<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> You don't need to count beats or make any calculations, although I did find it useful, at first, to tune a couple of contiguous thirds - for example, G2 - B2 and B2 - D#3 which have an approx. 4 beats to 5 beats ratio - to learn what this relationship should sound like.<br> <br> What makes this method work so well is that you can run a series of three contiguous thirds and easily decide if the middle one sounds more like the lower beat rate or the upper beat rate and adjust accordingly.<br> <br> Tom Cole<br> <br> Alan Forsyth wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid005801c4872f$ea8628d0$baf4193e@Aspire"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><strong><font face="Arial">Isaac mentioned;</font></strong></div> <div><strong></strong> </div> <div>"One of the nicest tricks I learned with the different Us methods is<br> the 4:5 relation from contiguous thirds. ............"</div> <div> </div> <div><strong><font face="Arial">I tried this once long ago but was flummoxed when it came to distinguishing the ratios. How on earth is one supposed to tell aurally whether one beat rate is 25% faster or 20% slower than another beat rate?</font></strong></div> <div><strong></strong> </div> <div><strong><font face="Arial">AF</font></strong></div> </blockquote> </body> </html>