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 enlarge | Author: Bruce Arnold
Publisher: muse eek publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 291953
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: Book & CD
Number Of Items: 2
Pages: 102
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 189094419X
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9781890944193
ASIN: 189094419X
Publication Date: September 1, 1999
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Condition: Brand New Book!
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My Experience March 21, 2001
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
I recently purchased the Ear Training One Note Series and Fanatic's Guide by Mr. Arnold and thought I would share my experience. You can see my review of the Ear Training One Note Series under those book titles. First let's look at the positive things. I like the fact that this is a method and there are many levels and types of books in this series to help you develop at your own pace. I also like the fact that you can start with a level that is right for you and not have to purchase a book with a bunch of exercises that you already can do. But really the main thing that separates this method from any other method I read about or used is that you can contact the author through the muse-eek website if you don't understand something, need direction or just need encouragement. I had quite a few questions over the last couple of months and Mr. Arnold has responded with quite insightful responses. The author is obviously concerned for my development and helped me organize a way to work with this book and others in his series. My one main criticism of this book is that it's overwhelming. There are so many exercises and page after page of note combinations to sing that I was really confused where to start. Although for each exercise it was easy to understand what to do I just didn't know which one to do first and how to organize my practice time. I contacted Mr. Arnold about this and his explanation was that this book "is an overall encylopidia of exercises for students both beginning and advanced." Mr. Arnold directed me to the member's area of the Muse-eek website where book owners can download further information for free about this ear training method. There are lesson files for this book located there which for me really helped me organize my time and get on the road to improving. I think it's important to realize that this method of ear training is really quite different from other available methods. Mr. Arnold calls in "Contextual Ear Training" because you are always relating pitches to an underlying key or sense of key. I'm a giging musician and I've found that this type of ear training has really changed my perception over the last 6 months. Overall I have to say I'm happy with this book. For me being able to contact the author and all the help files on the publisher's website make this a great learning experience! I got the other members of my band working with this method too. In my band mate's humble opinion and mine, muse-eek has one of the best if not only distant learning place for music on the internet.
WHOA! December 1, 1999
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
Whoa, This book gives you many ways to develop your ear! The method presented in this book really shows you why just learning intervals isn't even close to the right development of your ear. I highly recommend this book
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