Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three

Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three by Bruce Arnold

Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three

Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three concentrates on using contextual ear training with real Heavy Metal songs. Like the Rock Applied Ear Training Course many melodic riffs and odd chord movements can easily throw off your ear. That is why, even though you may not like a certain idiom, it is a good idea to do ear training in that style of music because each style presents its own peculiar idiomatic quarks. Heavy Metal actually is in some ways a close cousin to Jazz because it employs more unusual scales like Phrygian, Locrian, Symmetrical Diminished as well as odd melodic movements often using a tritone. This can definitely throw off your ear training and again points out the importance of the Practice Perfect Series of courses. Remember “context” is always “king.” You need to work with real music to find the situations that are challenging for your ear. You also need to do this in multiple idioms!

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What is Practice Perfect?

The Practice Perfect series of books provides multiple ways for a musician to hone their skills through exercises that teach using real time application within a music environment. That is, these exercises place a musician in a real live music situation simulating the contexts most associated with performance.

Two different types of exercises are included:

• Real music is played in the background as you are prompted to sing a specific pitch in the key center. You then hear the correct pitch sung by a soprano, alto or tenor voice.
• You hear a note sung by either a soprano, alto or tenor voice as the real music is played. You are given a few seconds to identify that note, then the correct note is spoken. There are three levels each giving you more notes to guess throughout the track.

Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three Improves Your Musicianship!

Volume Three of the Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training is a collection of 12 different Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks were you are prompted to sing a specific degree in the key center. Below are some characteristics that all these tracks include:

• Many of the Exercises in the Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks are in minor key centers. This will be of particular help to musicians that have problems with minor key centers. Some tracks also reference Locrian and other major modes.
• Most tracks are meant for a beginner who is having applying Contextual Ear Training to a Real Heavy Metal environment. Though there are a few tracks that are more for an intermediate to advanced student. See examples below:
• Most of these Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks are around 2-3 minutes in length.
• Each Real Heavy Metal Ear Training track has three different audio files. These tracks use either a soprano, alto or tenor voice which sings the answer.
• Most Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks having a moving melodic line in bass and guitar with occasional breaks using power chord progressions.
• Some Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks have moving fast moving power chords which are usually more difficult for beginners but are excellent for intermediate to advance ear training students.
• All Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks are stylistically related to the Heavy Metal idiom.

Preparing Yourself for Practice Perfect Applied Learning

Here are some ways to prepare yourself before beginning the exercises:

• If you play an instrument have the instrument at hand even if you don’t play it as you do these exercises. Just its tactile proximity will make you think of how an exercise relates to it.
• If you can play along with the audio tracks and also sing the notes when prompted will greatly increase the exercise’s effectiveness.
• If you can do the exercises in different environments it will help with cognitive learning:
  a. Try practicing in different rooms of your house.
  b. Try practicing these exercises with other musicians.
  c. Try practicing these exercises in front of other people.
  d. Try practicing these exercises at different times of the day.

Examples of the Audio Tracks

Keep in mind that each of the 10 tracks has three different audio files. One MP3s where a soprano voice singing the answer and two others with Alto and Tenor singing the answers. There are various examples of all three of these below:

Excerpts from Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three Singing Exercises:

• • Example One

• • Example Two

• • Example Three

• • Example Four

• • Example Five

• • Example Six

• • Example Seven

• • Example Eight

• • Example Nine

• • Example Ten

• • Example Eleven

• • Example Twelve

Examples of the Real Heavy Metal Ear Training Listening Tracks

Keep in mind that each of the 12 tracks has three different audio files. A Long, Medium and Short MP3 are included for each track. The speed at which you hear the notes to guess approximately double in tempo for each level. There are various examples of all three of these below:

Excerpts from Practice Perfect Applied Ear Training Volume Three Listening Exercises:

• • Example One Long

• • Example One Medium

• • Example One Short

• • Example Two Long

• • Example Two Medium

• • Example Two Short

• • Example Three Long

• • Example Three Medium

• • Example Three Short

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Additional Information

• Digital Edition 978-1-59489-397-1
• 3 page PDF giving ideas and suggestions for practice.
• 36 Singing MP3s
• 36 Listening MP3s

What people are saying:

I own Practice Perfect Volume One and Two. My favorite is the Real Heavy Metal Ear Training tracks because that is the type of music I play and listen to! Would appreciate if you make even more of these!! D. Niemann

The Real Heavy Metal Ear Training exercises are great because they get into scales that are not often found in rock such as Locrian. Being able to work with real music and improve my ear training skills is the only way you would get me to do this type of training. Really get into rock’n out with these tracks. E. Young

Well, why no one has done this before is beyond me. Having Real Heavy Metal Ear Training Tracks and all the other idioms that Bruce covers in his book really makes ear training fun but also points out where my issues are with various types of music and different types of chord progressions and melodies. U. Olsen

Thanks Bruce for this new Practice Perfect Series. It is really making me practice more, which is great! J. Tiegen