Ear Training For Singers And Songwriters Part 2

Develop your listening, singing and musicianship skills

What you'll learn

Improve your music listening skills as you work through and practice multiple exercises

Identify intervals within melodies, chords and chord progressions

Practice singing in harmony and improvising your own melodies in a fun, unique way

Practice reading exercises designed to teach you every key as you practice

Practice hearing and singing root notes within the chord structure

Learn chromatic solfege and how to use it to your advantage when harmonizing melodies

Practice different types of scales and modulating from one key to another

Practice reading in different time signatures and meters

Deepen your appreciation of music, and how you listen to and understand it

Break through any creative blocks as you practice with the exercises in different ways

Learn and practice tools for harmonizing phrases and melodies at sight

Requirements

This is a fast paced and challenging course! Some of the exercises will take practice, patience and repetition to process.

Students should have a working knowledge of notation, time signatures, rhythm, intervals and basic chords

If you have completed "Ear Training for Singers and Songwriters" part 1 with relative ease, you should be ready for this course

Description

This course is designed for students who have completed Sarah's beginner Ear Training course, or have a basic understanding of music theory, scales, chords, reading rhythms and intervals. In this course we will dive deeper into hearing, singing, harmony, playing major,  minor, diminished and augmented intervals, "listening low" for the bass line movement within simple chord progressions, and the intervals within chords. We will practice many different exercises designed to develop your memory for pitch, and through weekly, focused practice sessions students will begin to develop a sense of "relative" pitch. The Solfege system can be a wonderful tool when harmonizing melody and writing songs, and to aid in teaching and training the ear to hear patterns and discover which chords work and why. In this course we use moveable solfege to teach those patterns as this is very effective tool for eventually working on 4 part harmony. Sarah has composed and recorded multiple exercises at slow, medium and fast speeds, with and without guide notes, so that you can print out and follow the pdfs, listen to, practice and memorize patterns, and improve your listening skills at your leisure. The lessons can also be listened to on the go; while you commute, exercise, cook, and move through your day! The more you listen, the better your ear will become. Sarah is a published musician with piano repertoire books on Amazon. She has a masters in music, has taught for over twenty years, and her compositions and songs have been heard on TV and radio throughout South Africa and the US. She loves teaching people of all abilities, and believes in the power of music! Oh and in this course you'll be introduced to "Sarah Two" in a few videos. She will help you sing in harmony. PS Most of these lessons were written and recorded during 2020/2021 and Sarah didn't get out much! I hope you'll at least get a laugh from her antics.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 1B reviewing major scales, major and minor intervals and half steps

Lecture 3 1C - passing notes and neighboring notes

Lecture 4 lesson 2 - Interval warmup 1

Lecture 5 Interval Warmup 2

Lecture 6 4.1 and 4.2 - Chord and inversion warmup

Lecture 7 4.3 - Triad and inversion warmup

Lecture 8 5.1 - Chromatic Scale (training the ear for half steps)

Lecture 9 5.2 - Do ti do and singing harmony!

Lecture 10 5.3 - So and Fi - and 5 note major and 5 note minor

Lecture 11 5.4 - So fi so (and all the key signatures with sharps!)

Lecture 12 5.5 Do ti do and do te la (and key signatures with flats)

Lecture 13 Dominant 7 chords

Beginner to Intermediate students who wish to further their knowledge of music theory and harmony,Students who wish to sight read and understand music harmony better,Music teachers who are interested in teaching theory and ear training to their students,Students who are interested in preparing for AP music theory courses,Instrumentalists who wish to sing and harmonize better,Students who with to improvise with their voice or at the piano,Students interested in composing and arranging, or writing their own melodies and songs