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A New Approach to Ear Training : A Programmed Course in Melodic and Harmonic Dictation - Text

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Find another place to buy this book. It is a workbook, and the way it works is that you listen to short tracks on CD's and use the worksheets in the book to dictate what you hear. As a workbook and a method, it is fantastic. Just don't buy it at Amazon. Why?

This book is supposed to come with 4 (yes, FOUR) audio CDs. If you buy it here, you will get the book, but you will NOT get the CD's.

I ordered mine, paid $13 for express shipping so I could start working on it over the weekend. I am returning my copy to Amazon, and have ordered a copy with the CDs from my school's bookstore. It cost me about $30 more, but the book is useless without the audio.

It's hard to understand the lack of thinking that took place, wherever the decision was made to make this book available without the CDs- or, at least, to make it available without the CD's and NOT CLEARLY COMMUNICATE THAT THEY ARE ESSENTIAL AND NOT INCLUDED. It makes about as much sense as selling someone a car and shipping it to them without tires on the wheels.

The book did not come with the CD's which are necessary in using the book. When I searched for the book I typed "A New Approach to Ear Training with CD" and this one came up. I didn't imagine that the book would not come with the CDs when whole point of the book is to be used with the CD's. It would be useful if it was at least mentioned that the book does not come with the CD's so that people know what they are buying. I had to use it in school and need it the next day for an assignment. Because it came without the CD's I could not do the assignment and I had to buy it from another site. I hope you're happy Amazon for misleading people and causing them to miss assignments...