Absolute (Perfect) Pitch/ Reletive Pich (Solfeggio)/ Music Theory Course

Musical aptitude, which includes abilities such as pitch perception, rhythm perception, and harmonic perception, is the foundation of musical proficiency. Without musical aptitude, progress in piano playing is limited. However, musical aptitude is not something that is naturally acquired through learning to play the piano. It is important to train and develop accurate musical aptitude.

This school places a strong emphasis on musical aptitude education and offers a curriculum that focuses on developing perfect pitch for children under the age of 6.5 and relative pitch for those over 6.5 years old and adults.

In addition, the music theory course is essential for learning the basic theoretical concepts required to study music. This course teaches the fundamentals of music theory such as music terminology, notation, music scales, and chord theory. The music theory course is crucial for acquiring skills that are essential for playing music, analyzing music, and developing a deep understanding of music. It can be taken online, allowing you to study at your own pace, making it an efficient way to learn even with a busy schedule.

Absolute (Perfect) Pitch Training Course

Do you have small children under the age of 6 years and half? They can get absolute pitch by training. The training is also available for those who live not only in remote areas of Japan but also in foreign countries if you have a computer and a piano (or digital piano) at home!

If you have a small child under the age of 6 years and half, he/she is able to get absolute pitch. Absolute pitch is the ability to identify notes without any point of reference. With the abillity of absolute pitch, your child will get a lot of benefits when he/she learn, play and even write music!

Here are the benefits of having absolute pitch:

  • You can identify all keys including white and black keys (sharp/flat) so that you can re-create music just by hearing.
  • You can identify not only single note but also individual notes of chords.
  • You can do music dictation easily and effortlessly.
  • You can image how the music sounds in your head just by reading music notes so that you can master the music faster than those without absolute pitch.
  • You can memorize music much easier!
  • You can even write music in your head.

As for absolute pitch, the younger your child is, the better because child ears are developed fully by the age of 6 or 7 years. Thus, it is the best to start absolute pitch training before the age of 6 years.

Relatie Pitch Training (Solfeggio) Course

Are you having trouble improving your piano playing skills or reading msical notes?

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Solfeggio is a music education method used to teach pitch and the ability to read music for playing the piano or singing.

Students will have difficulty improving their piano playing skills if they lack musical rhythm, cannot recognize pitch, and/or are unable to read notes smoothly. Those who cannot recognize pitch have special difficulty playing musical notes and mastering music quickly.

If students do not learn these basic skills early in their piano education, they may eventually become stuck, discouraged, and more likely to give up on the piano altogether.

Since most students are not able to gain these skills naturally during their normal piano lessons. They must be learned separately.

Fortunately, I am able to give special intensive training to students needing to improve these essential skills.

I develop an original training menu for each student depending on his/her abilities. My students will see substantial improvement in 1-3 years. Most children will be able to recognize pitch in about a year.

Although it is best to get the pitch, ear and rhythm training when the student is young and just beginning to learn the piano, I gave the solfeggio lessons to a junior high school student, the oldest student to take these lessons in this school. After a year, she was able to recognize pitch almost perfectly and her ability to read music was much improved. I believe that even adult students can profit greatly from solfeggio lessons if they are willing to learn and put forth the effort.

As an additional advantage, those who sing off key can also receive pitch training in this school because I am experienced in giving voice lessons. If you want to excel at Karaoke, this course will help you, too!

Absolute Pitch and Relative Pitch

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Absolute pitch, widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability to identify notes without any point of reference. In other words, it is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. For example, if you can play TV’s commercial song on the piano just by hearing it from TV, there is no doubt that you have absolute pitch.
As for absolute pitch, some people naturally possess this ability from birth while others gain it through ear training. This ability should be developed very early in life from the ages of 3 to 6 years old. Unfortunately, it is too late to develop it after 6 years old when ears are fully grown.

However, you can gain relative pitch through training no matter how old you are. So, I recommend you take this training when you start taking piano lessons. Relative pitch is the ability to identify the pitch of notes relative to other notes you’ve heard. If you at least have this ability, you will have no trouble learning the piano.

Of course, it is better to have absolute pitch, but relative pitch is all that is required to develop excellent musical skills. In fact, there are famous musicians who do not possess absolute pitch, yet give great performances, because they have developed relative pitch.