However, I have found sight singing very useful. TBH the mus-eek courses are untested with me - I don't feel I have yet improved enough or spent long enough with them to say if they are effective or not. One thing I found that helps my ear playing is to work on moveable do solfege - the mus-eek courses operate on this principle, and most people who are able sight sing use this approach (which is around 1000 years old, so pretty well tested!) All of your ideas and all of the ideas others are sharing are fantastic things to do! Anything that improves our ear will make us a better musician. I have some very lofty goals that are years away, but I know they're attainable based on what I've already seen happen since I started.Īnd that's why I say that working on our ear is the best way to fuel the growth of our musicianship. It's been a very interesting 2 years to see the changes take place. I call it energetic or emotional ear training, as opposed to relative or intervallic. I've been sort of combining all three of their systems and methods, plus mixing in a few things that I think were missing. But each of them has about as close to perfect pitch as anyone I've ever met who wasn't born with it. All 3 have different approaches, and one's not even a jazz guy.he's all classical. I start my masters program and was fortunate enough to meet 3 different guys who really opened my mind to a way of listening/ear training I hadn't considered before. Continued using and teaching it up until about 2 years ago. Studied it in high school and in undergrad while working on my music degree. I started doing intervalic (relative) ear training close to 20 years ago now. My goal is to get it so ingrained that I can hear a car horn and tell you what pitch it was.to be able to immediately perceive sounds in reference to C. I work in that key so much that some part of my brain just remembers its sound. I've been doing it for the last 2 years that way, and I've found that now I can just sing a perfectly in-tune C scale without needing an instrument to check my root note. Though, I almost always do this stuff in the key of C.I almost always do all my ear training in the key of C. I prefer that because then each solfeggi syllable always behaves the same, no matter what key. So it's confusing.Yeah I treat it as moveable Do.so whatever key center I'm working on, I generally let the Do apply to the root note of that context. I am getting confused, because over here in Latin America CDEFGABC is taught DOREMIFASOLLASIDO. One question, are you also using DO-RE-Mi (etc.) over D major for example? Cause it should be probably RE-MI-FA# (etc.) or are you using Do re mi just as parameters in any tonality? Then guitar playing becomes an extension of the music you hear and feel become a tool to express that music externally. But ultimately, it's just about learning to know what each note of the scale will sound like against the chord BEFORE you physically play it on the guitar. From there.you could sing patterns if you want. Once you can sing up and back one octave of the mode against the chord, try singing through the mode but always singing 'Do' (the root note) in between all the other notes.ĭo-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do.Do-Ti-La-So-Fa-Mi-Re-Doĭo-Re-Do-Mi-Do-Fa-Do-So-Do-La-Do-Ti-Do(lower octave)-Do(higher octave) If we can't sing the modes, chances are good we probably can't use them effectively when we play them because we probably don't truly know what each note sounds and feels like. I prefer to use the solfeggi syllables as I find it's more helpful. Play a CMaj7 chord on the guitar, and sing C Ionian.or C Lydian. One thing you might want to try, similar to what you're already doing, is to sing your modes. And there are soooo many ways to open our ears. That doesn't mean we can't become more proficient at playing guitar.but our ear training is one of the primary fuel sources to growing our musicianship.Īll the things you talked about sound great. I'd go so far as to say that if your ear is not improving.then you, as a musician, are not improving. Any further tips? Am I on a good way?Working on your ear in ANY way is massively helpful.
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