Octave and UnisonYou learned about what is the octave in the previous lesson. Two sounds related to octave intervals are described as the same notes but at different levels. If the same two notes at the same level, it is unison. Please listen carefully the first movie, you can hear how the octaves and unisons sound like in it. Now watch and listen this movie carefully once. You can hear some octave patterns played by the piano, then repeated by the voice. At the second time, please try to repeat with this singing voice parts. In the next movie, please try to follow the directions to make your voice for the piano sound by unison or octave higher/lower from each sounds. It might be a bit tricky, go for it! Now you will recognize more about octaves in this song, let's enjoy singing! When you wish upon a star, Makes no difference who you are, Anything your heart desires, Will come to you. If your heart is in your dream, No request is too extreme, When you wish upon a star, As dreamers do. Fate is kind, She brings to those who love, The sweet fulfillment of, Their secret longing, Like a bolt out from the blue Fate steps in and sees you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true.
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OctaveThere are so many musical terms. Today you learn the word "octave". Technical terms are hard to understand sometimes, however, it must be very useful if you get known some of them. Now please take a look this movie. You will have some solfege training in the next lesson, however, today you can just enjoy singing this lovely melody... I am sure it is familiar to you! Just one thing... please try to pay attention to the parts of lyrics written by the yellow letters in the movie (bold letters on the lyrics below). All of them are actually "octaves". *"When you wish upon a star" got popular with the classic Disney movie "Pinocchio". Please go to this link If you wouldn't recognize this melody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKh6XxYbbIc When you wish upon a star, Makes no difference who you are, Anything your heart desires, Will come to you. If your heart is in your dream, No request is too extreme, When you wish upon a star, As dreamers do. Fate is kind, She brings to those who love, The sweet fulfillment of, Their secret longing, Like a bolt out from the blue Fate steps in and sees you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true. Answer to the quiz
Let's get started with the review of previous lessons about the music in major and minor. Now you got the answer in this movie, please listen, you could find it is very sure as the melody played with harmonies at the second time.
Now you try to play this melody on the xylophone. You need different keys from the one you had in the Lesson 7 even both are in major.
It is going with the order of the keys below, C means C on the very right side which colored by red in this case. AGFG AAA_ GGG_ ACC_ AGFG AAAA GGAG F_
Thinking of the beginning part of this song, you can make sometimes major and sometimes minor if you take the three keys in a row on this virtual xylophone, however, you will also know it doesn't work sometimes (like G-F-E-F-G-G-G). it doesn't sound like major nor minor.
Does all the music belong to one of the major or minor?
However, not the all the music belong to one of the major or minor. Please listen to these movies, how do you feel?
What will happen when you use the other combinations of the keys to play?
You played a melody in major in the previous lesson, and remember you started at the key of E.
What will happen if you start at F instead? The order of the keys is like below; FEDE FFF_ EEE_ FAA_ FEDE FFFF EEFE D_
I believe you feel the difference between the melodies in major and minor now more than before.
Of course, expressions of the music are complicatedly connected not only by major or minor but also the pitch, tempo (speed of the music), tone, dynamics, rhythm, and many more kinds of musical elements. Quiz
You can hear the ”Mary had a little lamb" melody in the different pitch. Is this in major or minor?
Let's play a melody in major key
You have learned about the music in major and minor in the previous lesson. Today, let's try to play the melody of the "Mary had a little lamb" song in major. You have a virtual xylophone below.
Now, you can see the other kind of names of the notes written by alphabets on this movie and the virtual xylophone. Names of the notes in the Alphabet is what musicians call musical notation or ABC notation. These are the common letter names for specific note frequencies and where they fit on the staff. Do re mi are solfege notes which help train ears to better hear pitch relationships and intervals. In case if you are familiar to use Do Re Mi, just convert like below so far; Do=C, Re=D, Mi=E, Fa=F, So(Sol)=G, La=A, Ti(Si)=B
*C means the C on the left side colored by violet for this song.
What is major and minor in music?In western music, you often recognize there are two different kinds of music like you can hear in the following movies. The first music is "major" and the second one is "minor". How can you describe each of major an d minor music? Review of the previous lessonYou had rhythm training in the previous lesson, please try this once again. This is a preparation for moving on to the next step. As you know, it is getting faster little by little in this music (you can make sure with the "line rider" video in lesson 4). Now, can you make your handclapping faster? Let's try!
Did you make them all?
So, please go back to the previous lesson and try to clap your hands with the "line rider" movie. Have fun and Happy Halloween! Feel like Halloween?This is "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Let's enjoy listening to music at first! Rhythm trainingIn this video, you can hear the main melody in the music of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" played by the sound of the bassoon. Please try to catch up the rhythm with hand clapping. Please try to memorize this rhythm pattern, and this song will be continued in the next lesson!
La Ti Do Re Mi
PracticeThis is a melody from one of the very famous singing training book "Fifty Lessons for the Voice" by Giuseppe Concone. It is not so easy, so you will have this melody sometimes in our E-learning classes. Listen to the first movie and then go to the second one. You can practice tis melody phrase by phrase with that. You don't have to care about the "Do-Re-Mi" so far, Just try to sing with "la-la-la" or any kind of vowels. Could you recognize this melody is starting with Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So, then move up to La-Ti-Do-Re-Mi? How it follows Do Re Mi Fa So?You have learned "Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So" in the previous lesson, and I know so many people know about how it follows So... it is like this; Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do. Some of you would feel this scale is too simple, however, you can enjoy this with nice harmonies, please try to hum or sing in Do-Re-Mi with this movie. You will hear the first note (Do) at first, and then you can start singing after 4 beats. Ti or Si?I am wondering if some of you might have a question about how you call the name of the notes like Ti or Si. Both Ti and Si are correct. I know some of the people prefer to say "Sol" instead of "So" (actually I do!), and this is also correct. I need so many lines to explain why these are all correct, it would a kind of complicated... in the future, you could have some opportunities to learn about it, however, you can choose your preferred one for now. Fun Music! |
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