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Ear Training: Relative Pitch

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"What would you do if I sang out of tune would you stand up and walk out on me"?  No, I'd call and get a little help from my friends at "The Cool Tool Music School".  

Relative pitch is not perfect pitch.  You need to hear a key center to relate all 12 notes to.  Teaching interval relationships is only as good as the starting note.  If you sing a major 3rd up from an already out of tune note...you've built a house on quicksand!

Relative pitch is the only way to assure being in tune and keeping the integrity of the key and how a melody functions (tension / resolve) as a melody!

Singing harmonies, singing difficult melodies, transcribing solos and harmonies, naming a note played on the piano without looking at the keyboard (party game!)