Today's blog is all about giving you some free tips for learning music intervals. Using the exercises previously blogged practice these easy quick perfect pitch tips to help develop your music ear training further.
Tip 1
Learn each interval intimately, the sound and it's personality. Think of the different personality of the perfect 5th compared to the minor 2nd.
Tip 2
Focus on one interval at a time making sure the span and sound of the interval is locked in your mind before you move on.
Tip 3
Develop a physical connection with the interval. For example where you place your fingers on the piano or the stretch on the guitar.
Tip 4
Give your self time to hear the interval in you inner ear. Internalize the sound your are listening too.
Tip 5
What is the tone/timbre of your instrument when playing intervals? e.g The sound of a power chord on a distorted guitar is very different to the tone of to flutes playing a power chord or 5ths.
Tip 6
Your goal is immediate recognition of the different intervals so make sure you give yourself plenty of time to learn them. Patience is absolutely essential as learning each one will take time but the reward is truly worth it.
It is worth remembering Haydn's famous words "I listened more than I studied". From these few words it is clear that in the mind of a genius perfect pitch training will be one of the best decisions you ever will make.
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