“Imperfect Pitch: Demystifying Ear Training with Evan Fein”
American composer and Juilliard faculty member Evan Fein discusses the history and ethos of aural skills classes. A moderated discussion with Dominic Cheli will shed some light on this often misunderstood yet essential element of a musician’s training. Fein will then demonstrate some of the activities students engage with and give a few tips on how any viewer can hone their ears at home. Live Q&A to follow.
Follow this event link to tune in!
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/demystifying-ear-training-evan-fein
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
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I have perfect pitch, but sometimes I think it's better to have imperfect pitch because such musicians have less difficulties with transposition, both wrtiting and interpreting. Excellent topic!
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Diego Arboleda I’m with you on both counts!
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Hi, I do not have a perfect pitch and ear. I am a serious amateur player and I am looking forward to learn how to improve in this, and other, aspect for playing better everyday!
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Regarding what I wrote earlier, can you recommend how to keep the perfect pitch flexible in order to transpose?
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Excellent point at the end of the livestream about relating intervals in certain songs for recognition to their actual scale degrees in the songs!
