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Absolute pitch trainer chopin3/5/2023 ![]() Does that mean Mozart was out of tune? Absolutely not, because the intervals between notes still would have been the same.īut all of that is regarding the western tuning standards. It is a standard now to tune to A 440 (as in 440 hz) but hundreds of years ago, that A would have been tuned to a slightly slower frequency, like 432hz, thus sounding flat to someone with perfect pitch now. The western musical system is not something absolute but has grown over a very long period of time. It's better to recognize the intervals between notes (minor third, perfect fifth, etc) rather than instantly recognizing a note as B-flat or F-sharp, etc. Posted by yhlee at 10:56 PM on Septemĭon't be concerned about developing "perfect" pitch but go for relative pitch as noted above. There's no harm in musical exposure-as long as kiddo is having fun and not feeling pressured, that's what really matters-but if there were some guaranteed way to inculcate this stuff we would know it by now. She's more musical than my husband and my daughter (she can hold a tune, played clarinet and piano for a few years), but she abandoned pursuit of music after high school and never got into composition. Her relative pitch is decent but not as good as mine. My kid sister is younger by two and a half years, and grew up in essentially the same musical environment. I guess the short version is you can do all this, but I wouldn't count on it guaranteeing perfect pitch or musicality if the interest or inclination just isn't there. On the other hand, she draws several hours a day, including really fabulous dragons. She can sing sort of in tune, but she's not pursuing music, and she's perfectly happy bopping along to Linkin' Park or Hamilton and that's fine with her and fine with me. I exposed her to my musical endeavors (mostly composition and occasionally playing instruments) and gave her the opportunity to play around on a keyboard if it interested her. She's a little better than my husband, but not especially musical. (I don't care one way or another how musical my daughter is, so long as she's happy.) She's fourteen now. My husband is terrible at pitches (he cannot sing in tune to save his life). I didn't have the same musical environment for my own daughter, but I played music for my daughter all the time. It's very, very rare that perfect pitch is of particular use in a way that couldn't be replicated by relative pitch and a strong ability to identify intervals. In all my years of music lessons (piano, classical guitar, viola, composition), *relative pitch* was 100% more useful. ![]() Music played to other tuning will mess me up if I have to follow along with the score because I'm trying to reconcile the pitch that I'm hearing with the pitch that the sheet music is telling me in my personal tuning, and if there's a discrepancy, I get hung up trying to transpose in real time. For example, I'm "tuned" to concert A = 440 Hz and equal temperament (I had seven years of piano lessons starting in 1st grade). ![]() I will note that perfect pitch is, in my lived experience, really much more of a curse. Bach) and, because my dad really liked her music, Anne Murray (country). I ended up not going to conservatory for reasons that aren't relevant to you, but I was raised on classical music (mostly Tchaikovsky and J. I have perfect pitch and great relative pitch and I'm great at intervals, harmonic sequences, etc.
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