Scales! Yes!

So I just spent about 15 minutes working with the scale trainer on musictheory.net and I think the minor scales are finally clicking in my ear. At first the only one I could definitely identify was the harmonic minor, but once I slowed down and listened for the descending scale, I was easily able to distinguish between natural minor and melodic minor. I know, the 6th and 7th scale degrees will tell me, but something was not clicking before tonight. Happy sight-singing!

Solfege and the Pentatonic Scale

So continuing the work we did in class on Thursday, I have been working on my solfege (page 137 in the Krueger) with the pentatonic scale.  Do-re-do do -re-mi-re-do, etc. all the way up to fa. I've also been working on the arpeggios(do-mi-so-mi-do-so-do) I've practiced for about 20 minutes today. I'm not having much trouble at all with it. Next I'll practice the exercises in thirds(do-mi, re-fa, mi-so, so-mi, fa-re, mi-do). See everyone in class!

Music Theory [dot] net

So, tonight I went on to musictheory.net and played around with the interval trainer. . . for 45 minutes. It is seriously a lot of fun, especially if you have someone else guessing with you. I find I am really good at recognizing unisons and octaves(of course) and surprisingly at Minor 2nds, Perfect 4ths and Major 7ths. However, as hard as I tried, I never got a 6th correct. I always think it's minor when it's major, or vice versa. It is kind of discouraging when your score is like 41%(darn Tritones. . .)

See everyone in class. Happy sight-singing!

Blog is up and running!

Hey guys. I don't have much time to blog tonight, but I'm happy to report my blog is up and running.