| The Search for Perfect Pitch... [message #68924] |
Sun, 04 June 2006 00:18  |
Kim
Messages: 1246
Registered: October 2005
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Well I'm still working on it, and I seem to be progresing fairly well I think.
I bought this little program for $12:
http://www.brenthugh.com/eartest/
It simply throws notes at you. I've now got it hooked up through my fave
digital piano with MIDI. It plays a note on my piano, and I have to try and
hit that note. It doesn't care if I get the octave right, but I try and do
that anyhow.
You can decide how many/which notes you want it to test you on, and weight
them so that some play more than others according to what you're bad at.
I'm currently using the entire C major scale, and I'm getting about 98% correct
when I'm not hung over. ;o) Earlier today I got over 100 questions correct
in a row. Generally I get about 50 right and get overconfident or lose concentration
and stuff one up, but if I'm concentrating I can get them pretty much all
right.
I've read a few tips about the place net. It seems the skills generally come
first to you on your natural instrument, and then slowly migrate over to
others. Having said that I just had my first experience of what I'd call
"real" perfect pitch earlier today, when, in between tests, while plugging
in some MIDI stuff, my phone beeped an SMS and I went "Hey, that's F!!".
;o) I don't find I recognise the keys and notes in songs on the radio yet
however, but no doubt that will come.
My aim is to get up to 98% averages on the entire chromatic scale at 440Hz
by the end of the month, and then I'll start to worry about translating that
on to tunes on the radio. I figure when you hear someone sing a note, it's
not hard to imagine a piano playing the note, so if that's what I have to
do to start with, so be it.
The good thing is I'm growing increasingly confident that it's working, and
I'm pretty stoked about that. :o)
Cheers,
Kim.
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