Baby Music Lessons: Drill 1 - ti do re

INTRODUCTION: This is the first drill in a series designed to teach beginners how to read music. By reading music, I mean the ability to mentally translate between written music and sounds without the use of an instrument. This skill is usually not taught until the first year of college, but, as the title suggests, I believe that it can be learned at the same time one learns to associate sounds to the letters of the alphabet. (I have not tested this yet and am interested in receiving feedback from you). I also believe that the ability to recognise musical tones will allow one to learn an instument faster and should therefore be learned first.

LESSON 1: (I will eventually have video instructions) Popular music and classical music written between 1600-1900 is based on being able to recognise the relationship between the note you are currently hearing and the key note, which is the most important and almost always the last note of a piece. In these drills do will be the key note. Think of this note as the goal of the melody. Re is the note just above do. Think of re as a sound that wants to fall back down to do. Ti is the note just below do. It wants to rise back up to do, the goal of the melody.

Sing along with the notes. You should eventually be able to sing them yourself with the volume turned off.

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