Reed Triller
82 posts
Jun 29, 2013
8:52 PM
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For those of you who know what this is. What might be one of the best programs to help train my ears better? Or is it just trial and error by listening?
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FMWoodeye
693 posts
Jun 29, 2013
9:32 PM
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What?
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STME58
485 posts
Jun 29, 2013
9:48 PM
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I was interested to see what FMWoodeye had to say on this topic so I clicked and got a joke. Well, that's OK too.
30 years ago in a music program at a JC, we would just use a keyboard, hit the tonic and then try to sing a 3rd, fourth, fifth or octave, then check our attempt with the keyboard and see if we had hit it. With a bit of practice most of us could hit any note above a given note. Hitting a given note without a reference was something few could do. Many believe this "perfect pitch" is only achievable by a few with the genetic disposition to do so. Whereas the relative pitch described above can be achieved by most people with a little practice.
I expect there are more sophisticated methods using computers now. I will be interested to see what gets posted here.
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Reed Triller
84 posts
Jun 29, 2013
9:55 PM
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Last Edited by Reed Triller on Jun 29, 2013 9:56 PM
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Harpaholic
259 posts
Jun 30, 2013
12:35 AM
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www.perfectpitch.com
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rpavich
47 posts
Jun 30, 2013
2:50 AM
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Edited to add that I noticed that harpaholic posted the link www.perfectpitch.com which is the course that i'm referring to below.
Ok...I know that this will sound stupid and people will doubt it but in my opinion, the best relative pitch ear training course is that one by David L. Burge from the 70's.
Basically it consists of drills of the intervals, backwards forwards, upside down, rightside up, different octaves, and over and over again. It's fun if that's what you want to do...and it doesn't come over night.
I did it and I spent at least 6 months doing it...every day...1 hour a day at least. That was about 2000 or so. I stopped short of doing all the intervals; I got to M6. I was moving, my job moved and I just didn't start up again...no fault of the course.
To this day I can spot every interval up to a M6 with ease no matter what...at lighting speed. Recognizing chord tones within chords is a snap...you can transcribe what you hear with no problem.
Basically you do it so much that it's so ingrained in you that it's like asking "what is red"? you just KNOW what the color red is...and it seems like a dumb question.
You can get the course from ebay for about 75.00.
Last Edited by rpavich on Jun 30, 2013 2:53 AM
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The Iceman
966 posts
Jun 30, 2013
7:36 AM
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I completed the Relative Pitch course about 20 years ago (a set of about 20 cassette tapes).
It took me a year to master it.
It works as rpavich outlines.
The Perfect Pitch course also works, but you really have to be dedicated, spend the time and believe in it.
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Reed Triller
91 posts
Jun 30, 2013
4:06 PM
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Apparently I had thought about this before. I was messing with my iPad and rediscovered that I had downloaded an app called Ear Training, which was only 5-6 bucks at the time, and just forgot I had it. It seemed to have great reviews.
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