Showing posts with label intervals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intervals. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

#2) Intervals on the guitar

I've made a flashcard for every interval you can create above an open string, all the way up to a 13th. Some of my guitars go up to a 14th, but 14ths are sounding too theoretical, so I'm starting memorizing 13ths. What I do for each interval is envision of the name of the note and register of that note formed above each open string.

#1 Interval Flashcard Drills

So, this is what I'm doing with my flashcards as of now.

1) sing all intervals up and down
2) sing all major chords, root, 1st, and 2nd inversion using the flat, natural, and sharp spellings for each family
3) ditto for minor chords, augmented chords, and diminished chords
4) sing all dominant seventh chords up and down
5) sing all major seventh chords up and down

Remember . . . if you can sing it you can hear it . . . if you can hear it, you can play it . . .