Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-08-15 01:38
The point of not looking at the tuner continuously is to get used to *hearing* when the pitch changes, not *seeing* when the pitch changes.
What I usually do is play a note a few times, trying to get the starting perfect, and the pitch exact, and then once I've remembered the pitch, I play the note, and then look away from the tuner. I listen, and if I hear the pitch changing, I check to see what went wrong, and then do the tone again. If I'm not sure if the pitch is changing, then I check. Most often, I will glance at the tuner several times during the course of one note.
The most common problems for me are:
-getting the note to start in tune
-not sagging, or blowing sharp in the middle of the tone,
-getting the note to stay in tune up until the end.
That way, there is an active listening component, rather than just looking at the tuner, and making it sit at perfect 440.
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