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Ear Training for Live Performance Lesson 1 Building Connections: Inner Hearing, Voice, and Instrument • Singing Basics for Performance Ear Training • Workshop: Pitch Matching • Major Scales, Solfege, Your Voice and Inner Hearing • Workshop: Reviewing Movable-Do Solfege • Solfege and Inner Hearing • Workshop: Call and Response with Voice and Instrument • Workshop: Solfege and Inner Hearing • Rhythmic Vocabulary: Recognizing, Reading and Writing the Building Blocks of Rhythm • Workshop: Performing Basic One-Beat Rhythms • Workshop: Identifying One-Beat Rhythms • Assignment 1: Playing and Singing Major Scale Material and Composing Rhythms Lesson 2 Major Scale Interval Exploration • More Major Scale Intervals: Indirect Resolutions, Bass Lines, and Leaps • Indirect Resolutions with V7 to I Accompaniment • Using Songs to Identify Intervals • Workshop: Major Scale Intervals and Patterns • Identifying Diatonic Major Scale Intervals and Patterns in Music • Workshop: Which Bass Line is It? • Expanding Our Rhythmic Vocabulary • Workshop: Rhythms and Rests • Workshop: Sight Singing Melodies • Assignment 2: Melodic Phrases, 3/4 Transcription Lesson 3 Minor Keys and Cut Time • Minor Keys and Scales • Natural and Harmonic Minor Scales

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Tendency Tones in Minor Workshop: Warm Up 2/2 meter: Cut Time Workshop: Samba Rhythms Assignment 3: Minor Key and 2/2 Rhythms

Lesson 4 More Minor Scales • Le vs. La and Te vs. Ti in Minor • Quiz: Identify the Type of Minor Scale • Line Cliches • Workshop: Identify the Line Cliche • Workshop: Sing a Mixed Minor Warm-Up Routine • Quiz: Identify the Minor Scale Type • Assignment 4: Minor Scales Lesson 5 Minor Pentatonic Scale and the Minor Blues Scale • Minor Pentatonic Scales • Workshop: Minor Pentatonic Scale • Blues Notes and the Minor Blues Scale • Workshop: Sing and Play Blues Scale Melodies • Syncopated Eighth Notes, Ties, and Anticipations • Swing Feel and Syncopation • Workshop: Sing Syncopated Rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4 While Conducting • Assignment 5: Pentatonic and Blues Sounds Lesson 6 Major Pentatonic and the Melodic Language of Blues • Major Pentatonic Scale • Workshop: Major Pentatonic Call and Response • Major Blues Scale • Workshop: Major Pentatonic and Major Blues Scale Melodies • Mixed Blues Scales: Minor and Major • Workshop: Mixed Blues Scale Call and Response

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Quiz: Identify the Scale Mid-Term Sight Singing Exam Preparation Workshop: Melody Practice Assignment 6: Blues Tonality

Lesson 7 The Mixolydian Mode and More Syncopated Rhythms • Mixolydian Mode • Mixolydian Melodies • Workshop: Warm Up Using Solfege Ladder • Exercise: Call-and-Response • Tied 16th Notes and 16th-Note Syncopations • Workshop: One-Bar Examples with a Metronome • Assignment 7: Mixolydian Phrases Lesson 8 The Lydian Mode • Lydian • Lydian Melodies • Workshop: Warm Up Using Solfege Ladder • Lydian Melodies from Real • Mixed 8th- and 16th-Note Syncopations, Ties • Workshop: Juke-Box • Exercise: Rhythmic Duet Etude • Assignment 8: Transcribe, Call-and-Response Lesson 9 The Phrygian Mode, Bii and Ra, the Spectrum of Modes • Phrygian Activity • Sing Phrygian Melodies • Recognizing Phrygian Melodies • Quiz: Identify The Mode • More Work On Mixed 8th-Note and 16th-Note Syncopations • Sight-Singing One- and Two-Bar Rhythmic Examples • Assignment 9: Record Yourself Singing Mixolydian, Lydian, and Phrygian

Lesson 10 Mixed Modes • Singing and Playing Mixed Modes in Melodies • Workshop: Melodies in Mixed Major Modes and Mixed Minor Modes • Recognizing The Sounds Of Mixed Modes • Eighth-Note Triplets • Workshop: Sight Reading and Sing • Getting Ready For Next Week's Sight-Singing Final • Workshop: Practice Quiz • Assignment 10: Compose and Perform Lesson 11 Mixed Modes, Part 2, and Polyrhythms • Mixed Modes • Guided Warm-Up from Lydian To Phrygian • How to Improvise a Warm • Workshop: Listen to Mixed Mode Phrases and Sing Back • Quarter-Note Triplets • Quarter-Note Triplets and Mixed Rhythmic Performance • Introduction to 3:2 Polyrhythms • Assignment 11: Improvised a Warm-Up in Mixed Modes, Recording, Transcription Lesson 12 Practice Techniques and Final Project • Chromatic Notes in Modal and Blues Contexts • Workshop: Sing Along with a Comprehensive Warm-Up • Exercise: Call-and-Response • Note-Chasing • Rhythms Review • Exercise: Perform a Comprehensive Rhythm Warm-Up with Accompaniment • Assignment 12: Design and Share an Ear Training Exercise and Final Project