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Wangsta

United States776 Posts

September 17 2009 10:15 GMT

#81

On September 17 2009 18:15 HuskyTheHusky wrote:

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That pretty much summarizes how much sense this post makes. I read it a couple times to try and understand it but how can something so 'perfect' be 'broken'.

But uh, grats I guess?

"perfect pitch" doesnt mean that your pitch is perfect... its a term consisting of 2 words, its not an adjective followed by a term.

i dont remember where I posted this (or maybe someone else said it), but even perfect pitch has varying degrees.

theres quasi-perfect pitch where you only have one or a few notes memorized, which you use to reference other notes. theres conventional perfect pitch where you can recognize every note. and theres supposedly some degree of perfect pitch where the person can determine the exactly frequency of a note within some degree of accuracy.

phosphorylation

United States2935 Posts

September 17 2009 10:44 GMT

#82

On September 17 2009 19:10 Wangsta wrote:

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you're probably right, because I can't clearly hear the note when he says "look," but it really doesn't matter. like I said, I memorized it as a D rising to a D# and because of that it works fine for me. when I think of the song in my head, slowed down, its a usable reference.

and thanks for the retuning suggestion, but I check my tuning periodically with an electric tuner and it's been perfectly fine

problem is: it is not a D rising to a D#.
In any case, it has to be one of the worst songs to extract a "D" from. I just have a hunch that it's because "D" is virtually non-existent in it.

lac29

United States1485 Posts

December 20 2009 06:55 GMT

#83

You have relative pitch. That means you can say out loud what note it is by thinking in your head a reference note that you know for sure and counting to it (note that being able to "play the note / aka replicate the note you hear" does not refer to relative or perfect pitch).

You do not have perfect pitch. Others said it correctly ... perfect pitch is if you are being able to say out loud what note it is immediately without any reference and having to "count to the note from a reference note".

Many people have relative pitch ... I'd say the majority of music players and certainly most if not all music majors in college. Few people have perfect pitch, even long-time musicians.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21242 Posts

December 20 2009 07:09 GMT

#84

Perfect pitch can't be trained.

Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is the ability of a person to identify or recreate a musical note without the benefit of an external reference.

edit: What, bumped thread >_>

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