!: Perfect Pitch Ear Training For Musicians

Perfect pitch ear training for musicians and singers is a wonderful training to have. This type of training will further your career in the music business. Ear training plays an important part in a musician or a singer life. You must be able to match the music you hear in your head and play it on your instrument or sing it.This type of training will make you hear and identify scales,chords,intervals and other basic parts of music. Knowing how to perform these different elements of music takes a lot of time and practice. The rewards will be sweet later.

Some musicians are born with perfect pitch. Absolute pitch is the ability to hear a note and name it without any outside help. Most piano and string players that started playing their instruments at an early age has this ability. Most of us that started our musical career later in life develop relative pitch. Relative pitch is the ability to identify a note by relating it to another.

There are twelve Major and Minor scales.

1. C Major Scale----------A Minor Scales (no sharps or flats)

2. G " " --------------E " " ( 1 sharp)

3. D " "--------------B " " (2 sharps)

4. A " "--------------F# " " (3 sharps)

5. E " "--------------C# " " (4 sharps)

6. B " "----------- G# " " (5 sharps)

7. F# " "-------------D# " " (6 sharps)

8. Db " "-------------Bb " " (5 flats)

9. Ab " "--------------F " " (4 flats)

10. Eb " "------------C " " (3 flats)

11. Bb " "------------G " " (2 flats)

12. F " "--------------D " " (1 flat)

*Interval- is the distance between two notes

Using the C major scale-C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C

the interval from note C to note D would be called a minor 2nd

The interval from note C to note E would be called a major 3rd.

Perfect pitch ear training for musicians and singers requires you to know a lot of different skills. Listening to your favorite songs is a lot of help.

Practicing these skills each day will help in developing your relative and your perfect pitch ears. It may seem like a lot to learn,but take it one skill at a time. In no time you will be developing your ears for relative or absolute pitch.