Lesson 5a – Memorise a song – Melody 3-

Consolidation exercises

As mentioned, every week I add one more exercise to your daily 20 minute practice session. The new exercise builds on the previous. Do not practice only the new exercise because you will not learn, and you will feel very frustrated and give up.

You must consolidate all the previous musical examples on a daily basis. The better you know them, the easier it will be to learn new musical material. It will take you 10 weeks to consolidate all.

I have designed every exercise to help you improve your aural rhythmic and performance skills gradually. You need to work and build on these three skills on a daily basis. Please practice the program in order, so as you may achieve the learning goals that I established.

Do not concentrate your practice on what you do not know, practice and have fun with what you know and then add new music new every week. You must practice every exercise exactly the way you learnt it. If you cannot do such please go back to the video to refresh.

L.I.S.P Melody number 3

• Listen
• Imagine
• Sing
• Play – Comprehend

Before you play, comprehend what happens on each beat of the melody, in order, so as to help you in the how to memorise a melody. Ask your self the following questions, sing and point to your fingers:

• Per Beat: How many notes?
• Per Note: Same, up or down?

Beat one 

How many notes are there? One ,it is a C.

Beat two 

How many notes are there? It is the same note that starts on beat one as is maintained.

Beat three

How many notes are there? It is the same note that starts on beat one.

Beat four 

How many notes are there? One.

Where does it start ? on 4 &.

Same, up or down? It is the same.

On your own

The following three bars follow the same pattern as the first.  Stop the video and figure them out using the same process. Do not worry if you do not get them perfectly right.

Play along with me

• Play along with me at half of the original tempo.
• Play along with me at the original tempo original.
• Rewind and Repeat full L.I.S.P of Melody 3.

Assignments

Practice session day 1 

Practice all previous consolidation exercises.
Then with the free time you have left follow and complete all steps of the video with precision.

Practice session day 2 

Practice all previous consolidation exercises.
Then with the free time you have left follow and complete all steps of the video with precision.
Complete the written assignment of L.I.S.P  Melody 3.

L.I.S.P  Melody 3

After you have L.I.S.P melody 3, write in detail your replies  to:

• Per beat: How many notes ?
• Per note: Same up or down ?

Practice session day 3 

Practice all previous consolidation exercises.|
Complete the Record yourself assignment. 

How? 

Download the melody 3. Once you have memorised the melody (pitch and rhythm).  Record yourself in video, with your phone, playing along the corresponding melody track. Your recording must answer yes to the following check questions. Once you are satisfied please submit your recording to the teacher.

Check questions

• Are you singing the notes in exact relation to the beat?
• Are you tapping your foot non stop while singing and playing?
• Have you counted the tempo and subdivision in before playing?
• If your answer is no to any of the these questions practice more?