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How To Use Tension And Release In Your Melodies

April 23, 2007 By Graham English

Music, much like life, is fundamentally a swinging pendulum between tension and release. Fortunately, with music, this is easy to represent objectively and to utilize in your music composition. Taking a look at the C major scale, you can see that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: composing, composing strategies, consonance, counterpoint, dissonance, fundamentals, harmony, HowTo, improvisation, intervals, lessons, melody, music fundamentals, Music Theory, scales, soloing, stability and instability, tension and release, Writing Music

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 04-09-07

April 9, 2007 By Graham English

Topics covered: Singing what you hear, the body/mind connection in music, exercises to improve your musicianship, and more. Download: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 04-09-07 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast, Audio, Music Education Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, Ear Training, emotions, exercises, feel, hearing, intervals, mind, Music Theory, perfect pitch, relative pitch, singing

Why Singing What You Hear Is Important To Your Ear Training

November 9, 2006 By Graham English

Singing what you hear is an important part of improving your perception. Let's look at it from a body/mind perspective. Recognizing that C and F is a perfect fourth is a cognitive exercise. You have to think about it. Maybe only for a split-second, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, Ear Training, emotions, exercises, feel, hearing, intervals, mind, Music Theory, perfect pitch, relative pitch, singing

Define: Microtones

October 25, 2006 By Graham English

Division of the octave into intervals smaller than the half-tone, the smallest interval used within the tempered scale. Examples include Fokker's thirty-one-note organ, Partch's forty-three-note percussion instruments, etc. Microtonal music, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Adriaan Fokker, composing, definitions, half-tone, Harry Partch, intervals, microtonal music, microtones, octave, percussion, tempered scale

How To Hear Interval Quality Distinctions

May 8, 2006 By Graham English

If you can do a good job identifying your basic diatonic intervals (unison, major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th, perfect octave), the next logical step is to move on to hearing the distinctions between the different … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: distinctions, Ear Training, harmony, intervals, melody, relative pitch

The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 2: Tritones: The Devil’s interval

April 28, 2006 By Graham English

Tritones: The Devil's musical interval: If you look at the relative stability of each scale degree in Western harmony you'll see that the 4th and 7th are the most instable. In order of stability to instability it looks like this: 1, 5, 3, 6, 2, 4, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: AQAL, consciousness, culture, dissonance, golden mean, golden section, harmony, Integral, intervals, octave, phi, tritone, Western harmony

Free Online Relative Pitch Lesson

January 7, 2006 By Graham English

I just found a cool relative pitch lesson online. Songs to help you learn note intervals. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: intervals, music lessons, relative pitch

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