The All-In-One Harmonic Workout: Sing & Play Chords to Train Your Ear
Practice all Inversions of Major & Minor Chords around the Circle of Fifths and Train your Ear at the same time by singing approach and landing chord root tones. In this all-round music workout, we practice the Piano, Singing, Music Theory and Ear Training using both the Plagal and Authentic directions of the Circle of Fifths. Using the perfect 4th and 5th intervals, we climb up and down with our voice in addition to playing a Bluesy Fill at the end of the bar. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 - Performance 00:25 - Introduction 00:40 - Circle of Fifths 01:46 - Plagal & Authentic Directions 02:32 - Singing Challenges 02:58 - Octave Displacement 03:39 - The Limitations of the Voice 04:04 - Up & Down to the 5th 04:26 - Root to the 5th 05:06 - Root to 4ths 06:06 - Up to the 5th 08:15 - Usage of Chord Inversions 09:10 - Going against the natural flow of inversions 09:37 - Ab Major Triad 10:12 - Figuring out inversions 11:08 - Root Positions in the Plagal Direction 12:12 - 2 Practice Directions 12:52 - First inversion Practice 13:17 - Singing the Roots 14:15 - Practicing 2nd Inversions 14:51 - The Authenic Direction 16:36 - Singing the Climb & playing the Chords 17:04 - Octave Displacement 17:55 - Sing and then play 19:21 - Playing the Climb on the Piano 20:13 - Down to the Fourth 21:14 - Movable Sa or Do 21:51 - Playing over Minor Triads 23:29 - Now for a Bluesy Lick 26:32 - Conclusion ============================= 📹 Our Video Courses (Everything for Life Bundle) ➡️ https://learn-music.nathanielschool.com/ 🎹 Piano Courses & Private Lessons ➡️ https://piano.nathanielschool.com ============================= ▶️ Related Lessons & Playlists 🎵 Music Theory lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/PianoTheory 🎹 All our lessons on Chord Inversions (Playlist) ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9ygtrGwGFmfyvMyGWH52EC 👂 Ear Training lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/EarTraining ============================= 🎓 Learn Music with Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac ➡️ https://nathanielschool.com 📚 All our YouTube lessons (1000+) by skill level, topic & genre ➡️ https://learning-portal.nathanielschool.com ============================= 💰 Donate on PayPal ➡️ https://geni.us/DonatePayPal 📸 Instagram ➡️ https://instagram.com/jasonzac 📞 +91 77604 56847 (Mobile & WhatsApp) 📧 Customised & Private Classes ➡️ music@nathanielschool.com 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music ➡️ https://riffs.jasonzacmusic.com/ #EarTraining #ChordInversions #CircleOfFifths
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