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ginganinja33 · Post by **ginganinja33** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:18 pm

just wondering if anyone here has it or has learned it? and if so,how?

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:33 pm

I think quite a few people around here have Perfect Pitch. I got it with Celemony Melodyne!

SWTrex · Post by **SWTrex** » Mon May 04, 2009 3:36 pm

ginganinja33 wrote:just wondering if anyone here has it or has learned it? and if so,how?

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing (except in Melodyne

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Ogg Vorbis · Post by **Ogg Vorbis** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:17 pm

According to the Sound on Sound staff, the definition of 'perfect pitch' is winging a banjo into the river in one throw.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Mon May 04, 2009 8:27 pm

Yes! Music to our ears! The best sound you can get out of a Banjo, is to f*ck it over a cliff . . .

someone called simon · Mon May 04, 2009 9:25 pm

The banjo is an awesome instrument. Just showing some banjo love.

instrument racism, thats what it is!

yellowfever · Post by **yellowfever** » Mon May 04, 2009 9:30 pm

As well as a banjo, I would hurl guitars, drums, brass, woodwind and string instruments over the cliff; ie - anything not called a synthesiser or drum machine

dirty oscillators · Post by **dirty oscillators** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:35 am

yellowfever wrote:As well as a banjo, I would hurl guitars, drums, brass, woodwind and string instruments over the cliff; ie - anything not called a synthesiser or drum machine

i dunno... instruments are like guns - it's the person using it that i might want to hurl over the cliff.

Basjoe · Post by **Basjoe** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:11 am

I admit that it may be quite difficult to convincingly perform The Agonised Face, crotch thrusts, and of course the "rush me girls" pout, whilst playing the banjo. But don't let that fool you - it can be a very expressive instrument in the right hands. Any one listened to Bela Fleck ?

Basjoe

Melkor · Post by **Melkor** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:37 am

I can identify a guitars Low E and open A pretty damn accurately without any reference ......even when played from a piano ....... Does this count ?

Max el Belga · Post by **Max el Belga** » Tue May 05, 2009 7:09 am

I've known somebody with 'perfect hearing'; he had an absolute perfect sence for pitch. You asked him for a note and he sing could it perfectly !
He was the director's right hand !

Cheers,

Max... .. .

PS : I just remembered another one too : a blind Greek piano tuner, known by nearly all the famous piano players who performed in Belgium.

EdgeSounds · Post by **EdgeSounds** » Thu May 21, 2009 5:58 pm

well, i know several people with perfect pitch. not all of them are musicians, it is an interesting ability though. but rather useless for music. what defines a musician is a relative pitch, which is learned through ear training. even a person with perfect pitch becomes a musician only when the relative pitch is developed, and it is actually much harder for them.

btw many good orchestras do not a hire musicians with perfect pitch.

jopy · Post by **jopy** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:21 am

I read an interesting account of this recently in a book by Daniel Levitin (a psychologist who studies musical perception). Apparently if you ask someone to sing a popular song they will invariably sing it back in the same key it was recorded in without knowing it. That seems like a sort of naive version of perfect pitch. That surprised me.

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:23 am

jmeier wrote:Apparently if you ask someone to sing a popular song they will invariably sing it back in the same key it was recorded in without knowing it.

I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that i won't.

Ogg Vorbis · Post by **Ogg Vorbis** » Fri May 22, 2009 3:11 pm

jmeier wrote:I read an interesting account of this recently in a book by Daniel Levitin (a psychologist who studies musical perception). Apparently if you ask someone to sing a popular song they will invariably sing it back in the same key it was recorded in without knowing it. That seems like a sort of naive version of perfect pitch. That surprised me.

I have heard about this. At least some forms of perfect pitch seem to be related to long-term pitch memory. Even today if I think about sitting in orchestra rehearsals in college, I can clearly hear the oboe playing a tuning A. Then I can sing it, walk over to the piano and sure enough, it's an A.

Perhaps this can be expanded, but as it's been said here before, relative pitch is more important to me. Understanding relationships between pitches is better than understanding static values.