Donovan Mixon: Performance Ear Training

Performance Ear Training is a growing series of Study Concepts based upon those found in the text 'Performance Ear Training' - published by Advance Music. 135 pages -  2 CD's [order no. 16301]

The Study Concepts, if practiced regularly, will help you to develop the ability to sing, play and hear melodies and chord changes with a heightened awareness. To accomplish this, I use the Movable DO System, because the solfege monsyllables automatically identify the notes and chords of a tune in relation to a key center. Through the various activities in this text you will sharpen your intellectual and physical sensibility to notes in relation to the key (horizontally) and in relation to the provided or implied harmony at the time of occurrence (vertically). 
I used the word physical because it is ideally a physical, innate response that we all want to develop and with which we want to function. The Sing-Then-Play concept is fundamentally based within this idea of a physical response [...]