Ear Training Course for Guitar: Scales

Practice That and Become Great at Guitar Playing. A Music Lesson You Don’t Want to Miss (Ear Training Course for Guitar, Book 3)

By: Julia Whitlock

Narrated by: Sarah Duarte

Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Hi, fellow music lover! Congratulations on starting your music-making journey. I won't waste your time with a long introduction, but let me say a few words just to get us off on the right foot.

Ear training is one of the most rewarding skills you can develop, and it’s one that you can work on every day. Which makes total sense: Music is an aural experience, after all. Ear training helps you turn the music you hear into music you make on your guitar. This works for your own musical ideas, too. When you dream up a great riff or chord progression, you naturally want to sit down and play it right away. Ear training helps you do just that.

This lesson is broken into several chapters, each of them focusing on two or three related scales. There are plenty of examples for each scale, so you can work straight through the lesson or hop around as much as you like.

The last chapter is a sort of final exam. It brings together all the scales we’ve covered and mixes them up for an extra challenge. But you don't have to fear that chapter. Just give it a go every once in a while to measure your progress.

Best of all, this lesson doesn’t limit itself to dry theory: Every concept we discuss here is played on a real guitar by a real guitarist.

Oh, and before I forget, the most important tip of all - have fun!

What's inside:

• All commonly used scales, i.e., major, minor, dorian phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, and locrian covered
• Additionally, harmonic minor, melodic minor, major pentatonic, and minor pentatonic covered
• Real guitar recordings throughout
• Well-chosen scale comparisons, e.g., aeolian vs. dorian, major vs. mixolydian vs. lydian
• More than six hours of scale recognition
• Nice and encouraging female narrator

©2021 Julia Whitlock (P)2021 Julia Whitlock

I didn't use my credit this time. Well worth it!

I got myself this book, too, as I liked the others of this series. The book focuses on identifying all commonly used scales/modes. You should first have basic music theory and probably already have some basic ear training--enough to hear the difference between major and minor. A semester of music theory, for example, should be plenty.

Again, there are well-chosen scale comparisons in the book, e.g., major versus mixolydian versus lydian, aeolian versus dorian, or phrygian versus locrian. Plus, this time, all scales are not only played up and down. There are also short musical ideas played using each scale. I like that. Very practical!

I already knew from my music studies, but it certainly is helpful for others: Each scale is briefly introduced by the narrator. So you will know what exactly the difference between the scales is.

The final chapter mixes all scales up using both the pure scales and short melodies!

Conclusion

'Scales' is a well-done follow-up to 'Intervals' and 'Chords'. The three together have been a good refresher for my ears. I didn't use my credit this time. Well worth it!