5/20/2023 0 Comments Ear practice song![]() ![]() You can do this with any song you ever come across. Often, once you start transposing these songs, you’ll find some of the intervals in them more difficult and varied than you might have once thought.īelow you’ll find a list of songs that you might want to start with. It can be much more beneficial to take simple, mostly diatonic folk-type songs and get good good at transposing them before moving on to more difficult vocabulary. If the song is a slow one (and if you’re new to this, you should be doing any song slowly), then it can also be your warm-up for the day as well.Ī lot of students learning jazz are told to take specific licks or riffs that they like and then take them through the keys, but many of these riffs are quite complicated. It can also be a refreshing break from practicing scales. ![]() ![]() It’s an incredibly effective way of training your ear to hear intervals while gaining fluidity in different keys. Taking simple songs and playing them in all twelve keys is a great way of learning to identify and hear these relationships. No matter which note you start on, if you preserve the relationships found in a song, it’s still going to be the same song, even if the notes you play are completely different. One of the most important concepts that I try to have all my students understand is that any melody they hear, regardless of complexity, is not a set of notes, but instead a set of musical (or intervallic) relationships. ![]()
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