How can I help my students who complain that they can hear the bass voice in the MacGAMUT Harmonic Dictation exercises?
You might suggest that students who are having trouble hearing the bass voice try changing the volume and timbre of individual voices. The default setting for MacGAMUT 6 allows students to change the volume and timbre of individual voices. However, if you have changed that setting, students will have this option only in Practice Mode. Often, after working briefly with a markedly differentiated bass voice, students find they can hear the bass voice quite clearly, even when it is no longer artificially emphasized. If you want to be sure students can change individual voice volume and timbre at any time, you can use the Set Params application included on your Instructor Disk to check the Harmonic Dictation presets and select “Student can change voice volume.” This setting allows students to make one or more voices louder or to select different instrumental timbres for one or more voices, even when they are working in Mastery mode. For a more complete discussion of this issue, see “Bringin
