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Example Aural Exercises

Major / Minor

Listen carefully as the piano chords change.

 

When the music sounds happy (Major) stand up tall with hands in the air.

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When the music sounds sad (minor) crouch down on the ground.

Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 - Major/minor? Ex 1
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Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 - Major/minor? Ex 2
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Solfege Exercises
Duple or Triple?
Duple or Triple? Exercise 1 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 6
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Duple

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Duple or Triple? Exercise 3 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 6
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Duple

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Duple or Triple? Exercise 5 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 6
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Triple

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Duple or Triple? Exercise 7 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 8
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 9 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 8
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 11 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 8
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 2 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 6
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 4 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 6
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 6 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 6
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 8 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 8
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 10 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 8
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Duple or Triple? Exercise 12 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1 Lesson 8
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Triple

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Listening: High / Low, Jumping / Stepping

Listening:

High / Low

Jumping / Stepping

Listen carefully.

 

If you hear high notes, stand up tall with your arms above your head.

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If you hear low notes, crouch down low on the ground.

Low notes or high notes? - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Low notes or high notes? - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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If you hear stepping notes, walk with careful steps.

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If you hear jumping notes, jump up and down on the spot!

Jumping / Stepping - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Jumping / Stepping - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Listen - Clap - Sing

Listen to the melody played on the piano, clap it back, and then sing it.

 

Each melody is played twice.

Listen-Clap-Sing Ex 1 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Listen-Clap-Sing Ex 3 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Listen-Clap-Sing Ex 5 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Listen-Clap-Sing Ex 2 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Listen-Clap-Sing Ex 4 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Listen-Clap-Sing Ex 6 - Best Start Music Lessons Book 1
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Music & Movement

Book 1
Lesson 1 
Music and movement:
In the Hall of the Mountain King
by Edvard Grieg

Book 1
Lesson 3 
Music and movement:
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Book 1
Lesson 5 
Music and movement:
Hedwig's Theme
Prologue from Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
by John Williams

Book 1
Lesson 7
Music and movement:
O Fortuna
From Carmina Burana
by Carl Orff

Book 2
Lesson 1
Music and movement:
Hoedown from Rodeo
by Aaron Copland

Book 2
Lesson 2
Music and movement:
Waltz No. 2
by Dimitri Shostakovich

Book 2
Lesson 5
Music and movement:
In the Mood
by Glenn Miller

Book 2
Lesson 5
Music and movement:
Take 5
by Dave Brubeck

Book 2
Lesson 5
Music and movement:
Sacrificial Dance from The Rite of Spring
by Igor Stravinsky

Book 2
Lesson 6
Music and movement:
The Can Can
by Jaques Offenbach

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