Perfect Pitch?- Page 2

[trpguyy]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 8:10am

One of my friends has perfect (absolute) pitch. If you play any random clump of notes on the piano, he'll tell you which notes you played, and so on. He says that each note has a different color to it, and that it's very easy to tell the colors apart.
Also, my music teacher taught himself perfect pitch. It can be done. There's actually an at-home course that guarantees you perfect pitch.

[teh_pretty]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 9:39am

My music history professor has perfect pitch. He said it drives him crazy because he can tell everything, like somebody's cough or laugh. I thought it was kind of funny.

He was an amazing, amazing piano player though, and could play anything, anytime, without music.

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 9:54am

I have perfect (absolute) pitch, and it can be a royal pain in the ass sometimes. My church chorus director likes to transpose music, and it's frustrating singing notes that are written differently on paper.

It also sucks when the chorus goes flat, because I have to sing flat with them or I would be the one sounding off-key!

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:59am

I have a feeling the term is being used too loosely.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:27am

I can tell which notes are which and I can hum it you on cue bu I have trouble telling like what pitch a knock on the table is or how someone talks. So I may not have Absolute Pitch but I can def tell ya which note is which

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 6/12/05 at 12:00am

I have relative pitch, but I've played in orchestras and tuned my violin for so long that I can usually get an A 440 out of nowhere, and I can can find other notes from that. It just sticks eventually.

A close friend of mine has perfect pitch and considers it more of a curse than a blessing. When anything is out of tune at any performance, it's the only thing she notices, and she can't enjoy anything unless the intonation is perfect. Of course her intonation (she plays violin) is freakin' amazing and she sight-sings better than anyone, but she usually ends up irritated when listening to anyone else (we recently went to see a world-class soloist together and I said "well, she was good but I thought her tone was too small," and she immediately said, "she was out of tune.") My ear-training teacher picks out the people in our classes with perfect pitch and gives them harder exercises, so I'm glad I don't have it. :)

[Mr. TN]

Posted: 6/12/05 at 1:14am

The idea of seeing colors when pitches are played comes mostly from a neurological condition known as synesthesia. Some common composers thought to have it are Liszt, Scriabin, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Each key and pitch produce a visual response in the optic centers of the brain causing a specific color to be seen. However, the response is varied in each individual so a D4 might be red for one and green for another. Many music researchers have tried to find ways to generalize and use these methods to teach people to see colors in music. In fact, I have done some research into this myself. It is one of things that interests me most in music. How music stimulates ressponses in other senses. You don't need perfect pitch (absolute pitch) or even relative pitch to have this cross-sense stimulation.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 6/12/05 at 9:34am

Necromancer- no, he really does have perfect (absolute) pitch. I say sing an Eb and he does it right away, without any outside references. He talks about it sometimes as well. I know what perfect pitch is.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 6/12/05 at 10:20am

I wish I had abosolute pitch. I have relative pitch and I actually don't know anyone with perfect pitch.