Timeline for How to remember high E on Guitar for tuning
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| Dec 29, 2016 at 5:12 | comment | added | General Nuisance | After many years of playing violin, I can -- to a certain extent -- remember the pitches of the strings, enough so to tune my new ukulele by ear out of the box. But again, it's taken years. All I'd say is don't count out learning perfect pitch. I don't have it, but I can still remember four reference pitches, and that's come in handy. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 1:11 | comment | added | Some_Guy | @Tim Various songs I know I can pull from memory at the correct pitch work just as well as a memorised tone. I bet if you think of the intro to sweet home Alabama right now, and then check, you'll be pretty much spot on. That's not absolute pitch, that's pitch memory. If you heard a cover played transposed you wouldn't notice, because you don't have perfect pitch. But if you close your eyes, and imagine the sound of the song in your head, it will likely come out at the right key, give or take. I'd bet good money you can do it with Fleetwood mac's the chain or the beginning of uptown funk too. | |
| Dec 29, 2016 at 1:04 | comment | added | Some_Guy | @Tim Absolute pitch is something that is almost impossible to "learn" if you're not gifted with it. But pitch memory is a very different matter, and can be learnt relatively easily. I was being humorous earlier with the pips, I was indeed out but my disappointment was with how apparently poorly I have that particular sound committed to memory rather than my inability to use pitch memory in general. Using an A440 tone I have memorised, I can get within pretty much bob on every single time. That comes with a bit of practice, but your average musician could get nearest semitone accuracy easily. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 23:57 | comment | added | Tim | @Some_Guy - not sure how you're hijacking it, but carry on! How you disagree when we both say it's possible to achieve absolute or near pitch, not sure either. Difficulty in achieving anything is very much subjective, so can't really be measured .`Oh, you mean downvoted! Didn't you say you were a semitone out? I can get that close, usually closer, after some years of practice, but I don't call that absolute pitch. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 19:30 | comment | added | Some_Guy | @Tim as you've probably noticed, I disagree with this, respectfully. I'm sort of hijacking your top answer, so I hope you don't object, but I think it's worth pointing out that it's perfectly possible to train your ear to remember a note even without absolute pitch, and that it's not actually that difficult. | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 14:32 | vote | accept | SovereignSun | ||
| Dec 28, 2016 at 8:51 | comment | added | Tim | I've always found it a little more stable to tune from fat to thin. Without a tuner, or reference pitch, for any string, you're stumped.Get used to tuning both ways, and find a refence point. 60 yrs ago (no tuners worth talking about then) I had a front door key that rang a good top string. Went everywhere with me, never let me down! | |
| Dec 28, 2016 at 8:41 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |