ear training

[Joel Larsson]

Originally Posted by Richard Prowse

I was also surprised that I could hear, say, open G - almost like someone with perfect pitch! Really it's just pitch memory, I guess.

Richie (resistance is futile), that goes for me too. I have nothing coming even close to perfect pitch, but I have some strange skill. When I, after taking a longer break, play an open G, I can usually tell whether it is in picth or not. It's like I know how it should sound. Must be the vibrations, or something. I've heard that there have been deaf double bass players... haven't actually heard or seen any, though.

Too bad I seem to have the G in 440 in my head... I mostly tune in 442 these days, so I can't really leave the tuner at home. (Plus, I hate tuning on harmonics. And this perfect open string pitch becomes more imperfect for each string below the G, so I can't rely on it.)

But if I was to prove to you in person that I could tune a G without references, I'd probably fail completely.