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88CET Ear Training CDs, Part 9

🔗mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

3/31/1998 6:53:17 AM
What's on my 88CET CDs?
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They have 66 groups of exercises. Here they are categorized by general
topic matter:

Transposition, Pseudokeys and Pseudokey Signatures:
- "Repeat after me the upward circle of fifths"
- "I'll list a note, and you tell me the notes one and two fifths
above it."
- "Repeat after me the pseudokey signatures of the various sharp-
based pseudokeys"
- "I'll list a pseudokey and you tell me the pseudokey signature."
- The analogous above four exercises for the downward circle of
fifths and flat-based pseudokey signatures.
- "Tell me the pseudokey signatures and then, one-by-one, the notes
of the ascending pseudodiatonic scales."
- Preview of singing 7:4 ratios (because 88CET pseudodiatonic scales
repeat in 7:4s). Listening exercise, then singing (with correct
note name).
- "Sing along with the following pseudodiatonic scales."

Interval-Hearing:
- "Minor wholetones." Listening, then singing.
- Subminor thirds: Pairs of naturals that are a subminor third
apart (once you memorize the naturals, it's easy to extrapolate
the sharps and flats).
- Subminor thirds: Listening, then singing them, ascending then
descending, with correct note name.
- Supramajor thirds: Usage in pseudodiatonic scale. Key indepen-
dent (by scale-step number), then by naturals. First repeating
them as stated on tape, then quizzing.
- Supramajor thirds: Listening, then singing them, ascending then
descending, with correct note name.
- Neutral thirds: Same as done with supramajor thirds.
- Operating within a pseudokey framework: "[an A sounds] This is
scale step 1. [tone changes to C] This interval is [pause for
answer] subminor, so this is step [pause for answer] 3." This
is repeated for other thirds within pseudokey framework,
occasionally injecting a note that does not fit within the
pseudokey.
- A brief stint with perfect fifths - a sing-along.

A Quick Break from Interval-Hearing:
- 7 general rules stated for memorization, and then a quiz about them.

Interval-Hearing Continued:
- Tritones: Same exercises as done above with supramajor thirds.
- Three exercises in distinguishing supramajor thirds, tritones and
minor sixths. (This is one of my weird, nonsensical hang-ups:
somehow I sometimes get these three intervals confused.)
- Listen to supramajor thirds.
- Listen to some minor sixths.
- Play various supramajor thirds, tritones, and minor sixths, and
I am to identify them. Occasionally inject a major sixth or
off-fourth interval.