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What should you focus on?

**Important: You will get faster with these after only a few minutes of practice.  It's important and okay to start slow, but find the balance between:

1. Goal #1:   Carefully attempting to hear and consider the sound differences to speed brain reorganization and lessening of your tinnitus.  Just like in muscle building, nerve building takes work.  So, consistently push yourself.
2. Goal #2:   Getting done within 30-45 minutes so you don't spend all day and go crazy doing this stuff.  Be careful not to get overstressed with training or you will plateau just like athletes get over-training syndrome.
3. Goal #3:   Treat yourself like an athlete in training.  You need focused time, relaxed and foucused mind, proper nourishment, and good sleep to be your best.

Some people tend to RUSH through (reducing their benefit) and others MUST get it exactly right (growing frustrated and weary).  Only practice will help you discover your own proper balance.

Just relax, get good rest, eat and drink well, and get some regular exercise. 

Remember, you can repeat the level as needed.

It will take about 2 minutes per page (for 10 tone sets) at first, but after finishing a few pages, you should be able to do a page in about 1 minute 30 seconds.

Computer-user SPEED Tip: 

• The training pages are very TOUCH-friendly.  It is more difficult to mouse-click the answers.
• If you use a mouse, to help get you down to 1 and 1/2 minutes or so, use the scroll ball or wheel on your mouse or the "Page Down" key on your keyboard after you finish the lowest answer on the visible screen.  You DO NOT want to waste time with the scroll bar on the side of your screen.
  
  So, let's get a started by listening to the tones you will hear in this level. 

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Tones you will hear on this level:

You will hear tones tones that include these below. CLICK them to hear:

These are the single, REMINDER tones.

You will see these tones as reminders on every page. In that case, they will look like the icons above.

Now , we will show you examples of the tone combinations or sets you will hear in this training level.
Whenever you graduate to a new difficulty level, check these out carefully.

Let's start with 2 of the SAME tones together.

Here are the "Low" tones individually: 

Here are the "Low" tones in a question set:

Now let's listen to 2 of the SAME "HIGH" tones.

Here are the "High" tones individually: 

Here are the "High" tones in a question set:

Now, listen to sets of tones that are "DIFFERENT" from each other.

Here are the "Low" and "High" tones individually: 

Here are the "Low" and "High" tones in a question set:

Now, "DIFFERENT"...AND in reverse order

Here are the "High" and "Low" tones individually: 

This is how all the QUESTIONS will be presented -- as tone sets.

There will be 10 on every page (15 pages total). The tones sets will be combinations of the individual tones.

I think you're ready for the real thing. Don't worry about remembering all these tones and icons. I will give you reminder tones to help and the answers immediately after each question. I think you will find this quite intuitive. Let's go to the next page to start some serious tinnitus brain training.

Selection of Nature Sounds

For this frequency, we have chosen the sounds of a Red-shouldered Hawk,  largely because the hawk's communication sound is naturally a tone range that is quite close to the one at which you need to train. Then we altered the frequency to fit into the discrimination training protocols our research found to be most helpful for brain training long-term tinnitus reduction.

This is a beautiful bird.  Here's a picture as a visual to think of as you are training. As you train to discriminate between the lower and higher pitch tones, think of the higher pitch tones being from a smaller or younger hawk, and the lower tones being from an older, larger hawk.  You will be able to tell the difference in the way they look just by the difference in the pitch.  Of course, you won't get to see the size of the hawks before you make your selections.

  

Many other interesting facts about these hawks and amazing photos can be found at the Audubon Society website.  More info is available at AllAboutBirds.com, National Geographic webpages on Red-shouldered Hawks, and the Wikipedia on the Red-Shouldered Hawk. Here's one interesting note: The dark purple area is where the Red-Shouldered Hawk is commonly found in the United States and Mexico.