Time Changes Everything

First, print out this page so you can write the scale degrees in the blanks above the notes as you go:
Get Ear Training Sheet for Time Changes Everything

Start by listening to the full melody below (Solo 1). Use it to find the tonal center (do, or 1) of the melody. Sing that note, then check yourself by clicking on the Tonal Center text to the right below.

Basic Melody (Solo 1)

Answer

Once you are sure you're singing the right pitch, find that note on your guitar. When you think you've got it, roll your mouse over the X to the right for the answer. That's the tonal center of this melody, the first scale degree. You'll use that note to identify the rest of the pitches in the melody as scale degrees.

For each table below, start by listening to the whole phrase (left hand column). If you can work out the whole phrase in scale degrees easily, do so. But if breaking it down would be helpful, take it just a few notes at a time by listening to the "notes to identify" in the middle column, identifying them as scale degrees relative to the tonal center. Whether you do the phrase all at once or in shorter segments, you can mouse over the x's in the right hand column to check your answers.

Audio	Notes to Identify	Rollover X for Answer
Phrase 1	First three notes
	Next two notes
	Final four notes of the phrase

Audio	Notes to Identify	Rollover X for Answer
Phrase 2	First four notes of the phrase
	Last four notes of the phrase

Audio	Notes to Identify	Rollover X for Answer
Phrase 3	First four notes
	Final five notes of the phrase

Audio	Notes to Identify	Rollover X for Answer
Phrase 4	First two notes
	Final five notes of the phrase

Once you've got either or both of these melodies sketched out in scale degrees, the next step is to translate it onto the guitar, based on your understanding of the E major scale. (The most common major scales are in the answers to Exercise 11 in the Theory Primer, located at the end of the primer.) Remember not to "feel" your way through the melody at this point. Use the work you've done to nail it, first time through.