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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

2872.0. "Perfect Pitch" by MIMS::SMITH_JE () Thu Jan 06 1994 16:35

    I'm trying to get some feed back on the Perfect Pitch Lessons offered
    in many of the guitar magizines. Has anyone had any experience with
    this? Is it worth checking out or is this just a gimmick?
                                                                Jeff
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2872.1POWDML::BUCKLEYRaptor -- Rules the Skies!Thu Jan 06 1994 16:394
    You are born with perfect pitch.
    
    But, with some talent and lots of hard very, one can obtain very good
    relevant perfect pitch.
2872.2TECRUS::ROSTIf you don't C#, you might BbThu Jan 06 1994 16:496
    >But, with some talent and lots of hard very, one can obtain very good
    >relevant perfect pitch.
    
    Did you find this in a Roland manual somewhere?
    
    8^)  8^)
2872.3NWACES::HICKERNELLMerry Merry, Joy JoyThu Jan 06 1994 18:067
    Why would anyone *want* real perfect pitch?  I knew a guy who said he
    had it (and probably did) and he thought all the music he heard on the
    radio was out of tune.
    
    Good relative pitch, sure.  Perfect pitch?  Not until I'm a tympanist.
    
    Dave
2872.4KDX200::COOPERThere's a moon in the sky!Thu Jan 06 1994 20:344
    Hey, I can tune my guitar to the perfect ringing tone in my ears...
    
    Izzat perfect pitch?
    jc
2872.5name that tune.... 8*}NAVY5::SDANDREAVelociraptor_dawgFri Jan 07 1994 10:5410
    >Hey, I can tune my guitar to the perfect ringing tone in my ears...
    >Izzat perfect pitch?
    
    Only if you know what note the ringing is *before* you tune up......
    
    My Tinnitus gives me an Eb....I jam along with it sometimes.....one
    note solos.......
    
    
    eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2872.6BRAT::PAGEFri Jan 07 1994 11:446
    
    
    	No wonder you're the master of the one-note solo, Dawg.
    
    
    	
2872.7love yer node name, Brad.......NAVY5::SDANDREAVelociraptor_dawgFri Jan 07 1994 12:197
    >>No wonder you're the master of the one-note solo, Dawg.
    
    
    You don't know how hard it was to do that one note "G" solo when the
    ringing in my ears is Eb.......man, it made sum kinda augmented chord!
    
    8*}
2872.8FRETZ::HEISERno, I'm very, very shyFri Jan 07 1994 12:495
    I think everyone's brain is capable of perfect pitch, it's the ears
    that get in the way.  When you sing the parts you try the play, the
    brain is never wrong.
    
                                                  Sigmund Freud
2872.9KDX200::COOPERThere's a moon in the sky!Fri Jan 07 1994 13:594
    Actually, that ringing in my ears was from playing in a band
    with the Dawg (and the drummer we played with too) !!   ;-)
    
    jc
2872.10BLASTA::PelkeyLife aint for the squeamishFri Jan 07 1994 15:169
I'm constantly amazed with how hard it is to remember a pitch
or a note..  almost as hard as remembering a smell....

Ah well, that's what re-que buttons on CDs are made fer ins't it.....





2872.11eh?NAVY5::SDANDREAVelociraptor_dawgFri Jan 07 1994 15:497
     >Actually, that ringing in my ears was from playing in a band
     >with the Dawg (and the drummer we played with too) !!   ;-)
    
    
    What a coincidence....mine too!  Is your ringing Eb?
    
    dawgma (still hearing Hunter's cymbal crashes in my sleep)
2872.12The saddest of all keys...KDX200::COOPERThere's a moon in the sky!Fri Jan 07 1994 17:031
    No, mine ring in D minor....
2872.13could be painful.......eeesh!NAVY5::SDANDREAVelociraptor_dawgTue Jan 11 1994 10:378
    >>No, mine ring in D minor....
    
    You realize the obvious, Coop.  This means you have at least *two* notes
    ringing (D & F) in your ears......D minor sounds depressing.....have
    you asked you doctor if he could raise the F to an F# for ya?  "Hey
    Doc, how do ya tune this thang?"
    
    :*}
2872.14from today's VNSOUTSRC::HEISERGrace changes everythingFri Mar 17 1995 11:3831
VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH:                     [W. Stuart Crippen, VNS Correspondent]
=====================                     [Acton, MA, USA                      ]

		        Musical brains pitch to the left
		        --------------------------------

        From Science News, February 11, 1995, Vol. 147, No. 6, Pg 88
	Author - B. Bower

    People who possess perfect pitch - the ability to sing or name any 
    musical tone without hearing a reference tone - may have a brain as well
    as an ear for music.  A key region of the brain apparently fosters
    perfect pitch after undergoing reorganization in the womb and perhaps in
    response to early musical training, according to a report in the Feb. 3
    SCIENCE. 

    This region, involved in both language and musical perception, is 
    markedly larger on the left side of the brain in musicians who display
    perfect pitch, assert Gottfried Schlaug, a neurologist at Beth Israel
    Hospital in Boston, and his coworkers.  Messages take longer to travel
    from one side of the brain to the other than from one area to another on
    the same side.  Thus the placement of much of this particular area,
    known as the planum temporale, in the left hemisphere may improve
    handling of the verbal and musical information that facilitates perfect
    pitch, Schlaug's group contends. 

    The scientists studied the brains of 30 right-handed professional 
    musicians, 11 of whom had perfect pitch, and 30 right-handed adults
    lacking musical training and perfect pitch.  Each volunteer underwent
    magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that yields detailed views of
    brain anatomy.