Quite frankly, the best way to develop this is to join a choir for a while. Have access to a piano or something so you can check whether or not your solfege was right. It doesn't have to be out loud and you start simple: identify at LEAST "sol" and "do" in what you are listening to. Focus at first on either the bass or the melody. Once you're pretty comfortable using solfege, then practice solfeging everything you hear (tunes on radio, pieces, etc). A great way to exercise your solfege chops is simply to improvise on a major scale in solfege. Once you get several distantly related pitches firmly engrained in your head and get the hang of rudimentary solfege, you can figure out pretty quickly what any given sound's pitch is. All twelve would be ideal, but not really necessary. :santa:Įxtend this to a handful of pitches. Not only will your list of memorized pitches (1?) increase, but you get better at retaining the exact pitch of songs that you hear. This is an almost fool-proof way to develop a good pitch memory. Memorize the entire first line and you basically have E and A memorized because 1 and 5 are both very powerful notes in the ear. Starts on E (first pitch) but is in the key of A. Should only take half a minute per session.Īs you get better at these games, push it further with a piece like Fur Elise. The next day, do it again only this time, imagine playing it and then sing the pitch first before actually playing it, then hold the note you're singing and begin playing it. Repeat a few times, then take a break and do it again later. Imagine playing the beginning of the piece, then play the first couple bars, then sing the FIRST pitch, then play it again. Take a piece that begins with that exact note, how about Bach's Prelude no.1 in C major. Take a pitch of your choice (for pianists, A or C would probably be good ones). Not to mention difficult to develop alone without a computer program or a music theory teacher at a piano to drill you. I don't recommend memorizing intervals, however, because it isn't nearly as important or practical as learning the pitches or learning relativity to a tonic. No programs, just a lot of mind games I've been playing for about 9 years now. I've heard it called "relatively perfect pitch" or "practically perfect pitch." I've a pretty decent relative pitch and a good pitch memory.
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