Starting Solfa: Finding Your Tonic (Hold The Gin!)
Finding the tonic note is the first step to transcribing or transposing the music you hear using solfege. Discover how to do it with these simple steps.
Finding the tonic note is the first step to transcribing or transposing the music you hear using solfege. Discover how to do it with these simple steps.
Spoken solfeggio as developed by Ettore Pozzoli is an effective way to learn the instinct for solfa syllables, helping you to transcribe and sight-sing.
Learn how to find the tonic of any piece of music and practice with these well-known popular songs and classical pieces in part two of this tutorial.
Time to practice finding the tonic in minor melodies with these real music examples. Also, get some helpful tips on how to avoid the four common pitfalls.
Every musician must sing if they want to reach their full musical potential. Love it or hate it, here’s why singing is simply essential for your musical life.
Wish you could write down the music you hear? Practice with this free set of solfa transcription exercises in easy, medium and hard levels.
Get a free set of intermediate-level practice exercises to take your solfa sight-singing skills to the next level so you can easily sing from written music.
When you look at music notation can you immediately hear the notes in your head? This is essential for sight-singing and these solfa exercises make it easy.
Intervals are an effective way to identify the notes in music, to play by ear or improvise. Learn how solfa can let you recognise intervals by ear easily.
Can you sing a melody direction from the written score? It’s a challenge for most singers. Fortunately solfa provides an easy way to sight-sing confidently.
Work through these exercises to be able to transcribe short melodies using the notes of the pentatonic scale and solfa syllables you have internalised.
Continue learning to internalise the solfa syllables using the Pozzolli method. These exercises will help you sight-sing and transcribe with fluency.