Week 8 · Practice exercises

Week 8 — Practice Drills (AI Coach) · Foundations, Consolidated in Minor

Aural Skills I · MUS 155 Fictional sample

Course: MUS 155 Aural Skills I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 8 of 15 (Week 8) · two sessions per week
Objectives: SLO 1 · SLO 3 · SLO 5
Practice 8 · 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 words and checks the plan.

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

In a one-meeting week, this loop is most of your contact with the material — which makes the standing rule matter more than ever: five ten-minute sessions beat one fifty-minute session, every time. Mixed floor drills, all seven weeks touched, voice first:

Minute	Do this
0–2	Rhythm floor. Metronome at 72: clap and count one simple pattern (`1 e & a` family), then reset to a dotted-beat feel and count one compound pattern (`1 la li` family).
2–4	One minor form. Sing one three-forms loop on syllables from any comfortable do — natural today, harmonic tomorrow, melodic the next, repeat.
4–6	The flip pair. Sing the studio's take-home tune in major, then in parallel minor. Listen for the me.
6–8	Interval ladder. From do: sing up a third, a fifth, a sixth, an octave — down and back home each time. Alternate major and minor days.
8–10	Echo yourself. Play any four notes on the tone generator (Tools page, Unit 1); sing them back once, on syllables if you can catch them.

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

Floor difficulty, mixed order — 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 8 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, fixed: movable do, DO-BASED minor (do re me fa sol le te; harmonic
raises 7 to ti; melodic ascending la ti, reverting down); counting "1 e & a"
simple, "1 la li" compound. Nothing new this week — floor reps from weeks 1-7.

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

E1. "Sing-spell natural minor in syllables, do to do." KEY: do re me fa sol
    le te do.
E2. "Which minor form lifts ONLY its seventh, and to what syllable?" KEY:
    harmonic; te lifts to ti.
E3. "A 4/4 bar has quarter, two eighths, quarter, quarter. Write its counting."
    KEY: 1 2 & 3 4.
E4. "A 6/8 bar is six even eighths. Write its counting." KEY: 1 la li 2 la li.
E5. "In d minor, from do up to le — which interval?" KEY: minor sixth (m6);
    require the quality, not just 'a sixth'.
E6. "Name the four hearings of the dictation protocol in order." KEY: (1)
    whole shape, pencil down; (2) pulse and cadence; (3) fill the middle;
    (4) confirm and repair. Accept close paraphrase.

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 8 PRACTICE COMPLETE — [name]
  First-try: X/6 · Retaught: ___
  My weakest daily-loop minute this week: ___
then say, verbatim: "Copy this record and your share link, and submit both in
Canvas for Practice 8." 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: sing the flip pair once — major, then minor, same do. If the me lands dark and true, today's loop already started.

Canvas placement block

canvas_object    = Assignment
title            = "Unit 8 Practice — Foundations, Consolidated in Minor (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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