RE: [Harp-L] Which Key? Perfect Pitch

["Aongus Mac Cana" <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Zack,
But now I have to find out what gives with 'Relative Pitch'! I thought it
just meant higher or lower.
 It isn't listed in the index of Daniel Levitin ("This is your Brain on
Music")
Beannachtai
Aongus

-----Original Message-----
From: Zack [mailto:zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 23 October 2010 18:24
To: Arthur Jennings
Cc: Aongus Mac Cana; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Which Key? Perfect Pitch


You can acquire relative pitch, but perfect pitch you have and sort of learn
it.


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Arthur Jennings <timeistight@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


You don't need perfect pitch if you have a harmonica in your hand; you only
need to be able to hear the relationship between the note you are playing
and what the band is playing.

Unlike perfect pitch, this is skill you can aquire. The more you do it, the
easier it gets.

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Aongus Mac Cana <amaccana@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:


> Someone has remarked recently (perhaps a little sniffilly) "Your ear
should
> tell you if you are in the correct key"
> Oh but it does! Especially if you are not.
> If you happened to be blessed by not knowing, you could just blast on
> regardless, assaulting everyone else's ears bar your own.
> I came across a fairly competent fiddler once who had great bowing
> technique
> and rhythm, but if he started a tune in G it was anybody's guess as to
what
> key he would end up in. This was always a great source of wonder and
> amusement to his musical  companions of the night
> On the subject of Perfect Pitch, there are a number of programmes/CDs on
> offer which claim to "teach you how to acquire Perfect Pitch in the
privacy
> of your own home".
> Have any listers experience of  these "courses"? Do they work or are they
> just another "catch penny"?
> Beannachtai
> Aongus Mac Cana
>




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Arthur Jennings
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