Guerilla Ear Training - Tom Brooks Music

129 Pages·2012·14.57 MB·English

GUERILLA
EAR
TRAINING
Practical
Skills
for

Musicians
in
the
Trenches
FaLL Semester CLass VII ‘cuz it’s a JUNGLE out there!!
Tom Brooks, Instructor
GUERILLA
EAR
TRAINING
Let’s get started!
‣Why is this So Important?
‣‘Perfect Pi tch‘
versus
‘Re lat i ve Pi tch’
‣
GOOD NEWS!
You alre ady know
way more than you think!
GUERILLA EAR TRAINING
WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT??
>Because Music is SOUND - Ear Training lets you
KNOW and instantly analyze what you are hearing
>After you learn Ear Training you can...
“Hear it once and PLAY IT- plus WRITE the CHART”
>Learn this Vital Skill and you will become...
a Better Player / a Faster Arranger / a Sharper Producer
GUERILLA EAR
TRAINING
‘Perfect Pitch’ versus ‘Relative Pitch’
PERFECT PITCH (Absolute Pitch) -
>less than 0.01% of people have it
>you either HAVE IT or you DON’T (nbd!)

RELATIVE PITCH -
>Everybody has it, in varying degrees...
[that means YOU TOO!]
>You can DEVELOP it and improve your Skill
[...that’s what we’re doing today!]
GOOD NEWS!!
You already know WAY more than you think!
If you can sing “Happy Birthday”,
you’re already on your way -
This Class will...
Narrow it down - Start Simple - and Grow from there
SO... Let’s N A R R O W I T D O W N ! ! ! ==>
N a r r o w i t D o w n ==>
12 NOTES
In Western Music there are only in an octave
the same 12 notes repeat in the next octave
MAJOR SCALE
95% of all pop music is built on the
7
the Major Scale only uses of the 12 notes
...and I GUARANTEE you already know these 7 notes
SO...“Let’s start at the very beginning -
a very good place to start...”
GUERILLA
EAR
TRAINING
We start our Training on the
mountaintops of Austria
with the Von Trapp children-
“Do-Re-Mi” 1-2-3 A-B-C...
Yes folks, it’s
it’s ALL THE SAME!!
FRAULINE MARIA!
Ear Training is EASY
It’s Only 7 NOTES!!
1-2-3 / do-re-mi / A-B-C /...it’s all the same
1-2-3 do-re-mi Scale Degree Key of C
1 do Tonic C
2 re Super-Tonic D
3 mi Mediant E
4 fa Sub-Dominant F
5 so Dominant G
6 la Sub-Mediant A
7 ti Leading Tone B
“Do -Re -M i” . . .WHAT??
In “The Sound of Music” Rodgers & Hammerstein
were te aching the Von Trapp children Ear Training
The sys tem is calle d “SOLFEGE”;
been around forever
Each of the 7 NOTES in the scale has a syllable
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti-Do
(same as low Do)
{used to be ‘UT’!}
It is calle d a ‘Movable Do’ sys tem
(Nashville Number System)
SING IT!
...really fast, syllables LOUD, rush past the rest of it-
a ‘C’ Major Scale is
all White Notes
on the keyboard
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Now just sing The First Three
Do-Re-Mi = 1-2-3 = C-D-E
***Focus on the sound of each Note***
When I play a note, you SING which of the 3 it is -
(Come on, only 3 options!!)