Learn to hear notes the way musicians do: in relation to the key. A short cadence sets the tonic, then you name the scale degree you hear.
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Melodies make sense as degrees of a key, which is how working musicians hear and transcribe.
Recognizing the 5th or the 7th instantly helps you find melodies on your instrument.
Solfege and degree numbers connect what you see to what you hear.
Each question starts with a cadence: the chords on the first, fourth and fifth degrees, ending back on the tonic. In minor the fifth chord uses the raised seventh, as it does in most real music, so the key is clear. A single note from the scale then plays somewhere above the tonic.
Every degree has its own feeling against the tonic: 1 is home, 5 is stable, 7 leans strongly up to 8, 4 wants to fall to 3. Starting with 1, 3 and 5 and then adding the rest is a common way to build this skill.
Practice only 1, 3 and 5 at first, then add 2, 4, 6 and 7.
Switch to random keys to make sure you hear function, not absolute pitch.
Natural minor uses Me, Le and Te for the lowered 3rd, 6th and 7th.
It is a note's position in a scale, counted from the tonic. In C major, C is 1, E is 3 and G is 5.
Your sense of key fades quickly. Re-establishing the tonic before each note keeps the exercise about relative pitch.
Movable do: Do is always the tonic. Minor uses Me, Le and Te for the lowered degrees.
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