ABSTRACT
This chapter will present some fundamental listening skills for the recordist. These skills will allow more advanced audio-related listening skills to be more readily understood and acquired, and will form the basis for many future exercises and skills. Some of this chapter's material may seem unusually detailed, may seem somehow irrelevant, might at first be extraordinarily difficult, or any number of other impressions might arise (perhaps even “this is easy”). Within these impressions the reader will need to begin their leap of faith, and dig into the materials, remembering that becoming confused is necessary for learning, acquiring new skills will require making some mistakes, and that by embracing not knowing, one can move toward knowing.
