Lesson Note 1

Tuning

For the longest time, I couldn't tune the violin by myself, because I thought I do not have perfect pitch so could not tell when they are in tune. However, the?teachers?told me, I can still train my ears and acquire the relative pitch.

I started tuning by playing A and D, and trying to hearing for thegolden sound of the?perfect?5th interval.

But what exactly is the?perfect 5th interval？ Here are some descriptions I thought helped me found the golden harmonic?interval.

Don't fight with it, sink into the sound.

-Yuki numata

Listen for that harmonic 'wawawa...' sound..

-Seth Van Embed

Listen to it carefully, your violin will tell you when it is in tune.

-Susan Kim

你慢慢調(diào)，是純五度perfect Fifth 的時(shí)候，你就會(huì)如沐春風(fēng)

-aridian?& 王澤宇

Furthermore,

I usedpythonplot to present theperfect 5th intervalsound wave for visualization.

Now I can pretty much tune violin by myself now :) !

I am using A=441Hz.

And there is much debate about the?diatonic?scale and?Pythagorean?scale, I will organize the differences between them next time......

Happy Practicing!