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Solfege - Part 3
(28 May 03)
One Melody - Many Exercises
As a final exercise in this article we'll have a look at a melody and how it can be used to practice different scales.
Here's the melody. 8 bars, with a pickup bar, in D major.
First let's perform this one - establish the key, pick a tempo, count in and sing ...
I chose this melody as it covers the entire range of an octave, thus including all diatonic scale notes. Furthermore, the melody 'circles' around the 'anchors' of any scale, ie root and fifth.
All cool with singing the above D major example? Perfect, then let's move on and sing the same exercise in D harmonic minor (key changes to F - and the note c to c#). This looks like this:
Ok, how about D phrygian? Here we go (key changes to Bb major):
As obvious this seems it's a great way to learn the different characteristica and sound of scales. Furthermore, it's a great way to use any piece in different ways ... have you tried Jingle Bells in aeolian yet?
Finishing off
Ok, hope I gave you some more insight into Solfege and into how you can approach practicing it.
In the next part (Oh yeah!!! We're not done yet!) we will focus more on harmonic progressions.
Solfege Focus Group :-) ?
While writing this article I was thinking that if you are interested we could get together in the forums and post melodies or general exercises on a regular basis, which then can be used to practice Solfege. Let me know if this would be something you'd be interested participating in.
And finally ... what song is this?
Laters,
Guni
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Guni is one of the founding members of the iBreatheMusic Team. Read more about myself in the member spotlight, issue #6 of "The Pulse", iBreatheMusic's bi-weekly newsletter.
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