GerateWohl 4,337 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 If you have a perfect pitch and you are a beginner on the violin, are you suffering the same from your play like the people around you? If you don't have a perfect pitch your brain manages to correct the wrong notes and you hear just what you intended to play. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,498 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 I remember reading an interview with JW, in the 1970s, where he stated that he had "highly relative pitch". I'm not sure what that means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,030 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Opposite of lowly relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,498 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Eejit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,030 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Opposite of eejit, you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuartalHarmony 542 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Relative pitch is the ability to hear two (or more) notes and notice if any are out of tune relative to the other. Most musicians who are reasonably well-trained and experienced are good at this. However, I’m sure I saw an interview with JW fairly recently (female US interviewer, at Tanglewood, perhaps?) where he said he didn’t like listening to music recreationally, especially as background music because he’d constantly be spotting problems ‘like that D was sharp’. If my memory’s correct, this strongly implies he has perfect pitch. Also, there is much evidence that PP can be learned, not least the observation that PP is significantly more prevalent in native speakers of pitch-timed languages (eg, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean) than in native speakers of non-pitch-timed languages (eg, most European languages). This seems to be a result of the brain having to listen for small differences of pitch from an early age. I don’t have PP, but if I do a lot of rehearsing and performing compared to normal, I can feel my pitch getting more and more perfect, if you see what I mean. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 3 minutes ago, QuartalHarmony said: However, I’m sure I saw an interview with JW fairly recently (female US interviewer, at Tanglewood, perhaps?) where he said he didn’t like listening to music recreationally, especially as background music because he’d constantly be spotting problems ‘like that D was sharp’. If my memory’s correct, this strongly implies he has perfect pitch. On 02/08/2020 at 5:09 PM, KBR said: I think he does because in this video at 6:35 he says; "If i go to a dinner party, wich i do rarley and somebody has music on I'm thniking well thats in d major and oh my god! the F# was flat!!" Could mean two things - He has absolute pitch and therefore he could tell what key it's in - or he knew it was in D-Major and therefore he heard that the F# was flat, wich is'nt that much really..... LINK THE TO VIDEO!! (youtube) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,037 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 4 hours ago, bruce marshall said: I may have the specifics wrong I.e. pitch and instrument, but the story is the same. Previn picked out one instrument in.the entire orchestra that was half- step flat/sharp. Let's see you do that! Fyi I heard him tell this story on the radio( NPR?). So, it was memorable and impressive to him A half-step sharp/flat? I've done that many times in my life. It would actually stand out immediately as a wrong note. Maybe you mean a cent sharp/flat? Noticing that would be far more superhuman. Except even then, literally the whole point is for the oboe to establish the tuning for the rest of the orchestra. So the conductor wouldn't even need to tell everyone to adjust their pitch to match the oboe; that's what they always do. In any case, it's cool that your cousin was on the radio. Might want to check with him to make sure you get the story right, though. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I have a relative pitch, and I'm deeply sorry for the humans who have a perfect one. It must be hell. If I listend to two cues one after the other, and the pitch is slightly not the same, my stomach hurts and I want to vomit. This is not a joke, it's really unpleasant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 So you must find the end of Victory Celebration into the Return of the Jedi end credits frustrating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 The original version? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,639 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 35 minutes ago, Bespin said: I have a relative pitch, and I'm deeply sorry for the humans who have a perfect one. It must be hell. If I listend to two cues one after the other, and the pitch is slightly not the same, my stomach hurts and I want to vomit. This is not a joke, it's really unpleasant. It hurts me the most when the strings are off this way. I would prefer waterboarding to listening to most high school string orchestras. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Maybe it wasn't an oboe. Iirc it was a woodwind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Solo violinists should be outlawed. Datameister 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 My cousin. Obviously, not an oboist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,792 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Is “palpatine big pitch” perfect or relative? Fabulin and MikeH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,337 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 15 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said: Is “palpatine big pitch” perfect or relative? Worng question. This thread is about Williams' golf skills. Not Palpatine's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,030 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 The more important question is, what's the wavelength of JW? MikeH and GerateWohl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Slider or curve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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