In order to aid in the practical application of this process, I offer a four-semester learning sequence for the development of tonal jazz pitch-listening skills as well as a variety of formal assessment methods. Therefore, I recommend that to acquire tonal jazz pitch-listening skills, learners should (1) immerse themselves in the real music of that idiom, (2) remediate their listening skills, where necessary, by listening to slowed-down versions with exaggerated features, and (3) organize their listening experiences with explicit theoretical labels for particular pitch structures, if they want to communicate about those pitch structures in speech or writing. Converging experimental evidence supports the notion that humans develop listening skills through implicit learning via immersive, statistically rich exposure to real music from a particular musical idiom, such as tonal jazz. In this dissertation, I present a method for developing tonal jazz pitch-listening skills (PLS) which is rooted in scientific experimental findings from the fields of music cognition and perception. This assimilation and expansion of existing theoretical models contributes to a much-needed clearer understanding of modal syntax and function in rock and heavy metal music. I analyze some characteristic pitch-based constructs in British and American rock and heavy metal-double-plagal progressions and diatonic and triad-doubled pentatonic, hexatonic, and heptatonic modal scales and systems-and compare them to several traditional paradigms of root motion, harmonic function, and phrase structure. In this study I address some of the current controversies regarding harmonic, melodic and formal functions in rock music, and the absence of an existing model for these functions in heavy metal. This PDF (122 pages) is a guitar scale dictionary containing over 700 diagrams (one-octave, two-octave and whole neck shapes) with formula charts. This perception is due in no small part to the prevalence of pentatonic, modal, and subdominant-based pitch structures and the corresponding lack of a conventional leading tone to the tonic in many styles, deriving from their roots in both the blues and the modal-folk revival. Harmonic and melodic progressions in rock and heavy metal music are often described as less functional or directional than those of conventional major-minor tonality.
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