Melody 1A: 1-2-3 and 1-3-5
Topic outline
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With this course you can practise:
- Major melodies do-re-mi, do-mi-so
Recommended to study before this course:
- Rhythm 1A
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In music, the tonic note is the first note in a diatonic scale. It is the tonal centre, or the tone on which the music sounds finished. All other notes in a piece of music use the tonic note as a reference point. The tonic is always numbered as one. Song melodies usually end on tonic.
In Movable do, or tonic sol-fa, each syllable corresponds to a scale degree. The tonic is DO. The whole scale is do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-(do).
Listen the examples below.
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EXERCISES
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Let's practice melodies including three notes: 1-2-3 or do-re-mi.
There's some example songs below.
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The triad, or chord, based on the tonic note, is the tonic chord. It includes notes 1, 3 and 5. Tonic triad is also melodic structure.
Listen this example: