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Solfège and Ear Training: Intermediate 101 (Major Blues)
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Solfège and Ear Training: Intermediate 101 (Major Blues)

Dive deeper into understanding your solos!
Created byJosh Cook
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand how to make a major pentatonic scale from a regular major scale
  • Learn how to turn a pentatonic scale into a blues scale
  • Understand the importance and function of a "blue note"
  • Gain confidence singing phrases from pentatonic and blues scales
  • Learn the fundamentals of gospel runs
  • Test your ears on ascending AND descending intervals
  • Revisit older chords and learn the new Major 6th chord

Course content

3 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 22m total length

  • Major Pentatonic/Blues Scale Construction4:40

    In this class we'll discuss how the major pentatonic scale is formed from a major scale, and how to then alter it into a blues scale.

  • Reviewing Intervals4:38

    In this class we will cover all of the intervals addressed up to this point and add our first two descending intervals: Major 2nd and Minor 2nd.

  • Learning Intervals2:45

    Now let's try adding some descending intervals. 
    Major 2nd and Minor 2nd

  • Identify Intervals8:38

    Now let's test your ability to identify the intervals covered so far.

  • Reviewing Chords1:51

    Now we can get reviewing the chords covered in the previous solfege courses to catch you back up to speed.

  • Major 6th Chords2:00

    It's time we add a new chord to your "Identify Chords" tests.  The Major 6th chord is a fun colorization to our more standard major chords.

  • Identify Chords5:44

    I'll play some chords, you guess their quality.  Simple...but not easy!

  • Sing Root of Chord7:08

    Singing the root of various types of chords helps us to have relative context when trying to identify what is happening within our melody/solfege.

  • Sing Note with Chord7:00

    Now that you can sing the root, let's expand into other notes that you can sing over the chords we've covered so far.

  • Identify Note with Chord6:14

    If you can sing it, you can hear it (hopefully)!
    Now I'll play some chords and then play a note over the chord.  Once you hear the two in context with one another you'll identify what note I'm playing, in relation to the chord.

Requirements

  • Completing all of the beginner solfege courses in this series is recommended before entering any of these intermediate level courses.

Description

Let's dive deeper into the exploration of solfège!

This course focuses on two scales that are very similar to one another, the major pentatonic and major blues scales.
While these scales may have less notes than a regular major scale, the forced leaps between some scale degrees actually make this scale a bit more challenging to navigate.  That's why I chose to start the intermediate level solfege courses from this point.


In this course you'll be taught:

- How the major pentatonic and blues scales are created
- New intervals: descending major 2nd and minor 2nd
- New chords (Major 6th chord)
- Singbacks within the major pentatonic and blues scales
- Various forms of ear tests within these scales


My hope is that this course will benefit the following musicians:


- Guitar, piano, horn players wanting to feel more confident within their soloing
- Singers looking to improve their theory for choir
- Singers wanting to get a grasp as to how vocal runs can be understood and sung with confidence
- Composers wanting to improve their understanding of melody writing
- Theorists wanting to improve their overall knowledge of solfège


So whether you already use these scales within your compositions/performances, or if you just want to get started with them, this course has something to offer everyone!  Is it the flashiest course I've created...no.  Is it one of the most fundamentally important, for sure.  To hear notes BEFORE you play them requires a deep understanding of theory and ear training, and that's what this course is meant to help you with.  Use this course as a springboard into harder scales and a deeper understanding of solfège.


Have fun with the material ahead and don't forget to apply the material to your own compositions, solos, and live performances.
I'll catch you in the first class!

Who this course is for:

  • Musicians looking to improve their ears
  • Singingers looking to gain context for their vocal runs
  • Choir singers looking to keep up with knowledge of solfege for tests/assignments
  • Soloists looking to better understand these popular scales
  • Theorists looking to gain more context of how these scales function and how they are applied

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