Timeline for Do I have perfect pitch
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | Tetsujin | [contd...] One of them is famous in local circles for once being at a premiere of a new classical choral piece. he was given the score to read whilst listening. About ten minutes in, he got up & left, to read the score outside... claiming loud enough for the conductor to hear, "I can either listen to this or read it. I cannot do both at once!" | |
| Jul 12, 2018 at 19:01 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I have 2 friends, both of whom have "perfect pitch"... yet both have a tolerance to pitches being "imperfect" We used to go to a pub with an old 45rpm jukebox... which played at slightly the wrong speed'. They would irritate the rest of us by yelling the chord structure of every song at each other [we were young, we were drunk]... a semitone out from each other; because each was referencing a slightly different 'absolute' & the juke box was just about a quarter-tone out ;) | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 22:15 | comment | added | psosuna | I was pretty certain that having perfect pitch also entailed the ability of recognizing "out-of-tune"-ness to a very sharp degree regardless of tuning system (though most people associate this with a standard tuning such as A=440Hz). For example, being able to tell, with just your ears, whether a played A is sharp or flat, within a degree of a few cents. This, in essence, allows the person to be able to recall and produce accurately, a given note, on an instrument of choice (voice included) | |
| Oct 3, 2015 at 21:18 | answer | added | sova | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 20:36 | comment | added | Darren Ringer | @JaySkyler That does not seem correct - hearing and instantly abstracting any pitch to the note A would be the ability to suppress perfect pitch and impose a system of relative pitch. If you can hear any frequency and tell what name it has (along with the system you are using : i,e, equal tempered A=440), then THAT is perfect pitch. If you are working from a reference tone, then you are not using perfect pitch at all. Where we define the cutoff for 'when you last heard a note' is rather arbitrary and leads me to believe tinnitus makes perfect pitch much easier. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 19:05 | answer | added | Lolo | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 10:07 | comment | added | Jay Skyler | @Tetsujin For instance, I certainly have the ability to begin a song singing without any instrumental backing and I have many of the notes memorized, but I do not have perfect pitch. There are countless frequencies we will accept as being an A. Perfect pitch is the ability to immediately hear and instantly abstract any of them to the note A. Many have good ears, perfect pitch is rare because it specifically requires this instant symbolic abstraction. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 9:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMusic/status/646619991043915776 | ||
| Sep 23, 2015 at 9:33 | comment | added | Tetsujin | @JaySkyler Take an example; someone with no musical training whatsoever. Challenge, 'Sing me the opening line of [known reference] songs x, y & z' - a task they may eminently be capable of, without any knowledge of what those notes are called. To them, the symbols & names are just they 'know' what those notes ought to be, because that's how they heard them. Personally, I cannot sing a note I'm handed on a sheet of paper without first playing it on some instrument; but I know for certain if a known song is in the 'right' or 'wrong' key, within a semitone. | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 9:17 | comment | added | Jay Skyler | @tetsujin I disagree, perfect pitch is specifically the ability to consistently match tones with their corresponding symbols and names in music even if the name may be different based on language. In addition to the ability to sing the corresponding tone when presented with the name or symbol. | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 9:40 | comment | added | Tetsujin | It may be possible, without any musical training at all, to have perfect pitch; yet be completely unable to do the blind piano test - because you don't know the names of the notes. | |
| Sep 19, 2015 at 19:22 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | What if the song is played in different keys by different groups? Anyway, it's easy to test perfect pitch. face away from the piano while a friend plays single keys. If there's any doubt in your mind, you don't have perfect pitch. | |
| Sep 19, 2015 at 18:16 | comment | added | Tim | You say 'a certain note'. Do you mean that there is just one note that this works with? | |
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