Diatonic Tendency Tones
Watch this cool little exercise and amaze your friends with your new found perfect pitch skills. OK, you won't quite have perfect pitch but you will get very close and you can learn this technique quickly. Each note has a tendency to want to resolve within a given harmonic context. This lesson will teach you to recognize these tendencies and to use them to identify each diatonic pitch by name.

Lesson Objectives
To describe the tendency inherent in each diatonic pitch to resolve to the tonic or some other diatonic note and to use that tendency to "hear" and identify each note by name.

Lesson Stats
When added: 8/24/07; Duration: 11 minutes;

Prerequisites
None

Quizzes
Quiz 1: Practice identifing Do, Re and Ti.
Quiz 2: Practice identifying Mi, Fa, Sol and La.
Quiz 3: Practice identifying all seven diatonic pitches.

Practice Sessions & Playalongs
There are no practice sessions with this lesson. The quizzes are designed to help you practice hearing all seven pitches.

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