 Sean Dargie has been trying to figure out how music works since the first time he got in trouble for playing drums on pots and pans in the kitchen as a baby. Well, maybe he was just having fun, but the point is he is compulsively curious about how music works and how it has developed up till now. This monthly article will present his discoveries in music theory in such a way that everyone, no matter how advanced or amateur, will learn more about the tools of their craft.
Enjoy!
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Written by Sean Dargie
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
So I promised to delve into some ways to practice applying theory and solfege to your personal and ensemble practice, and that’s how I’ll present them. First, I feel that it’s important to share the philosophy that helped me to choose these exercises. In my experience, the more that an exercise demands your full concentration, the better it is. Repeating a simple pattern through various keys helps to warm up your voice, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that it helps your ear training. You perform what you practice and if your mind is elsewhere while regurgitating “do-re-mi-fa-sol-fa-mi-re-do-sol-do” then when you want to actively find sol in relation to mi then tough luck. I still sometimes have difficulty with basic multiplication because when I was in elementary school all we did was add numbers with the implication that they were multiplied sums. So you can bet that for at least five minutes every day I was thinking about video games while mindlessly repeating “5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30…”. So we’re going to avoid that here.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 September 2006 )
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