[Harp-L] Perfect Pitch

[Michael Rubin]

I have always struggled with singing.  I can play most melodies on diatonic
even with lots of bends and be relatively on pitch to the point where I had
a routine with one of my lead singers where he would sing or whistle a
melody and I would play it back.  We always made sure that it was a song
(or many) that we had never done before.  But singing on pitch has been
hard. (also, reducing my naturally nasal tone!) After many singing
instructors, scale work and solfege work (big help!) I have come to see
that my voice is a physical instrument, like a piano.  It is a mechanism
and I can learn to control the mechanism.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:50 AM Robert Eberwein <reberwein at xxxxx>
wrote:

> The discussions about Perfect Pitch reminded me of something: Photographic
> Memory. I have a friend (I'm changing the details a little for brevity) who
> seems to have this- and she can demonstrate it by complete retrieval of
> screen shots, pages etc... HOWEVER, one time we were sharing a suite at a
> conference and the door to the condo we'd rented had a 4-digit security
> code. My friend was the one who had the code- but she forgot it and, for
> some reason, I didn't. I think PP works like that too (and history,
> confidence and lack of static (anxiety) are all factors). A speculative
> theory: most people with PP aren't great singers. Harp Content: I gave up
> being a frontman because I forget lyrics under pressure.
>