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Quick questions on Sight-singing and aural musicianship: HSC Music 2
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What is a method for the preparation time?Show answer
Use your brief preparation time systematically. First, fix the key: find the tonic, sing the scale up and down in your head, and feel where the melody starts in relation to it. Second, scan the rhythm: count the metre, tap the pulse, and note any tricky figures such as dotted rhythms, ties or syncopation. Third, scan the contour: see where the melody rises and falls and where the big leaps are, and work out those intervals from the tonic.
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