stratamania
Fractal Fanatic
A lot of the members on the forum spend a lot of time listening to tones and such. So it occurred to me that this might be a useful place to ask the following questions to see what feedback there is.
Just prior to the questions a bit of background my Dad was an organist and pianist who started playing when he was 3 years old and he could sight read anything including stuff he had not heard before. On the listening side he would play all sorts of things such as pop songs off the radio or TV themes just off the cuff without any analysis or figuring it out. I also asked him once how a riff was played and he just wrote it directly to paper without reference to an instrument and said you'll have to figure out the fingering and it was spot on. Now he was a very trained musician, but I have known musicians who have had no formal training who can play by ear well who probably are naturally gifted.
Does anyone on here have perfect pitch ?
If you do have perfect pitch :-
Was it a natural gift ?
Did you develop it ?
If you developed it, did you use a course and did it really help or was it just through listening a lot ?
If you have relative pitch also any comments you may have on whether you have tried training and did it bring you any nearer to achieve perfect pitch ?
For anyone, do you think perfect pitch matters ?
Is this something you would like to have ?
Many thanks in advance for any feedback etc.
Just prior to the questions a bit of background my Dad was an organist and pianist who started playing when he was 3 years old and he could sight read anything including stuff he had not heard before. On the listening side he would play all sorts of things such as pop songs off the radio or TV themes just off the cuff without any analysis or figuring it out. I also asked him once how a riff was played and he just wrote it directly to paper without reference to an instrument and said you'll have to figure out the fingering and it was spot on. Now he was a very trained musician, but I have known musicians who have had no formal training who can play by ear well who probably are naturally gifted.
Does anyone on here have perfect pitch ?
If you do have perfect pitch :-
Was it a natural gift ?
Did you develop it ?
If you developed it, did you use a course and did it really help or was it just through listening a lot ?
If you have relative pitch also any comments you may have on whether you have tried training and did it bring you any nearer to achieve perfect pitch ?
For anyone, do you think perfect pitch matters ?
Is this something you would like to have ?
Many thanks in advance for any feedback etc.
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