Before you put the blame on your lack of singing skills to quitting high school choir, you might want to check out your hearing. Years of drumming, jamming in a rock band, or working as a sound tech can wreak havoc on your hearing. While medical hearing tests can check how well your ears compare to a specific standard, Tone Tester has the musician in mind and checks how well your ears can detect one pitch from another.

Many people don’t realize that when they play the note B flat, their right ear may detect B flat while their left ear identifies it as closer to B natural – a difference of up to one semitone! Click to read the rest…

Make no mistake: Wii Music is a lot of fun. Where else can you get together with your friends and play “Sukiyaki” on steel drums and sitar, or create a full orchestral jam session in space? Wii Music offers so many nuances of play that small children can play with no chance of failure, yet it can be adapted to create highly competitive opportunities for musicians to play.

What is Wii Music?

Essentially, players of Wii Music play music as Wii characters. Using the Wii remote controls, you choose instruments to play, using movements rather like those required in playing the musical instruments in the physical world. Each instrument has its own nature in Wii Music, just like in the real world, and particular combinations of buttons and movements give you chords or single notes, tremolo or arpeggios, crescendos or muted sounds. Add the Wii balance board for full drum set action.

As you continue to play, you unlock more instruments and more tunes, working up to a selection of over 60 different instruments from around the world Click to read the rest…