[PLAYING PIANO]

First thing I'd like to do is to define a few terms.

[PLAYING PIANO]
The first term I'd like to define is the term harmony.
What is harmony?
[PLAYS PIANO]
Harmony is the study of chords, and scales, and melodies,
and how we typically hear them when music is played.
[PLAYS PIANO]
Another term we'd like to help you define
is the term ear training, which helps you to do something like this.
[PLAYS PIANO AND SCAT SINGS]
So what is ear training?
Simply put, ear training identifies what your ear hears.
And we will do exercises to train your ear to be more effective.
Now the first thing we like to do, is we like to start with the C major scale.
Everything we do is going to come from the C major scale.
And if you look at the screen, you'll see a C major scale.
There are the names of the notes.
Underneath that, you have the solfege syllables, so re fa so la ti do.
Then you have what we call the scale degrees.
The first degree of the scale is C. The second degree is D. Third degree is
E. F is the fourth degree, and so on.
So I'm gonna play the C major scale.
[PLAYS C MAJOR SCALE]
I want you to sing that scale with me, with the names of the notes, OK?
We'll start C. Here we go, ready?
One, two, (SINGING) C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C.
This time, I'm going to sing the solfege syllables.
[PLAYS C MAJOR SCALE]
(SINGING) Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do.
And now we'll sing the scale degrees.
[PLAYS C MAJOR SCALE] (SINGING) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1.
That's the major scale.
You want to get to know that major scale very well.
Next, I'd like to define the term interval.
Simply put, an interval is the distance between two notes.
So if I play the C here--
[PLAYS C]
--and then I played, say, an F--
[PLAYS F THEN C THEN F]
That would be a perfect fourth.
We're going from the root, which is the 1, to the 4.
That's an interval.
This would be an interval, C to E. That's a major third.
An interval is the distance between notes.
[PLAYS C THEN E]
That's a major third.
[PLAYS C THEN G]
That would be a perfect fifth.
I'm going to 1 to the 5.
[PLAYS C THEN A]
That would be a major sixth.
So again, the interval is the distance between two notes.
So those three terms, harmony, ear training, and intervals, along
with the major scale, are going to give the foundation
that you're going to need to be successful, not only in this class,
but throughout your musical career.