Starts with one general exercice, where you are to engage your skill of focus and "active listening": ability to listen into all the parts of your choice, focus on one sound, imagine how to recreate that sound, instrumentation, how you would notate it, etc. Next, there are massive exercices on how to develop the skill of "transcription", which starts with the premise that this is simply the best way to really develop your ear and understand the music you love and then to compose without an instrument. The last "phrases" exercies are about you selecting any music recordings that you like and carefully analyzing with all the tools that you've learned the structure of the music (intervals, tonal center, modal/chromatic, harmonic implication, rhythm, visualization of the shape of the phrase, etc.). Next, to make it shorter he gives you little phrases written on a staff, where you need to hum or internally read starting from one note and finishing on that same tone, you can use there a tuning fork or other pitch source to verify that you've ended correctly the line, but the bulk is all by yourself. ![]() He really teaches to look smart INTO the music as it's happening, and not just what mode the whole piece is in (major, minor, etc.) Exercices where he teaches your brain to recognize what happens within diatonic, exotic, pentatonic & chromatic music, isolating patterns/groups of tones called "tetrachords" which, themselves teach you to recognize all the modes (major, minor, lydian, dorian, mixolydian, etc.) you possibly could encounter within a horizontal line or melody so that you develop again, flawless perception in hearing, writing or even playing musical statements anywhere you want, especially regarding tricky half-tones & whole tones hearing and writing within a line, because of their specific mode associated with. Then with all the intervals mastered within you, you progress towards "perception of the line, melody & phrases". ![]() Simultaneously parts of those exercices also ask you to start "naming" the note (5th, 7th minor, etc.) above or below the note you start with, so you become equipped when the "writing music" part, coming later in the future chapters. So you learn the intervals, their characteristics with tools to recognize with absolute precision, the tonality, span & resonance as you would with a color: those tools either simply involve small exercices: combinations of tones, or - you simply practicing in isolation one sound then ascending/descending to the interval distance you select, starting with the voice then gradually feeling the distance and the structure in the inside, etc. Your voice, again becomes a key tool for practicing that internal connection you need to have with music, but he also advises you to listen to sounds around you and coming to you out of the blue. This then becomes a pure starting point for the mastery of producing & recognizing intervals strictly from the inside. That perception of sound will be extremely helpful while developing your "relative pitch" skill, described here as way more relevant than perfect pitch. The goal there, is to create efficiency in the whole outward-inward connection you have with sound & music by helping you develop tonal memory. ![]() (In bed will do!) The 1st exercices ask you to start listening to a single tone in nature or environment and well concentrate on it so that you can either memorize it internally or match it with your voice. ![]() Basically the main philosophy is that YOU are the musical instrument, he trains you to think for yourself, again without a piano, or any other musical instrument for verification, that's what makes it abstract.His advice is to select a careful practice environment. There is a total of 140 exercices + lots of music examples which sync together to help you gradually develop absolute control you have over music "AROUND & WITHIN" your head, so. Well just reading, i just realized how tricky explaining the 1st part of your question was going to be, rather long answer, but i'll make it as clear as i can (check also Amazon reviews, which could probably do a good job for you):
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