Re: Stick as first instrument ever???
ReyStick wrote:
Michael. I looked for your YouTube but I couldn't find it. I typed your name in full.
Where are the said videos that you have posted?
You could have tried my list of Stickists. Mike is there.
http://www.david-wright.co.uk/music/stickists/#mikehoegemanReyStick wrote:
Something that helped me a lot was singing into my tuner on my phone, trying to match my voice to the chord I was strumming, or to the note I was playing. Then I would try to sing in the third, if I was playing an A, I would try to drone a c sharp in my voice. It helped me a lot.
That pretty much describes an ear training routine I use 4-5 tnmes a week while using my exercise bike.
The routine is based around a series of playlists each containing a selection of "Sing the Numbers" & "Feel the Numbers" tracks from
ImprovideForReal.
In addition to those tracks I use a 3m drone track at the start of the session & sing scales & intervals over it. The drone idea was a recent addition (after listening to an episode of
10 minute Jazz Lesson Podcast.
When I started I was stretched even by the simplest tracks that only used the 1st 3 notes of a scale. Taking it very slowly, only moving forward when I felt comfortable, I recently moved on to the top level of tracks, meaning the exercises now cover an octave and a half! I'm not 100% on that. After all those years of passive listening ear training is probably the toughest task I've ever taken on., but I
am improving.