Our CONTEMPORARY EARTRAINING books and audio are used by thousands of musicians worldwide, and are recommended by the Berklee College of Music for all their new students. These products are available in downloadable (pdf/mp3) formats, as shown below. Be sure to check out the Ear Training Download Packages for the very best prices on these materials!

Ear Training is a vital skill for all instrumentalists, writers and arrangers, as it helps you "hear ahead" in your playing and writing, and transcribe the music that you hear. These courses were developed at the Grove School of Music, and use 'solfeg' syllables (DO-RE-MI etc) as a note-naming system.
Please watch the video on this page, where Mark Harrison explains more about our Ear Training products and how they can help you. A brief intro to the 'solfeg' system begins at 0:56 in the video. Then if you would like to focus on a particular volume in the series, the video start times for each book are: Level One 2:20, and Level Two 5:35.

Level One is ideal for beginners, and works on hearing and transcribing major scale resolutions, melodic and harmonic intervals, diatonic triads, simple chord progressions, bass lines, and melodic dictation.
Level Two then works on transcribing triad progressions (used in pop and rock styles), 'II-V-I'-style progressions (used in jazz styles), modal scales, key changes, and melodic and harmonic dictation.

All Contemporary Eartraining books and audio material created by Mark Harrison.