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Advanced Levels 8–12 · 420 exercises

A Tonal Path, Volume 2

Play-by-ear exercises for musical memory.

These 420 advanced exercises extend the method through flat and sharp signatures before culminating in chromatic material. The melodic structures grow more complex as the tonal space expands.

Ebooks available in standard notation and guitar tablature. Paperback editions are forthcoming.

Cover of A Tonal Path, Volume 2

Contents and progression

Levels 8–10 introduce two semitones and work through flat and sharp signatures. Levels 11 and 12 add further semitones, culminating in twelve-tone material across a two-octave range. The guitar tab edition is transposed one octave lower for guitar.

How to use the book

The exercises remain short fragments of melody to hear and play back from memory. A teacher may play them directly. Independent learners can record the exercises first, then work from those recordings without looking at the page.

Editions

The standard notation and guitar tablature editions contain the same exercises. Choose the notation you read. All four ebooks in the series are available now.

Continue through the course

A Tonal Path, Volume 1 · Core Levels 1–7. You can also practise the exercises in the TonalPath app.