Oooo modal… it sounds so mysterious, so deep and so difficult. Like something you should really wait to learn until you’re way advanced, like a super-shredder metal guitarist or a jazz genius.
Even if you never take your modal improv beyond the white keys on the piano, there is so much to discover about how pitches relate to each other. So modal is nothing to fear – enjoy the infinite benefits to your ears, and to your new found ability to create meaningful new melodies.
You may already have a few good reasons for training your ears, or maybe you’ve just heard that “good musicians need to have a pair of good ears”. Ear training is about “musifying” yourself: really tuning your ears and brain for music.
If you’re looking for a new way to develop your ear for rhythm you may want to give grid notation a try! This valuable alternative representation of how rhythmic patterns are constructed will allow you to have a much better ability to recognise and understand the rhythms you hear.
Learning by Repetition: How Musicians Can Improve with Looping
🎶Looking for a fun and powerful way to improve your musicality? With new technology comes new ways to practice. Read on to learn about looping, and how to use this tool to guide your musical growth.
Learning by Repetition: How Musicians Can Improve with Looping
We all know that finding the tonic can help to understand a song. Is it any different finding the tonic in minor keys? We explore this topic.
One of the best ways to begin playing by ear is to play chord tones and find your way around the scale by targeting the chord tones through a given chord progression. But music is about Tension and Release. Release is an important aspect of music and life.
If you think about it for a while you would realise our world is full of tension and release. The following exercises explore the next step after learning to hit the chord tones.
://www.musical-u.com/learn/tension-release-bitter-sweet-relationships-chords-scales/
Want to learn to recognize intervals but don’t know how? We’ve got you covered with this easy 3 step process! Click the link and get started recognizing intervals today!
There are probably few things more painful to listen to than a singer who is out of tune. So what can you do if you have trouble singing in tune? Today we’ll look at 3 simple exercises you can use to refine your vocal pitch control and practice singing in tune.
“Is ear training even possible for me?” Perhaps you’ve asked yourself this question. And I certainly know that feeling. I can also tell you: Yes, you can do it. Let’s specifically discuss the question of interval ear training – but most of what we’ll be talking about applies more broadly to all areas of musicality training.
Unlocking Natural Musicality Through Music Therapy, with Kat Fulton (Interview)
Music is at the heart of our humanity. Whatever musicality you think you do or don’t possess, a steady driving rhythm or the moving melody of a favourite song have a power to move us, both literally and emotionally. But how do you tap into that musical power—particularly if you consider yourself “unmusical”? That’s the special skill of music therapists who use music and musical activities to help heal, teach and nurture people from every background and in a wide variety of circumstances.
We spoke to Kat Fulton, from Music Therapy Ed, a website that has now helped more than 3,000 music therapists to develop and extend their skills. We invited Kat to share some of her experience and insights on the world of music therapy, including: who becomes a music therapist, what kinds of situation can music therapy be useful in, and why is it that music has a power for therapy in the first place?
Unlocking Natural Musicality Through Music Therapy, with Kat Fulton (Interview)