>>20757217No fucking clue. I don't have good relative pitch. But maybe I have some ideas:
(0. Sing in church and hum the tunes and check your pitch)
0.5. In general accurate familiarity of the melodies of songs you like
1. Practice your scales and chords
2. Learn to remember the relative pitches of very easy harmonies
- ascending/descending minor second: Jaws theme
- asc./desc. major second: beginning of major scale
- asc. minor third: ?
- desc. minor third: Dreydl Dreydl
- asc./desc. major third: beginning of arpeggio
- asc. P4: Here comes the bride (desc. P4 is opposite)
- asc. P5: Star Wars (desc. P5 see above )
- asc. m6: half step below M6 ((this is a VERY tricky tone to get instantly))
- asc. M6: NBC jingle (desc. M6 see desc. P4)
- asc./desc. m7: no fucking clue ((some people think of the Dom. 7 chord))
- asc. M7: leading tone
To get a nice ear, you can just practice singing along AT THE SAME TIME to your favorite songs. You then practice singing the song ACCURATELY alone. Then hearing the song but with a mistake (a complete false tone or something a few cents flat or sharp) and you identifying the mistake. This is the first step.
To get a better and close to a musician's ear, you practice the intervals in item 2. and practice getting them accurate and knowing their pitch tendencies.
You get a good ear and/or start hearing notes in your head by doing something like this for years for end.
