
Activities for Section 4: PITCH
- Find a piano or electronic keyboard and practice playing all of the pitch classes, saying the letter name of each pitch as you play that key on the keyboard. Try improvising a melody, still saying each pitch name out loud as you play them.
- On one of your pieces or etudes, go through the entire piece reading aloud each pitch name as you point to it. Now find some music that uses another clef than you are used to reading, and do the same.
- For each key on the keyboard, play it and say the letter name of that pitch. Then, figure out the ENHARMONIC name of that pitch, one letter name lower (i.e. if you are on C, what accidentals are needed to spell it enharmonically as some type of a "B"? answer: B sharp is EHARMONICALLY equal to C natural.)
- Write a simple melody, using only quarter notes in 4/4. You can use any pitches that you like! Be sure to play or sing it as you are writing it down. If you need STAFF PAPER, there is a link below to a file that you can print out on your computer. (There is also a link to that in the Table of Contents)