Developing Comprehensive Listening and Musical Literacy Skills
The Ear Training Basics for Piano series offers an exceptional, step-by-step curriculum designed to build pitch, rhythmic, and harmonic listening skills in developing pianists. Created by renowned music educator Julie Johnson, this progressively graded series serves as the perfect companion to her celebrated theory books, shifting abstract concepts off the written page and directly into the student's ear.
Spanning multiple levels, each volume guides students through a structured sequence of listening exercises explicitly tailored to keyboard geography. Students will learn to accurately identify intervals, chord qualities, scale patterns, and rhythmic groupings purely by ear. This comprehensive training is an indispensable asset for private piano studios, assisting students in developing a more natural sense of relative pitch, improved sight-reading instincts, and secure preparation for formal music certificate evaluations.
Key Features:
Keyboard-Focused Dictation: Directly correlates auditory training to the layout, intervals, and harmonic progressions unique to piano performance.
Progressive Skills Curriculum: Moves logically from simple pitch matching and rhythmic reproduction to complex multi-part dictation exercises.
Evaluation & Exam Preparation: Highly trusted by piano teachers nationwide to fully prepare students for standardized state ear training and listening assessments.
