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SOLFEGE SYLLABLES AND ChROMATIC SOLFEGE
The grapic below shows the chromatic sofege syllables, ascending and descending.
Do people actually study this stuff, this chromatic solfege?
Oh yes they do. They even claim it’s useful, and so it is, once you get into it. For instance, when you learn scales other than the standard do-re-mi scale (scales that include some chromatic notes), you can learn an equivalent do-re-mi syllable-based way of remembering each separate scale.
As you’ll see in later chapters, heavy metal musicians (among others) make use of scales called modes, and each mode can be translated into a do-re-mi type of scale using the above syllables.