The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Music Theory

Chapter 12:Transcribing What You Hear 157 Listening—Actively Before we get into ear training proper, you need to learn how to ac ...

Par t 4:Accompanying This is how you actively listen to a song. You’re not listening for enjoyment (you can do that separately); ...

Chapter 12:Transcribing What You Hear 159 Hearing Intervals Lesson 2, Track 11 If you can hear and reproduce a single note, what ...

160 Par t 4:Accompanying Intervals Found in Popular Melodies (continued) Interval Song-Specific Phrase Major third “Have Yoursel ...

Chapter 12:Transcribing What You Hear 161 Interval Song-Specific Phrase Major second “Three Blind Mice” THREE BLIND mice ... “Ma ...

162 Par t 4:Accompanying Hearing Rhythms Lesson 4, Track 27 We’ll set aside pitches for a moment and instead focus on note durat ...

Chapter 12:Transcribing What You Hear many measures long the melody is, and how it’s broken up into phrases. Once you can dissem ...

Par t 4:Accompanying The real test comes when you play your chords against the original recording. Be especially careful to matc ...

Chapter 12:Transcribing What You Hear Exercises Exercise 12-1 Play each of the following notes on your instrument, wait for thir ...

Par t 4:Accompanying Exercise 12-6 Transcribe the melody of “This Land Is Your Land.” 166 Exercise 12-7 Transcribe the melody an ...

13 Accompanying Melodies In This Chapter ◆Working with a lead sheet ◆Figuring out what to play ◆Understanding different types of ...

168 Par t 4:Accompanying Working from a Lead Sheet Here’s the 411: You’re given a sheet of music that includes the melody and th ...

Chapter 13:Accompanying Melodies 169 A chord sheet—no melody. Working from a Melody Sometimes you get the melody (in the form of ...

Par t 4:Accompanying the chords already! In any case, three heads are better than one, and together you should be able to come u ...

Chapter 13:Accompanying Melodies 171 Block Chord Accompaniment The easiest type of accompaniment to play is the block chordaccom ...

172 Par t 4:Accompanying You can even break up the rhythm slightly by playing your left hand (the bass) on beats one and three, ...

Chapter 13:Accompanying Melodies 173 The benefit of this approach is that it provides a driving pulse for the song. The drawback ...

174 Par t 4:Accompanying Moving Bass Once you get good at these simple types of accompaniment, you can spice things up by playin ...

Chapter 13:Accompanying Melodies Once you’ve figured out the chords, you have to play them. In most instances, you can get by wi ...

Par t 4:Accompanying Exercise 13-2 Play a rhythmic accompaniment based on the following lead sheet. 176 Exercise 13-3 Play an ar ...