This appears to be a marketing pitch for a program that purports to teach perfect pitch. It may be the same one offered every month in a page-long verbose ad in the "Musician," the musicians' union monthly magazine (I don't have one with me so I can't check).
If any of you don't have a good sense of, at least, relative pitch (which I seriously doubt -- hey, we're musicians!) and if you have an extra $100 burning a hole in your pocket it might be worth checking out.
I have never claimed to have perfect pitch, and when I run on to people who do it startles me how accurate they can be. And then there are the wise guys: "Hey (pointing), that glass is a little sharp." " Sir, do you remember my explanation of how the glasses are tuned? Notice that one has no water in it. Do you understand what that means?"
Once I hear a reference note in the morning I can pretty much identify tones I hear played and the keys of music I hear all day. But if I haven't heard one I won't be within a row of apple trees. I have noticed that when I sing or whistle a song it's almost always in the key in which I learned it and transposition, either on an instrument or in my head, has never been a problem.
Do any of you have perfect pitch, either intuitively or learned? If you learned it, how?
to: Glassmusic Forum and "peteman's" blog.
ReplyDeleteThis appears to be a marketing pitch for a program that purports to teach perfect pitch. It may be the same one offered every month in a page-long verbose ad in the "Musician," the musicians' union monthly magazine (I don't have one with me so I can't check).
If any of you don't have a good sense of, at least, relative pitch (which I seriously doubt -- hey, we're musicians!) and if you have an extra $100 burning a hole in your pocket it might be worth checking out.
I have never claimed to have perfect pitch, and when I run on to people who do it startles me how accurate they can be. And then there are the wise guys: "Hey (pointing), that glass is a little sharp." " Sir, do you remember my explanation of how the glasses are tuned? Notice that one has no water in it. Do you understand what that means?"
Once I hear a reference note in the morning I can pretty much identify tones I hear played and the keys of music I hear all day. But if I haven't heard one I won't be within a row of apple trees. I have noticed that when I sing or whistle a song it's almost always in the key in which I learned it and transposition, either on an instrument or in my head, has never been a problem.
Do any of you have perfect pitch, either intuitively or learned? If you learned it, how?
Peter (The Glassharper) Bennett