(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best music techniques books

I guess you're smarter than all those academics who don't think Bach used equal temperament, or that it didn't become standard until the 20th century.

This book is justly called 'the world standard reference on historical keyboard tuning.' And it makes the argument, through exhaustive evidence, that equal temperament was not standard before the 20th century, and prior to that just another of many tuning systems.

The idea that Bach wrote the WTC in equal temperament, and that everyone after him used it, is an ahistorical idea that arose in the early 20th century. They thought 'well tempered' meant equal temperament, that the ability to play in all keys meant equal tempered, and that everyone emulated Bach. None of which was true; Bach fell into obscurity.

> Carl fisher the exercise book

I'm not familiar with that Guitar Grimore book.

If you want an exercise book "supplemental", you could look into these books:

https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Aerobics-One-lick-day-Maintaining/dp/1423414357/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_cp_0_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1423414357&pd_rd_r=ASP24YKJ6PF4T0ZBPQ14&pd_rd_w=YFFcO&pd_rd_wg=ghssC&psc=1&refRID=ASP24YKJ6PF4T0ZBPQ14

https://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Finger-Gym-Stamina-Coordination-Dexterity/dp/1910403717/ref=pd_sbs_14_6?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1910403717&pd_rd_r=RP5P3ED9YD4FNXQA9MG1&pd_rd_w=K0uvq&pd_rd_wg=Epzrf&psc=1&refRID=RP5P3ED9YD4FNXQA9MG1

Are you familiar with this book? http://www.amazon.com/Nashville-Number-System-Chas-Williams/dp/0963090674

> Bert Ligon also touches on that ear method in his "Jazz Theory Resources" which is a great book, but a little less general and definitely not specifically an ear text and really not even remotely for anyone who isn't already pretty knowledgeable.
> It was very validating for me reading some of his stuff about ear training because he has the same irritation with the wide spread approach of interval training that I have and for the same reasons. It's just out of touch with how we actually use ear training. But he's absolutely in the listening for tensions camp.

Are you familiar with this book and have any comments about it? After researching on Amazon, it appears to teach the "key center" approach to ear training you mentioned in your earlier post.

BTW, I researched a bit more about the book I had bought and its author, Steve Prosser was a jazz musician who was the head of the ear training department at Berklee. So although it's all about the intervallic ear training you criticized in your prior post, Prosser did intend for it to be used by Jazz musicians and musicians of other contemporary styles. That said, I am loath to commit the time to working through the program if it is going to be a waste of time. It's a textbook and working through it will take the equivalent of a semester's worth of time, I expect.