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Equal Tempered ear-training is essentially flawed

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Contributed by: aaron25 Sunday, August 13 2006 @ 08:41 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

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Because tempered tuning is compromised, these intervals are confusing, as they are almost all actually out of tune. It is easy to identify basic intervals when they are justly tuned, and after that is learned it is much easier to identify tempered intervals as well. The majority of these "ear-training" programs are totally oblivious to this and are not a good way to learn.

I am a professional guitar teacher and have a classical degree. I went through all of music school aural skills classes using programs like this and pianos in class, and even though I got A's, I only finally learned how to really hear pitch after singing barbershop harmony and hearing truly tuned intervals for the first time.

Do not waste your time or money on ANY ear-training program that only uses tempered tuning.   

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Equal Tempered ear-training is essentially flawed - eidorb

Aaron. Yes. However do you have suggestions of mac software built this way?

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Tuesday, October 10 2006 @ 04:33 PM PDT


Equal Tempered ear-training is essentially flawed - sonicraft

While I agree that most intervals will sound out of tune to varying degrees, I disagree that this will prevent anyone from hearing the intervals.

8's are perfect. P4's & P5's will be VERY close to in-tune (with slow beats). Yes, the rest will be off compared to simple pitch ratios. BUT we do live in a culture that MOSTLY adheres to an equal tempered scale-- so it IS valuable to learn intervals this way, out of tune as most of them are.

If you are suggesting that the student who is a complete novice with intervals would have an easier time "cutting their teeth" with simple frequency ratios, perhaps this software could have a preference to sound intervals this way.

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Tuesday, October 10 2006 @ 05:38 PM PDT