[sdiy] frequency counter

[Mark Romberg]

hrm...i was planning on having a friend of mine hook me up with her old 
ear training books/software, just cos it seems like a useful thing to 
know (i have pitch memory, just not pitch recognition)

have nice days.

On 25 Jun 2004, at 22:04, Peter Grenader wrote:
>
> Part of every music composition student's curriculum is  a couce of 
> study
> known as Solfeggio.   Solfeggio (as in 'so fa la tee doe...') is the
> practice of learning, hearing an recognizing monophonic pitches and the
> intervallic relationships of groups of pitches without a reference.
> Basically this means that not only should you know an augmented forth 
> (or
> any other interval made of any number of pitches) when you hear it, you
> should be able to pick off the pitches and scale degrees of all the 
> notes
> just by hearing it. After completing solfege, when you hear a single 
> pitch
> you'll be able to recognize it as an e flat, second octave.
>
> Anyone can learn this skill with practice and in most cases, it's 
> totally
> overkill for the purpose of tuning.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Peter