Manfred-Klose
Has anyone ever used this ear training method before?:
http://www.perfectpitch.com/home.htm
I used some software before that trains your ear, but it was really easy to notice the differrence between a maj3rd/min3rd/min6th, it had no effect on training my ear at all.
Can anyone give me tips on how to train your ear?
aka distinguish a B from a Bb ???
Thanks in advance.
aja
TomCat
My Wife is excellent with pitch.
I'll ask her for her secret and see if I can post something later.
guitarboy2828
I actually have the perfect pitch course..
It's not a bad course.. Although, i'm not sure it'll allow you to distinguish between a major chord and a flattened chord.. It helps you hear notes from nothing.. So right now i could hum you an A from thin air.. I think! ? Well, that's the purpose of the course.. He associates sounds with colors and gets you to practice and what not..
Relative pitch however is the distinguishing between two notes.. Perfect pitch is just recognizing what a note is on its own
Does that make sense?
So i guess this will help you tell the difference between and B and a Bb.. But relative pitch would be able to do that too.. But hearing a minor 2nd or major third you are telling the difference.. Perfect pitch will just allow you to undertand what key you are in!
Manfred-Klose
Thanks everyone.
Guitarboy2828@ the reason i want to develop it is because i sometimes compose straight out of my head, like when driving in the car, hearing a rhythm and adding a melody aka improvising.
The problem i have is that if i have a melody in my head i want to lay it down within a few seconds, so that i can finish the song.
SpeedStar
Learning violin, to me, was the best traing for my ear. See the violin has no frets, so the only way to know that your fingering is right is by ear, also in order to play violin you must be able to read music and sight-read too. Associating a note with a colour is fine, but I think its much better to associate it with the position of the note on the musical staff. This way you're improving your music reading too.
One other trick is (once you can tune a guitar by ear), play a note in your head, then try and match that notes pitch to the nearest open striing, and go up or down chromatically till you get the note. Then you can try moving it to the different octaves in your head. This is great training when your standing in lines, or just bored. WARNING! When engaging in this activity in a public space, your facial expression will adopt a vacant stare, and most people will find you disturbing ?
But best advice for ear training is LEARN TO READ MUSIC. If you can read music, work on your sight-reading, and try not to use your guitar to find a note (trial end error style) try and nail it in your head.
Neps
Over time I've got to the point where I can hear a note and tell you what it is. But that has happend over a period of 4 years. Another friend has a party trick.. He asks someone to hit a fork, or any object against a table, and then asks 'what is that pitch?', he then walks to the piano, and without fail, hits the correct key. I HATE HIM!!! He however was born with it..
The way I taught myself was to walk around the house, hear a tone, and work it out on the guit.. And as of today I can tell you my microwave situated ontop of my fridge has a very horrible low/mid Db pitch.. ☹
Manfred-Klose
I can read music and i play violin.
Geuss i just have to work harder.
I have found that i sometimes come close to finding the note in my head, but i am useally a semi-tone out.
Manfred-Klose
I can read music and i play violin.
.....i do it badly dough. I dont have a use for reading sheet music.
guitarboy2828
I have been playing guitar for many years, in that time i have learnt to sight read well, got grade 6 in theory.. I have learnt piano, started learning violin and even clarinet..
However, none of that got me perfect pitch.. It got a lil better.. But definitely not anywhere perfect pitch..
Some people are born with it.. I had a friend who could sing any not you wanted, could work out the pitch of anything he hear, in fact he would transcribe entire music score from cd's for the philharmonic orchestra... he was amazing.. He was born with it..
That being said, it is something that can be learnt, but never to the degree that those who are born with it have it.. Sad truth!
guitarboy2828
To the OP, Perfect pitch, if followed through and practiced and learnt will allow you to hmm melodies in your head and know what you are humming and be able to instantly go and play it on a guitar or transcribe it right away! ?
Wizard
I don't have perfect pitch ... and have never seen a need for it.
For a brief period I was practicing violin for about 6 hours a day at school.
I woke in the middle of the night with an air bubble in the plumbing making a noise - sat bolt upright and proclaimed "B-Flat"!
No way of knowing if I was right ...
