Perfect Pitch/Absolute Pitch

[black]

I'm wondering who here has it?
Although the "experts" claim only 1 in 10,000 have it, I have met two people who deffinetly posses it. (one was a music major and now a music teacher.

When I read about how keen so many of y'all's ears are, especially to slight tones and stuff, I'm thinking that there must be a few of you here with perfect pitch/absolute pitch.

(i'm looking at you, jibberish)

[RacerX]

Nope. Over time, I've developed pretty good relative pitch, though.

[johnny problem]

Jeff Martin from The Tea Party has it.  That is pretty much all I know about the subject.  I'll just retreat back to the shadows now.

*He's the singer/guitarist.

[The Shocker]

I briefly had an interest in the Tea Party, but their Zep attempts got old quick.

I have the opposite of perfect pitch.

[Danny G]

Don't have perfect pitch but def dog ears

Probably more an OCD Virgo thing. Out of tune guitars and vocals grate on my nerves.

And playing covers with various bands, if its a song I have any familiarity with I know exactly who is doing what wrong and where. But I also don't really care, so thats not much of an issue.

[jibberish]

I wish

I think relative pitch is a better call for me too. I can sometimes remember a starting note from how it feels singing it, and once I get started, I can connect the dots, but boy can I get lost sometimes too.

[everdrone]

I remember old guitar mags that had a 1 page ad with a dude with curly hair and a big smile holding a pitchfork tuner, advertizing perfect pitch class

I dont sing, and my guitar has perfect pitch!  as long as it gets tuned properly


its hard for me to listen to recordings with pitchy singers

[spookstrickland]

I don' have it but I'm glad because I enjoy the out of tune Neil Young guitar kind of thing and If I did I would probably not like that.  We really have three ways of listening according to this book I was reading.  some of us really hear Pitch well, others are attuned to dynamics and others are tuned into tone and timber, I'm fore sure the Tone and Timber person.

[Mr. Foxen]

If someone has perfect pitch and sense of harmony naturally, guitar is pretty annoying because they done play perfectly in tune, as they are tuned in equal temperament. If you've learn pitch and harmony from listening to music, you are used to the sound of stuff being a bit out of tune in a standardised way since pretty much all music does that for convenience. Loada stuff about temperament here: http://www.edgeguitarservices.co.uk/scheitenballs/

[Danny G]

Not perfect pitch related, but when listening to music I rarely really focus on the singing/lyrics.

Voice to me is just another instrument.

[lordfinesse]

I have it. When I was 5, my piano teacher told my mom about it (and that I could play by ear). Over time I thought maybe I had lost it some, so earlier this year I took a perfect pitch test just to see.. scored 10 out of 10. So I guess I still have it.

[dogfood]

nope, but I think if I had gone the route of the working musician i would have developed almost perfect pitch.  Deciphering lyrics is impossible for me unless I'm tripping, once whilst on a fine trip I could understand every word on Soul Crusher - White Zombie, true story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sz0lUp9-Vs

Edit:  what happened to the you tube icon when youse post crap?  I could post vids with that but now the icon is gone I'm fucked.  Help

[Danny G]

I'm seeing your video post, so it worked

[Metal and Beer]

Nope, but I have a pretty keen sense o' relative pitch, mainly developed through repeated exposure to rock albums and musical instruments while learning guitar as a teenager. I can tune a guitar to standard pitch out of my head; I still hear Angus and Malcolm's A chord ! I inadvertently also developed some measure of synesthesia along the way; I just sorta always saw E as dark blue, C as orange, D as yellow, A as blue, etc...

[Danny G]

Cool \m/,

[jibberish]

that's wild. the notes have a sense of color for me too. the d, g, b, b flat are all like brown/gold/straw colored/greenish-brown
e/a/c/f are blue-grey, water blue, crystal and deep green. I wonder what that means?

[Danny G]

Pitches, like colors are really just certain frequencies. It makes sense that different wavelengths of sound would have a "color" to them.

Certain sound wavelengths produce geometric patterns.

[jibberish]

I wonder if I focused on a color scheme and made up a song what that would sound like.   

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