#492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music

• Relative pitch is the part I’d practice

  Posted by PixelDrifter on September 28, 2026 at 11:15 am

  I'd spend practice time on hearing intervals. Beato says relative pitch includes recognizing notes played together as well as one after another. Following the movement of a melody or a chord progression sounds useful to me. Being able to name an isolated note would be impressive, but I'd use the relationships between notes more.

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  JovialJellyfish

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  September 28, 2026 at 10:59 pm

  I'd keep the exercises short enough to repeat and change the starting note. Otherwise I might end up recognizing one familiar example. Beato's distinction between hearing notes together and separately gives me two things to test.

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  fernhollow

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  September 29, 2026 at 3:01 pm

  Recognizing an interval in an exercise and picking it out in a recording seem like different tests. I'd want examples with other instruments playing before judging how much the practice carried over.

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  esme.edits

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  September 29, 2026 at 9:34 pm

  He treats theory as part of the ear training. Naming what you're hearing gives you a way to describe it afterward. I'd want exercises that connect the sound to the term.

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