Ear Training: Volume I Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords

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Summary: The best way to start
Review: Elvo's new book is a must for all serious ear training students.
Mastering the six basic tetrachords and their permutations put students way ahead when it comes to melodic and harmonic dictation. I encourage all musicians to make this book part of their learning library. The CD's make it easy to use and work with every day.

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Summary: The Definitive Ear Training Book
Review: The study of ear training has always been an arduous and difficult task for musicians. There have been myriad of books wriiten on the subject, usually leaving the untrained with a feeling of emptiness, never fully attaining the intended goal of the author, that of training the ear to recognize certain chords, scales, modes, or various intervallic patterns. This has all changed with the arrival of Mr D'Amante's book, "Ear Training....Volume 1 Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords". I found this book engrossing from the begining to the end. The emphasis is on the practical fundamentals of the six basic tetrachords and how scales are derived and formed from this series of four-note patterns (which is what 'tetra' means). The understanding and memorization of the seven modal scales are easily recognized when application of the basic tetrachord is applied. The material is not only presented in a cogent manner, but it allows the student to also practice what he/she has absorbed by presenting drills after each lesson, using the two CD's that are provided with the manual. This has been an invaluable experience for me and I'm looking forward to purchasing the other volumes that Mr D'Amante has so kindly written. This book is a MUST for any serious minded musician. I wish this book had been available when I started composing and performing some twenty years ago. It collects and presents so much painfully acquired knowledge that it is a signal advance in the study of ear training.

Rating:
Summary: The Definitive Ear Training Book
Review: The study of ear training has always been an arduous and difficult task for musicians. There have been myriad of books wriiten on the subject, usually leaving the untrained with a feeling of emptiness, never fully attaining the intended goal of the author, that of training the ear to recognize certain chords, scales, modes, or various intervallic patterns. This has all changed with the arrival of Mr D'Amante's book, "Ear Training....Volume 1 Scale Forms through Six Basic Tetrachords". I found this book engrossing from the begining to the end. The emphasis is on the practical fundamentals of the six basic tetrachords and how scales are derived and formed from this series of four-note patterns (which is what 'tetra' means). The understanding and memorization of the seven modal scales are easily recognized when application of the basic tetrachord is applied. The material is not only presented in a cogent manner, but it allows the student to also practice what he/she has absorbed by presenting drills after each lesson, using the two CD's that are provided with the manual. This has been an invaluable experience for me and I'm looking forward to purchasing the other volumes that Mr D'Amante has so kindly written. This book is a MUST for any serious minded musician. I wish this book had been available when I started composing and performing some twenty years ago. It collects and presents so much painfully acquired knowledge that it is a signal advance in the study of ear training.