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Hey, how you doing? Justin here.
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Welcome to aural training stage 3!
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Now, it's about to get
a little bit more difficult.
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I kind of warned you
at the end of last lesson,
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you need to make sure that
you've got those intervals,
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the 2nd, 4th and 5th,
really comfy
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before you get into these ones.
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These intervals are a little bit bigger.
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We're now checking out
the major 6th and the major 7th interval.
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Now, not only are they a bit bigger,
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but there's a lot less
songs with these intervals
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and they're a little harder to recognise.
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So it takes a bit more pracice.
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Now, if you haven't been doing so already,
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you really need to make sure that
you practice playing these intervals
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and, excuse me, if you can
sing along with them as well.
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There's something about singing
along with an interval
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that helps you internalise the sound of it.
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You know, puts the vibrations that are
involved kind of in your body.
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So it makes them easier to recognise.
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So, let's start off with
the major 6th interval.
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The major 6th interval sounds like this:
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. . .
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It's not many songs that
have this major 6th sound.
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The one that I think is probably
the most commonly known is My Way.
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[and now, the end is near,
and so I've reached]
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That part of the song is
jumping up a major 6th interval.
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. . .
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Play it a lot of times,
practice singing along.
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. . .
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Trying get that sound of
that interval into your head.
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Now, the other interval
we're looking up today
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(well actually we've got two more, one's
just so basic I kinda brush over it a lot)
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the major 7th interval:
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. . .
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Now, I don't even know of any songs
that start with the major 7th interval.
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It's kind of (plays),
it's a bit dissonant.
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. . .
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There's a few that kind of
drop down to of those.
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow
is the one that I always think of.
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[Some-where, ov-]
That's it, that's the maj7th interval.
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[Some-where]
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Now, that is the other interval
we're talking about today
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which is an octave.
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. . .
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It's actually the same note,
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it's going form C (plays) right the way
up to another C.
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All the way up the major scale.
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. . .
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Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do
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do-do
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It's going from do to do.
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That's called an octave.
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. . .
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Shouldn't have too much
trouble with that one.
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. . .
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Major 7th
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. . .
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is an octave (plays)
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and then it drops down a semitone (plays).
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But you can practice singing it as well.
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Just go: (sings).
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Again, it's a good thing.
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It takes a little bit more practice
to sing these bigger intervals.
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They're a little bit harder,
but don't, you know,
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just cause it's a little bit difficult
don't let it put you off.
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Just stick at it, takes a little bit
more practice - that's all.
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. . .
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Other songs that actually are slightly cooler
one than Somewhere Over The Rainbow
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is the Immigrant Song.
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. . .
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The Led Zeppelin.
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. . .
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There's the major 7th.
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It's going up an octave
then major 7th.
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. . .
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Not that many songs
that use this interval.
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So there are the ones to listen out for,
to get used to.
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In some way they're easy to recognise
because they're so big
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and because (plays) they're
kind of unique sounding.
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. . .
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For now.
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Later on we're going to start adding in
other intervals around them
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that kind of sound a bit similar.
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That gets a little bit tricky.
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So, the ones that you're
listening for now are:
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My Way - major 6th interval
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. . .
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We're after major 7th.
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. . .
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Also as well as having the Somewhere Over
The Rainbow and the Immigrants Song
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I always think it's kind of,
it's pulling up a bit.
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. . .
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So it's just going:
it's dragging up to the octave
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. . .
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See if you can kind of
feel that as you play it.
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Play it yourself
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. . .
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and feel that note, it's
kind of pulling you up there,
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. . .
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wants to resolve.
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The reason is cause it's
quite dissonant (plays).
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If you play those two notes together:
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. . .
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It's kind of, it's not out of tune,
it's dissonant (plays).
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close together (plays).
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That's the major 7th.
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. . .
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And the octave.
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Somewhere over the rainbow
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. . .
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Same note.
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Ok, let me show you
how to play these intervals first,
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of course if you practice playing them,
sing along and/or play them for your buddy
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and/or play them to make your
own kind of aural test as well.
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So let's get to a close up now
and have a look at that.
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Ok, so here's the first one,
this is the major 6th interval.
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. . .
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So this one's over two strings
and back one fret.
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That's the major 6th.
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. . .
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Now we want major 7th
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. . .
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which is two strings over
and one fret up.
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. . .
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And we've also need to know octave
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. . .
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which is two strings over,
two frets up.
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Also like a power chord (plays),
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if we played a regular power chord like that,
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that's where your little finger is,
it's on the octave.
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So the power chord is
a fifth and an octave.
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Ok, don't forget of course that
all of these intervals shapes
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are found on the cheat sheet on the web site,
so go and check that out.
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It's time for our aural test!
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So, we're going to be,
in the first test, looking at:
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major 6th, major 7th and ocatves only.
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There's going to be ten questions.
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Let's go!
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Each one is going to be played twice.
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Here we go!
First one:
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. . .
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And here's question 2:
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. . .
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Question 3:
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. . .
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Question 4:
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. . .
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Question 5:
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. . .
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Question 6:
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. . .
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Question 7:
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. . .
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Question 8:
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. . .
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Question 9:
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. . .
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Question 10:
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. . .
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Ok, you might want to go and
check your answers for that,
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make sure you're doin' okay,
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before we crack into 3B.
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We're now looking at:
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major 2nd, major 3rd,
perfect 4th, perfect 5th,
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major 6th and major 7th
and octave
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which is all the notes in the major scale.
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It's quite a lot.
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It's going to take a little bit of practice.
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Don't be too discouraged if you don't
get them all right straight away.
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Maybe you do, maybe you've got
natural gift for hearing this stuff -
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- excellent!
Really, really good!
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Some poeple get this real quick,
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some people fight with it a little while,
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but everyone gets it in the end,
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just takes a bit of practice.
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Ok, here we go for 3B!
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Question 1:
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Question 2:
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. . .
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Question 3:
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. . .
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Question 4:
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. . .
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Question 5:
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. . .
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Question 6:
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. . .
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Question 7:
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. . .
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Question 8:
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. . .
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Question 9:
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. . .
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And question 10:
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. . .
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Well, time to go and check your answers
now on the web site.
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Hope that you've done well with that.
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Couple of little other little hints
for you that you might find helpful.
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One: close your eyes.
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Generally, if you turn sight off,
hearing gets better.
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So if you're doing interval ear training
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generally looking around the room
is not such a great thing.
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You should just have your eyes closed.
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I find sometimes that if I'm doing
this kind of aural training
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that closing my eyes and
imagining like a guitar neck
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and trying to see where I put my
fingers to make that sound
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can be quite helpful.
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You shouldn't be using a guitar
for this kind of interval training,
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should just be using your ears.
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Using a guitar it's kind of cheating, you know,
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it makes it a little bit easier,
cause you can kind of go:
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. . .
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Oh, it's that one!
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You know, and that's not really the point.
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The point is to really
fine-tune your ears now.
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So, hopefully that was ok.
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That's a big step there,
to be able to do this level now
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where you can do
all of the notes in C.
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Make sure that you understand
where it come from and stuff,
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that it's the scale,
practice playing it.
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I can't recommend like...
now I'm going on about it a bit,
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but there's a couple of singing excercises
in the aural training section of my web site
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that really helpful for this
if you're struggling a bit.
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So, hope that was fun
and hope you'll join me for stage 4
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where we start looking at
intervals that are non-diatonic,
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that don't come from the major scale.
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See you again some time real soon.
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Bye-bye!