2012/12/01 09:51:09
tagruvto
Bass Musician Magazine just published my review of ReelEar - ear training software.
 
If you're interested, you can read about it here: http://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2012/12/reel-ear-personal-ear-trainer-review-by-eric-parsons/
2012/12/01 09:55:09
Beagle
are you related to Alan?
2012/12/01 11:30:13
Moshkiae
Hi,

This is probably good, and the part that the other guy that did his thing on the Perfect Pitch thing, is missing.

Music, for me, is a visual thing, and at times the mechanical side of it that always brings up your musicianship level and ability to play with others, is simply not there. Something like this helps correct some of those small things that make you ... tell music teaches to shove off to Shostakovitch land and forget the whole thing.

I am not sure that most musicians will appreciate this, specially traditional and experienced, when they have a tendency to hide behind their mechanics and not help youngsters to learn music ... teching your fingers to do this is one thing ... but teaching someone to identify/illustrate the sounds is another ... and in my case, mine is similar to Mozart's dictation to Salieri in the movie ... I'm simply trying to identify and illustrate the images ... I don't care about "music", specially when it is controlled by people that do not necessarily have a "visual" ... and they need the rock'n'roll lyrics to take them there ... supposedly! So you climb an imaginary Stairway to Heaven ... and you think that the music is about that by association ... just like we did all that other music for 500 years!

There is more to music ... and teaching someone to learn about the sound itself, instead of notes, is probably a good thing ... the note association will eventually come together ... but to many folks like to tell you that you can't play this note after this one ... or after Am, as is the case here ... and most of them consider themselves "superior" because they know the circle of 5ths, or 4ths, or 3rds, or whatever.

My own learning in music has been hard ... because I go from sound to sound, and I might not have any idea what the notes are, and I can get back to that sound ... except on a synth ... still working on that ... and some of the instructors I have had, could not even fathom that relationship!

If loving, or sex -- since that is a language folks can relate to -- is that mechanical, where is the value and the love behind it? It's all I'm saying ... there has to be more, and you know it ... how to get to it, or "there" is another story ... but teaching folks to play some diminished 47th on the bass or guitar is for the nerds, not musicians!
2012/12/01 11:37:36
Moshkiae
Beagle


are you related to Alan?

I'm still waiting for you to do better than Mademoiselle Knobs, Shamus, Pluto the Dog or ....
 
If you don't know the bands ... let me know, btw!
2012/12/01 20:11:35
tagruvto
Beagle


are you related to Alan?

are you related to Alan?

 
Sadly, no -  wouldn't that be cool!
2012/12/01 20:15:45
craigb
tagruvto


Beagle


are you related to Alan?


are you related to Alan?

 
Sadly, no -  wouldn't that be cool!


Doesn't mean you can't have your own Project though!
2012/12/02 02:39:57
sharke
I had the infamous "how to develop perfect pitch" cassette tape course in the late 80's. It was actually really good and made me notice how there was a color quality to notes that should in theory make it as easy to identify tones as it is to identify different hues. The trouble was that I never got around to doing the weeks of exercises it was going to take to fully learn the note-colors by name. But I did end up with a greater appreciation of music after discovering this new dimension to it. 
2012/12/02 04:58:16
craigb
sharke


I had the infamous "how to develop perfect pitch" cassette tape course in the late 80's. It was actually really good and made me notice how there was a color quality to notes that should in theory make it as easy to identify tones as it is to identify different hues. The trouble was that I never got around to doing the weeks of exercises it was going to take to fully learn the note-colors by name. But I did end up with a greater appreciation of music after discovering this new dimension to it. 


The David Lucas Burge ones?  I've got those (Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch).  It talks about sensing colors with tones.  That's about where I stopped (never did get to "see" a color - would have liked to though).
2012/12/02 06:17:31
Kenneth
There's an affliction called  "synesthesia" that can manifest itself in various ways.

Basically it's 2 senses that affects eachother, various numbers will have specific colors, touch make you hear tones, words make you taste things, different numbers will have different dimensions etc..

  In some cases sounds makes people with  synesthesia see colors in response to sounds. 

Would be cool to know if there's any with this form of  synesthesia  that plays music and how it affects them.
2012/12/02 12:55:08
sharke
craigb


sharke


I had the infamous "how to develop perfect pitch" cassette tape course in the late 80's. It was actually really good and made me notice how there was a color quality to notes that should in theory make it as easy to identify tones as it is to identify different hues. The trouble was that I never got around to doing the weeks of exercises it was going to take to fully learn the note-colors by name. But I did end up with a greater appreciation of music after discovering this new dimension to it. 


The David Lucas Burge ones?  I've got those (Perfect Pitch and Relative Pitch).  It talks about sensing colors with tones.  That's about where I stopped (never did get to "see" a color - would have liked to though).

Sounds right, I recognize the name. He had a bit of a whiny, dorkish voice which kind of grated after 7 tapes. 
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