gavreid
Pretty Words...
The other thing I am very keen to understand more is how my ear works (or rather doesn't). So when I first started playing guitar I couldn't tune it at all (i.e. by comparing pitch across the strings) Now, after years of playing, I sort of can.
Similarly I have an ear training app on my phone which plays the I-IV-V-I chords to establish the key and then plays (at level 1) one of the first four notes in the major scale of that key and asks you to name it (do, ray, mi or soh). So it's basically trying to teach you relative pitch. I do this and get, consistently, about 65-70% correct.
So clearly I am not tone deaf (which would give a 25% result) but I also know that any vaguely musical person would find this farcically easy. So what, if anything, does that mean? Am is just not musical enough? Or do I need to keep going and practice more and eventually I will get it?
I can already hear you all saying "**** it, it doesn't matter" but I would give anything to be more musical so I keep plugging away trying to improve but not really getting anywhere.
Justin did a good series on interval training a while ago. I thought it was great because he put it the context of songs that you probably know - here's the 1st part of 5
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