it doesn't matter if you don't have an absolute sense of sound, but you'll be in trouble if you don't have a fixed thinking!

oh, music? 7-15 22:42

It is rumored that a group of people ... have terrible absolute sense of sound, and they can accurately tell its pitch when they hear any sound ... < P > Absolute sense of sound is that it is accurate to sing any La without the assistance of musical instruments, or they can sing it as soon as they think of any key and want to sing it; Or immediately recognize what any sound is, which is really a terrible ability.

There is no doubt that everyone admires an ability, so people often wonder whether we should practice the absolute sense of sound on the way to learning music. After all, after listening to a song, I can immediately know what the melody sound is and I can hear the chords. But the cruel thing is that it is almost impossible for adults to get an absolute sense of sound through practice. Because if we don't practice absolute sense of sound from childhood, it is difficult for us to have this ability. On the contrary, what we should practice is fixed pitch/fixed pitch thinking. But don't get me wrong! Have the practice of fixed pitch/fixed pitch thinking ≠ absolute sense of sound!

# What is fixed-pitch thinking #

Guitar, or piano, is a good instrument to help us practice fixed-pitch tuning. When we are practicing, we can clearly see each square of the guitar fingerboard or the notes corresponding to each black keys white key of the piano.

Take the guitar as an example:

Then if we want to play a G natural major scale on the sixth string of the second fret, we can see the fingerboard and its corresponding notes: (omitted)

Similarly, we can start playing the Eb natural major scale on the fifth string of the sixth fret, and we can see the scales and their notes: (omitted)

Thus, we can be very clear. Therefore, if there are musical instruments, try to find out the fixed pitch of the major and minor scales, or other variable scales, melodic minor, etc., on the fingerboard of the guitar. Over time, you can be familiar with the notes corresponding to the fingerboard on the guitar, and you will also be familiar with the actual pitch of each scale in each key.

Not only this fixed-tone thinking can also greatly improve our guitar's sight-reading ability. You know, in fact, as a musician, sight-reading ability is a must. If you don't have certain sight-reading ability or fixed thinking in a jazz band or in the work of film music as we know it, you will probably lose your job in the next second ......

But practicing this fixed thinking doesn't mean that you must practice your absolute sense of sound. This is two completely different things.

# The combination of fixed-pitch thinking and interval thinking #

What is our understanding of scales now? In fact, it is the thinking of fixed tone, plus the thinking of interval, that is, the thinking of series that people often say. You are thinking about scales, such as natural major and minor, blues scale, and you are always thinking about the interval relationship between them. When you can combine fixed-tone thinking with interval thinking, then this will be the most perfect state.

First, how to combine

For example, we are going to play a Dorian scale of Eb. Let's find out its fixed pitch first: Eb F Gb Ab Bb C Db；;

Then look for their interval relationship: Eb and F: sophomore; Eb and Gb: small three degrees; Eb and Ab: pure four degrees; Eb and Bb: pure five degrees; Eb and c: big six degrees; Eb and Db: seven degrees smaller, then back to one, Eb and Eb.

interval fingerboard diagram: (omitted)

You can calculate the interval relationship between other sounds according to this interval fingerboard diagram and the position and shape of the relationship between the root sound and other sounds.

So this is the combination of fixed mode thinking and interval thinking, which is a perfect state.

This thinking is also very close to the first-tone thinking, because the Dorian relationship to interpret our Eb with the first-tone will also be 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, 6, b7.

2. Benefits

1. Convenient modulation improvisation

When you combine fixed mode thinking and interval thinking together, it is very convenient for us to improvise on modulation on musical instruments.

For example, if we are very familiar with the fixed pitch corresponding to the natural major from C to F, the natural major of C: C D E F G A B；; F natural major: F G A B B C D E; We will find that their only different pitches are B and Bb, so when we switch the key, we can grasp this unique different pitch and carry out the mutual conversion between C major and F major, and then combine the interval relationship between major scales: sophomore, third major, pure fourth, pure fifth, sixth major and seventh major; In this way, we can exchange the key and the key smoothly, or the improvisation in the key transfer will be more smooth.

2. Convenient for pa spectra

Many times, we may come across some favorite songs or solo we want to learn. Many times, we lack the score to know their chords or melodies, so if we have fixed-tone thinking and interval thinking, then pa spectra is very easy for us.

For example, in the song so what, we didn't know what chord and key it was at first, so we can listen to its melody. We can first find the melody played by the guitar. The fixed pitch of the first sentence is: D A B C D E C D; D is the initial sound/root sound, so find the interval relationship between D and other sounds: D and G: pure fourth degree; D and b: big six degrees; D and c: seven degrees smaller; D and a: pure five degrees.

We can easily find that this is a Dorian scale. By combining it with a fixed pitch, we can know that he is actually playing a D Dorian, and then we can determine that the corresponding chord will be Dm7. Then there is the relationship between chords and scales. If you want to know more, these are all involved in Teacher Cai Jian's jazz guitar elementary course.

# Common misunderstanding-how to sing scales #

Many people struggle with the problem of how to sing because of the fixed harmonic series thinking. In fact, this is a big misunderstanding. In fact, sometimes it is the roll-call that makes us misunderstand.

Then, for this question, Teacher Cai suggested that we should not sing, but read, because once you sing, it's easy to run back to the thinking of the tune, so if we want to practice the thinking of the fixed pitch, we can just read it directly.

Teacher Cai demonstrates: (omitted)

If you really want to sing, don't sing roll-call, just pronounce onomatopoeia words such as "Dubatita" with broken syllables and sing scales directly.

Teacher Cai's demonstration: (omitted)

# Summary #

Finally, I hope everyone can master the fixed-tone thinking and combine it with the series thinking well. Moreover, we should know clearly that the absolute sense of sound is not the ultimate goal as a musician, and not everyone has the opportunity to be systematically trained in the absolute sense of sound from an early age. Many excellent musicians actually have no absolute sense of sound.

If you want to be a good musician, of course, you must have a solid foundation in music and be familiar with the musical instruments in your hand, including but not limited to the fixed pitch of the guitar fingerboard, and even be familiar with every scale corresponding to each chord from its root. In this way, we can not only quickly identify and judge the scales and chords used when picking up the scores, but also have a variety of scales for chords when improvising or composing music. Then, after a long period of study, our ears are very familiar with the colors of various chords/scales even if they don't have an absolute sense of sound.