Perfect & Relative Pitch - training software NEW v5.0! Start Price USD 35.00 Current Price USD 35.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, August 23, 2008 End Time Saturday, August 30, 2008 Location Gainesville, FL See more about 'Perfect & Relative Pitch - training software NEW v5.0!' Description   Ear Training Companion™ is a trademark of Acoustic Learning, Inc. Learn absolute pitch.  Naturally. - NEW in v5.0! - Three separate scientific studies** have shown 100% of children trained with this chord method acquired absolute pitch for the seven "white key" tones. - Introducing -   - How it works - Chordhopper activates your mind's natural perceptual strategies, using chords to make you hear pitches.*  After learning only nine chords, you will have automatically learned to hear all seven pitches of the C-major scale across multiple octaves. The training then continues with more chords which introduce the "black key" tones and also continue to reinforce the "white key" pitches, all in multiple octaves. - Children?  What about adults? - The research** has shown this method to be effective for 100% of children aged 2-4, even when it is the only form of musical training the children receive.If you're 5 or older, Chordhopper alone will not give you absolute pitch.  This method will train a person of any age to automatically hear all 12 tones as separate, individual, and unique.  An adult must also learn to detect the tone chroma.That's where Absolute Pitch Blaster comes in!  Absolute Pitch Blaster trains you to detect and recognize the tone chroma characteristic necessary for learning absolute pitch.- No risk, satisfaction guaranteed - You will hear recognizable results very quickly, and your perception and performance will continue to improve as your ear learns more and more every day. If you aren't satisfied, for any reason, your purchase is protected by a 100% money-back guarantee. Try it today! Download demo for Macintosh Classic Download demo for Mac OSX Download demo for Windows - No other method can do it - How does absolute pitch work?  Every tone has its own essential sound-- the "C-ness" or "G-ness" which defines the pitch-- and hearing this essential sound is how absolute listeners identify the tone.  This essential sound is called chroma.  Learning absolute pitch means learning to hear chroma. But no other method can teach you to hear chroma like the patent pending method of the Ear Training Companion. By playing the game, you will automatically learn to hear chroma.  You won't have to struggle to hear it, you don't have to wonder what it is, you don't have to figure anything out.  You won't even know you're learning to hear chroma-- until you discover yourself listening to it! - It's easy, but powerful - "Your work is awesome. I've had much better result by far than anything else I have tried." - Andy G. "I have been working on developing perfect pitch for about a year with no results. (I am 19). Anyway, the other day I stumbled into your AP Blaster... In just a week or less I have experienced AMAZING results.  ...Even with this small amount of time, I have really been able to hear the C pitch in the music that I commonly listen to. Also, I can sing a C at any time of the day (including when I wake up).  This is something that a full year of working on other methods could not do. I feel that I am actually progressing with your method, rather than just trying to hear things that are impossible to hear (like that the F-Sharp is "Twangy" and such). "Also, today (after just waking up) I went into my bathroom to brush my teeth. My toothbrush is one of those sonicare "sonic" toothbrush thingys. When you turn it on, it vibrates. For some reason, when I was brushing my teeth I actually listened to the sound the toothbrush was making. It sounded like a C to me somehow. I became excited and took my toothbrush to my piano to check and see if it was really resonating at a C. Sure enough...it was...leaving me stunned. NEVER before had I been able to just hear a random appliance in my house and determine the pitch."  -Bret M. "I used [another absolute-pitch training product] and though I didn't get very far in it, I did not notice anything close to what I've noticed from using your Ear Training Companion.  It's like the quality that identifies a pitch doesn't vary based on the octave... I don't really pick with a conscious thought of the octave, it's just I hear C. I kept listening to sounds that didn't have C, thinking is there a higher or lower C in there?  I sort of thought I would have to interpret the pitch as a higher or lower version or something.  But then I realized that the ones that I was getting right were different octaves, and the same pitch sound was jumping out at me."  - Brian H. - Your brain does it automatically - The Ear Training Companion works by making your brain do what it does naturally. Here are three shapes that all have one thing in common. How long does it take you to see what it is? You didn't even have to know what you were looking for-- your mind found it automatically. It's so easy, you may have thought this was a trick question.  But it's not.  This is how your brain works. And once you see that absolute feature, then you can recognize it no matter where it appears. This is how the Ear Training Companion teaches you to hear pitch chroma and to have true absolute listening.  It's just the way your brain works. And only the patent pending Ear Training Companion method does it this way. - Learn true absolute listening - ETC teaches you to automatically know every pitch, no matter where you hear it. "I love this game. I can hear the 1st target pitch in all kinds of situations already. When I turn on my computer or swap between users the chord and the theme melody have the target pitch in them. I can hear these even after being away from the computer overnight. I am onto the second level now (the blue ones). Thanks for writing this programme."  - Barry B. "I hear C jump out at me every time. It would make itself apparent immediately, no matter what was being played. Because it was only the one pitch, [ETC] seems like it prepares you for hearing this stuff in the real world. Whereas I do [another method], from the beginning you're thinking about 2 pitches, and then 3 and 5; lol, no way that I learn them, instead I'm stuck guessing.  But when I go to do G [in ETC], C's still jump out at me."  - Brian H. Because the Ear Training Companion thoroughly trains you to hear one pitch at a time, you'll find more and more pitches "jumping out" at you, until you've learned all 12 tones of the chromatic scale. - Learn a real musical skill - Absolute pitch is not just a party trick of being able to "name notes."  With solid ear training in absolute and relative pitch, you can easily pick apart any piece of music and know exactly what you've got. "I've found [ETC] extremely helpful and have had many musicians I've played with commenting on what a marvelous natural gift I have in my ear! I have to explain it's not natural I worked my a** off at it!!! I am now at the stage where I can hear almost any melody (within reason) and play it back immediately on the guitar or piano. This gives me wonderful freedom in playing, and it is in great part due to your software that I have achieved this level of skill, so thank you! I hope others can benefit from it in the same way."  - Kyle K. The Ear Training Companion automatically re-trains your ear to hear what you never knew was there.  The Ear Training Companion is your key to a whole new dimension of music. - No risk, satisfaction guaranteed - You will hear recognizable results very quickly, and your perception and performance will continue to improve as your ear learns more and more every day. If you aren't satisfied, for any reason, your purchase is protected by a 100% money-back guarantee. Try it today! Download demo for Macintosh Classic Download demo for Mac OSX Download demo for Windows Recognize musical tonesinstantly and effortlesslywith harmonic relative pitch. - improvise and harmonize in real-time. - Play and listen and never get lost. - Transcribe complex pieces with confidence. - have a deeper, more intimate feeling for musical relationships. No tedious drillsNo frustrating "ear straining"No boring exercises Just play the game to learn full tonal context! The Ear Training Companion games are designed according to scientific principles of perceptual learning.All you do is play the games.  Your mind will naturally and automatically learn the musical sounds as you play. "I have been playing the games every day for the last month and have already seen dramatic improvement in my hearing ability."- Jonathan P. *  *  * Interval Loader teaches youharmonic relative pitch Instantly identify any musical note by its context.No "reference tone" necessary. David, a guitarist, explains how harmonic listening is critical to his performance. So I'm in a band situation and I hear a major 6th ("My Bonnie")-- just knowing this tells me nothing useful in an improvising situation.  It could be any of a number of major 6th's in the current improvising key.  I need context.  I need to hear the pitches harmonically in the key of the improvisation to know anything useful. If you can get this type of listening down, to the point that you just know a note is a maj7 or min3 (or whatever) within the current key (ie. no "My Bonnie" or any other interval based tricks like singing up/down a scale) and you can retain permanent memory of just one key absolutely (say, for example, C major). Then you could technically claim to have perfect pitch. ...I remember reading somewhere that if someone's comparing a note to a reference then some people consider this not to be "real" perfect pitch. But... there's no such comparison, there's just listening in a C major context to a note. Also, someone might argue that it's not perfect pitch because you're identifying a maj6 rather than the note A. But this is just a labeling issue. So you call it "A", well my name for it is "maj6". I can easily just learn the note names rather than interval names and internalize this to the point where I'm labeling notes by name instantaneously. Rich, also a guitarist, explains how harmonic relative pitch has "opened up" his instrument. Harmonic relative pitch may explain a difficulty I always had prior to doing any harmonic ear training. When transcribing (or even just singing along with the radio) I would often be confused by a melodic step that would be ascending but depressing (or descending and uplifting) at the same time. I now understand that this happened when a melody would ascend scalar steps, but land on a more harmonically complex note (or the opposite). A P5 to a m6 would be a close interval example. Prior to any harmonic ear training, I would be confused by such an interval. My head would be telling me "up," but my gut would be telling me "down." Wider intervals would simply be confusing as hell. Obviously, the direction would be up, but I'd have no idea by how much. Now... these steps are much easier. I'm not thinking "a minor second up," I'm thinking "sol to le." It's still relative listening, but the listening part is based on harmony with the common root, which can quickly be translated to scalar steps so my brain can tell my fingers to move up one fret. This has had the ancillary benefit of really opening up the fretboard to me, so I'm improving greatly as a guitar player. I, like many rock guitarists, was really a slave to the "boxes" (fretboard patterns for scales and modes.) Now for me, the boxes are gone, and the entire fretboard is one big land of chromatic possibility. Phil, a keyboard player, tells how harmonic relative pitch helps him take total control of his instrument. That is how I navigate while improvising.  ...[People say] "the wider the notes, the harder it is to figure."  I don't have that problem at all, because I identify notes via harmonic sensing or scale degrees. ...Any note in the scale, no matter how distant, even in an octave 3 or 4 octaves away, is immediately obvious to me-- as long as the key does not change.  ...When the key changes... as soon as I discover the key, then I can reset my scale degrees to the new key.  ...I came to the conclusion that "I do NOT think in intervals".  ...I realized that I stink in naming intervals. Yes, of course I could do it, but not nearly as well as I could find notes on the keyboard.  So I said to myself, "Well, what the heck ARE you doing then?" and I realized that I was hearing and identifying notes as scale degrees. If you learn traditional "intervals", you only know the relationship of each individual note to its immediate neighbor. If you learn harmonic scale degrees, you know the relationships of every note to the entire context. The software is really great.  At first I was wary about ear training with pictures... but it seems like you've done your homework."  - Kyle K. - Game features - Picture icons for each note Learn musical sounds without interference! When you play a musical sound and think of the letter "A", you are hearing both of these sounds in your head. Picture icons eliminate the extra letter sounds.  Then you can hear the pure musical sounds that you actually want to learn. Once you know the harmonic scale degrees,you can call those sounds by any names you want. The Interval Loader picture icons will help you learn the solfege syllable names: do di re me mi fa donut deer rain mailbox mirror fox             fi so le la te ti feet soap ladybug lock table teapot     Fingering training The keyboard shortcuts are fully customizable!Play the keyboard like the keys of your own instrument. You'll learn which keys to press, to play by ear, improvise, or follow music.   Game levels teach new skills Each new game level expands your musical awareness. More tonesMore intervalsMore octavesMore key signaturesMore instrument timbresMore tonal relationships!   Benchmarks and high scores Keep track of your progress with benchmarks and high scores. See your results in easy-to-read bar charts. Watch your high scores keep getting higher!     Click either image for a larger screenshot. - No risk, satisfaction guaranteed - You will hear recognizable results very quickly, and your perception and performance will continue to improve as your ear learns more and more every day. If you aren't satisfied, for any reason, your purchase is protected by a 100% money-back guarantee. Try it today! Download demo for Macintosh Classic Download demo for Mac OSX Download demo for Windows What people are saying (For more detailed information, please visit the Ear Training Companion™ Discussion Forum.) "I just purchased your ETC... I've read most of your research on your excellent site as well. You have cleared up much of the mystery surrounding perfect pitch, something *** does not do. I've worked through most of *** course but stopped after about 2/3 through. My biggest obstacle was the timbre of the piano. To practice hearing pitch with different instruments is what makes ETC a great tool; I'm excited about working with your program for this very reason."- Paul Minotto, conductor, Prime Time Sublime Community Orchestra "I would like to say that after having viewed many dozens of websites on absolute pitch, yours is by far the most comprehensive and well put-together... It has been a tremendous help and relief to be able to read its contents. Keep up the great work."- Matthew N. "I started to work with *** Course months ago and I began to feel that there's no longer development in my learning. But reading your critical comments and impressions motivated me enormously! Your intelligence is astonishing! Now, knowing that I'm no longer dependent on something mystical, perfect pitch is again attainable for me."- Andreas Iancu, guitarist and pianist, Germany "I have learned an immense amount from your website, and want to thank you for the valuable information."- Citar player and composer, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana "I have recently purchased your software and I am quite impressed with all it can do for my absolute pitch ear-training!! A while ago (about 2 years ago) I ordered *** perfect pitch course but, I was a little disappointed with the course for its vague explanation of what "perfect pitch" is and how to learn it. I was particularly confused about what to listen for in the tones!!  *** kept emphasizing that the colors would somehow all sink in after a certain amount of time but my question was, 'How, if I don't know what to listen for??'"- Mishka Roth, pianist and piano teacher, France "Thank you for such an outstanding resource. I'm extremely impressed with your software program as well as your website. It's a treasure trove, seriously, for anyone interested in educating themselves about how we perceive and experience pitch."- Mark S. *How Chordhopper works The first two chords used are CEG and CFA: By attentively identifying each of these two chords, you will automatically begin to hear the shared pitch (C) as a separate and unique sound. You don't have to try to do this; you don't have to figure anything out.  You simply play Chordhopper, and your unconscious mind will extract the pitches for you. Then the next chord is BDG, which brings out the G. Then the chords are inverted, to reinforce the sound of a pitch across octaves. This process is repeated and expanded with a logical sequence of chords until you are listening to all 12 pitches across multiple octaves. ^Back to top **References Oura, Y. and Eguchi, K. (1982). Absolute pitch training program for children. Ongaku Kyouiku Kenkyu (Music Education Research), 32, 162-171. Sakakibara, A. (1999). A longitudinal study of a process for acquiring absolute pitch. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 47. Sakakibara, A. (2004). Why are people able to acquire absolute pitch only during early childhood?: Training age and acquisition of absolute pitch. Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology, 52(4), 485-96. ^Back to top Further information and research "Acoustic Learning Inc" is me, Christopher Aruffo.  All proceeds from these sales are applied towards my ongoing research, and you get all future upgrades to the ETC software absolutely free. You can read more scientific and theoretical details about perfect pitch and harmonic relative pitch on my website.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions! Place a Bid!