This really makes it crystal clear. Hearing the tonic and then orienting everything aurally in relation to that. The clever bit is knowing where to listen for the root and at the end of it verses is a great clue. I just tested it out on a couple of Motown classics and it was close to instantaneous. Great work and much appreciated.
Jay this is so helpful! I’m a trombonist and (too) slowly learning my scales and chords so I can put them to good use in my playing. Your explanations are crystal clear, but even with that it’ll take me some time to apply these fundamentals easily. Thanks for your help. I will subscribe when I can.
Glad to hear that this is helping you out. With an instrument that plays single notes it can be helpful to play chords as "rooted arpeggios". That way you can play the notes from CMaj7 and Em7 and treat C and E as the roots. The other notes will be degrees of those roots and degrees of their own modes/scales. Just take it a few bars/measures at a time and enjoy the learning process.
This really makes it crystal clear. Hearing the tonic and then orienting everything aurally in relation to that. The clever bit is knowing where to listen for the root and at the end of it verses is a great clue. I just tested it out on a couple of Motown classics and it was close to instantaneous. Great work and much appreciated.
Jay this is so helpful! I’m a trombonist and (too) slowly learning my scales and chords so I can put them to good use in my playing. Your explanations are crystal clear, but even with that it’ll take me some time to apply these fundamentals easily. Thanks for your help. I will subscribe when I can.
Glad to hear that this is helping you out. With an instrument that plays single notes it can be helpful to play chords as "rooted arpeggios". That way you can play the notes from CMaj7 and Em7 and treat C and E as the roots. The other notes will be degrees of those roots and degrees of their own modes/scales. Just take it a few bars/measures at a time and enjoy the learning process.
Thanks. I’ll do exactly that 😊