bending tuner pitch reference tuning

HOHNER Harmonica Tuner
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Though a tuner is a great tool for dialing in your bends, using a tuner to catch a pitch quickly enough to register while you're actually playing a passage (not just a slow exercise) won't happen. A pitch generator plays a reference pitch (instead of receiving one in the case of a tuner). Many tuners have a pitch generator setting on them. continue reading...

This has nothing to do with rhythm, but it does have to do with a feature of some of your metronomes (and tuners). Grab your metronome and tuner and see if they have a feature for pitch generation. For tuners, instead of the tuner "receiving" sound and identifying it, it "sends" sound by playing a reference pitch for you. Here are a couple of scenarios that I find useful...

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When referencing a pitch for bending practice (such as a piano or a pitch generator like the Wittner MT60 that Kinya used in Harp Tech Study 7), if you're in tune, you won't hear the reference pitch (it will be very difficult to hear).

When referencing a pitch for bending practice (such as a piano or a pitch generator like the Wittner MT60 that Kinya used in Harp Tech Study 7), if you're in tune, you won't hear the reference pitch (it will be very difficult to hear).