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Ear Training, Capturing the Basic Chord Qualities: A Comprehensive Approach to the Systematic Study of Melodic and Harmonic Structures in Music

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I have only just received this item so the star rating is based purely on the fact of not wanting to sell it short - plus you seem to get a good hefty dose of CD drill material for your money.

This is primarily a warning for any eartraining relative- novices who have reached the level of being able to identify intervals etc. but are feeling there direct intuition/awareness of chords is lacking. The title of vol II might lead you can jump striaght in on vol III. Vol. III in fact does not really deal with learning to capture basic chord (triads) qualities in this sense at all - it is almost exclusively devoted to 7th and more extended/complex chords. The tempo at which arpeggiated chords are presented plus is such that only someone with quite an advanced ear would be able to follow. Block chord drills use almost exclusively 4 and more note chords that will leave you shaking your head if you are having trouble following simple chord progressions at present. Either this type of skill is developed vols. I, II or an alternative title would be required -I have not yet received I,II as yet as III was the first to come in the post, so I don't yet know the answer to that one.