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Originally Posted by Durero
Looks like you have a playing exercise in mind though, maybe singing the intervals in the all-interval-tetrachords just before you play them?
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More or less. The idea is to fingerpick lower-note, higher-note, lower-note, double stop across all combinations of four strings as a right hand exercise and get some ear training out of it by singing/naming the notes/intervals* (in my head) as I'm playing.
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Originally Posted by Durero
(had to wikipedia "all-interval-tetrachord" - fascinating  ) |
I recently re-discovered Elliot Carter (especially his composition Shard) and that's what got me rolling down this road. The downside (as an interval exercise) is that I'm not finding any fingerings that work with a fourths or fifths based tuning. With Major 3rds, a number of fingerings fall in very nicely. That said, if you just look at the pitch classes for a given AIT, then there are some neat compositional possibilities using wider intervals.
* * Question for you chromatic notation guys, do you still "sing" A,Bb,B,C, or do you use different note names?