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Originally Posted by keithb
... 'movable do' solfege where the first degree of the scale being sung is always do ... 'fixed do' solfege, where do always corresponds to C
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Whoa! I have never heard the terms 'movable do' or 'fixed do' before.
* ElRay be-bops on over to Wikipedia OK, my idea of what solfege represents has always been 'movable do'. This:
Solfege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia seems to answer a whole bunch of questions. 'Fixed do' may be exactly what I'm looking for while doing scales and intervals.
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Originally Posted by Durero
Yah for me I use it universally exactly as you've described. It's really nice to have just one name for the #/b notes. If I'm talking to someone else I usually use the traditional system, but internally I'm getting more and more used to thinking in this chromatic solfege system.
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If I had only waited a few more mins to reply ...
OK. This is really starting to click now.
I wish had run into a teacher who knew/used this years ago.
I had heard 'solfege' used before, but I thought it was a relative naming tool for studying modes: All major scales start on 'do', all minor on 'la', etc. And on top of that, only as a tool for vocal studies, not part of a standard instrument regimen.
I didn't realize until just now that anything other than 'movable do' existed. The concept of something like this has been swirling around in the back of my head since I first saw A-B Chromatic Notation. It's a huge relief to see that I'm not reinventing the wheel.
So, to re-answer the question you asked
here:
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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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Yes. That is exactly what I have in mind -- to add this to the solfege 'singing' with scales, etc.
For anybody else having an epiphany moment, here's another thread with some tips for using solfege:
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/mus...6-solfege.html. Thanks to DR, TDW and Strychnine.
Ray