We added several keyboard shortcuts that allow you to quickly access some pages of the website.
The full list of the shortcuts is available in our FAQ.
We hope this addition will make your pitch training experience more enjoyable.
And as a reminder, our perfect pitch test already supports the keyboard input to some extent.
Today, I want to write about something that may surprise you.
Training any new skill, including perfect pitch, is an example of neuroplasticity. The term became very popular recently because of the extensive research in neuroscience in the last decades.
One of the latest books on the subject is called “Better in Every Sense” by Norman Farb and Zindel Segal. Although the book is not directly related to music or even learning new skills, I think it’s still very relavant to most of us.
The authors make several claims, and one of their main claims is the following:
If you want to change, you need to pay more attention to your senses: what you see, what you hear, what you feel, what you smell or taste in the present moment.
The authors back up their claims with the decades of the research on people with depression, anxiety and other issues. As to the ways to how to pay more attention to senses they suggest walking, dancing, painting, gardening, cooking, and… drum roll (pun intended)… music!
And this is totally related to our perfect pitch test. Think about it – when you practice with our pitch trainer you engage three of the most important senses:
Basically, you don’t have any other option, but to be fully present in “now” with your senses engaged. And that, according to the book, helps us a lot psychologically.
I hope, for some people the above information may become an additional motivational factor. Now you know that when you use PerfectPitch.training you don’t only practice your musical ear, but also make yourself more resilient to problems that you face in your life. 🙂
For users who prefer to practice at night, we added a dark mode on our website.
To activate it, please go to “My account” -> “Customize my experience” -> “Enable dark mode”.
We are happy to announce the release of profiles in our perfect pitch test.
What is a “profile”? A profile is simply a combination of current settings in the perfect pitch test.
Let’s say, you want to do two types of exercises:
Up until now, each time you switched exercises, you needed to adjust the settings.
Now, you can simply save each unique combination of settings as a profile. The profiles are stored securely in your account, and you can load them any time later.
Do you want to try it out?
Log in here and continue your perfect pitch practice
Our next update will allow you to save the results of each practice session:
This way you will be able to track your progress over time. Stay tuned!
Right now, we are preparing a new update of our perfect pitch test that would allow you to save settings as profiles and load them later. Hopefully, it will be released in the next week or two.
Today, however, I would like to talk about how to better prepare your body for the perfect pitch training. In our tips for perfect pitch development, I mention that your physiological state is crucial for ear training practice.
In our modern society, unfortunately, we often have a lot of bad, unhealthy habits that may prevent us from going into the right state easily. Sedementary lifestyle, junk food, too much screen time, shallow breathing, not enough sleep. It all may seem unrelated to the perfect pitch training, but believe me – if you feel like crap, you won’t be motivated to do any ear training.
Over the last ten years, I read a lot of books on healthy lifestyle. Recently, I published a list of 20 healthy habits that you may want to check. It is available on my other website Eyesight.training. I also give some information on how to use artificial lights so they won’t affect your health. If you work a lot on the computer, I suggest you check this too.
If you visited the page with the pitch matching exercises, you probably remember that I suggest you engage your whole body in the ear training. You also probably noticed the link to Andrew Byrne’s website – The Singing Athlete.
Well, the last weekend I had the priviledge and pleasure to attend the first level of online certification program led by Andrew.
This first level included topics on:
We did a lot of exercises, including drills with a partner. We also had a chance to see Andrew coach two singers face-to-face with some amazing results.
All in all, it was a very enjoyable experience which I recommend to everyone.
At the time of this writing Andrew may still have some spots left for the upcoming training in August.
Recently, I received an email that goes something like this:
“Timur, all my life I was told I don’t have a musical ear. I am an absolute beginner in music. What can I do with your perfect pitch trainer?”
For a very long time, the instruction on how to use our Perfect Pitch Test and Ear Training Software was somewhat short. But this changes today!
We are happy to announce that we created a step-by-step ear training program that would help you develop perfect pitch no matter your current level.
The ear training exercises are divided into 2 large groups:
The first page contains a detailed instruction on how to use the built-in tuner. It is an essential tool that will help with your ear training.
Up until recently the selector for allowed notes in our Perfect Pitch Test was only available for single note exercises. This selector allows you to choose which notes you want to practice.
We added another option to our exercise selector.
Now you can select which notes you want to practice even in multiple note exercises (2, 3, or 4 notes). Just as with other multiple note exercises you can select how notes will be played: harmonically (simultaneously) or melodically (one after another).
This can be used if you want to practice all notes from a given scale for example. Or even if you want to improve your relative pitch or practice chord recognition. For example, you can select C, E, G and A and choose 3-note exercise. Some combinations will give you a C major chord, some – C minor chord and some will be a completely different thing.
We updated the scoreboard which displays your score when you practice with our Perfect Pitch Trainer with the activity “Test”.
First, me made it bigger.
Next, now the highest score during the current session is stored in the memory. It can be displayed if you go to your account, click on “Customize my experience” and then select “Show the highest score during the current session”.
Now, for example, if you recognize 30 notes in a row correctly but then make a mistake, there will be a window that says “Today’s highest score: 30”. Note that if you change the settings in the perfect pitch trainer this value is reset to 0, since you will be doing another ear training exercise.
And another update. In the past each time you reached 20 correct answers in a row, there was a congratulations window. Now you can either turn it off or adjust the number of correct answers in a row that will trigger it: 10, 20, or 30. Again, to adjust this setting, go to “My Account”, “Customize my experience”.
We have a good news for people who don’t like using their mouse and prefer using keyboard instead.
We added some keyboard shortcuts that you can use when you practice with our Perfect Pitch Trainer.
Now you can press:
We hope you will like this new small addition that we hope will help you with your ear training practice.