Ear Training With Your Cell Phone Ringtone

Ear Training Hack #4. Use your cell phone ringtone as a pitch trigger.

These days everyone has custom ringtones on their cell phones. My current ringtone is All Blues by Miles Davis. Well, one of the fastest ways to prove to yourself that you can have perfect pitch is with [tag]pitch triggers[/tag]. So learn the notes of your cell phone ringtone and use it as a pitch trigger.

If you know that your ringtone is a B, then every time you hear it you’ll be conditioning yourself to memorize that tone. Within a week or two you’ll recognize that tone whenever you hear it. It’s a great way to develop your [tag]passive absolute pitch[/tag].

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