I recommend setting button labels into Movable Do La minor and singing the notes out loud.Īlso /u/DRL47 is entirely right and I want to piggy back on him. This is the sort of 5-10 minutes a day for months kind of project. I found its desktop predecessor very helpful in learning to play melodies by ear, if you're into that, so I've recommended this app to my friends previously. If you don't do ear training, I recommend you to start as well as you probably now gather that most music only uses a a subset of the 12 notes for the most part. Playing scales with both hands at the same time is a more advanced skill and most practical when formal music education or exams require it and if you do decide to master them, you can put your single hand skills in good use later. That way you need to think more and that's a desirable kind of challenge. You can generate a random note/scale with this, which I think is better than just following a pattern such as the circle of fifths. You can also play scales one hand at a time 4 octaves up and down with a metronome, starting much slower than you think you need. Learning the minor scales would be a good next step. Similarly I learnt key signatures simply by osmosis, flashcards would perhaps have been more efficient. ![]() I learnt my scales simply by playing actual music for years and then just got used to actual decent fingerings for each scale. So what you're going to do next depends wholly on your goals. Functional ear training is the key to understanding what you hear. ![]() If you think of function instead, then once you figure out the key of a piece, you can start finding each part separately, so if you make an error (or some parts are hard and you want to skip them), you can just continue from the next phrase and get back on track. Never saw any progress with just drilling intervals despite singing and playing quite a lot.Īnd also it's more useful when playing by ear: Relying on intervals is hard because then you need to get everything correct or your entire piece gets shifted and you won't realize where you made the mistake and why it sounds so wrong. To me it's so much easier that way, and I can actually see progress when training that. You could start singing your favourite tunes in movable do solfege, or use a training app such as Functional Ear Trainer for Android. Instead of learning to recognize an interval out of context, learn to recognize where individual notes fall relative to the key.
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