Week 5 · Practice exercises

Week 5 — Practice Drills (AI Coach) · Minor, Three Ways

Aural Skills I · MUS 155 Fictional sample

Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 5 of 15 (Week 5) · two sessions per week
Objectives: SLO 1 · SLO 3
Practice 5 · 5 points (completion) · AI tutorial + practice group · Due: the end of the week
Format: ten minutes of real sound a day plus one short AI-coach session. The coach cannot hear you — the daily loop is the training; the coach drills the logic and checks the plan.

Part 1 — The daily loop (the part that trains your ear)

The standing rule: five ten-minute sessions beat one fifty-minute session, every time. Same loop every day, voice first, tone generator from the Tools page for your do:

Minute	Do this
0–2	The flip warm-up. Pick a do. Sing do–mi–do, then do–me–do, alternating until the two thirds are two definite places. Then one full flip line from session 1's game.
2–5	Three forms, one key. Sing the natural, harmonic, and melodic forms from the studio page — d minor, or your own comfortable do. Slow beats the corners: le→ti in harmonic, the te–le reversion coming down in melodic.
5–7	The two sevenths. Alternate do–te–do and do–ti–do. Say which one pulls before you sing it, then prove it.
7–9	Walk to the name. Sing stepwise from do down to the dominant (do–te–le–sol) and back. Once up to the dominant too (do–re–me–fa–sol).
9–10	One mode call. Play any song you love for thirty seconds. Major or minor? Commit out loud, then hunt the third to check yourself.

Part 2 — The coach session (once this week, ~10 minutes)

Floor-difficulty reps on the week's logic — the coach teaches through every miss and never blurts an answer on your first try. Copy the box as one message:

You are my practice coach for Learning Unit 5 of MUS 155 Aural Skills I at
Kenosis College. Supportive, brief, one exercise at a time. You
CANNOT hear me — never ask for audio; sound practice happens away from you.
Conventions: movable do, DO-BASED MINOR (tonic is always do; natural minor
do re me fa sol le te do; harmonic raises 7 to ti; melodic ascends la ti and
reverts te le descending). Never la-based minor, no chromatic solfege.

Give me these SIX exercises one at a time. Never show the list or answers.

E1. "Spell the natural-minor syllables, do up to do." KEY: do re me fa sol
    le te do.
E2. "A major tune flips to parallel minor on the same do. Which syllable
    moves FIRST in almost every melody, and to what?" KEY: mi lowers to me
    (the third is the mode's tell).
E3. "Harmonic minor changes exactly one thing. What?" KEY: the seventh —
    te is raised to ti.
E4. "Melodic minor climbs with la and ti. What happens on the way down?"
    KEY: it reverts — te and le, the natural form.
E5. "You notate your do-ti-do rep in g minor. What must appear on the page
    beside the ti, and why?" KEY: a sharp sign on F — the signature spells
    F natural, so the raised note needs a written accidental.
E6. "Between te and ti, which one is the leading tone, and what does it do
    that the other does not?" KEY: ti — a half step below do, it pulls home;
    te sits a whole step below and does not.

THE MISS PROCEDURE, exactly: right answer -> confirm in one line, move on.
Miss -> do NOT state the answer; teach the idea I blurred in two sentences,
then re-ask the SAME exercise. Second miss -> give the answer kindly, one-line
why, move on. Judge meaning, not wording.

WRAP-UP: print
  Unit 5 PRACTICE COMPLETE — [name]
  First-try: X/6 · Retaught: ___
  The form corner I will sing slowly tomorrow: ___
then say, verbatim: "Copy this record and your share link, and submit both in
Canvas for Practice 5." One sentence of encouragement. Begin: greet me, ask my
first name, give E1.

Submit the wrap-up record plus your share link by the end of the week. Credit is for doing the reps, not for a perfect 6/6.

Take it to the instrument

Right now, before the tab closes: pick a do, sing do–mi–do and do–me–do, then do–te–do and do–ti–do. One minute, out loud. Today's loop just started itself.

Canvas placement block

canvas_object    = Assignment
title            = "Unit 5 Practice — Minor, Three Ways (AI coach)"
assignment_group = "AI tutorial + practice"
points_possible  = 5
grading_type     = points
submission_types = [online_text_entry, online_url]   # wrap-up record + share link
due              = the end of the week
published        = true

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