gridjam

Westview! sorry, I blew you off. Make your own drones. Record them on piano, have a guitar player play some for you, use a keyboard, use your computor, whatever... I got into it using Walter Whites' cd. It's a great disc and is fab for the chops. I just got a great idea for my site from this topic so keep in touch.

kctrump

Everyone,

Thanks for all the advice. I've already started applying some advice. Ingrid has great advice about using the Drones. I'm going to pick up the White CD! Or maybe wait until I see Ingrid's website changes. !^)

It was mentioned to associate certain intervals to specific songs. A while back, I ran across a whole list of songs and related intervals. Do you think I can find it now? If anyone knows where I can find another list it would be greatly appreciated, or help me fill in the blanks.

Example
minor 2nd =
Major 2nd = Happy Birthday
minor 3rd =
Major 3rd =
Perfect 4th = Here comes the bride
Tritone =
Perfect 5th =
minor 6th = The NBC Jingle
Major 6th =
minor 7th =
Major 7th =
Octave = Somewhere over the rainbow

Ingrid, I made the assumption these intervals are moving up the scale. They are much more difficult moving down. I better slow down and eat this elephant one bit at a time or I may choke.

It looks like I am approaching this lesson horizontally. When it may make more sense to approach it vertically, by hearing how the notes lay on each other instead of "next to" each other.

pipedope

There is a really nice chart of intervals in familar music in the free "Jazz Handbook" from Jamey Aebersold.
Look on Jamey Aebersold Jazz, Inc.

I bought "Volume 1, How to Play Jazz and Improvise" and with it came a catalog (TONS of stuff available) and the "Jazz Handbook" that is 56 pages of pure gold.
It also lists descending intervals.

dow30

kctrump,

There is a handy, free, solfege program you can download and install on your computer that might be of some help.

GNU Solfege - free ear training software | Main / GNU Solfege - Smarten your ears

gridjam

Will check out the gnu solfege when I get a moment...quite the list of things on my plate right now. Hey, beautiful horse picture.!
So I made a list that might be even more practical than the 'classic' interval-tune reference list we have learned over the years,
(Happy Birthday,etc)...
Hope it will inspire folks to learn more tunes and to think of ones that might get forgotten as the generations move along. Please send in your first 5 if you feel like it. That way I can steal from all of you.

Ingrid's first five tune choices for interval development (I often end up practicing the whole tune once I get started and playing them in random keys as well)

1. 1/2 step melodies: What's New, The song is you ,Caravan, Invitation, STELLA! so many more, I know.

More to come... I am chosing tunes that start with the interval that is to be focused on more deeply. This is a good source to tap into as far as developing melodic material goes.

gridjam

Ooops, forgot to say...feel free to include accessable classical, folk, country,etc songs as this is about developing a strong melodic foundation that will only help when improvising.

Adam Smith

When I started sight singing every day, Intervals became a lot easier to hear.

thomashooten

What about Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net?
There's a pretty cool eartraining ex. on there
Nice posts!

Tom

BergeronWannabe

Wow, what a cool program! Thanks-
Andrew

talcito

Chase Sanborn has a great new book and CD "Tuning Tactics". The CD is all about "Drones". I have found practicing with the drones to be a liberating experience. After a while you start to feel like there are no wrong notes.....just different relationships. Great , great material.