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Thread #139434   Message #3198300
Posted By: Lox
29-Jul-11 - 11:33 PM
Thread Name: Perfect Pitch
Subject: RE: Perfect Pitch
#1 We all already have perfect Pitch - most of us just don't have it in music.

#2 Perfect Pitch for a musician is often more of a handicap than an advantage. - The more important and useful skill is "relative Pitch"

#3 If you are sure you want to teach yourself perfect Pitch, don't waste your money on that website!!!!



back to point #2, which is the most useful one for you in my opinion ...

... I have played with musicians with perfect pitch, and they have needed to have their instruments tuned perfectly in order to play.

Whats so bad about that you ask?

Well ... lets say the Piano is in general a bit flat ...

... a solution for most of us is just to tune the other instruments down a bit accordingly to be in tune with the Piano, so that everyone is in tune with each other.

The intervals betweeen the notes are correct and the instruments are in tune with themselves and with each other, all being slightly flat by the same amount.

If you had perfect Pitch, the fact that they were all slightly flat would drive you crazy - if on the other hand you don't have perfect pitch, but do have good relative pitch, you would be able to produce consonant harmonious music and you would be able to enjoy it too.

Being able to get away from a "pitch specific" mindset and worrying instead about the relationships between notes is a much more useful grounding for advancing as a musician.

I can deal with points #1 and #3 if you like, but I would suggest concentrating on point #2.