Basic Piano Library Ear Training Books

Because Music is an aural art, the student's ear needs to develop simultaneously with their performance technical skills. As the student's listening capabilities grow, they are able to better evaluate and correct their own performance as they listen to themselves play.  

Correlating page-by-page with the Basic Piano Lesson Books, Alfred's Ear Training Books incorporate rhythmic, melodic and intervallic drills which specifically focus on the training and development of the ear. 

At each lesson, Carolyne will utilize the Ear Training Books, which include listening and writing activities, to teach the piano method's carefully chosen musical concepts. Your child - or you! - will learn to recognize notes, musical symbols, and rhythms - both aurally and visually - while each lesson is reinforced.

​Ear Training Complete 1 (1A and 1B Combined) Book

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Ear Training Book Complete 1 (1A/1B)   
This book is a compilation of Level 1A and Level 1B Ear Training Books.

Method Concepts
  • Melodic and harmonic intervals:
    2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • Legato
  • Staccato
  • Eighth notes and rests
  • Half steps and whole steps
  • Major scale
  • Tetrachords ​
         
64 pages
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Ear Training Complete Level 2 and 3 Combined Book

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
Ear Training Book Complete 2 & 3
This book is a compilation of Level 2 and Level 3 Ear Training​ Books.


​Method Concepts
  • Dotted half notes, dotted quarter notes
  • Melodic and harmonic intervals:
    6ths, 7ths and octaves
  • Triads, primary chords, blocked and broken chords​
  • 3/8 and 6/8 time signatures
  • Primary triads in Major and Minor keys
  • Major scales in contrary motion
  • Chromatic scale
  • Minor scale
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64 pages
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​Ear Training Book ​4

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
Ear Training Book 4
Method Concepts​
  • Eighth note triplets
  • Arpeggiated chords
  • First and second inversion triads in C
  • Triads in all positions
  • Major scales in parallel motion
  • Seventh chords and inversions
  • E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion
  • Primary chords in E minor
  • Sixteenth notes
  • Dotted eighth notes
  • Primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor​
  • Harmonic minor scales in parallel motion

48 pages
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​​Ear Training Book ​5

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Ear Training Book 5
Method Concepts​​
  • Ornaments:
    - long and short appoggiatura
    - trill and mordent
  • Arpeggios
  • A Major scale
  • Keys of B minor and C minor 
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40 pages
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​Ear Training Book ​6

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
Ear Training Book 6
Method Concepts​​
  • Diminished and augmented triads
  • Diminished seventh chord
  • Key of F-sharp Minor
  • E Major scale
  • Key of C-sharp minor
  • A-flat Major scale
  • Thirty-second notes
  • Dotted sixteenth notes

48 pages​

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