort of scat vocabulary to use which is far better than the more conventional ways of counting. It even provides ways of articulating some of the special effects like doits and shakes.
Traditional ear training books are often quite dry and uninteresting to work through. This book is actually fun. It is clearly written and very much focussed on jazz melodies.
Ear training is definitely benficial. With enough practice, it will allow you to look at a piece of music and hear it playing in your head. Conversely, if you hear a piece of music, you will recognise what is going on in the tune. If you are able to accurately pre-hear a piece of written music, you are less likely to make mistakes like cracked notes, it will work wonders for your transcribing, and if you are an improviser, it will help you to accurately transfer the melodies you hear in your head to your instrument.
This book really works.
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Improving "aural skills" consists of learning to discriminate one sound or group of sounds from another. This book addresses rhythmic articulations and syllables, intervals, chord patterns, chord/scales, hearing melodies, and guide-tone lines. The book is divided into two levels of difficulty for advancing students.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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