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Trenches FaLL Semester CLass VII ‘cuz it’s a JUNGLE out there!! Tom Brooks, Instructor GUERILLA EAR TRAINING Let’s get started! ‣Why is this So Important? ‣‘Perfect Pi tch‘ versus ‘Re lat i ve Pi tch’ ‣ GOOD NEWS! You alre ady know way more than you think! GUERILLA EAR TRAINING WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT?? >Because Music is SOUND - Ear Training lets you KNOW and instantly analyze what you are hearing >After you learn Ear Training you can... “Hear it once and PLAY IT- plus WRITE the CHART” >Learn this Vital Skill and you will become... a Better Player / a Faster Arranger / a Sharper Producer GUERILLA EAR TRAINING ‘Perfect Pitch’ versus ‘Relative Pitch’ PERFECT PITCH (Absolute Pitch) - >less than 0.01% of people have it >you either HAVE IT or you DON’T (nbd!) RELATIVE PITCH - >Everybody has it, in varying degrees... [that means YOU TOO!] >You can DEVELOP it and improve your Skill [...that’s what we’re doing today!] GOOD NEWS!! You already know WAY more than you think! If you can sing “Happy Birthday”, you’re already on your way - This Class will... Narrow it down - Start Simple - and Grow from there SO... Let’s N A R R O W I T D O W N ! ! ! ==> N a r r o w i t D o w n ==> 12 NOTES In Western Music there are only in an octave the same 12 notes repeat in the next octave MAJOR SCALE 95% of all pop music is built on the 7 the Major Scale only uses of the 12 notes ...and I GUARANTEE you already know these 7 notes SO...“Let’s start at the very beginning - a very good place to start...” GUERILLA EAR TRAINING We start our Training on the mountaintops of Austria with the Von Trapp children- “Do-Re-Mi” 1-2-3 A-B-C... Yes folks, it’s it’s ALL THE SAME!! FRAULINE MARIA! Ear Training is EASY It’s Only 7 NOTES!! 1-2-3 / do-re-mi / A-B-C /...it’s all the same 1-2-3 do-re-mi Scale Degree Key of C 1 do Tonic C 2 re Super-Tonic D 3 mi Mediant E 4 fa Sub-Dominant F 5 so Dominant G 6 la Sub-Mediant A 7 ti Leading Tone B “Do -Re -M i” . . .WHAT?? In “The Sound of Music” Rodgers & Hammerstein were te aching the Von Trapp children Ear Training The sys tem is calle d “SOLFEGE”; been around forever Each of the 7 NOTES in the scale has a syllable Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do (same as low Do) {used to be ‘UT’!} It is calle d a ‘Movable Do’ sys tem (Nashville Number System) SING IT! ...really fast, syllables LOUD, rush past the rest of it- a ‘C’ Major Scale is all White Notes on the keyboard 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Now just sing The First Three Do-Re-Mi = 1-2-3 = C-D-E ***Focus on the sound of each Note*** When I play a note, you SING which of the 3 it is - (Come on, only 3 options!!)