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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.

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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:

  1. Play tonic again, and sing a scale.
  2. Play the notes again, and sing them out loud until your sure you know them.
  3. 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:

  1. Try to identify the notes you hear as you're listing, by their feel without directly comparing them to tonic.
  2. Practice doing this without singing or humming -- just by how it feels in your mind!
  3. 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:

  1. Hot Cross Buns
  2. Beginning of the Star Spangled Banner ("Oh say can you see?")
  3. Frere-Jacques; Mary Had a Little Lamb
  4. Theme from Star Wars; Theme from Dallas
  5. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
  6. Rock-a-bye Baby

High Scores

Three-Note Solfege/Scale Degree ID High Scores
Username Date Percent Level Score
Calum 2010-09-06 100% 6 10000
ajenks 2010-05-02 100% 6 10000
f00d79 2010-04-15 100% 6 10000
MapleStudios 2010-04-13 100% 6 10000
RanaAlcheikh 2010-02-19 100% 6 10000
938326 2010-02-18 100% 6 10000
Jess 2010-02-15 100% 6 10000
Wonjin 2010-02-09 100% 6 10000
lildevine1 2010-02-07 100% 6 10000
gastellu 2009-09-15 100% 6 10000

Comments

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On 2010-05-05 at 11:23:12, tmt wrote:
Actually, I take that cadence thing back, If you ever need a key-refresher, you can just sing up the scale from the tonic. Better practice anyways.

On 2010-04-29 at 01:44:54, tmt wrote:
I love this drill though cuz it forces you to internalize how each solfege note relates to each other solfege note (in terms of their respective differences).

On 2010-04-29 at 01:37:23, tmt wrote:
I think it might be good to have a new randon cadence for each set of 3 notes instead of just one cadence per try. Just a thought as it is good practice the way it is

On 2010-03-23 at 15:47:22, MapleStudios wrote:
Cool! That's great!

On 2010-03-22 at 18:50:40, gristow wrote:
Thanks -- A timed option is a great idea. This is one of the first drills I wrote, before I'd done the coding for timing. My plan is to go back and build a 'speed drill' tab and 'practice' tab into all of these, and to update the tonal drills to include minor scales and chromatics as well. Look for those mid-late May.

On 2010-03-22 at 17:53:38, MapleStudios wrote:
great game! close to sight reading - i've tried interval training, but it never got me far when trying to sight read real songs - this is way better :) still working on my skills though... i have to count a lot and i'm slow (could there also be a timed option? :P)