On 26/05/16 08:34, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> > "Perfect pitch" is a sham. [...] > It seems that you don't know the facts very well. Absolute pitch is > *not* related to being a `better' musician. In fact, it's not even > related to music. Have a look at the Wikipedia article; it gives a > nice overview. > > In general, I consider having an absolute pitch a burden. My life > would be *much* easier if I hadn't to do transposition all the time. > I think what Andrew is describing is *relative* pitch. Often confused with Perfect Pitch.
Perfect Pitch is something innate, iirc. You have it, or you don't, and it's obvious by about the age of 5 at the latest. Most importantly, it does NOT appear to be learnt. Relative Pitch, on the other hand, IS learned. I can pitch a Bb just like that, not surprisingly :-) Oddly enough, I can also pitch a G, it's the first note of "God Save the Queen". I should then be able to work out any note by comparing it to those two reference notes, except I'm not that good a musician. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
