Tuning Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Half step intervals We have been doing some exercises where we split a half-step into 16 parts, which is quite difficult to do correctly, but is a nice exercise. During the exercise, pretty much all of us realize the note needs to change and we make a jump in pitch rather than making one of the 16 steps. So, what does it really sound like if you split a half-step into 16 parts? Wouldn't it be helpful to hear what it's supposed to sound like? Well through the miracle of digital audio, I made some examples.First, I think its easier to hear if we split the half-step into four notes rather than 16. I can almost do that correctly without any digital help. Here is a piano with the pitches adjusted between A and Bb. The first note is A, the next four are fractions of a half-step, and then the fifth note is the Bb. Here are the same notes where I am singing them with an "Ah": Here is a similar exercise where the changing notes are couched between the beginning (A) and the ending (Bb) notes, to give more of a relative position of the smaller step. So on the first one the notes are A-A-Bb, and the last one is A-Bb-Bb, and for the ones in between the middle notes are adjusted incrementally. Here is the same thing with the notes split into 8 parts. And, here is the same thing with the notes split into 16 parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A tuning exercise This is a tuning exercise from Joel Liles. If you have ever taken his "Tune it or die" class at Harmony University, you can hear him say when the class gets close to making the key change "Well, you scared it, but that wasn't quite close enough. Let's try it again". Mee Ay Ya - Of course this one is in tune. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chromatic "Mary had a little lamb" It happens that "Mary had a little lamb" has the right number of words for a chromatic scale octave. If we sing up and down the scale at the same time, I thought it would be neat to try making chords out of the wacky intervals. The following is the chromatic run by itself: And the following is the same scale with chords created out of some of the intervals: And then I thought if the 2 scales were offset, some different, or better chords might be created (or maybe not). Here's one where the down scale starts on the 5th scale tone of the chromatic up scale, and I tried to find chords within the intervals: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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