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I'm stone cold tonedeaf.
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Quote: I have absolutely poor pitch. Does that count? xd |
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I am bad with tones. I can't even determine the difference of when I'm tuning my guitar. My friend was like, "Dude, that is so discordant! You need an electric tuner, for the sake of my ears!" and he gave me it. I am so bad with topnes, i cannot help it.
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Do you guys think I have absolute pitch?
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One easy way would be to take a tuner and test yourself. Have someone play a random pitch, and see if you can name it.
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Quote: you have perfect pitch? I'm truly jealous of you! I am one of those people with "good pitch". I'm still trying to teach myself to have perfect pitch though. I'm told it can be learned. Mostly I can just hear if something is in or out of tune only right now... 3nodding That isn't "good pitch". It's only "not completely lacking pitch". Going "something's not right" is not the same as "oh, the viola's third in that chord is a quarter-tone flat". Pitch can be learned, perfect pitch is a gift. |
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Quote: Quote: you have perfect pitch? I'm truly jealous of you! I am one of those people with "good pitch". I'm still trying to teach myself to have perfect pitch though. I'm told it can be learned. Mostly I can just hear if something is in or out of tune only right now... 3nodding That isn't "good pitch". It's only "not completely lacking pitch". Going "something's not right" is not the same as "oh, the viola's third in that chord is a quarter-tone flat". Pitch can be learned, perfect pitch is a gift. Hehe, or that drum needs to be tightened 1 and one one thounsandth of a turn |
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Oh, you're lucky! 3nodding I heard (on the Discovery Channel, heehee) that usually people whose native language (language of their ethnicity) is a tonal language, such as Chinese. Tonal languages use different intonations to distinguish between words (You can accidentally call your mom a horse that way xd ).
The problem with perfect pitch, though, is the pain/tenseness sometimes and that it supposedly makes it harder to compose music. Arranging is super easy but composing is harder because you tend to recognize different chords/intervals from other songs as your writing and then your finish product doesn't sound wholly original. gonk Or at least that's what I've heard. I have "okay" pitch and I do that sometimes. |
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Perfect pitch is being able to listen to a note and tell what note it is..
If you hear an incorrect note (such as a note that is not in key with the rest of everything else) it's pretty obvious.. it builds tension.. .. it makes you want resolution.. which can come from a tonic note (such as the root of the key or chord).. but if that doesn't come it kinda hangs with you and makes you go absolutely insane... I once heard a story of a guy who played a scale incorectly on the piano, AND didn't end on the octave.. his instructor went totally apeshit.. he took his pupil from the chair and eviscerated him on the spot. |
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Quote: If you hear an incorrect note (such as a note that is not in key with the rest of everything else) it's pretty obvious.. it builds tension.. .. it makes you want resolution.. That happens to musicians in general. Those with perfect pitch will notice when a note is in between pitches. Resolution can be heard by just about anybody with some sense of tone. |
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Quote: Quote: If you hear an incorrect note (such as a note that is not in key with the rest of everything else) it's pretty obvious.. it builds tension.. .. it makes you want resolution.. That happens to musicians in general. Those with perfect pitch will notice when a note is in between pitches. Resolution can be heard by just about anybody with some sense of tone. I notice when a note is inbetween pitches, but cannot always identify which. |
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I have it, yet I don't have it. I can name notes, but I do it based on the tone quality of familiar instruments (unfortunately, the best musicians have ways of disguising this tone quality), not the actual frequency of the note.
Of course, it can be a curse at the same time, I guess transposing instruments would be a pain to listen to along with the score... |
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Quote: I have it, yet I don't have it. I can name notes, but I do it based on the tone quality of familiar instruments (unfortunately, the best musicians have ways of disguising this tone quality), not the actual frequency of the note. Of course, it can be a curse at the same time, I guess transposing instruments would be a pain to listen to along with the score... I may be wrong, but isn't that called relative pitch? |
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No, relative pitch is where you tell the pitch of a note from the intervals around it, as long as you know one note in a melody, you'll be able to figure out the others
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