Performance Ear Training
- Sing Then Play: Technique to develop the ability to think and ‘inner-hear’ melodic intervals while strengthening the sense of harmonic intervals. It will be shown how S.T.P. can be used with various types of exercises.
- Inner Hearing: Technique to develop the ability to accurately imagine note, intervals and chords.
- Harmonic Basslines: Technique for singing a bassline to a progression that precisely communicates its sound.
- Tendency Tones: Technique for using the natural tendencies of notes, particularly in a cadence as a mode of learning the color of diatonic and chromatic notes in the context of a key.
- Cycle of Fourths Interval Exercises: Technique for recognizing the essential character of diatonic and chromatic intervals in the context of a tonality.
- Straight Line Exercise: Technique for developing the ear through performing ascending and descending stepwise lines through a harmonic progression. Helps to develop the ability to think/hear horizontally and vertically simultaneously.
- The organized set of special 'study concepts' are full explained in the text Performance Ear Training written by Donovan Mixon and published by Advance Music. Activities will include: Movable Do, singing with and without solfege syllables, singing together in unison and two or three parts, combining singing with playing on musical instruments. Students will immediately intuit the extreme flexibility of the concepts and how they can be employed in creative ways with diverse ear training studies.