I once played near a timpani guy who told me: « I hear a G, thus you’re playing an F » !
Sort of « one tone off » perfect pitch… JM > Le 26 mai 2016 à 09:34, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> a écrit : > > >> "Perfect pitch" is a sham. [...] > > It seems that you don't know the facts very well. Absolute pitch is > *not* related to being a `better' musician. In fact, it's not even > related to music. Have a look at the Wikipedia article; it gives a > nice overview. > > In general, I consider having an absolute pitch a burden. My life > would be *much* easier if I hadn't to do transposition all the time. > >> I've sat in on seminars for composition, ear-training, musicology, >> music history, you name it; if one of the composers said he had >> perfect pitch, everybody's eyes lit up, and his scores are >> immediately taken more seriously. > > Pfft. Maybe this is an US thing. Here in Austria and Germany noone > takes care of that. > >> What it really means is this: you have internalized the 12-note >> equal tempered scale -- usually through extensive piano lessons from >> an early age -- to such a point that your auditory memory is deeply >> enough ingrained that you can associate heard pitches with their >> usual note names. That's it. > > No, it's not. Please look up the facts. > > > Werner > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
