Re: Another New Member.

gWeb wrote:

I took lessons for 4 months on my Sears Silverstone in '65...

Ah, the famous teflon coated Silverstone.
Fry an egg on it and it won't stick.

Lumpy, at first I thought you were Wally's pal,
but he would have been much older.

Frank Bank is 14 years older than me.


Ear training is what you do a lot of in your
first two years of a university music program.
In the old days, we did it with vinyl records.
"This note is a C [booop] what are these
three notes [beeep, baaap, biiip]". I would
imagine the current day software is essentially
the same thing.

It's a worthy skill to work on. But I would bet
that simply playing tons of songs would get you
more bang for the buck. After all, playing songs
"trains your ear" but puts it into recognizable
context. Ear training recordings or software
probably does not.

Example - If I give you a note, can you sing a
minor 3rd above that note?

Now in "song context", If I give you a note, can
you sing the first two notes to the signature riff
of Stairway to Heaven?

The interval is the same in both cases. But it's
likely that you'd be better at the STH exercise
than the isolated "sing a m3" exercise.

Once you learn all those intervals, you have to THEN
relate them somehow back to real music.

So from this musician's standpoint, my answer to your
question "Besides practice and more practice,
what learning tools might be beneficial?", the answer
is "still more practice".


Lumpy

In Your Ears for 40 Something Years
www.LumpyMusic.com


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