Questions tagged [hearing]
Coherent distinguishing of aural sensations. See also "ear-training"
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Ear training to identify specific chord/contrapuntal voicings?
I can comfortably transcribe melodies, identify keys and intervals, and get the rough chord progression for a song by ear. I'm now trying to get to (what I think of as) the next level.
I'd like to be ...
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How do I get atonal melody by ear?
It's pretty common to transcribe tonal music by ear, but not atonal music. Also, for me, and a lot of mates, it's much easier to get tonal music by ear than atonal. I'd like to know how can I get ...
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How to listen to each individual voice of a piece of polyphonic music?
When listening to a piece of polyphonic music, I can only hear the soprano part, but not the other voices, because the soprano part is making it difficult to hear the other voices. So, I can only ...
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Using song for interval training or not [duplicate]
When learning the intervals, is it bad using song as a reference? I mean I wanna get as good as possible and get them on instinct rather than a song reference. It would be also be less work if can ...
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How is there is a Disparity between Internalized Hearing and Sight Singing?
I am wondering about the disparity in skill between audiation--purely internalized hearing--and sight singing--the vocalization of a melody. I think these two phenomena are often assumed to be ...
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Modes by ear tips and tricks
Going to learn all the modes by ear. But finding info about is this strangely hard?
Ionian and Aeolian is the same as major and minor, right?
And what about the rest, you guys got any tips?
So far I'...
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Pitch and Hearing beginner question
I'm a total newbie. And I'll pretend there are no black notes so it is easier for me to explain.
CDEFGABḈḊ (where Ḉ and Ḋ are one octave above C and D)
When a Musician says, "oh, C and Ḉ are the ...
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Do 3D ear impression scanners yield higher quality custom flat-response attenuators compared to traditional ear impression techniques (eg, spleading)?
I am getting a new pairs of flat-response attenuators (a.k.a., "musician earplugs"). Do 3D ear impression scanners yield higher quality custom-molded flat-response attenuators compared to ...
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What deviations to musical notes are human ears capable of differentiating?
The frequency of the A440 or Stuttgart pitch is 440 Hz. I wonder to what extent people are able to differentiate between the correct pitch height and increasingly further deviations from this standard....
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How can I learn to hear chords from reading a score?
I’ve self studied my way through harmony, counterpoint (strict and free), free composition, can improvise at the piano in most styles without much thought, but I’m finding when I try to compose ...
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If I can identify specific notes on specific instruments, does that mean I have perfect pitch (or train to achieve perfect pitch)?
If I hear a G, B, B flat or E played on a piano or string instrument, I can (most of the time) identify the Note. Whenever I hear a G, I think of Holst's Mars or Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker march, when I ...
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What is the point of notes lower than human hearing
(Scientific pitch notation)
For example:
Organs can go down to C-1
Hyperbass Flute goes down to C0
And these notes have neglegible overtones on these instruments!
Do they modulate other notes?
They ...
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Can I identify any note by ear by knowing one single note and all intervals?
I assume that learning to identify intervals by ear is easier than learning to identifying notes by ear.
So if one is capable of playing sound of only one note in his head and comparing it to the ...
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Are musicians better than nonmusicians at learning echolocation? [closed]
Is there any evidence that musicians are faster than non-musicians at learning the skill of echo-location, i.e. the technique of navigating a physical environment by making tongue clicks and listening ...
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Is the ear really phase insensitive?
According to Ohm’s Law of Acoustics, the ear is phase insensitive due to its resonant structure. For example, changing the phase angle of the 3rd harmonic of a note drastically changes the shape of a ...
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