<p>I am so nervous... most people take it as a two year course and my school offers only a one year course</p>
<p>However, I have perfect pitch so hopefully that will put me at an advantage</p>
<p>I took it last year, 1 yr course. If you have perfect pitch you should be alright, however that will only get you so far. Not much you can do in terms of studying.</p>
<p>can I ask you your score?</p>
<p>I got a 3. I was the type of kid who didnt do much in the class but payed attention and had an indepth love for music.</p>
<p>I'm taking the class this year as well... if you have perfect pitch, you're set.</p>
<p>My school offers it as a one year course, and there has never been anyone that failed the AP exam.</p>
<p>I think it is really dependent on 1) how you learn, and 2) how the class is taught. Just like every AP course, really.</p>
<p>i'm jealous of the people who have perfect pitch..</p>
<p>I have perfect pitch, but my school doesn't have a music program...I am planning on majoring in music so I wanted to take it but too bad I guess</p>
<p>Is it hard to develope even relative pitch? I am thinking about minoring in music in college because of my love for music and i play the guitar and piano but my pitch isnt so good.</p>
<p>I have been playing piano for more than 10 years. Do you think I can self study the AP theory?</p>
<p>Perfect pitch really helps, so I'm sure you'll be more than fine. I have perfect pitch and I took it last year..I got a 5 and it wasn't bad at all. In terms of studying, just look things over (especially figured bass and chord analysis), but try to practice writing melodies and harmonizing them (and analyzing the chords), voice leading, and stuff like that. </p>
<p>And Dondilx, I'm sure it's possible to develop and improve your relative pitch with lots of practice (do lots of listening exercises with intervals, etc.)</p>
<p>Is perfect pitch something acquired or something you're born with?</p>
<p>usually born with</p>
<p>relative pitch is eassssssy</p>
<p>go to teoria.com
it looks like it's in spanish, but you can work on intervals, and if you know your open singing note, you can just work up from there</p>
<p>I didn't think THAT many people had "perfect pitch". It seems as if the term is being used pretty casually.... Just dont be tone deaf if you take the exam.</p>
<p>I got a four with just knowing violin. </p>
<p>Really piano helps. If you know piano fairly well and the theory behind it, you'll get a high score.</p>
<p>Definitely. Though I don't play piano very well, I get familiar with the pitches of other instruments easily b/c I've listened to piano for such a long time in my life; which in turn helped me a lot in getting a 5 on the ap.</p>
<p>Besides the pitches, know some terminologies and read some music theory books. I crammed some materials the last 2 weeks because our textbook the "Tonal Harmony" is really abstract, doesn't explain things in detail.</p>
<p>and lastly, the MC last year are just as easy as the most recent released one (I believe it's 2003), the MC before that were much harder.</p>
<p>i'm taking the test in two weeks and i'm not well prepared at ALL. i do not have perfect pitch and miss about half of the aural part that requires listening. not to mention, melodic and harmonic dictation are really hard for me and i cannot even get down the rhythm. As for theory, i am better at it, yet there are some gaps in my knowledge. Sight-singing is alright though.
so, any tips on how to get at least a 4? it'd be much appreciated. I'm expecting a 3 though.</p>
<p>Is there a way to develop perfect pitch?</p>
<p>In my opinion, perfect pitch is something you are born with. For example, I am considered to have perfect pitch by my friends and my teacher. However, my sister is a better piano player than I am, so it is just an innate quality. </p>
<p>P.S. How do you guys use textbooks for AP Music Theory? My teacher, who is the "nicest teacher in the world," doesn't use any textbooks at all. Instead, she has a lot of worksheets from college professors that/whom she knows. In other situations, she uses the Sibelius software to come up with compositions and to replicate the AP Music Theory FRQs - Realizations and Harmonizations. We have the AP Music Theory class as a two-semester class, and we do dictation at the beginning of class every day. However, they are way easier than the AP exam. In my class, when she did the 2001 melodic dictation (the hard one), I was the only one with a perfect paper, but everyone else got at least 2 mistakes in rhythm or pitch. However, I do wish the best of luck to everyone on Monday as well as other AP exams everyone else might be taking!</p>