Interval Tuning
Objective: INTERVAL JUMPING ————Very Important! This makes you able to sing notes accurately that are more than two steps apart. Use all vowels. This is a must to practice so you can easily play a song by ear recognizing the steps in a melody. It only takes a short time of practicing to get this skill. To be a top singer this skill is a must.
Four notes in each section;
1) the root and the minor and the root again
2) the root and the major 3rd, and then the root again.
3) the root and the subdominant 4th, and then the root again.
4) the root and the dominant 5th, and then the root again.
Set- I & IIIb & I I & III & I etc….
Then step up a semi tone and do the two set sequences at that level. Do this through out your vocal range.
Set 1. the minor 3rd & the major 3rd, … and
Set 2. the imperfect 4th & the perfect 5th
As you vocalize take a mental note and listen closely to the distance between root and the second note of a set.
Alternate the vowels every time you do a vocal range, so you do all the five vowels in your vocal range. Alternate the vowels order. You do this alternating vowel change each time you move up or down one semi tone. Alternate the vowels every session so you do all five. Alternate the jump vocalizing with
1) pure tones and with 2) vibrato.
With time constraints allotted to practice, at least do the tuning of your vocal range twice using two vowels.
Occasional extra exercise: I & VI & I I & VIIb & I I & VII & I I & VIII & I (an octave)
Optional: Do this with a metronome beat playing.
Pro Singer Interval Tuning
Sing the notes first, then play them on the piano. Very beneficial!
Knowing the Interval Spacing
Minor Second = Jaws
Major Second = Frere Jacque
Minor Third = Madworld
Major Third = Stevey Wonder’s Sir Duke or David Bowie’s Let’s Dance
Perfect Fourth = Summer Nights from Grease Movie theme
Tritone = (most dissonant) Devil sound, Rush by YYZ, The Simpsons
Perfect Fifth = Star Wars theme, ET theme
Minor Sixth = Baker Street, Entertainer
Major Sixth =The Holly and the Ivy
Minor Seventh = Somewhere from West Side Story (There’s a Place for Us)
Major Seventh = Take on Me by A-Ha
Octave = Some Where Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz