Kid Ear Training Book

Kid Ear Training Book

Q: Could you tell me what you have available for a kid ear training book or course. I want to get my son started with learning music. He is 6 years old

A: We just released a book called Ear Training for Children and Others Young at Heart: Aunt Rhody and I think this would be perfect for your son.

• The Children Ear Training courses features a different traditional song. This is excellent for children because it teaches not only good ear training skills but also helps develop letter and number cognition as well as relating letters and numbers as symbols to make statements about things. This is exactly what you do when you learn algebra. Prepare you child so that they see the usefulness of advance mathematics because they already know how it relates to music.
• Children are learning machines. They can pick up just about anything if they start early enough. From the moment they can hear sounds even in the womb! They are learning. So here is a course to teach those very young ears how to hear and understand music in a fun, simple way. And while I was putting it together I also realized that there are quite a few adults out there who have issues with ear training, that this series could really help.
• This book uses a traditional song “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” a simple song with the same melody for both the verse and the chorus is used. This song will be performed in the key of C Major. It contains only five notes: C, D, E, F and G. The three main components to the audio tracks are: Melody sung by voice, Bass played by Electric Bass or voice and Drums. Since students may have different issues with singing this song, many different combinations of the three main components are presented. In order to ingrain a deeper understanding of the melody it will be sung using degrees, note names and solfège. This will instill a natural cognitive recognition of which notes are being sung. By working through a series of tunes in this way one can instantly know when hearing a melody which notes are being sung in relationship to a key center.

I think this will perfect as a Kid Ear Training Book so check out Ear Training for Children and Others Young at Heart: Aunt Rhody

It is also recommended that you read Bruce Arnold’s Blog at his artist site. It contains more discussion of the musical topics found in these FAQs as well as other subjects of interest. You will also find the “Music Education Genealogy Chart” located here which shows you the historic significance of the music education products found on the Muse Eek Publishing Company Website.

Kid Ear Training Book