Good day to you. There, in my statement, "Life is best for me when I give my best," before this Blog post, I had also suggested, "Practice makes "Perfect?" I would like to adjust that statement and encourage that you reach to give yourself your best, in rehearsal, and giving. As you remember, practice makes permanent, please allow me to add, as a foundation, make "Music Intervals" permanent in your music studies.
Don't forget to stop at your local music store and pick up a 'chords and scale fingering chart,' and a metronome. It is important that you begin practicing with a finger pattern that facilitates smooth movement from one octave to the next. Review the metronome rehearsal technique I mentioned in my earlier post. It is a standard practice we will use throughout.
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Don't forget to stop at your local music store and pick up a 'chords and scale fingering chart,' and a metronome. It is important that you begin practicing with a finger pattern that facilitates smooth movement from one octave to the next. Review the metronome rehearsal technique I mentioned in my earlier post. It is a standard practice we will use throughout.Starting on "C," as the tonic, sing along with the interval name of each note. C is 1, D is 2, E is 3, F is 4, G is 5, A is 6, B is 7, and back to 1 as the octave C.
You will notice the chart also has the titles of the number positions related to the major, and chromatic scales. You may know it, please understand, some do not. Stay with me. You will go places musically that you never knew existed. I want to be sure to cover early music principles so that everyone, beginners and the experienced musician reach the goal of understanding, reading, writing, and recording music.
The video recording above has been prepared to accompany the chart. Listen to it with the intent to memorize the sounds in relationship to the distance from each other. We will use these intervals through the year in each study of scales, chords and song arrangements. As I say in the recording, "Listen to these notes. Get familiar with their sound." Compare them with interval moves in songs you are familiar with. Each note is valuable. Remember, rehearse, rehearse and rehearse more. Try them three or four times daily . This may be sufficient to familiarize yourself with the sound. Do what it takes to get the sound of the names and moves in your memory, and I will see you back here next week.
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1 comment:
Back to the basics and I love it. I went over the lessons vocally a couple of times at first but I'll follow up on my keyboard. Though I know all the intervals, I must admit I haven't been trained to NAME the intervals when I hear them. So this is great for me.
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