{"id":636,"count":21,"description":"Pitch is one of the most fundamental aspects of music, and developing your ear for pitch is an excellent starting point and area of focus for musical ear training.\r\n\r\nBefore you work on more advanced skills like relative pitch (interval recognition etc.) spend some time honing your pure sense of pitch: how high or low a note is. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis brings a range of benefits, including:\r\n\r\n<ul><li>Better ability to tune your instrument, pick up on any tuning problems, and fix them directly<\/li>\r\n<li>Improved ability to \u201cblend\u201d your voice when singing with others (e.g. in a choir or a cappella group)<\/li>\r\n<li>More sophisticated appreciation of, and control over pitch manipulations (such as bends, vibrato and pitch slides)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\nImproving your sense of pitch lets you build a very solid foundation for the important skills of relative pitch, and improves your overall musicianship by giving you a more accurate sense of tuning and pitch accuracy in all musical situations.\r\n\r\n<h2>Tone Deafness<\/h2>\r\nMany people (including musicians!) worry that they might be tone deaf. 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