One Note Solfege Drill
You will hear a tonicization followed by a note. Identify the note you hear. You may switch levels or change between solfege/scale degrees using the drop-down menus.
tips -- high scores -- comments
Greg's Tips
Identifying one note at a time is the simplest type of melodic dictation. If you're just starting out, at first it may be useful to:
- Play tonic again, and sing a scale.
- Play the note again and sing up the scale until you reach the note you've just heard.
In order to gain speed, however, once you've mastered the system above, it's important to:
- Identify the scale degree/solfege simply by its 'feel' without directly comparing it to tonic in your mind.
- Notice if there are particular scale degrees you have trouble identifying -- such as, say 6 and 4. Sing those notes and notice how they feel in your voice; use this to start to recognize the feel of the more 'difficult' scale degrees.
Next Steps
Start paying attention to the first and last notes of phrases in the music you listen to. See if you can figure out what solfege/scale degree they start and end on. To do this you'll have to first figure out what tonic is (listen to the bass, it usually gives it away) and then you should be able to find the starting and ending solfege pretty quickly.
High Scores
| Username | Date | Percent | Level | Score |
| Calum | 2010-09-06 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| gmanclarence | 2010-08-25 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| shadow | 2010-08-16 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| Jardena | 2010-08-14 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| gristow | 2010-06-19 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| tmt | 2010-05-07 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| alexman | 2010-05-02 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| OMFG INSANITY | 2010-04-20 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| dalokay | 2010-04-03 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
| f00d79 | 2010-03-25 | 100% | 6 | 10000 |
Comments
Please login at left to post to the guestbook.| On 2010-09-05 at 14:23:31, MuJones wrote: |
| Great trainer, I've been looking for something similiar for a while. The best improvement would be adding an option to select modes (ionian/major, dorian, lydian, ..., aeolian/minor, etc), that would be better than having multiple levels. Is there any chance to have an offline version? I would love to be able to practice on the go (in the train for example) Anyway, great job. Thanks a lot |
| On 2010-08-23 at 16:30:02, gristow wrote: |
| Bwhufft, When you click on the correct answer note (eg "re") it should automatically play the next question note for you. |
| On 2010-08-23 at 16:00:27, bwhufft wrote: |
| I must be missing something obvious. If I'm in an ear training exercise, how do I get the next example to play? |
| On 2010-05-05 at 11:06:48, tmt wrote: |
| I see what you mean. This version is very accessible as it is right now, which is really good, so it might be good to have separate more advanced trainers. That way, people just starting won't be too intimidated. |
| On 2010-04-29 at 01:34:01, gristow wrote: |
| Thanks, I agree, tmt. I've been tinkering with this over the past few weeks. Chromatics are important, and so is adding minor versions of these as well. If I wrap all of that into the trainers as they're currently structured, they would go from having 6 levels (and being fairly quickly winnable) to having around 18 levels... I've debated adding separate minor versions of the trainers, adding an option to chose between Major/Minor/Fully Chromatic within each trainer, or keeping the current structure and expanding it to 18 levels. Which do you think would be the best approach? Or is there another approach I'm not thinking of? |
| On 2010-04-29 at 01:14:43, tmt wrote: |
| I was thinking it might be cool for future users is there were accidentals like ra me, te etc. Thanks for the drill as it is though |