The Ears Have Walls

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The Ears Have Walls is a comprehensive approach to ear training that will greatly improve every player's grasp of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic concepts. Although geared to the jazz improviser, this book will prove beneficial to all types of players and all instruments. The varied examples in this book cover extensive musical vocabulary starting from simple diatonic melodies and chord progressions, working through modal, bop, and pentatonic ideas. Beginners to seasoned professionals will find that The Ears Have Walls can help them to become more fluent improvisers. The accompanying recordings offer hours of practice in hearing the chords, intervals, and progressions a contemporary jazz player needs to be familiar with. Brian Dickinson has used the ear training system detailed in this book over many years and it has proven to be very successful.

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