Perfect Pitch

[Bnightwing]

I'm a musician, not the best one in the world, and I just learned a unique fact that 1 in 10,000 people have perfect. That's a lot more common than I thought. and I wanted to ask the people of Hype! if any of you have perfect pitch.

If you don't know what perfect pitch, or want to know if you have this just go to http://perfectpitchtest.com/ . Perfect pitch is basically hearing a note and instantly know what it is no matter what instrument or natural sound.

More on it is a cool YouTube video I found

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Just give me some feed back on this interesting (to me atleast) topic!

And vote in the poll please

 

[The Battousai]

Two of my classmates in the music department (one of which had graduated a while back) have a form of a condition known as synesthesia (where the brain associates colors with different things; i.e. music notes), and both have perfect pitch.

 

[Anita18]

I knew someone in HS choir who had perfect pitch. It was great because for acapella pieces, we wouldn't need a pitch pipe!

1 in 10,000 is actually very rare. 1 in 100 people stutter (I'm one of them) and I feel like I never come across anyone else who stutters. Maybe they're all not talking.

I don't have perfect pitch, but my pitch in general has gotten better throughout the years because of choir. I think it was mostly because I became more familiar with how notes felt while singing them in certain registers. My years of piano hasn't helped my pitch any.

 

[higrass]

I My years of piano hasn't helped my pitch any.

it's a pity

 

[Anita18]

it's a pity

It has however, nurtured my absolute insistence at having short nails.

That and I can stretch my fingers farther than most people with bigger hands. My tiny hands make me so sometimes, ESPECIALLY when tackling Rachmaninoff.

 

[The Battousai]

Or Liszt

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I'm a musician, not the best one in the world, and I just learned a unique fact that 1 in 10,000 people have perfect. That's a lot more common than I thought. and I wanted to ask the people of Hype! if any of you have perfect pitch.

If you don't know what perfect pitch, or want to know if you have this just go to http://perfectpitchtest.com/ . Perfect pitch is basically hearing a note and instantly know what it is no matter what instrument or natural sound.

More on it is a cool YouTube video I found

[YT]69fFZ9v6fG4[/YT]

Just give me some feed back on this interesting (to me atleast) topic!

And vote in the poll please

I do.

 

[ChickenScratch]

I have Perfect Pitch and it's helped me greatly through life. I learned piano and flute early then picked up guitar in my teens. My bud from Berklee says I have synesthesia though. Whatever, it works for me, great for copying Steve Vai solos.

 

[Bnightwing]

I don't know why the poll didn't work, but wouldn't synethesia be just perfect pitch? What is the difference in the two?

 

[Bnightwing]

Also I'm curious, ChickenScratch, and Metamorpho, how did you realize that you had such a unique gift?

 

[Harls]

Not me. In fact, I probably have the opposite of perfect pitch - instruments and I never seem to agree. With singing though, I can't read music (never learned) but when I used to sing, if someone else sang it once through I could sing it pretty well. But yeah, no perfect pitch for me, haha.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Also I'm curious, ChickenScratch, and Metamorpho, how did you realize that you had such a unique gift?

20 years of playing and observations from music professionals.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Also I'm curious, ChickenScratch, and Metamorpho, how did you realize that you had such a unique gift?

It really wasn't a discovery of any sort. You grow up being able to play, you learn songs from your favorite bands. It's not an extra sense, it's just an acuteness. Everyone's good at something, some people several things, I just though that I understood music. I did not even know of the term "Perfect Pitch" or "Absolute Pitch" till I reached high school when a music teacher told me.

Really helped out in college music classes too. I pretty much slept through Ear Training class or just never showed up.

 

[Anita18]

I don't know why the poll didn't work, but wouldn't synethesia be just perfect pitch? What is the difference in the two?

Synesthesia is the mixing of two senses. Whether it's seeing colors when you taste/smell something or seeing colors when you hear something, it's all under that umbrella.

It also probably depends on how it manifests for you. Maybe you see a mix of different colors when you hear certain music, but not specific notes. Then seeing colors won't help you determine the pitch.

I knew someone in college who had synesthesia, but she didn't have perfect pitch.

 

[ChickenScratch]

I can say that each note itself does have a specific "tonal color." Listening to music with my eyes closed sometimes an A is a very bright red, sometimes it's a very sharp sensation (not a literal feeling on the skin) hitting the ear. My friend keeps saying I have synesthesia, but I really don't think so. I do use color to describe notes or sensation, but that's just an easier way to evoke what the specific tone is.

 

[Anita18]

I can say that each note itself does have a specific "tonal color." Listening to music with my eyes closed sometimes an A is a very bright red, sometimes it's a very sharp sensation (not a literal feeling on the skin) hitting the ear. My friend keeps saying I have synesthesia, but I really don't think so. I do use color to describe notes or sensation, but that's just an easier way to evoke what the specific tone is.

That IS synesthesia, silly. Most people don't see colors when they hear music.

 

[ChickenScratch]

No, I said tonal colors and textures evoke certain imagery. A is is not a literal "red" nor is it a literal sharp sensation. I guess it's difficult to explain that an E is a very smooth sensation going over the ears and it's got this open, vowely sound and leave the impression of beige or brown.