Don, At 10:34 03/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: >. So. . . what did you do to sharpen your skills with >the beat rates? Any help would be appreciated. > >If any listers want to send me tips, I'd appreciate that as well. I'm not a Randy Potter graduate, but I've met him a few times. <g> Anyway... -First, mute off about three octaves in the center of the piano. -Pick out a major third near the bottom of that those three octaves - DO NOT PLAY IT! -Briefly play the note two octaves above the UPPER note. - release. -Play the chosen M3 - you should hear beating near the pitch of the single note you just played. (unless you've found a pure M3 in a historical temperament) What you have done is to place the single high note in your pitch memory. When you play the interval, your ear is still "listening" for that single pitch in the area where the lowest coincident harmonics of the interval will develop. If they are beating in the 3-10 bps range, they should be quite easy to hear. After that try: Octave - real easy, it's the upper note Fifth - one octave above the upper note Fourth - two octaves above the lower note M3 - two octaves above upper note m3 - two octaves plus M3 above middle note etc... If you can hear all of them, you will always be plagued with hearing beats, even on unisons.<g> Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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