Other Patterns
From: Daily Intonation Practice For Low Voices : Major Scale & Interval Focusby Abram Poliakoff
Description:
Time to combine steps and skips in the major scale!
Exercise: 58–54321
This first pattern begins on step 5. So it’s a skip, then steps coming down. Feel free to sing on any other syllable or vowel.
Exercise: Major arpeggio into 9-tone: 1358-78987654321
Our second pattern begins with a major arpeggio, and ends with a stepwise scale. Listen to the beginning; then the turnaround, and the descent. Notice we’re stepping past number 8 - we haven’t done that before! 8 to 9 is the same thing as 1 to 2: it’s a whole step, or the happy birthday interval.
Exercise: Thirds (5-tone): 132435421
Let’s finish with an exercise in thirds. Singing 1,3 is a third; so is 2,4 and 3,5. Any time you sing one pitch in the scale, skip over one pitch, and sing the very next pitch in the scale, that’s a third! Notice the very last interval is not a third; it’s a second, when we sing 2-1 (or “birthday”).
Audio:
Lessons:
- 1: Welcome
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2:
Warmup
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3:
The Major Scale
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4:
Intervals from “1” (“Do”)
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5:
Other Patterns
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6:
Conclusion
Instructor: Abram Poliakoff
Abram Poliakoff is a singer, guitarist, pianist, teacher, conductor, and composer. He received a Bachelors of Music in Vocal Arts from USC’s Thornton School of Music and has been teaching music for 8 years. He is currently both the Associate Artistic Director and a tenor in the L.A. Choral Lab, which recently released its first studio album Sonic Visions in the fall of 2019. Abram teaches and performs a wide range of genres including Classical, Jazz, Folk and Popular music in the Los Angeles area. He has also sung with the San Francisco Opera and Pocket Opera in the Bay Area. His teaching mission is to help his students utilize vocal technique to find their authentic and healthy voice while maximizing genre flexibility and a naturalness of expression.