FINAL PROJECT
Mash up of Creep by Radiohead and She by Harry Styles
CANONS
Reflection
CANON 39
DORIAN CANON
DORIAN IMPROV
Scarborough Fair Melody
CANON 131
MAJOR AND MINOR PATTERNS
BASS LINE AND SOLFEGE PATTERNS
CANON LEARNING
Martini- 21
This one was most difficult for me to learn. I think the reason it was so difficult for me is because of the multitude of interval-leaps that I am not used to singing with solfege. I anticipated having issues with the first two bars where the scale drops the octave on the “second last note”… I did not actually find those parts difficult. Perhaps that’s because we went over it in class a few weeks ago and it is just engrained in my mind now? Something that I did find quite difficult is going from high do to fa in the middle of an eighth note passage. I can hear fa very well when going slow but when it’s mixed in with other things I find it quite difficult. Something that helped me is thinking of fa as part of the sol that comes right after. When thinking of fa as an extension of sol, I was able to sing it smoothly.
Martini- 23
For the most part I found this canon fairly easy. I did find myself making mistakes right at the beginning. I was having trouble singing the mi after singing sol to do. I just had to sing it over and over again to get it in my ear. I thought I was going to have troubles singing the la but my ear actually heard it very well. I think it’s because I sang the mi before it. In my head I can hear the mi as five of la… thanks to our work with singing chords and chord progressions!
I am very happy with how quickly I was able to learn these! At the beginning of the semester reading solfege scared me a lot. I have become so confident with solfege and also confident with making mistakes… before this course I had a very hard time with making mistakes. I thought of a mistake as a failure but this course is helping me think of mistakes as exactly that: something that doesn’t mean I failed, but gives me the opportunity to try it again.
EIGHT-BAR COMPOSITION
Inspired from improv assignment. Inspiration taken at 0.20
When we were assigned this in class last week I was quite nervous. I guess I had it in my head that my improvisation was not very musical or song-like. Listening back to it again I feel kind of crazy for thinking that. There were many parts in my improvisation that were phrased like a “song” or could be manipulated into a “song”. Something I struggle with is believing in myself and my improvisations. I don’t know why I was so insistent that my improvisation was not musical. It was quite musical and I know that because I was stuck for a long time just deciding which part of the improv I wanted to use for my composition. I decided to go with my first section as the base of this song. I really like how I phrased it in my improvisation and wanted to play with it a bit… I also made sure to include lots of fas in my composition. For the purpose of this exercise, I decided to make the final bar two beats of the sol chord and two beats of the do chord. I did this to ensure that there was a sense of finality to my eight-bar song.
This was really fun and helpful to me as an improvisor. I am thoroughly enjoying this class and specifically how much I’m learning about myself and my abilities.
WEEK EIGHT ASSIGNMENT
WEEK 7 ASSIGNMENT
WEEK 5 AND 6 ASSIGNMENT
WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENTS
WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENTS
July- Noah Cyrus
In the past couple of weeks I have been listening to this song fairly frequently. Most recently, when I was listening I noticed the melody outlining a chord. On the lyric "You know I, I'm afraid of change" (27 seconds in the Youtube video), the solfege is as follows: la ti do sol mi, mi re do ti la. The do sol mi uses the pitches of the mi chord to transition from the la (i) chord to the mi (III) chord.