Music theory tutor solfege12/28/2023 ![]() What you want to know next is that every single tone I just finished naming can have a chord built upon it. Make sure to also memorize the major scale and minor scale formulas by saying them out loud. Ok, so that's just things to know, not memorize with the cards or anything like that. If you're into solfege, they also have these names: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti ![]() So,ġst Tonic (or Root), 2nd Supertonic (or Rising Tone), 3rd Mediant (or Major 3rd), 4th Subdominant (or the Fourth), 5th Dominant (or the Fifth), 6th Submediant (no one calls it that it's the Sixth), 7th Leading Tone! Meaning: there are 7 notes in the scale (8th note is the octave of the root, or the first) and every note has a degree value, and a name! You don't really have to know the names, but I think it helps to add character to the tones especially later when you're involved in chord progressions on a creative level. For minor, there is the minor scale formula (WHWWHWW) but you can also just think of it as starting on the sixth of the major scale. "Whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half." Whole means a whole step, and half means a half-step so go to a piano and start on any note and go up in this formula (half steps are notes RIGHT next to each other and whole means two half steps) and you will quickly see it plots out the very scales you've been spelling. All those scales you just memorized follow this: W W H W W W H. Ok, so after learning all the keys really, really well (HONESTLY, might take only a WEEK! (I taught my ex-gf back during lunches in senior year of high school and she learned it simply and not as a musician very easily indeed)) what you then want to do is start learning about the chords in the keys. Visualizing skills ftw! So see if you, too, can kill two birds with one stone with what have you. ![]() It also made me a better guitarist, obviously. As a guitarist, I can offer the advice that I managed to get through my AP Theory class and Theory II class in college as the fastest person in my class because I would imagine the voice-leading on my guitar's fretboard. The rote memory is awesome and it will make you speedy for any future applications of keys, applied to your instrument or any further theory studies like voice-leading or creating progressions. Remember, major and minor.įrom there, it may be a good idea to start applying this stuff to your instrument. ![]() You're basically just doing what you already did but putting the notes in alphabetical order. So again with the flashcards, and now the answer will be something like this: E Major: "E F# G# A B C# D# E." Boom, make your answers fast. Ok, so this next part you want to do until you become really speedy. So your answers for the flashcards will then be, B Major: "5 sharps! F#, C#, G#, D#, A#!" Another example: F minor: "4 flats! Bb, Eb, Ab, Db!" It will take you a very short amount of time to memorize this. I used acronyms back in high school: Fat Children Good Dinner Alway Eat Babies! (I used it for a while, too! Even though I don't recommend it since I included those bracketed words that don't follow the letters.) Backwards, for the use of flats, I always just thought of it as "bead-g.c." not that it means anything. Look at it for it bit, it's not hard to memorize. Look at the circle of fifths, which you may have heard of. Next, you want to be able to say exactly which sharps/flats are in each key. You can memorize it all in a day by rote memory. That's all you need for now! Begin by memorizing what major key has 3 flats, what minor key has 4 sharps, and so on! Start with a set of 5 cards only memorize those, throw in another few, etc. You can find images online if you don't want to make it by hand.) Include 2 of each, and distinguish half of the set with a simple star or 'min' or the word 'minor' or whatever, just so you know half of them are for major and the other half for minor. Now read on, and trust me.Ĭreate a set of flashcards including the key signatures of every key (easily created: basically staves depicting treble clefs (or bass clefs or whatever) and 1,2,3,4,5,6 flats, sharps, and of course no sharps or flats.
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