--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: <snip> > > Ear training was taught poorly when I went to college. The > > students who depended on it to play their instruments were > > the best at it. But those who often wanted to compose and > > played fixed pitch instruments like piano it could be > > difficult. That's why I knew a lot of arrangers who were > > trombone players and could sit down at a sheet of manuscript > > paper and write out an arrangement they heard in their head. > <snip> > What's weird is I don't remember ever *learning* intervals. > On the piano, it's pretty obvious what they are because > they correspond to the number of keys from one note of the > interval to the other: C to G is a fifth because G is the > fifth key above C.
Didn't quite finish my thought here. I'm mystified by what you say because it seems to me folks who play the piano would have the *easiest* time with intervals. On the piano they're so cut-and-dried, as it were, so visually obvious, that you'd quickly become able to associate the sound of the interval with the distance between the two keys, I should think.
