M2M Day 229: Doing it the old-fashioned way
This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For June, my goal is to develop perfect pitch.
Today, I’m in New York, staying at my parents’ house.
Yesterday, I commented that I wasn’t too worried about the environment change, given that my training “only requires a decent WiFi connection and my phone or computer”. But, this morning, I woke up to find out that the WiFi in the house was down.
Not only that, but my parents live in a rural, wooded area, so there’s never really any cell signal in the house either (i.e. no opportunity to use my phone’s hotspot).
As a result, if I wanted to practice my perfect pitch today, I had two options: 1. Go drive somewhere with WiFi, or 2. Practice the old-fashioned way.
I opted for the old-fashioned way, which required a family member to sit at the piano, play notes, and validate my guesses.
The piano hasn’t been tuned for at least ten years (side note: it’s not actually possible to perfectly tune a piano anyway), but it was close enough to use.
A couple hours ago, the WiFi came back, and I was able to transition back to the computer. The old-fashioned way is more fun, but the computer offers up better analytics at the end of my sessions (plus, the computer is willing to practice for hundreds of notes at a time without getting bored).
Today, I was consistently scoring around 75–80% across 10 out of the 12 notes for hundreds of iterations.
As I mentioned, my goal is to get this number up to 100% in the next three days, so I can stick to my timeline and progress to 11 notes.
(Side note #2: I’m glad the WiFi came back. Otherwise, I would have needed to go on my WiFi expedition anyway to share today’s post).
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