Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Topics covered: The pleasure of finding things out, Richard Feynman, Dr. Kurt Fischer, dynamic skill theory, developmental levels, adult learning, ear training, and much more…
Topics covered: Learning absolute pitch, your motives, absolute pitch disinformation, motivation to learn absolute pitch, and more.
Topics covered: Singing what you hear, the body/mind connection in music, exercises to improve your musicianship, and more.
There’s a perpetually propagated myth that if you have absolute pitch, then if you listen to music that is out of tune, you have a bad experience. If there is any truth to this myth, it’s definitely not an absolute. Some people may be disturbed by music that is out of tune. I believe this [...]
iTheory is a free ear training tool for your iPod. It took me a couple of tries to get it installed correctly, but it works great. The interface isn’t as clean as I would like. You have to scroll past hundreds of notes before you get to the iTheory main menu. But once I got [...]
I hope your ear improved in 2006. I know mine did. Just in case you haven’t been reading my blog all year, here’s my favorite ear training articles for 2006.
Is Your Ear Suspect?
Why Singing What You Hear Is Important To Your Ear Training
Understanding The Art And Craft Of Absolute Pitch Hearing
Shaolin Ear Training
Hearing and Consciousness
Absolute [...]
Singing what you hear is an important part of improving your perception. Let’s look at it from a body/mind perspective.
Recognizing that C and F is a perfect fourth is a cognitive exercise. You have to think about it. Maybe only for a split-second, but you still have to translate your physical experience, a verb, into [...]
This is what happened to me today. I was listening to a piece of music and the first chord was the same as another song I’ve listened to many times. The voicing, the instrument, everything was the same. I had never made that connection before. To be sure I was remembering the other song correctly, [...]
Simply put, absolute pitch is more subtle and accurate.
With relative pitch, there are twelve major chords. With absolute pitch, there is only one C major chord. The distinctions you can make with absolute pitch are finer and smaller. And each note has its own sound. Transpose a Beethoven symphony into another key and it doesn’t [...]
If you can do a good job identifying your basic diatonic intervals (unison, major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th, perfect octave), the next logical step is to move on to hearing the distinctions between the different interval qualities:
major/minor 2nd
major/minor 3rd
perfect/augmented 4th and perfect/diminished 5th
major/minor 6th
major/minor 7th
In the beginning of [...]
I just found a cool relative pitch lesson online. Songs to help you learn note intervals.
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
Really tired of following people and immediately getting a DM pitch. (>_<) 8 hrs ago
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