{"id":4585,"date":"2013-09-29T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/?p=4585"},"modified":"2013-09-29T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T21:19:13","slug":"the-five-basic-pitch-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earbirding.com\/blog\/archives\/4585","title":{"rendered":"The Five Basic Pitch Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “How to Read Spectrograms” section of this blog is in desperate need of an upgrade, so today I’m starting a series of posts to help people describe and visualize sounds<\/strong> as simply and clearly as possible.\u00a0 Our first topic: pitch patterns.<\/p>\n

To identify birds, you don’t need musical training.\u00a0 You don’t have to name the notes that a bird is singing.\u00a0 You only have to recognize whether the pitch of a sound is rising, falling, or staying the same.\u00a0 Five simple patterns allow us to describe most sounds:<\/p>\n

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