https://ganbar.us/tags/parenting/ Recent content in Parenting on The Barker Ganssle Family Hugo en-us Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:50:34 -0400 https://ganbar.us/posts/chord-identification-method-three-weeks/ Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:50:34 -0400 https://ganbar.us/posts/chord-identification-method-three-weeks/ <p>A few months ago, I saw <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753838" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a post on Hacker News</a> about a <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735612463948" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study out of a Japanese music school</a> (<a href="https://ganbar.us/documents/sakakibara_2012_chord_identification.pdf" >PDF</a>) that claims to have a high success rate teaching children aged 2-6 to have perfect pitch. Their method involves associating the chords with colored flags and quizzing the children 4-5x daily for about 2 minutes per session. If it works, this seems like a cool skill to have, particularly since our kids seem fairly interested in music; Max is about to age out of the range of the study, so I figured I should make it a priority to get started sooner rather than later.</p>