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From: rock~ve.telalink.net
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:49:06 -0600
Subject: Re: Absolute Pitch

At 4:29 PM 3/19/96, Bobbie Giordano wrote:
>Charles Deering added to the gumbo:
>> trying to sing A and then checking with a tuning fork. I tried
>> this and soon acquired "absolute vocal configuration" for one
>> note.
>
>I will have absolute pitch for a tone for awhile after singing or playing
>in that key or on a harp of that key,

While I don't know if I have perfect or absolute anything, after having
sung LW's "My Babe" publicly for nearly 20 years, I can break into that
song anytime, anywhere, anyhow and I will be in the key of F.

OTOH, if you played an F for me(or any other note for that matter), I
could, without any hesitation and with much confidence, tell you that it
was a musical note of some sort or another.

On still another hand, interval training is an extremely useful tool. I'm
not very good at this technique but I play regularly with session musicians
who write their own charts while listening to a song. I have been amazed so
many times by players that have mastered this technique that it isn't so
amazing after awhile. I have seen their eyebrows raise though, when the
song contains flatted 2nd or other unusual chord changes.

My experience shows that this technique is much more available to those who
were formally trained. I'm guessing that it is partially due to the fact
that they took classes in such subjects while in school.

It all seems relative once one gets on stage for the purpose of have fun
playing music.

r