Hey tomo and music followers, I am very interested in learning more about the singing system you are using.
For example how do you sing other degrees, than those of the major scale?
Maybe some of you would find it helpful, too.
Much love
Ced
Hi! its called Solfege (Soul-Fej) and it is a very useful tool! As you probably know by now, each syllable is related to one of the degrees of the scale.
It works like
1-Do
2-Re
3-mi
4-fa
5-so
6-la
7-ti
1-Do
If you want to sing in minor for example, you would start on the 6th degree. now sing (la ti do re mi fa so la)
Another way you can manipulate it is if you have a flat or sharp. you just change the vowel. Flat 7 goes from ti to te, mi to me(the 'e' is always pronounced as 'ay'), etc.
Hope that helped!
Nettle
Malik J Price
cedric
Very nice thank you!
Here is Tomo's comment:
"Thanks so much for subscribing to my Guitar Wisdom. Here are four examples. You can sing b3 as ME ('may') and b7 as TE. You can sing #4 as FI ('fee') and #5 as SI."
I was used to 'DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO' but for the school I am preparing for I have to use 'DO RE MI FA SOL LA SI DO'. And I cannot use any longer the singing system Eb as ME and F# as FI etc.
My private teacher ought this wrong, he suggests I should sing Eb as MI, still thinking of Eb I'm so confused now!
What do you suggest?
Ryan
Hi c-kostarellis,
I'm "starting from zero" learning how to sing and match pitch. After 3 months of 5-10 min a day practice with solfege, I've noticed that I can carry a tune much better. A lot of videos teaching how to sing use a piano. Since I play guitar I tried to work how to do the simplest version of what I saw the piano doing, but only using the guitar
Here is what I do.
1. play a basic F# barre chord, then
2. play the scale starting with F# (which would be F#2 on the piano) in the bass and sing "Do, Re, Me, ..., Do ". The scale is like this:
which works like this:
6th string frets: 2,4 (Sing: "Do, Re")
5th string frets: 1,2,4 (Sing: "Me, Fa, So")
4th string frets: 1,3,4 (Sing: "La, Ti, Do")
3. Play F# barre, slide up a fret to G barre and strum that too
4. Repeat the scale in step #2, but now shifted and starting from the G note (G2 on the piano) in the base
5. ... and so on
Personally, for me, at about the 12th fret (C#3 on the piano) it gets uncomfortable and too tiny. So at that point I move up to the top of the neck and do this
1. Play C# using an A-shape, 5th string root barre cord like (x2444x)
2. Play the scale that wraps around the C-chord octave shape like:
which works like this:
5th string frets: 4 (Sing: "Do")
4th string frets: 1,3,4 (Sing: "Re, Me, Fa")
3th string frets: 1,3,4 (Sing: "So, La")
2nd string frets: 1,2 (Sing: "Ti, Do")
3. Play C# (using A-shape barre chord), slide up one fret to D and strum again
4. Repeat