Advanced Guitar Player

These lesson notes correspond to the Guitar Pro Tab, PDF and Audio files for Lesson 16 - Introducing the IV Degree of the Major Scale from Sight Singing Major Scales - Part One of Perfect Your Pitch - Ear Training And Sight Reading For Guitar Players. 

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This lesson focuses on the fourth degree of the major scale, which is the F note in the key of C and is a perfect fourth above the tonic.

Experience shows that the fourth degree of the major scale is the most difficult pitch to assimilate for beginning ear training students. Most of the initial practice exercises concentrate on building the F a semitone or half step above the E. We then move to focusing on the hearing the fourth degree a tone below the G and then, the exercises incorporate leaps from all the degrees of the major scale.

As we are now singing all a seven degrees of the major scale, quite a lot of practice will be necessary. The end section of this ear training course is dedicated to revising the whole scale whilst introducing more rhythmic complexity. However, if you're having problems incorporating all the pitches, it would be wise to go back a few lessons and go over the material again.

Guitar Ear Training Programs And Links

The accompanying Guitar Tab Files for this Ear Training Course are available in Guitar Pro 6 format from the Advanced Guitar Player Downloads section.

If you haven't got a copy of Guitar Pro, Click here to visit the Guitar Pro download page.

Although they often don't provide progressive Aural Skills development for beginners, ear training software programs can be very useful. I personally use EarMaster Pro - Click here to download a Trial Version of EarMaster Essential, Pro or School.

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