Hi Israel, When I had my first "trainee" a few years ago, I had no real clue about how to do it. I asked Jim Coleman, Sr. for some suggestions and the main one he mentioned was to make them tune unisons until they could do it as well as I can. THEN start teaching them to tune a temperament! It worked pretty well, even though they didn't really "enjoy" it! :-D But it paid off! Avery >Another feature of our training was extensive practice tuning >unisons and octaves for a long time, before attempting temperaments. >This developed both our sensitivity to beats and our "aural >endurance" so that by the time we were working on temperaments, we >could actually maintain our acute hearing ability long enough to >tune a rudimentary temperament. It takes beginners a long time to >tune a temperament - speed comes with practice. If your ear "shuts >down" before you can complete your temperament - you suddenly stop >hearing those fifths and fourths beats that were so clear before... >I suspect that many self-taught beginner tuners can avoid a lot of >frustration with temperament tuning if they have the patience to do >sufficient unison and octave practice before attempting >temperaments. And with ETDs supplying an adequate temperament on >which to base octaves, this should be fairly easy.
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