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Re: {MUSIC} Identifying Notes (was Re: playing in other keys)

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#1 · November 25, 2003, 1:56 pm

Posted by: jkarnes1 <jkarnes1@...>

>>Being able to hear a pitch and name it with no other
>>reference point is called "perfect pitch".
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> Definitely a gift.

As a person with "perfect pitch", I respectfully disagree. It's not a gift,
it's just an acquired skill. It may be much easier for some to acquire than it
is for others, but that's the nature of any skill (like for example, it's much
easier, say, for Michael Jordan to have become as skillful a basketball player
as he is than it would be for me to do the same).

IMHO there is no difference between relative pitch and perfect pitch, except
that with "perfect pitch" one has memorized one or more reference pitches and
maintains pitch memory of these reference pitches through practice and
repetition. How much practice and repetition it takes may vary from person to
person.

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