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Solfège and Ear Training: Intermediate 201 (Minor Blues)
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Solfège and Ear Training: Intermediate 201 (Minor Blues)

Riff with confidence!
Created byJosh Cook
Last updated 10/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand how to make a minor pentatonic scale from a regular minor 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 Minor 7th chord

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 28m total length

  • Minor Pentatonic/Blues Scale Construction5:11

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

  • Reviewing Intervals6:12

    In this class we will cover all of the intervals addressed up to this point and add our next two descending intervals: Major 3rd and Minor 3rd.

  • Learning Intervals4:27

    Now let's try adding some descending intervals. 
    Major 3rd and Minor 3rd

  • Identify Intervals7:58

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

  • Reviewing Chords2:49

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

  • Minor 7th Chords3:45

    It's time we add a new chord to your "Identify Chords" tests.  The Minor 7th chord is a fun colorization to our more standard minor chords.

  • Identify Chords5:37

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

  • Sing Root with Chord4:43

    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 Chord6:22

    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 Chord5:38

    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 minor pentatonic and minor blues scales.
While these scales may have less notes than a regular minor 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 with pentatonic and blues scales.


In this course you'll be taught:

- How the minor pentatonic and blues scales are created
- New intervals: descending major 3rd and minor 3rd
- New chords (Minor 7th chord)
- Singbacks within the minor 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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