Cheers Tom,
I don’t think that I am what you would call a ‘naturally’ good technician by any means. But I am a very good musician and I am quite good at being able to adapt what I already know into solving something new. However, many of the skills which the CLSP course were trying to teach you were almost of another ‘language’ to me. I had heard of some of the subjects discussed but others were really way beyond my ‘ears’. I spent a lot of time trying to A/B different examples and I honestly could not hear any difference whatsoever !! I think I scored 72% (which is not that bad I suppose) because I used my own techniques for solving some of the questions. Such as ‘relative pitch’ for recognising different ‘frequency bands’ instead of listening with a more ‘scientific’ ear (which I am very sure the course designers were aiming for).
Best,
Paul