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>Hearing music to me just is hearing the pitches of all the notes; hearing a chord is hearing all the notes in it. I can see the notes being played on a keyboar
by Tor3 5y ago
>Hearing music to me just is hearing the pitches of all the notes; hearing a chord is hearing all the notes in it. I can see the notes being played on a keyboard in my mind's eye, at the same time I hear them.
If you're hearing a Cmaj7 chord, do you hear the "maj7" quality of it, or do you just "know" it's a maj7 from its notes? What I mean is, people without perfect pitch recognizes chords from how the chord sounds, as a unit (as a general rule). This needs some training of course, but those jazz musicians you mention are of course able to instantly identify chords, all those "jazzy" ones as well.. so what I'm asking is if you do the latter as well (imagine if you lost your PP tomorrow - what would change in that respect?)
- yesenadam 5y agoHi! Uhh.. I guess I hear the maj7 quality and the notes at the same time. Yeah, I'm sure people without pp can recognize chord qualities just as well. Hmm although if it's an extremely weird chord/collection of notes, I doubt they'd know what it is. The area I imagine[0] they'd have huge problems is in improvising free music, where often there's not familiar chords, and no predetermined harmonies. Playing in a group doing that, people are playing notes around you, and without perfect pitch, I don't think you'd have very precise an idea of whether what you are about to play will fit that or not. It seems they have to play a couple of notes first to 'test the waters'.. [0] They don't seem to. But it's gotta be like flying blind. Or at least, driving in a very very heavy rain!
- Tor3 5y agoThanks for the reply, that's interesting to know. I'm trying to wrap my head around how PP actually works for people, though I understand that there's a lot of variation.