This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You don't need to count beats or make any calculations, although I did find it useful, at first, to tune a couple of contiguous thirds - for example, G2 - B2 and B2 - D#3 which have an approx. 4 beats to 5 beats ratio - to learn what this relationship should sound like. What makes this method work so well is that you can run a series of three contiguous thirds and easily decide if the middle one sounds more like the lower beat rate or the upper beat rate and adjust accordingly. Tom Cole Alan Forsyth wrote: > Isaac mentioned; > > "One of the nicest tricks I learned with the different Us methods is > the 4:5 relation from contiguous thirds. ............" > > I tried this once long ago but was flummoxed when it came to > distinguishing the ratios. How on earth is one supposed to tell > aurally whether one beat rate is 25% faster or 20% slower than another > beat rate? > > AF ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f7/00/52/a7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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