Chris98
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I’ve become increasingly dissatisfied with my intonation, the lower octave is generally okay up to middle C, with which I struggle to get a good tone and C♯ just sounds horrible and flat. The next troublesome note is the D as its tendency is to be sharp, particularly if coming up to it from the lower octave. Things generally even out a bit then but I get increasingly sharp the higher up I go.
Anyway I want to improve my intonation and rather than look at the LEDs on my tuner I decided to push GarageBand into use, I want to train my ears not my eyes. So I thought I’d borrow a simple chromatic long tone exercise and get the computer to play the notes via a midi instrument along with a clave click track. I used a flute as the midi instrument as it has the purest tone which makes it easier to determine if I’m out of tune or not.
I’m still tinkering with it, for example I’ve just put tuning notes on the front end but once done I can burn to CD or put it on my ipod so I don’t have to have my computer on when I want to do the exercise.
I’ve only been using it a couple of days but it has put a new lease of life into the long tones as I’ve got something to really concentrate on, my mind always used to wander a bit. It was really quite straight forward to set up and I’m thinking of making up other useful intonation backing tracks like octave jumps and arpeggios.
All the best Chris
Anyway I want to improve my intonation and rather than look at the LEDs on my tuner I decided to push GarageBand into use, I want to train my ears not my eyes. So I thought I’d borrow a simple chromatic long tone exercise and get the computer to play the notes via a midi instrument along with a clave click track. I used a flute as the midi instrument as it has the purest tone which makes it easier to determine if I’m out of tune or not.
I’m still tinkering with it, for example I’ve just put tuning notes on the front end but once done I can burn to CD or put it on my ipod so I don’t have to have my computer on when I want to do the exercise.
I’ve only been using it a couple of days but it has put a new lease of life into the long tones as I’ve got something to really concentrate on, my mind always used to wander a bit. It was really quite straight forward to set up and I’m thinking of making up other useful intonation backing tracks like octave jumps and arpeggios.
All the best Chris