How well do you know the musical alphabet? How quickly can you run it up and down?
these probably aren’t questions at the forefront of your mind,
but in this lesson we are going to talk about the benefits of practicing your ABCs and how to do it.
This is, believe it or not, the first thing I do with new students. It gives me a chance to practice it but it also improves there musical fluency instantly. We can communicate and progress a lot more easily.
Just working on your ability and recall of the musical alphabet and common patterns can help with a wide range of musical abilities. You can improve your sight-reading, your improvisation, your transcribing, your ability to communicate, and your ability to transpose.
So give these exercises a try, you can do them wherever, even if it’s just in your head. You no longer have an excuse not to be progressing. Also, the possibilities and patterns are endless, so once you’ve got the basics down you can be as creative as you want. Remember, always try to make it relevant… practice popular progressions that you encounter in all keys. You don’t need to be able to transpose awkward jazz tunes if you’re just trying to develop your pop playing, start with what you need to be able to do.