Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it…yet)
There are apps that you can input text into and they can replace the characters in each word incrementally to help learn them. Wanna get into that
Fa Do Sol Ré La Mi Si
(F…C…G…D…A…E…B)
this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let’s say the song takes 4 sharps- take the last one (Ré/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major
It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La Ré Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.
That’s cool!
I don’t understand any of it. (ELI5 please? Thanks for sharing this anyway!)
Have a great day, be kind, and thanks for sharing! :D
It’s helpful if given a partition (with sharps or flats duly noted in the key signature), of which you want to quickly know the key -thus the tonic chord, usually the one any given song begins and ends with… broadly speaking. With this mnemonic you can immediately tell what the key is and start playing. Of course most people who play an instrument have developed their ear so that they can find the key of most songs they hear intuitively/empirically, the trick is useful with a partition only.
But there’s no benefit to memorising the ‘do re mi’ system instead of just the order of notes.
In fact the notes are far easier, since all you actually have to remember is that it starts on ‘F’ and moves in 5ths.
That’s it. You don’t need to have the sequence by rote
Good catch, I didn’t realize all intervals were 5ths. Well the order is fine by me, it’s a song in and of itself so it’s very easy to remember. I guess the minimum you have to know is the start note (Si or Fa)