{"id":11941,"date":"2017-10-26T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meermusic.com\/sotomusic\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2017-10-28T21:33:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T21:33:55","slug":"improve-your-music-singing-chops-fast-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meermusic.com\/sotomusic\/improve-your-music-singing-chops-fast-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Music & Singing Chops FAST! (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Previous Chapter (Music Immersion)<\/a> – Next Chapter (Keys, Chords & Scales)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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CHAPTER 2 – Learning Relative Pitch & How To Memorize it!<\/h2>\n

Learn how to sing in pitch from memory \u2013 most of the time (\u201calmost\u201d as cool as \u201cperfect pitch\u201d)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The objective here is to improve your musical memory – ESSENTIAL to your rapid improvement as a singer and musician. To achieve this, we will focus on developing your pitch memory and recognition. You probably won’t learn perfect pitch, but you’ll get some invaluable tools anyway. <\/span><\/p>\n

HOW TO PRACTICE THIS CHAPTER<\/span>: You have committed to X minutes (up to an hour) per day. You need to do Chapter 1<\/a> (listening to great but unfamiliar music) every day for the full duration<\/span> during the first week of this course. After that first week, you can slash the chapter 1 listening time by half and use the rest of the time on this chapter – daily, for a week. Some of the upcoming chapters will only need to be covered once or twice, but both chapters 1 and 2 should be revisited throughout the duration of the entire course.<\/em><\/p>\n

So what is “Relative” and “Perfect” (or “Absolute”) pitch?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When you hear<\/span> a piece of music and can correctly name<\/span> each chord that you hear as well as each note on each instrument or voice – that’s what we call “perfect pitch.” It’s a bit like being able to immediately tell which color you’re looking at. No hesitation. That’s green, that’s red, that’s blue, and so on. Perfect color recognition! \ud83d\ude42
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Only very few people have perfect pitch. It can only be learned when very young (same as learning the PERFECT pronunciation and spirit of a language can only really be done when very young).<\/span><\/p>\n

While you’re so young, to develop perfect pitch you must be constantly exposed to “high information music” – such as jazz or classical. Similarly to learning a language, you must be surrounded by people who speak it perfectly in your presence. They speak many words you don’t understand – but you register them anyway. “High information” music means there are a lot of complex notes and harmonies which you don’t understand – but they sink in anyway!<\/span><\/p>\n

“Relative pitch” means that if you can give yourself a reference note, THEN you can tell what all the other notes and chords are.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vast majority of musicians, including even many of the greatest classical composers “only” had “relative” pitch. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some famous musicians known to have (or have had) perfect pitch: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Paul Schaffer, Jimi Hendrix, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson…<\/span><\/p>\n

And here are a few famous ones who you might THINK they have\/had perfect pitch, but don’t: Wagner, Tschaikovky, Ravel, Stravinsky, Paul McCartney, Elton John…<\/span><\/p>\n

Having perfect pitch does NOT make you a great musician. It’s a useful tool if you’ve got it – but you can do just fine without it. Still – it’s worth trying to learn it if only because it enhances your overall musicality.<\/span><\/p>\n

What aids you in recognizing the notes you’re hearing is the knowledge of intervals and harmonic relationships between notes. More on that later.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this section my aim is not to teach you how to have “perfect pitch” bur rather to just give you a way of memorizing all the notes so that you may APPEAR to have perfect pitch!<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Because it’s FUN. And because it will turbo-charge your musical abilities – very quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a few ways to attempt this, but here let me focus on just one method. Memorizing by association and repetition<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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UNSTRUCTURED APPROACH:<\/strong><\/p>\n