In this step-by-step video course, you will master the seven harmonic environments of the major scale which are the building blocks of all modern music. And you'll learn to connect your ear with your instrument, expressing your own musical ideas effortlessly in any key.
In this free sample lesson from Seven Worlds for Piano, we explore the landscape of our keyboard using the smallest interval in our musical system: the half step. We practice moving across our musical landscape, connecting all of the notes as one long unbroken chain of half steps.
In this lesson Mireia Clua walks you through many great ideas and inspirations for practicing IFR Exercise 1: Landscape.
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In this step-by-step video course, you will master the seven harmonic environments of the major scale which are the building blocks of all modern music. And you'll learn to connect your ear with your instrument, expressing your own musical ideas anywhere on the fretboard.
In this free sample lesson from Seven Worlds for Piano, we will master moving around our instrument by whole steps. Once we have mastered both the half step and the whole step, we can use these intervals to build the notes of any key on our instrument.
For IFR students practicing Exercise 2: Melody, this is a demonstration of the exercise Seven Worlds in the 4th harmonic environment. Ferran Badal explores the harmonic environment on the alto flute.
