Aural Theory : 9/18

  • Find the Note -  Class Activity 
    • Find the Note Part 2 - 2 Notes
  • What is an "interval"
  • Rhythm Review 
  • Homework 

Find the Note 

For the Tones below, Match the pitch with an instrument and tell me the Note Name .  Refer to the Steps from last class.  you may also find it easier to use this Online Keyboard (The Note Name will pop up when you press the keys ) .


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Questions : 
  • Which ones were most Difficult ? Which were Easy ? 
    Any thoughts on what makes these difficult vs. easy to hear ?  
    (If they are all hard, or all easy, that's ok !)
  • If you are consistently missing them -  look at how far you missed them by.  Are you consistently above the original pitch ? Or usually below ? are you missing them by a consistent distance ? (i.e. you always seem to be 5 keys above the right answer)

Find the Note - Part 2 

Same Exercise - However - Now we will have 2 Notes to find.  They will sound one after the other at first. 

***** Listen to the notes and see if you can imagine how far apart the sound / look on the keyboard. Do you think there is a BIG space in between them, or are the pretty tight together ?  Remember how the sound waves clash - if these notes were sounding together would there be a clash, or would it sound OK ? ****
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OK - So - Now we have two notes sounding one after the other.  The space between those notes is called an Interval . 

​Intervals are VERY IMPORTANT in harmony -  Think of a Chord (3 notes stacked together),  this is really just 2 intervals put together sounding simultaneously , right ? 

Find the Interval -  Class Activity 

For the Following Intervals - tell me How many half steps away the notes are. 
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