Recognizing Melodies by Ear PDF

RECOGNIZING MELODIES BY EAR 1) The process Remember the process we learned of how to recognize the numbers in a melody: 1. Sing the lyrics along with the recording of song. 2. Hum the melody without the lyrics to strengthen your perception of the melody. 3. Slow it down and brake it in little...

RECOGNIZING MELODIES BY EAR 1) The process Remember the process we learned of how to recognize the numbers in a melody: 1. Sing the lyrics along with the recording of song. 2. Hum the melody without the lyrics to strengthen your perception of the melody. 3. Slow it down and brake it in little pieces. 4. Listen carefully to each sound of the melody and feel which number it is in relation to the tonal center. Take notes, write down your findings. 5. When you know the numbers of the whole song, sing the melody in numbers along with the original recording. (Singing melodies you know in numbers can help you bring together everything you are learning.). 6. Play the melody in your instrument in many keys while you sing or visualize the numbers in your mind. 2) List of songs to analyze All the melodies of the songs on this list use only notes from the major scale with the tonal center in note 1. They are organized by the range of notes they use. Notes 1, 2, 3 Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty My Father's House - Bruce Springsteen Are You All Right - Lucinda Williams (verse only) Mary Had a Little Lamb - Children’s song Notes 1, 2, 3, 4 One Love - Bob Marley Every Breath You Take - The Police (verse only) One of Us - Joan Osborne (verse only) You're The One - The Vogues (chorus only) Notes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Oh When the Saints Go Marchin’ In - Spiritual song Ode to Joy from Symphony no. 9 - L.V. Beethoven (the B section of the melody reaches note 5 below 1 once at the end) Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton (verse only) Hot Cross Buns - Children’s song Lightly Row - Children’s song Jingle Bells - Christmas carol (verse only) Notes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 All these songs are great to study the feeling of suspension of note 6 above 5: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Children’s song London Bridge is Falling Down - Children’s song Go Tell Aunt Rhody - Children’s song Oh! Suzanna - Folk song Blowin’ in the Wind - Bob Dylan Stand by Me - Ben E. King (verse only) It's a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler I Still Haven’t Found What I am Looking For - U2 (verse only) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (chorus only) Frère Jacques - children's song (the last part of the melody reaches note 5 below 1 once at the end) Going down to note 7 below 1 Lean On Me - Bill Withers (only first melody of the verse) Superfriends - River Cuomo (only chorus) A Little Bitty Tear - Hank Cochran. Going below the octave line down to note 5 Melodies that start with notes 5-1: Amazing Grace - Hymn Auld Lang Syne - Folk song Taps - Bugle call Star Wars Theme - John Williams La Marsellaise - French national anthem Here Comes the Bride - Richard Wagner We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Christmas carol Melodies that start on note 5: Happy Birthday - Popular song What a Wonderful World - Bob Thiele and George David Weiss When I Fall in Love - Victor Young (version by Nat King Cole or Céline Dion) She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain - Folk song Red Red Wine - UB40 My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean - Folk song Melodies that stay in one octave from 1 to 1: The First Noel - Christmas carol Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Christmas carol Redemption Song - Bob Marley Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (verse only) Melodies with a wide range of notes Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Spiritual song (good example of pentatonic palette) Isn’t She Lovely - Stevie Wonder Waltzing Matilda - Folk song Yankee Doodle - Folk song Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman Oh My Darling Clementine - Folk song Oh Danny Boy - Folk song (interesting because it starts in note 7) Can’t Help Falling In Love With You - Elvis Presley (only the verse) Let it Be - The Beatles Hey Jude - The Beatles With or Without You - U2 I Say a Little Prayer for You - Aretha Franklin Wild Mountain Thyme (AKA as ‘Will you go lassie go’) - Folk song Moon River - Henri Mancini Adeste Fideles (AKA ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’) - Christmas carol My Girl by The Temptations Titanic Theme (from the movie)