Links to Matt's warmups:
McCloskey
technique book - Your Voice At Its Best.
Videos
demonstrating McCloskey techniques (low production values:
The hydration-urine color chart
is available in Singer Health.
Link to syncopation lesson by Saher Galt
Link to Sight Singing by Saher Galt
Link to second
video on syncopation by Saher Galt
Link to Songs to Learn Musical Intervals
The Tritone Interval and Its Use in Horror Films
Accidentals
are symbols used to show that the pitch of a note is to be changed from what is
written, typically by a half step. The most common accidentals are sharp, flat,
and natural, but there are some other odd ones out there. Note that the
following link is borked because it shows changing the pitch by two half steps
for everything. Click on the links next to each accidental name to get better
info, Accidentals link An accidental is applied to a note and
following notes of the same pitch within a measure but does not carry over into
following measures. Some arrangers will use a 'courtesy accidental' in a
following measure to show that the accidental is no longer in effect, but this
is not common. See Accidentals link, above.
The
'Circle of Fifths' is particularly useful if you play piano. It has some value
if you can read music because it may give you an idea of the scale progression
in a song. Pretty much, it lets you know how the pitches will move in a piece
of music. If you know where the scale starts in a given key, you may be able to
look at the written notes and know how far the pitch changes from one note to
the next. Very few people have 'perfect pitch' but a lot of people can learn
'acquired pitch' or how far one note is from another. /Threadjack, applicable
only to the Americas and other places where 60 Hertz electricity is the norm,
not in most of the world where 50 Hertz power is normal./ If you are in a place
where there are a lot of fluorescent lights with noisy ballasts (think high
school band room in rural southwestern Indiana in the mid 1960's), the 60 Hertz
hum is about half way between a B flat and a B. If there is noise from motors
or fans, the noise depends on the design, but there are good odds the noise is
about an E./end threadjack/
Definitions
of many musical terms are at the OnMusic Dictionary. For many of the terms, there are sound
snippets to give you the correct pronunciation. One of my favorites is 'dal
segno', right up there with Sylvia Poggioli on NPR.
Circle of Fifths from Leigh Walker
Links
to info about minor scales:
List of minor scales with audio
Warmup exercise as demonstrated by
Albert Einstein!
