An ultimate aural skill or an inappropriate technique?

[UnforgivenSin]

I dont know much about the basic music theory (Well, yes I don't have any considerable knowledge on musical notes.).But still I use Ear Master. The question is, despite the lack of knowledge on notes, my grades range between 90% and 100% on the interval identifying exerices-I answer each question after several trials.Does this indicate that I have an ultimate aural skill or I just have an inappropriate technique to study? If the latter, how can I correct it? What kind of a schedule should I go for?

[KostaC]

It's hard to tell that you have an ultimate aural skill just by solving the very basic exercise area which is interval ID. What about chords, inversions, progressions, dictations...? Lets define the term "aural skill" first. Aural skill means that you have both abilities - relative pitch and perfect pitch. Relative pitch tells you what kind of chord/scale/interval/progression you're hearing (eg. minor, major, diminished, augmented, maj 7 etc..). Perfect pitch tells you it is actually "D" minor or "G" major etc. EarMaster is a program that teaches you only relative pitch. If your relative pitch is super exelent, any song that you hear you'll be able to play it on your instrument just by finding only the first tone. Of course, another factor is how much you're trained to play that instrument. If you have both RP and PP you will know all the tones in the song. It's not necessary to know to read notes for relative pitch because in EM beside the staff you have keyboard and fretboard as an answer input where the first tone of the example will be shown. For perfect pitch you have to know the names of the tones (C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B) in order to guess them. Or not... It's enough even to know their location on the keyboard/fretboard.