Sounds like you have great relative pitch. >From: "John G. Cormack" <jackjack@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [rodgersorgan] Re: Pitches, I meant Pitches! >Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:39:06 -0400 > > >At 03:14 AM 06/26/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > >Jack, > >I have one question for you. Can you sing an "A" anytime and go to the > >piano and play it only to find that you have sung that exact pitch? > >I hear the pitches in my brain and know what key they're in and can tell > >you if its a,b flat, g augmented 7th etc. Can you do that? Because if you > >can, anyone can play a note on anything and you will know what it is. >that > >sir, is perfect pitch. > >=================================================== >Unfortunately I do not have "perfect pitch". I admire those who can hear a >note and they >identify it exactly. But since our music scale is based on A being 440 Hz >what about >those whose A is not 440 but different as it was in European scales of a >couple of centuries >ago. Did they have "perfect pitch" based on a different scale? I presume >that those >who have perfect pitch today do so from their inherent ability to relate >what they hear >to the musical scale that we are trained to use. > >My "hearing" the melody and chords is an approximation to the frequency at >which I will play >what I "hear". For example, if I "hear" in my head a melody and I perceive >it to be in the key >of F, when I sit down at the organ and play what I "hear" in the key of >F,it may turn out that my "hearing" was off >by a semitone. So I guess I mentally transpose to the key of F to >play. Have I made myself >clear or only muddied it up? > >Jack > >! >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Find new MIDI music and Guides to Rodgers Organs at www.frogmusic.com > >To post send messages to: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe or change mail delivery (digest, vacation) >go to www.frogmusic.com/rodgersmem.html > > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Find new MIDI music and Guides to Rodgers Organs at www.frogmusic.com To post send messages to: rodgersorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change mail delivery (digest, vacation) go to www.frogmusic.com/rodgersmem.html