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Listening Singing Teacher i Welcome Table of Contents Trademarks .................................................................................................................................... i Welcome to Listening Singing Teacher (LST) ......................................... 4 Installation Macintosh ............................................................................... 5 Installation Windows ................................................................................ 9 First Time Use ......................................................................................... 20 Select User .............................................................................................. 23 Select Lesson/Exercise ............................................................................ 24 Introduction ............................................................................................. 26 Exercise Options ..................................................................................... 48 Feedback ................................................................................................. 53 Replay Options ........................................................................................ 54 Lesson Exercises ..................................................................................... 55 Overview of Lessons/Exercises: ................................................................................................ 56 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 56 Catch the note ......................................................................................................................... 56 Scale: Sing after me ................................................................................................................ 58 Scale two notes at a time ........................................................................................................ 58 Randomly up (one note) ......................................................................................................... 58 Tempo Markings .................................................................................................................... 59 Note Length ............................................................................................................................ 61 Notes longer than a beat ......................................................................................................... 63 Randomly up (three notes) ..................................................................................................... 66 Mary had a little lamb ............................................................................................................ 66 Quarter Rests .......................................................................................................................... 67 Notes shorter than a beat ........................................................................................................ 67 Are you sleeping ..................................................................................................................... 68 Up range 5 (one note) ............................................................................................................. 68 Up range 5 (five notes) ........................................................................................................... 68 London bridge ........................................................................................................................ 68 Up range 8 (one note) ............................................................................................................. 68 Always start from Do ............................................................................................................. 68 Up range 8 (eight notes) ......................................................................................................... 69 Old Mac Donald ..................................................................................................................... 69 Up and down in half-steps ...................................................................................................... 69 Happy Birthday ...................................................................................................................... 74 Dotted notes, ties and slurs ..................................................................................................... 75 Oh when the saints ................................................................................................................. 76 My Bonnie .............................................................................................................................. 76 Amazing grace ........................................................................................................................ 76 Sixteenth Note ........................................................................................................................ 78 Listening Singing Teacher 1 Welcome Clementine ............................................................................................................................. 78 What shall we do with ............................................................................................................ 78 Rests other than a quarter ....................................................................................................... 78 Silent night ............................................................................................................................. 79 Jingle bells .............................................................................................................................. 79 Good night ladies ................................................................................................................... 80 Syncopation ............................................................................................................................ 81 Rhythm: La Bamba ................................................................................................................ 81 Triplets: John Smith ............................................................................................................... 83 Going up with first note only ................................................................................................. 83 Going down with first note only ............................................................................................ 83 Pushing the limits up .............................................................................................................. 83 Pushing the limits down ......................................................................................................... 84 Up from a reference note ........................................................................................................ 84 Down from a random reference note ...................................................................................... 84 He is a jolly good fellow ........................................................................................................ 85 Some more theory ................................................................................... 86 Diatonic Scale ........................................................................................................................ 86 Chromatic Scale ..................................................................................................................... 87 Pentatonic Scale ..................................................................................................................... 87 Modes ..................................................................................................................................... 87 Key signatures ........................................................................................................................ 88 Chords .................................................................................................................................... 89 Where to go from here? .......................................................................................................... 90 Ear-Training: Intervals ............................................................................ 91 Ear-training exercises 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