<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16681" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Julia-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Re #2, "not being used to it" is a significant problem when you're under test pressures.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="mailto:ExamPrep@ptg.org">ExamPrep@ptg.org</A> is a mailing list to help people who are preparing for the RPT exams.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>To subscribe, follow the mailing list links in the members' area of ptg.org.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>In Anaheim we made a video of Jim Coleman demonstrating a two octave ladder of contiguous major thirds. It will be edited and posted soon.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ed Sutton</DIV> <DIV><BR></FONT><BR><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com">KeyKat88@aol.com</A> wrote: </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <BLOCKQUOTE cite=midd10.2d26ae85.359e45c7@aol.com type="cite"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>  <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>        In hint #2 it claims that you dont want to tune a piano with it muted to single string for the first time in an exam room. What is so unnerving/bad about that, aside from just not being used to it? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>        In hint #18 it says that you should learn to hear 4:5 ratios on contiguous M3's by counting 1 2 3 4 and compare to 1 2 3 4 5.  How does one go about hearing beat rates while doing/counting this? Is the Source Book implying that the contiguous M3 from A2 to C#3 is 4BPS and the next M3 from C#3 to F3 is 5BPS?  If the <EM>beat</EM> rate in higher pairs of M3's are more than 4 or 5 BPS, say 6 or more than do you have to do the math to arrive what the contiguous M3 above it should beat like?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>  Also, has a tuner ever passed this exam <EM>without</EM> the skill of knowing how to handle/count the 4:5 ratio? Not that I am not willing to learn it but, that will take time and I have concentrated since inception of tuning on 5ths, 4ths, 3rds, 6ths, octaves and other tests.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thanks in advance,</DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV><BR><BR><BR></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR> <DIV><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL,SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: "> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient <A title=http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007 href="http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007" target=_blank>used cars</A>.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>