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Podcast: Busy Bards Ear Training
Episode: You don't need the Musical Alphabet as much as you think. (A Nuclear Surivor's Guide to Music, Part 5)
Description: Do you truly need absolute pitches? That is, do you need to think of music in terms of A, A#, B, C, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, and G#? Well….Yes and No.
Absolute pitches and the musical alphabet are very important for helping you pick an absolute, fixed pitch, to build your template of music (scale) off of. But once you have that established….is knowing the musical alphabet really the key to creating music? Well. Why don’t you go grab a piano and start making music right now! Harder than you th...