I grew up in rural Southwest Virginia in a little community called Emory. I have always loved music and making things. I am a retired elementary music teacher and currently enjoy teaching private music lessons, leading community singing and creating interactive music exhibits in my music garden. I hope to share these creations with the larger community.
Monday, June 6, 2011
ear training with dulcimer
Today's lesson will give you practice singing the solfege for and notating a simple melody. The song is "Going Down the Valley". I play it on my dulcimer and then have you sing back the solfege. The dulcimer plays it in D major and the vocal example from yesterday was in G major, so I show the notation in those two keys plus F major.