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The article is written in such a fantastical style that my BS-meter was going off the entire time, so I wish I had the experience or time to determine how valid
by baddox 12y ago
The article is written in such a fantastical style that my BS-meter was going off the entire time, so I wish I had the experience or time to determine how valid these conclusions are from the studies linked.
The only anecdotal experience I can bring to the discussion is that I have seemed to acquire a very limited version of absolute ("perfect") pitch, whereby I occasionally will hear a note or chord and instantly perceive the unmistakable "C minor-ness." Sadly, while the phenomenon seems to be perfectly reliable when it occurs, it only occurs rarely. This is probably what Wikipedia calls "pitch memory" rather than absolute pitch.
- sjtgraham 12y agoAbsolute pitch doesn't tell you the quality of the chord, it only tells you its constituent notes. To know that a chord is minor is simply relative pitch aka ear training.
- baddox 12y agoI just meant that I can occasionally recognize both, e.g. I will hear a chord at the beginning of a song and instantly know "A minor." You're right, only the "A" part is the absolute pitch. I can always recognize the "minor" part, which is just easy relative pitch.