Hearing 8 bells...
Listening games to help in clearly hearing 8 bells.
If you have tried the beginner games, then these next ones will make you start thinking about the specifics of striking. Hearing 8 bells can be hard but picking out a bell that is having issues in useful and important.
We know that hearing specific bells can be difficult, so in these clips we have kept it very simple… in each clip 1 bell is ringing early… and consistently at both hand and backstroke.
Listen to each clip and choose which bell is ringing early… the faults have been randomly placed, so there is no pattern and there might be consecutive clips that have the same fault!
If you get a clip wrong, listen again and have another go. Try choosing the clips in a random order too, then you won’t start remembering the answers you come back again.
Ringing on higher numbers of bells is always harder, because there is so much more going on. So it is probably best to start with the 6-bell clips and then work up. Do look at the higher number clips, even if you are normally a 6-bell ringer… it is all good practice and will develop your ear.
Advice and Help...
Click the play button and listen to the rhythm of the bells…. the rhythm will sound a bit lumpy!
Picking out the first or last pair of bells will be relatively easy, but as you get further into the middle of the pack… it gets much harder!
So, try counting out the numbers in time with the bells… your counting will mostly be even, but one pair of numbers will be syncopated.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8…
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8… etc.
At this point you will know 4 & 5 are too close, and as the question is about an ‘early’ bell… it must be the second of the pair that is too close….. so in the example above, 5 is too close.