Tone - Learn Perfect Pitch! for Pc

First of all, many people debate whether perfect pitch can be learned after the age of about 6. But there is a decent amount of literature claiming otherwise, and at this point one could find there is a trope to learning it as an adult. One of the main tenants of any practice of it, though, is constant, regular, long-form practice. Like, daily 30-minute intent practice over 10 years. That said, this app doesn’t do that, at least not in its methodology. Maybe it could work with regular, 30-min practice over many years, but the app isn’t robust enough to incite that sort of commitment out of it. As it is, it’s an excellent relative-pitch practice device. The main issue is that, once the user hears the first pitch of their practice session, the rest of the pitches from that point on are heard in relation to the first one — thus ‘relative’ pitch. The only way this could really be used for perfect pitch practice is to try at only the first pitch when you open the app, then put it away for 30 mins, listen to other stuff, then come back and try it again, over and over and over. FWIW, it IS still really great as an on-the-go ear training gismo. I’ve already thought about having my students use it, as it is very simple but has many options for scales etc. I have my doctorate in music composition, so I think about this stuff a lot. Thanks for the app regardless!

I like the idea of pitch memory rather than perfect pitch. Being able to rely on yourself instead of available or non available musical instruments which may or may not be in tune.... of course A as 440 is a 20th century construct versus a 380 A in say, Bach’s day. Good relative pitch would suffice in many instances. While pitch memory is indispensable to a professional or ambitious amateur/ student. I wonder if the price isn’t discouragingly high for someone NOT making money in some portion of the industry. Three weeks of the subscription price would buy a pitch pipe as easily carry-able as a cell phone and without the problems of batteries running low. Maybe engineers, doctors and mechanics could do with perfect pitch but 1) they have machines for those diagnostics and 2) it’s an AMAZING mechanic who can diagnose an engine defect by sound. I like this idea but I’m frankly annoyed by the cost. (Not that programmers shouldn’t be paid but with a few well functioning apps and they can get a high paying software gig making more money than the best paid professional artists). I’m happy to concede the point if you can explain.... There should be theory, notation and a pitch finding function in the app for that price. Also NB this is all and only for western music and half this app scales. MUCH harder to hear for the western trained ear is Easter European and or African quarter this app scales. If someone could offer to train me to hear That, I’d pay good money for it.

Studies have suggested that we’re all born with at least the possibility of developing perfect pitch, and that it’s also an inheritable trait. Some of us have it right out of the box, while others have to work at it. Maybe, like foreign languages, if you start too late, you may never be completely perfect. And yet: What a great app! Before this, the only way to practice like this would have been to pay someone (or coerce a talented friend) to sit at a piano and play intervals and chords for you. Any pianist would suffer boredom doing it for 30 minutes straight, and they’d also start making mistakes. This app, instead, can help you keep your focus until YOU start to tire, and it has sometimes held my attention for an hour or more at a time. While I have yet to actually develop true perfect pitch, my overall sense is definitely improved. Fully perfect pitch still seems just out of reach, but maybe eventually I’ll get there. In the meantime, my relative pitch has improved tremendously, along with my general musicianship. This is an amazing tool for any musician. The younger you are to start this the better. But this writer is 62 years old and still finding it to be a great benefit.

I appreciate that there is a 7 day trial for this, BUT I think the $99 (for a year) price tag is a little greedy—especially when the developer(when introduced in the app) writes about his love of music and wanting to help others feel the same and achieve their musical goals. Despite the high price I am willing to pay because I am a singer and I’m trying to learn piano. It means a lot to me to be able to recognize notes by sound and to read music. Since installing the app a few days ago I have been encountering an extremely frustrating glitch that is both frustrating and discouraging. I open the app, click on practice or learn and the app immediately closes. The only fix that I’ve found for this is to uninstall and reinstall the app. As you may agree this is RIDICULOUS. Am I going to want to practice knowing that when I try, the app will close repeatedly until I uninstall and reinstall? The short answer is no, and I’m certainly not going to pay $100 for this aggravation. It’s extremely disappointing too, because the app itself is great and deserves 5 stars. I hope the development team sees this review and I hope they fix this extremely annoying glitch because I can’t take it anymore. If it gets fixed I’ll stick with it. Please fix!