

Sing Up has a song for each type of cadence (available for Members): Some new vocabulary to listen out for are the words: tonic, dominant and subdominant which means chords 1 (I), 4 (IV) and 5 (V). Some handy videos with examples of cadences include:

Chord 2 is D minor and chord 6 is A minor. Use a guitar or piano or these instruments on an App like Garageband. Next play them as chords, instead of single notes, so for instance in the key of C, the first chord is C, the 4 th chord F and the 5 th chord G. Once you can clearly sing and play the scales and intervals practise the following moving between these notes: It really helps if you can hear them in your head and sing/play them as that way it becomes easier to identify each cadence later on. Next sing and play through the Intervals/ Numbers warm-up (find the best key for your instrument), try and become really familiar with the intervals. The notes of a scale are also referred to as the degrees of the scale i.e.

With one hand facing you, count your little finger as 1, the space between your little finger and ring finger 2, your ring 3 etc using fingers and spaces all the way to 8 (the space before your thumb). It might help to use the fingers on your hand like a ladder while you sing up and down. This song uses all eight notes of the major scale – going up and coming back down. Sing through the song 1, 121 and play it on your instrument (choose a good key for your instrument) and if it’s possible sing and play consecutively. The first thing to understand before we move onto the actual cadences are the notes of the scale (let’s stick with the major scale) and the intervals between them. The most common types of cadence that you’ll need to understand for GCSE music are:Įach cadence has its own distinctive sound and is formed by the relationship between the final two chords of a musical phrase.
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Cadences are like musical punctuation – they punctuate the ends of musical phrases and sections of music much like commas and full stops punctuate the written word.
