Class 15: Solfege Ascending and Descending!

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Submitted by Walt on Monday, 9 March 2009View Comments

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What is Solfege?

Solfege is referring to the notes in a scale an intervallic name. Have you heard of ‘Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do’? Well – that’s Solfege! So instead of referring to the note C in a C major Scale as C, you can also refer to it as ‘Do’. This is important because if you decide to change keys, or transpose, etc. then the interval stays the same even though the note changes!

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christopher said:

I think I might want to learn the guitar. nice vids.

- 12 March 2009 at 9:18 pm

John said:

The notes are the same in both ascending and descending correct? You are playing the same notes on the guitar, they are just named differently because in one case you are going down the neck, and on the other you are going up… correct?

- 13 March 2009 at 2:29 pm

Walt said:

Yes, the notes stay the same – but the Solfege syllable changes. This is because of enharmonics. A# is the same note as Bb, but the Bb is going down, and the A# is going up.

So the solfege syllable changes to indicate this

- 15 March 2009 at 2:01 pm