If you want to improve your aural tuning results, here are some things that you can do RIGHT NOW that will help you.
1. Understand What Beats Are, What They Sound Like, and Where They Are Occurring.
According to experts from Band Aid School of Music, piano tuners use their ears differently than musicians. We filter out specific partials so that we can hear beating partials.
We don’t approximate the sound of the beats. We don’t guess at what the speed is or where it might be occurring. We don’t just listen to the sound of a beating interval as a whole and try to get that warm feeling that tells us it’s in tune (although that is part of it). We actually zero in on the specific beating, filtering out all other sounds. As we get more experience, this skill becomes more powerful.
Watch this video that explains how an electronic tuneable bandpass filter does what a trained aural piano technician can do with their own ears.
2. Test and Train Your “Tuner’s Ear”.
In order to test and improve your “Tuner’s Ear”, I have created some online ear training tests and exercises. These will give you feedback and show you what to listen for when tuning intervals. Click this link if you haven’t taken my FREE ear training course yet.
FREE Ear Training Course for Piano Technicians
If you don’t have a strong understanding of music theory, do not worry about it. Get More Information then your learning will be much better.
3. Get a Grip on the Music Theory.
What I mean by this is just the interval part of music theory. You don’t have to know how Mozart would have arranged Happy Birthday for string quartet, for example. All you should be able to do is quickly name intervals, and just the intervals we use in aural piano tuning theory.
For a nice article on how to simply music theory for piano technicians and some basic online theory tests for piano technicians, click the link below.
Music Theory for Piano Technicians
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