Re: To Ear is perfect?

[BarMusProd <BarMusProd...>]

Dear Lorele,

In a message dated 1/19/02 6:16:14 PM, l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org 
writes:

>What about if you have a certain tone embedded in your brain, and can go
>
>from there to figure out the other notes?  It is not a note given from
>
>outside, but from inside.  What would you call that?
>Lorele

Good question. True perfect pitch can identify any pitch without any other 
reference--they just "know" what it is. I remember a lot of students without 
perfect pitch walking around with an "A" fork trying to beat that pitch into 
their brain. I don't know if they succeeded or not. It is easiest to get 
perfect pitch embedded when you are very young. However, I would think that 
what you describe is a specific pitch recognition, and then everything else 
is relative to that pitch. But that is not true perfect pitch.

Best wishes,
Steve

Steve Barnett
Composer/Arranger/Producer
Barnett Music Productions
BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com  

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