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Right, but their point is that if what the article you link to is true—if 44% of people are right on key when singing a song—then it should also be just a matte

Right, but their point is that if what the article you link to is true—if 44% of people are right on key when singing a song—then it should also be just a matter of collecting 12 songs with different starting pitches and mapping songs to notes and now you've learned a full scale of absolute pitch. Few people do this because it's simply not practical, but that 44% of recordings match the pitch of their source exactly shows pretty conclusively that there's nothing magical behind absolute pitch, it's just that most of us learn to associate pitches with songs rather than giving them names.

appleorchard46 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. There are many different interpretations of the original comment in these replies but you're spot on here, thank you for articulating it better.
PaulHoule 2y ago
That could be a formula to generate notes but might not work backwards. There is something special about musical memory. When I was starting out as an anime fanatic I would quickly learn to sing theme songs like [1] [2] although I didn't understand Japanese at all then. Notably different language have different words for colors, for instance the Japanese word 青い (pronounced aoi) can mean either blue or green. [3] There's been a lot of controversy over whether language shapes perception, but if you do psychophysical tests that don't involve language you find people can tell colors apart pretty much the same no matter how rich or impoverished their vocabulary is [4]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hulET9tn9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hulET9tn9M [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw [3] ラム (Lum), the girl with oni horns and a tiger stripe bikini who appears in [1] has 青い-colored hair which seems to drift in the blue-green area throughout the 5-season anime [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...

appleorchard46 2y ago

Yes, this is exactly what I meant. There are many different interpretations of the original comment in these replies but you're spot on here, thank you for articulating it better.

PaulHoule 2y ago

That could be a formula to generate notes but might not work backwards. There is something special about musical memory. When I was starting out as an anime fanatic I would quickly learn to sing theme songs like [1] [2] although I didn't understand Japanese at all then. Notably different language have different words for colors, for instance the Japanese word 青い (pronounced aoi) can mean either blue or green. [3] There's been a lot of controversy over whether language shapes perception, but if you do psychophysical tests that don't involve language you find people can tell colors apart pretty much the same no matter how rich or impoverished their vocabulary is [4]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hulET9tn9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hulET9tn9M [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw [3] ラム (Lum), the girl with oni horns and a tiger stripe bikini who appears in [1] has 青い-colored hair which seems to drift in the blue-green area throughout the 5-season anime [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...