Re: [Harp-L] Off-topic: Perfect Pitch

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm just making this up as I go along, but it seems to me that pitch 
memory would be more common than perfect pitch.  If the person in 
question can do this after one or two hearings I'd be very impressed.  A 
lot of singers can sing songs they're familiar with in the key they're 
used to even if they don't realize they can.  Ask them to start singing 
and see what key they're singing in. It's like learning to judge 
temperature by color--this shade of red is 1250 F etc.  Practice does it. 

In spite of the ads I see in the back of "Guitar Player" I'm not sure 
you can learn perfect pitch.  I could be wrong.  Anybody out there who 
can recognize middle C  who once couldn't? 

Joe and Cass Leone wrote:

> On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:27 PM, jazmaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I don't mean to resurrect an endless discussion of perfect pitch but 
> > I need to answer a question
> > for someone.   He has the ability to sing any popular song that he is 
> > familiar with in its proper
> > key, even if he hasn't heard the song in years.   I tested that 
> > ability today with over a dozen
> > different Beatle tunes and he made no errors.
> >
> > Is that a form of perfect pitch?
>
>
>  Yes, it is pitch memory
>
> >    Or is it something that he could develop into perfect pitch?
>
>
>  No need, what he has is ABOVE having perfect pitch
>
> >   I
> > suggested that if he memorized the names of the keys for 12 different 
> > songs in 12 different keys,
> > he could claim perfect pitch.
>
>
>  You can't memorize pitch. If he comes in ON pitch, he has pitch 
> memory and this must be quite rare.
> smo-joe
>
> >    What do you think?
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