Beginning Ear Training Berklee Guide Play by Ear and Improve Musical Memory Ear Training Exercises for All Instruments Includes Online Audio with Solf

By Gilson Schachnik and Jonathan Feist

(Berklee Guide). 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876390815
• ISBN13: 9780876390818
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.0" x 11.7"