Ramon Amira -> RE: ear training - problem with timbre of guitar along other instruments (Oct. 21 2010 3:09:32)
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I have been putting myself through rudiments of ear-training, mostly singing intervals and identifying random intervals within a two-octave range. Well, I can give you my best advice based on my own experience. I was a concert classical guitarist before I took up flamenco guitar, so I went through the whole nine yards of studying music theory, scales, intervals, harmony, counterpoint – you name it. You know what – when it came to flamenco I didn't have much use for any of it, with the exception of scales. You didn't say why you want to do ear training in general, and interval study in particular, but this is a flamenco forum, so if this is intended to help you as a flamenco guitarist, I personally feel you would be a lot better off spending all that time studying – how to play flamenco guitar. It's not that any of that will necessarily hurt you, though who knows, it's just that I don't see where it would help you, and in fact I feel it would hurt you in the sense that you will be spending a lot of time to no useful end with respect to flamenco guitar, time that could be used to work on technique, learning and creating material, etc. Just my feeling – assuming you are asking this in the context of studying flamenco guitar.
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