How to Learn Byzantine Chant in 3 months

Michael Azar Music

00:00 Preface
1:00 practice 1 hour a day
2:15 Find a teacher
5:00 Chant on the analogion
6:00 Week 1: Memorize Paralegi scale + up 1 down 1 and ison
8:33 week 2: Klasma + hapli + dipli + tripli
9:00 Week 3: up 2 + down 2 + combination characters
10:00 Week 4: Up 3 @3doorsdown+ down 3
10:30 Week 5: Gorgon
11:00 Week 6: Up 4 + Down 4 + Tone 1
11:35 Week 7 Up 5 + Down 5 + Up 6 + Down 6
12:10 Week 8: Enharmonic scale
12:48 Week 9: Up 7 + down 7 and introduce soft chromatic scale
13:40 Week 10: Reinforce soft chromatic scale
14:12 Week 11: Digorgon + dotted gorgon + Trigorgon
15:15 Week 12: Hard Chromatic Scale
15:55 Week 13: Learn a doxastikon
16:20 Ornament characters
16:40 Vocal technique
18:00 concluding remarks
21:30 Prayer request

[Andrew_Schaefer]

We appreciate all that you do, Michael. Very glad to have had you as my teacher.

[TheHappyPianoTeacher]

Good video and solid plan

I think when people say it takes years to become proficient at chanting, they are including in proficiency things like: Typikon, managing the chant stand, communicating with the priest, and most importantly figuring out how to begin to attend to your spiritual life when your role at church has changed. I don't know how one can learn all this without having chanted through the whole cycle of services a few times.

Another interesting thing to think about: practicing an hour a day is awesome, but you must be careful that your students are practicing correctly. Otherwise they are hammering incorrect habits into their head.

In the absence of being beside a master chanter for the duration of one's training, it's very important to listen to good recordings.

Thanks for the vid

[celebUnfolded]

Brother, keep up your work. It is truely blessed. ☦️

[Damascene]

Hey Michael.
Your channel has been key for me.
Can you do a video breaking down how the liturgy works and the tones progress.

More specifically Im trying to figure out which version of the liturgical chants do not change week by week, I think learning those would be a good start.
So far I’ve learned how to chant “Only Begotten Son” which I think is the second antiphon.
I know that the third antiphon is an apolitikion so it changes weekly.

[carlcool]

I see the Lebanese flag, I click. God bless you, I wish you the best for your exams!

[CristinaJacksonLMT]

Pray for me to be diligent about practicing.

[gal-wq]

Very helpful! Thank you so much! God bless you!

[likepixl]

Will pray for you for the MCAT! Also, can you do Paralegi and Melos for "In Thee who art Full of Grace" in Plagal 4th mode by Anthimos?