Three-Note Solfege Drill
You will hear a tonicization followed by three notes. Click on the solfege or scale degrees for the three notes you hear in order. You may switch levels or change between solfege/scale degrees using the drop-down menus.
Greg's Tips
When you're indentifying three notes at a time, you have to think about memorizing the fragments of melody you hear. If you're just starting out, at first it may be useful to try:
- Play tonic again, and sing a scale.
- Play the notes again, and sing them out loud until your sure you know them.
- Then figure out the first note by singing up the scale from tonic until you reach it. Repeat this for the rest of the notes.
In order to gain speed, however, once you've mastered the system above, it's important to:
- Try to identify the notes you hear as you're listing, by their feel without directly comparing them to tonic.
- Practice doing this without singing or humming -- just by how it feels 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
As you get better at completing each level, try figuring out the solfege for some songs you probably already know. Here's a song for each level:
- Hot Cross Buns
- Beginning of the Star Spangled Banner ("Oh say can you see?")
- Frere-Jacques; Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Theme from Star Wars; Theme from Dallas
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Rock-a-bye Baby