Prolobe Online Absolute Pitch Ear Training

Hello everybody, if you'll this thanks!

I was thinking of asking you some questions...

1) I'm in the high school and in my class we are nearly all musicians: 7 pianists, 2 guitarists,others played an instrument earlier, everyone loves mathematics and have same kind of hobby, particularly tennis. Isn't it crazy?
Are you any good at mathematics etc. ?

2)I'm learning PP, and I have read a crazy lot of information about it. But I'm not sure which strategy to adopt: train like a mad by doing prolobe or Burge's like method: "listen relaxed to subtle qualities of tones" I was doing both even drawing pictures for every tone associating to different pictures, imagining etc. Crazy stuff...
Comparing to me you (lvl 36) did much less prolobe,the majority (lvl 36) PP born-with.
The possessors of PP which one did you adopt?(Can you describe your behavior while training?)

3)I read something about listen to music while training: what happens is that I lose my tonal center and it's 50% more difficult for singles and less for chords. It must make you capable to identify pitches in real music. What do you think about?

(Apologize if I ask the same questions as 3 years ago but I could find an answer.)

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Back in high school I was good at math. Should've pursued that instead of music, lol, damn America. Music = poverty. :( /tear

Ah, it's very interesting because people around say the same things to me and we consider that you have PP etc. all stuff to be a good musician, so it must be quite difficult...But still if music is what you enjoy the most, why maths? Who knows maybe in one year you'll be famous? :)

1) Mathematics is like a very bad dream, but the good news is that it is a bad dream I have no comprehension of ;)
Poor joke perhaps, but in other words... NEE!

2) Behaviour while training?
When I used Burge's course, I was doing my best to listen effortlessly and not get into to tones, but to to let the tones come to me.

Then, for no reason, I happened to have a sudden success with Melody Triggers, which has been the "mother of my hearing" eversince.

3) Yes, I can listen to music and at the same time do "perfect pitch" tests and other related ear training stuff without much trouble.

To confirm for myself, I listened to AOL Radio "Top Jazz" while going through the "pp test" of http://perfectpitchtest.com/ and scored without any error.

Then I did some ad-libs on my harmonica, on a Jazz song named "Idle Moments" (I was too late to see by who) and did mess up once confusing Bb for A.

Answer, it helps.

Oh, and I do not play with conscious and learned RP knowledge, I have had about no training in RP. Thus no conscious use of intervals or scale degrees. I just go tone by tone.

Hope that made enough sense!

Elcon

Thank you, Elcon

I totally agree...

MT : Even Benjamin Britten in his diaries said that he had to remember the beginning of his favorite songs because his PP wasn't so reliable when he was getting older.

Today I was walking in the street and I tried to find out the notes of some melodies and it seemed to work, slowly but surely, I verified them on the piano and it was correct. We are on the right way! ( Before I have never tried this technique so I'll discover it )

Merry Christmas everybody! ^^