mimicopy.com — Problems of Music Dictation — Home Getting jazz ears | Developing a vivid aural imagination The extent to which your aural imagination is developed, largely determines: the quality of lines you play, how you play those lines (articulation, swing feel, inflection), and the sound you play with. Nothing has such an impact on your playing than your aural imagination. If there were a secret to improvising, developing your aural imagination would be it. Ok, ok. When we go to improvise, we draw from a well of knowledge. The way we hear is the most neglected aspect of practicing improvisation. We all hear differently. Hear and sing intervalsHear and sing specific chord tones while a chord plays in the backgroundHear and sing the roots of a progressionHear a line from a recording and retain it. And the list goes on. Be excited. As you can see from the list above, good jazz ears are a lot more than simply being able to recognize intervals and chord qualities, although that is a small piece of the puzzle. Raising the volume in your head This exercise seems a bit out there, but try it.
Complete Palestrina Edition • Now Online! NTIL RECENTLY, I did not realize the complete works of GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (d. 1594) are available online. The edition is by Monsignor Francis Xavier Haberl (d. 1910), a student of Proske, and what he produced is nothing short of miraculous. Moreover, his modal sensitivity is not what we might expect from a 19th-century musician. 1 Some might not understand how to read the clefs used by Haberl—but all you have to do is click here. Credit for these marvelous scores belongs to several groups, especially the IMSLP website. But Palestrina wrote more than just Mass settings! Click here to download every piece Palestrina ever composed. THE TREASURES are beyond belief. By the way, the IMSLP website contains numerous authentic part books: We need to ask Nancho Alvarez, the indisputable master of Renaissance scores, to do for Palestrina what he’s done for Victoria, Guerrero, and Morales.
sonicFit Sight singing is the ability to sing musical notation without the aid of an instrument. Sight singing is often called by the name sight reading, and includes the ability to audiate the notation, that is, to hear it in one’s head. Sight reading sometimes refers to the ability to play music notation proficiently on an instrument upon seeing it for the first time without the need to practice it. Unfortunately, this other meaning includes no assumption of aural ability, as the skills required are knowing which keys need to be pressed or other physical processes executed. The meaning of "sight reading" is contextual- if you are referring to aural skills, musicianship, or ear training, then the meaning assumes full aural comprehension of the material. The advanced sight reading generator above produces melodies in several time signatures, clefs, modes (major and minor) and keys. Other exercises At SonicFit, we advocate the use of solfege for sight reading.
Jazz Ear Training - Master Your Intervals in 28 Days Being able to quickly hear, sing, and accurately identify intervals is essential to developing your improvisational ear. In this article, I’ve put together a plan for you to master your intervals in 28 days. For beginners, this will give you a much needed foundation. Getting acquainted with the intervals One of the best ways to get familiar with all of the intervals is to find a tune you already know that makes use of each one. Minor Second Ascending Gene Ammons on I remember You, Miles on Bye Bye Blackbird, & Sinatra on Nice Work If You Can Get It Minor Second Descending Miles plays Stella By Starlight, Sinatra sings The Lady Is a Tramp, and especially for Patrick Bateman we have Whitney Houston singing Joy to the World (sorry I just couldn’t help myself) Major Second Ascending I’m assuming you know Happy Birthday. Major Second Descending Miles on Freddie Freeloader Minor Third Ascending Parker on Confirmation Minor Third Descending Sinatra sings What Is This Thing Called Love? Octave Ascending
SweetVinyl™ introduces the SugarCube™ SC-1 - The first non-destructive, click & pop removal The SugarCube SC-1 and SC-2 are the first audiophile products to feature real-time, non-destructive, click & pop removal on any vinyl LP record. SweetVinyl's sophisticated algorithm is able to detect, isolate and remove only unwanted noise separate from the music. Previous demonstrations of the SugarCube's live removal of clicks & pops has garnered rave reviews from press and attendees at other events. The SugarCube SC-1 is a stand-alone component with RCA line-in and line-out and can easily integrate with other analog components. Real-Time, Non-Destructive Click & Pop Removal User controllable strength of Click & Pop removal setting Pushbutton audiophile-grade internal bypass iOS and Android mobile apps for controlling the device 192k/24 bit hi-res digital processing The SugarCube SC1 is planned to have a retail price of $1,500 dollars in the US market and will be available in the first quarter of 2017. For more information please contact: Dan Eakins at dan@sweetvinyl.com Related Links
John Murphy - ear training interview | IWasDoingAllRight Following is an interview I conducted with John Murphy, a professor in the jazz studies program at the University of North Texas (UNT). As you'll read below, the interview focuses on his thoughts about ear training and its role in jazz education at UNT. I really value John's insight and would like to thank him for his contribution to this website and, more importantly, to jazz education. Thanks, John! And now, on to the interview… Q: What classes do you teach at UNT? A: These are the courses I teach regularly: jazz aural fundamentals, undergrad and graduate jazz history, graduate jazz analysis and research methods, Jazz Repertory Ensemble. Q: Please tell us a little about the required ear training classes for undergraduate jazz studies majors at UNT. A: Two semesters of jazz theory, the second one integrated with playing; one semester each of aural fundamentals and keyboard. Q: Please tell us about the skills you cover in your "jazz aural fundamentals" class. A: Ear training is essential.
