Practice & Musicianship
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Recommended Practice for your ABRSM sight-reading test
Remember when you have to look for good sight-reading examples at your level to improve your sight-reading? Pieces that fit your instrument’s range in different key signatures, time signatures, with different rhythms, syncopations or subdivisions, etc. … and how hard it… Read article →
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The major scale in depth
The Major Scale is one of the most-often-used scales. We will take a look at this scale and its modes using Tessitura Pro by mDecks Music If you rather watch a video here’s the entire explanation in our YouTube channel… Read article →
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Blame It On My Youth play-along (created using Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro)
source: http://mdecks.com/mapharmony.phtml This play-along was created using the smart player on Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro 6.7 for iPad & iPad Pro In this video we are showing Chord-Scales with Functional Notation. Do you want to practice “Blame It On My… Read article →
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Every time you hear or play a note you need to know/feel where that pitch lies relatively to the current key/mode or pole to understand what’s going on and where it wants to go next. I teach all my students… Read article →
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Why is the smallest 2nd, that can be written, negative?
If we are to write two notes a 2nd apart, we need to use 2 consecutive letters of the alphabet (such as AtoB or EtoF) or GtoA (note names repeat after G) The smallest 2nds are then B-C and E-F,… Read article →
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Talking Intervals: Why is 2+2=3 ?
An interval of a second (2nd) is the distance between 2 notes which names are in alphabetical order (A-B, B-C, C-D, D-E, E-F, F-G) and G-A, regardless of their alteration (sharp, natural or flat). If the distance between the two… Read article →
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