Can you Cure being tone deaf?

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So I am tone deaf. I want to know if there is anyway possible that i can cure that. Can someone send me a link about this or ways of curing this. Or if you know ways of curing it please tell me :-D.

Answer 1

How to Cure Tone Deafness



By Levi Zedek, published Apr 18, 2007

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There is good news for future American Idol contestants and Karaoke superstars. Tone deafness is completely curable. Some music teachers believe that tone deafness may not even be real. Tell that to Simon Cowell.

Case in point; as one music teacher describes it. If you're singing and realize you're way off key, then you can't really be tone deaf, can you. Many believe that the issue may be more of a problem of tone dumbness than tone deafness; meaning that the singer may actually be able to hear the tone. He or she just has difficulty reproducing the tone.

Consider what happens when a singer tries to match a key. First, you hear the key. Internally, the singer analyzes the key for pitch and then tries to reproduce the key vocally. What happens next is while singing the key; the singer is also hearing the key while trying to adjust accordingly.

One music teacher says that the actual tone deafness could be a breakdown in any part of the process from the way the singer hears the key, remembers the key or vocally tries to remember the key. So, pitch matching failures could be the result perception, processing, memory, production or a combination.

Gil Magno, a music teacher and author of The Secret believes that tone deafness is the result of a "complex misconnection between the left and right brain which may be caused by past emotional trauma". Maybe it sounds a little unusual to blame past emotional trauma for tone deafness, but Magno insists that he's had astounding results with the Callahan Technique.

The Callahan Technique, also referred to as Emotional Freedom Therapy, is described as "emotional acupuncture". The system is rooted in psychotherapy and endorsed by gurus and life coaches like Deepak Chopra, MD. But the system has delivered satisfying results for Gil Magno. Magno actually had two formerly tone deaf students win in competitions after working with him. "One girl started with four notes. Three months later she had a two octave range and was able to tell when she was out of tune". He also had a guitar student who was actually tone deaf and four months later ended up making a CD.

Answer 2

I am *fascinated* by tone deafness.  I know perfectly well that people who are tone deaf can still love music, and can still enjoy music.  So why can't they reproduce it?  My mother is one of those people who can't carry a tune in a sack--I have awful memories of her trying to learn the guitar when I was a teenager and being called in to help her tune it because she couldn't hear when one note was higher than another--and yet she produced four out of four children who can not only sing, but who are all pretty good at at least one instrument.  It's just weird.

I wish I had an easy answer for you.  One of these days I'm going to do a study--do you mean that you really can't hear music, that you can't differentiate between tones, that you *can* differentiate between tones but you just can't make your voice sound the same?

Music is processed differently in the brain from a lot of things that had always been kind of assumed to be related to it--it's been a very useful technique for people who stutter, for example, and people who have aphasia (inability to speak, or to speak meaningfully) after strokes or brain damage are still often able to sing.  It's really interesting.

I wish I had a simple answer for you, other than "keep trying."  And "sing like no one's listening."  *g*  Can I recommend a book?  "Musicophilia" by Oliver Sacks.  It's all about relationships to music.  I bet you'd find it an interesting read.

Answer 3

Tone deafness is not a problem with ears but is a lack of training.

It's easy to fix with training the ears and vocal muscles.

You can always work out on your problem by correcting your singing technique and releasing vocal-constriction.

If you really want to sing,you just have to work hard.

To improve self confidence is of utmost importance.

You can use Emotional-Freedom-Technique to cure it,following is link --http://www.emofree.com/Performance/tone-...

You can get help from this site also,it's YUBA method of training and curing Tone Deaf.

http://www.good-voice.com/eprofile.html

Medical term for tone deafness is "Amusia " a perceptual problem and  researches have found that only 1 in 20 people truely have it.Others hear music just fine.

Answer 4

Good luck.  If you find a "cure", let me know.

I couldn't carry a tune if it had handles bolted onto the sides of it.  I threaten my children with my singing - so far, no calls from CPS.

Answer 5

Google it. Just because you're tone deaf, doesn't give you an excuse to be lazy. You want a link? Find it yourself. You know, handicapped people baffle me with their selfishness and their lack of sensitivity.