I have, but not intensively. To be honest I don't really have too strong a
desire to work at it. I feel like it may take some of the fun out of
playing, on the other hand I'm sure the people I play with might have a
different opinion!

Rory.





> Rory Walsh wrote:
>>> From what I understand, one either has perfect pitch, or doesn't.  I
>>>
>>
>> And from what I've read it's about 1 in every 10,000 people who have i
>> this talent with higher numbers among those who speak tonal languages. I
>> do know people with excellent relative pitch, my relative pitch however
>> is
>> pretty poor, less relative pitch, more irritating itch, I just can't
>> seem
>> to get it. It's a very interesting subject. Oliver Sacks discusses it in
>> detail in his new book Musicophilia.
> I have a friend here who has absolute pitch. He's one of the most
> sought-after guitarists for the local classic rock bands, mainly due to
> his ability to play someone else's solos with great accuracy, and also
> for his vocal mimicing (he can sound just like Billy Gibbons or Jim
> Morrison or Robert Plant et al). However, his improvising skills are
> minimal at best, and he's done little to expand his total musical
> knowledge.
>
> Perfect pitch is of course no guarantee of any other musical ability. I
> studied solfege with the Modus Vetus and Modus Novus methods, and IIRC
> the intro to Modus Novus stated that absolute pitch might even be a
> hindrance for that method of study (i.e. non-tonal ear-training).
>
> Rory, you just have to keep practicing. ;-)  Have you tried working with
> the Solfege program ?
>
>     http://www.solfege.org/
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
>
>
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thousand pardons for my poor grammar and spelling...


> I have, but not intensively. To be honest I don't really have too strong a
> desire to work at it. I feel like it may take some of the fun out of
> playing, on the other hand I'm sure the people I play with might have a
> different opinion!
>
> Rory.
>
>
>
>
>
>> Rory Walsh wrote:
>>>> From what I understand, one either has perfect pitch, or doesn't.  I
>>>>
>>>
>>> And from what I've read it's about 1 in every 10,000 people who have i
>>> this talent with higher numbers among those who speak tonal languages.
>>> I
>>> do know people with excellent relative pitch, my relative pitch however
>>> is
>>> pretty poor, less relative pitch, more irritating itch, I just can't
>>> seem
>>> to get it. It's a very interesting subject. Oliver Sacks discusses it
>>> in
>>> detail in his new book Musicophilia.
>> I have a friend here who has absolute pitch. He's one of the most
>> sought-after guitarists for the local classic rock bands, mainly due to
>> his ability to play someone else's solos with great accuracy, and also
>> for his vocal mimicing (he can sound just like Billy Gibbons or Jim
>> Morrison or Robert Plant et al). However, his improvising skills are
>> minimal at best, and he's done little to expand his total musical
>> knowledge.
>>
>> Perfect pitch is of course no guarantee of any other musical ability. I
>> studied solfege with the Modus Vetus and Modus Novus methods, and IIRC
>> the intro to Modus Novus stated that absolute pitch might even be a
>> hindrance for that method of study (i.e. non-tonal ear-training).
>>
>> Rory, you just have to keep practicing. ;-)  Have you tried working with
>> the Solfege program ?
>>
>>     http://www.solfege.org/
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> dp
>>
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
>> csound"
>>
>
>
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