![]() aren't "black notes", but non-scale tones. Not a big time sacrifice.Īnd noting (for people like me who aren't so good at music theory, notation etc.) this thing works in relative pitch, relative to some key, so: Do/U/1, Ra/m2/b2, Re/M2/2, Me/m3/b3, Mi/M3/3 etc. ![]() So, I've been using the Functional Ear Training app, for one or two short shots a day. Playing in the right key and chord structure is obviously desirable, but if all you're doing is playing notes from that chord what are you contributing? Hearing a melodic line and being able to play it isn't a matter of analysis, it's being one with your instrument so that you can play what you hear.Ĭlick to expand.In the spirit of people not checking back. Hearing and reacting with your instrument according to what you want to hear is ultimately the goal. It takes time, and may be more mechanical than musical. If you're trying to filter everything through an intellectual construct it's like "latency", you're translating instead of musically reacting. Being able to hear and react with the desired sound from your instrument is ultimately where you want to go. It may be more relevant to be able to hear a tone then PLAY a third, fifth, 7th etc. You may even get good at, but this won't necessarily make you a better player. While it's important to be able to recognize the relationship between tones and hear chords, if taken at face value it can also be simply an intellectual game. I think you've hit on a very relevant point. whether FET helps improvement in terms of CET is another issue and remains to be seen. So, it seem it might "work" in its own terms. ![]() but I dipped ahead and could hear "Do" as G against a G chord etc. Not only does the tone sound and you hear "Sol" or "Do" in your (well, my) heard. I set FET to (movable) solfege rather than 1,2,3 and after some days of the first exercises. and it's a thin line between learning something useful and learning no more than how to peck the red button at the right time, which is what a lot of gaming is as well as behavioural experiments on chickens. Now I'm a little sceptical because a lot of "training apps" seem to riff of games. then other keys one octave, then other keys full range. Initially 1-4 then 5-8 then 1-8 one octave then 1-8 full range. Basically exercise one is, it plays a I-IV-V-I in C, then a tone and you have to pick which tone. This is what I find tough, though I'm scraping by (I'm better in some of parts of the range than others, I recon)įET is something else. Basically practising what (I understand to be) exam requirements. onwards and upwards, in all keys, full range. I've done Functional Ear Training app daily and also downloaded the "Complete Ear Training" app.ĬET is just what you'd expect practice telling M3-P8, then m3-P8, then M3-m3-P8. Click to expand.so, for the record, after a week or so.
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