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Okay, we get the humblebrag, you have a great relative or even absolute pitch. I am not going around telling everyone that Monty Hall’s problem or Simpson’s par
by mynegation 3y ago
Okay, we get the humblebrag, you have a great relative or even absolute pitch. I am not going around telling everyone that Monty Hall’s problem or Simpson’s paradox is glaringly obvious once you think about it. I am not getting confused like other people by two co-centered probability density graphs of the normal distribution, one with larger standard deviation than the other - it is obvious to me (but somehow not most other people) that they have the same average.
The point being is that if you don’t train yourself to recognize certain patterns, you will not recognize them.
- brandall10 3y agoThis isn't relative pitch thing. An untrained ear generally can hear when one note is off by 5+ cents or so when playing a chord... when they're asked. And if you're a musician, you will pick up on it very quickly in real time, in general. The key is most people will automatically filter it out until actually being asked unless it's egregiously bad. I would argue part of the issue comes down to guitar itself - 1) it's not a well tempered instrument. It's always kinda out of tune a bit 2) it can often go out of tune within the course of a song in live performances and 3) add some distortion on top, it kinda blurs things. So my take is people are just preconditioned to listen more to what is being played - in the context of a song - rather than whether it sounds a bit off or not. In short it's an attention thing, not an ability thing.
- drexlspivey 3y agoHe doesn’t have a perfect pitch but his son does which is even more confusing how he didn’t pick it up
- steanne 3y agosupposedly it has to be learned in childhood.