Perfect Pitch is the most important exercise - 40 min {twice a day if you are a pro}
This trains the ear to know intervals. It trains the voice to sing the exact pitch by "jumping intervals" practice.
Three Note Walkup (consecutive intervals)
Play and sing three consecutive notes of a scale. Then move up a semitone to the next scale and repeat. Start at your lowest note and stop at your highest note.
If you have just done the standard tune up, you have practiced consecutive invervals and don't need to do the three note walkup exercise. Also if you have sung the arpegiated the chord as you finished a scale and arpegiated the next scale chord before tuning to that scale, you have practiced the chord jumping intervals and don't need to do the chord interval exercise that follows.
Jumping intervals --- (in all vowels and in all scales)
[Put the yy sound between singing the targeted vowel. The last root note can be eliminated]
Root note always first, then 3 5 3 then root note last [chord]
Root note always first, then 4 5 4 then root last [sub dominant, dominant]
Root note, then 3 3 flat 3 then root [minor]
Root note, then 4 3 4 then root [subdominant, mediant]
Root note, then 6, 4 6 then root [sixth]
Root note, then 8 then root [octave]
Make up your own sequence comprising of eight notes. First play the root note, then 3 notes that are in the upper part of the scale, then 3 notes in the lower part of the scale, then the root note again as the final note. Practice custom sequences in every key and every vowel. Always the root first, then the sequence, then the root as the last note. Mentally think and feel the note positions in the scale as you vocalize them. Besides the vowels you can vocalize the scale positions with words - examples: one, three, five, three, one.
Zig Zag 4ths - Subdominants
(up and down in all vowels, stay on the white keys, from your lowest note to your highest)
Root note first [1], then 4, 2 5, 3 6, 4 7, 5 8 (be sure and flat the B on the F scale)
Zig Zag 5ths - Dominants
Root note first [1], then 5, 2 6, 3 7, 4 8 (be sure and sharp the F on the B scale)
Slides
A continuous raising of one note to the next note of a scale. Start at your lowest note. Go through all the scales until you reach your highest note.
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Scale Degrees
Play the C chord. Then sing the root note using the position lyric [one]; then the scale degree singing the lyric of the position of that note. Lyric example: one two, one three, one four, one five, one six, one seven, one eight. Memorize the sounds. After the C scale, stay on the white keys and do the same exercise with the chord modes of Dm Em F G Am Bdim.
Knowing the Interval Spacing
Minor Second = Jaws (a semi tone, a minor second)
Major Second = Frere Jacque Minor Third = Madworld. "It's a ..."
Major Third = David Bowie’s. "Let’s Dance"
Perfect Fourth = Summer Nights "Summer lovin" - Grease Movie theme
Perfect Fifth = Star Wars theme, ET theme "da da"
Minor Sixth = The Entertainer "da da"
Major Sixth = "My Bonnie" lies over the ocean
Minor Seventh = "Somewhere" West Side Story "There’s a" Place for Us, Maria
Major Seventh = "What a" wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
Octave = "Some Where" Over the Rainbow - from the Wizard of Oz