györgy ligeti’s artikulation (with score and audio) – The Hum Blog Score for György Ligeti’s Artikulation Following the inexplicable success of my piece focusing on Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise, I thought it might be nice to shine the light on another seminal work from the cannon of avant-garde gestures within Twentieth Century Classical Music – György Ligeti’s Artikulation. Ligeti will be familiar to most. With Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, he is one of the most most noted European composers of the Post-War period. His works are imbued with a sensitivity and emotion that I often find less present in his peers. At the time he composed Artikulation, Ligeti had been writing for years, but because most of his early works were lost when he left Hungary, its singularity within his body of work – being one of only a very small number of electronic works he composed, and the fact that it predates his seminal groundbreaking work Atmosphères from 1961, it is generally considered to be one of his “early-works”. Like this:
Top 10 Places to Download or Stream Movies For Free, Legally FREE! Ear Training Software · Joe Hubbard Bass Please follow these instructions to download the software:1. Click DOWNLOAD NOW 2. A window should appear that prompts you to either Open or Save the program; click “Save” 3. Another window should appear where you can assign where you want to save the file, for example: your Desktop; assign location where you want to save the file and then click “Save” 4. It comes in a Zip File called FET_Basic_Setup 5. System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7Minimum 64 MB of RAMMinimum 10 MB free disk spaceSoundcard or MIDI device This software is only available as a Microsoft Windows executable. If you have any further questions, please contact me at: heyjoe@joehubbardbass.com
The A=432 Hz Frequency: DNA Tuning and the Bastardization of Music Brendan D. Murphy, Guest GA=440Hz: Not Quite Music to My Ears Humankind is the largely unwitting victim of a frequency war on our consciousness that has been waged for decades, if not millennia. In modern history in particular, there has been what Dr. The American Federation of Musicians had already accepted the A440 as standard pitch in 1917, and the U.S. government followed suit in 1920. It is interesting, also, to note that in October 1953, despite the British and Nazi push for the arbitrary A=440 standard (which is “disharmonic” vis à vis the physico-acoustic laws of creation governing reality), a referendum of 23,000 French musicians voted overwhelmingly in favour of A=432Hz. “This [A=432 Hz] tuning was unanimously approved at the Congress of Italian musicians in 1881 and recommended by the physicists Joseph Sauveur and Felix Savart as well as by the Italian scientist Bartolomeo Grassi Landi.” The Vibration of Sound Note the visible light spectrum and colour wavelengths. References:
These are the sounds left behind when you compress a song to MP3 If you're listening to music right now, you can probably hear the vocalist's slight pitch-shifts, or hiss of a drummer's hi-hats, or the padded thump of a synth bed. But do you ever think about what you're not hearing? If you listen to MP3s, your music library lost some of its sonic weight during the audio compression process, but it's likely you'd never realize anything was missing. Now you will. In his project "The Ghost in the MP3," PhD student Ryan Maguire created a song made from the sounds lost when compressing Suzanne Vega's 1987 single "Tom's Diner." Over the past two decades, the MP3 has managed to become the default audio file format while still reducing the quality of sound files, however subtly. MP3 compression relies on "auditory masking" But even if the human ear can't recognize that certain sounds are missing from a Suzanne Vega hit, they are. And here they are compressed to the lowest MP3 bit rate of 8kbps:
SonicFit- Exercises for Ear Training and Aural Skills Ear Training and Aural Skills Exercises Ear training exercises help to develop a musicians aural skills and musicianship. For more on these terms, be sure to read the page Ear Training, Aural Skills and Musicianship. Through aural skills development, musicians are able to fully comprehend the music theory of the sounds that they hear. A well trained ear is able to write down music that is played, and can ‘hear’ written music without having to play it out loud. The lessons found under the lessons tab above offer a comprehensive curriculum for learning music fundamentals and theory, including the ear training necessary to grasp these concepts in the sound itself, not just in written form. Scale Degree Ear Training Scale Degree Ear Training develops a musician’s ability to know each note’s place relative to other notes in the scale employed. Scale Degree Ear Training is the cornerstone exercise of SonicFit. Musicians often use a mnemonic system to remember scale degrees of a scale. Modes 1.
How to Listen to Music: A Vintage Guide to the 7 Essential Skills by Maria Popova “Respond esthetically to all sounds, from the hum of the refrigerator motor or the paddling of oars on a lake, to the tones of a cello or muted trumpet.” Music has a powerful grip on our emotional brain. From the wonderful vintage book Music: Ways of Listening, originally published in 1982, comes this outline of the seven essential skills of perceptive listening, which author and composer Elliott Schwartz argues have been “dulled by our built-in twentieth-century habit of tuning out” and thus need to be actively developed. Develop your sensitivity to music. Music: Ways of Listening is to listening what Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book is to reading — a timeless, yet remarkably timely meditation of a skill-intensive art we all too frequently mistake for a talent or, worse yet, a static pre-wired capacity. Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. You can also become a one-time patron with a single donation in any amount: