Tuning Unit (brown belt)

What is tuning?

• Accidentals on notes

• The volume that you play/sing

• The state of being on the proper pitch/note

• A device used to help set your tuning note/train your ear

What is aural tuning?

• Using a tuner

• Using your air

• Using your posture

• Using your ear

If the tuner is showing +10 and the arrow is aimed too high what is happening?

• You are playing a completely wrong flat note

• You are playing a completely wrong sharp note

• You are in-between two notes by being flat

• You are in-between two notes by being sharp

What is active listening?

• Listening to the sounds around you and correcting the people near you if they are wrong

• Listening to the sounds around you and adjusting/blending in

• Listening to the sounds around you and playing/singing louder to cover up any wrong notes

• Listening and actively describing what you hear

Check the 3 main adjustments you can make to help your tuning match the others around you (you must select 3)

• Adjusting your embouchure/posture

• Adjusting the note you are singing/playing to a completely different note

• Adjusting your volume to help blend your tone to those around you

• Adjusting the amount of air/breath you use on the note

• Adjusting your ears to hear the note better

What can singing/playing with not enough air do to the note?

• Make it shakey

• Make it too short

• Make it too sharp

• Make it too flat

What do we call the space inbetween real notes that you can accidentally hit if you aren't in tune?

• Waves

• Interference beats

• Microtones (AKA cents)

• Hertz

Sound travels in _______??

• Water

• Waves

• Your ear

• The Ground

What do we call the frequencies that notes vibrate at?

• Cents

• Microtones

• Hertz

• Waves

What is our tuning note?

• Middle C (choir) and Concert B flat (band)

• Middle A (choir) and Concert G (band)

• Middle D (choir) and Concert C (band)

• Middle F (choir) and Concert E flat (band)