Beginning Ear Training (Ear Training: Exercises) - Softcover

Schachnik, Gilson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876390815 ISBN 13: 9780876390818

Publisher: Berklee Press Publications, 2007

Synopsis

These time-tested exercises will help you to play by ear. This book with online audio recordings 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 a 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. Gilson Schachnik teaches ear training at Berklee College of Music. He is an active keyboardist, composer, and arranger, and has performed with Claudio Roditti, Mick Goodrick, Bill Pierce, and Antonio Sanchez. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

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Product Description

These time-tested exercises will help you to play by ear. This 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 transposemelodies to different keys. Learn to hear a 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, andthis book will help you to listen better.

Synopsis

These time tested exercises will help you play by ear. This 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 in different keys. Learn to hear a melody and then write it down. Develop your memory for melody and rhythms. Transcribe live performances and recordings. Listening is the most important skill in music and this book will help you listen better. Gilson Schachnik teaches ear training at Berklee College of Music. He is an active keyboardist, composer and arranger, and has performed with Claudio Roditti, Mick Goodrick, Bill Pierce and Antonie Sanchez.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876390815
• ISBN 13: 9780876390818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 53
• Editor: Feist Jonathan