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above the staves as the chord in music song-books/folios published in those countries.ДЄside from (ra-)Re, the vowel alterations for flat & sharp are consistent.ДЇor minor keys, there are two systems - the tonic based on 'La' (relative minor) or the 'Do' tonic (parallel minor). 'Do' is also the name of the chord (they don't use 'C'). there's only three notes that are different than major)ДЇixed do is the system in southern/Mediterrean Europe - Italy, Greece, etc. I'll bet there's a really large percentage that can not sing a natural minor scale without using the instrument to prompt their ears. Train your ear/brain to be able to flip to switch (at will) between major and minor). Then go back an 'minor-ize' 'Three Blind Mice' and other major scale ditties. I just can't understand why so many 'students' are so averse to something which is proven to be so effective at training the ear (and also inputting theory at the same time). It's really no more complicated that learning to count to 10 in Spanish (or German, or French). Yeah, it'll sound like mumbo-jumbo at first, but your brain will begin to make sense of it on it's own. Walking basslines for simple or well-known songsДЄnd, work out the sol-feg lyrics yourself instead of just trying to find it on the internet to avoid to exercising your brain. And you'll notice that various pitch sequences (lyrics) keep occuring all over the place and from tune to tune. (The process will be easiest if you just use one or two particular keys - like D or G - on all the tunes. Work out the sol-feg lyrics and write them down on paper. Play it on your mandolin simultaneously if you need some sonic assistance to keep your voice on pitch. Sing it until you don't have to look at your 'lyric sheet' anymore. (*Do is used for the first note of the scale, no matter what in key you are actually playing/singing ). Just attach (movable do*) sol-feg syllables to a bunch of kindergarten songs that have been in your head for the past 15-50 years. |do do Ti-La-Ti do So So |do do Ti-La-Ti do So So Fa| Ten minutes three times a week seems like a reasonable investment of time to find out.

If you get into harmony singing with someone else, you may just forget about the mandolin. Since Joe Cocker & Bob Dylan, i don't give toot how well i sing, i just do it. It was probably relative, or in tune to itself, but im sure not concert A = 440hz.

I don't think i probably ever sung in key before i started playing. Like not knowing mixing blue & yellow to get green. Never equating a tune comes from a framework/scale/key, would be quite difficult. But playing tunes from notation, and never playing a scale. I think simply playing songs you know(or can sing), could be a path. If you can play from notation already, infusing a tune into your brain seems much harder. Doesn't matter which scale as the intervals are the important part in the beginning. Then i found a major scale on my fingerboard.

is constructing a model of a major scale. In my limited experience of Auralia that has been great too a lot more indepth and wide ranging than functional ear trainer as far as i can see but not free.ДЄll you need is a model of the intervals in your memory. I'm not a big fan of technology for the sake of it or being seen as a shortcut, but to me something like the functional ear trainer is what computers are great for - it's hard to get practice of recognising random tones because when you create them then you're obviously aware what note your playing, and there's only so much time that someone else will devote to playing notes / chords on a keyboard just so you can guess them.

I think there's no real substitution for playing music, but the functional ear trainer suggests you use it for 10 minutes 3 times a week, so unless you hardly have any practice time at all, it's not going to eat in to your playing time much, and if it even slightly increases your tonal perception in the hours when you are just at your instrument with the computer off then it's been worth it. So playing your mandolin is my suggestion, forget the software.

Functional ear trainer by miles.be software#

I have used ear training software while on airplanes and such. I don't know for sure, but I think playing is better ear training than messing with your computer.