A Remarkable Tool for Musicians of All Levels

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	• Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician Ron Gorow September Publishing, 1999 - 403 pages average customer review:based on 34 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

From a budding film composer

I am a physician/surgeon by current profession. But my hand to God, I have been preparing my whole adult life for my second career in music as a composer for film. The element that has always been most elusive to me has been the ability to manuscript straight from my head to the paper with a simple pencil. While I'm well adept at Finale, Digital Performer, and MIDI orchestral suites like East West Quantum Orchestral Library, etc. I have always been working at my ear to paper skills. Until I read Ron's book and "got it" I wasn't really quite sure what I was needing to accomplish. Now I know and I'm on my way more than ever to mastering the skill of going from imagination to the manuscript--skipping the usual play it at the piano first method. I'm excited. This isn't an easy venture...I know it wasn't for Ron Gorow either...he earned it when he was young and had the time to get really really good at it. He teaches this abstract skill with a method I've never had the priveledge to utilize. Now it is available to all musicians who understand that this skill will require practice practice practice. It may be innate for some, but for most it is not. Just read the book and do the exercises and you'll gain amazing skills without hardly any effort at all. I praise Ron for making this elusive ability to be a "Human Sequencer" a reality for all of us. Congratulations Ron.

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The Gold Standard

There is simply no other book that has as much practical information and insight--presented with as much understanding, kindness, and compassion for the trials of the struggling musician/arranger/composer--as does Ron's.

In the music business, he really has "been there, done that," and the joy of it is that he is sharing it all via this amazingly thorough and lucid volume. His work is my personal "Gold Standard" and I can't recommend it enough.

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A Remarkable Tool for Musicians of All Levels

Many thanks to Ron Gorow for this book. Whether you're a beginning musician or a professional composer, there's a lifetime's worth of information and practical tips and exercises in this book. I'm a music teacher, musician and amateur composer. Studying this book has provided me with a wealth of compositional tools for my own musical pursuits, and has inspired me to give greater emphasis to transcription and composition in the curriculum I teach to K-3 elementary school children. In this book you'll find the practical and usable stuff the standard methodology books leave out. You'll learn about the harmonic series, tonality and building blocks for composition and improvisation. You'll learn how to develop your listening and transcription skills in ways that are useful in any context or setting. You'll learn things about notation that nobody before Ron Gorow has taken the time to distill into a concise, compact and usable format. You'll discover that you can trancribe what you hear and compose without a piano(Gustav Mahler composed symphonies in remote wilderness areas with just paper and pen. Duke Ellington wrote "Mood Indigo" on a paer bag sitting in a taxicab). Ron Gorow helps to bring a world of practical musical possibilities within our grasp. You'll find basic building blocks as well as ear training exercises that challenge even the most advanced ears. This book is written by someone who's actually been there and done it. If you take the time to study this book you will be rewarded.

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just great

hearing and writing music is simply the best resorse i have ever seen in aiding the aural development of musicians .. a must have!!

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