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Topic: Now this is perfect pitch |
Dave Little
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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Posted 3 Jul 2019 6:39 pm |
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Holy Cow!!  It would take me at least five minutes to decipher those chords ... NOT 
Pretty amazing child. His biggest problem might be the first time he plays or sings with other less gifted people. It might be torturous for his ears.
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 2:14 am
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Savant? I love Dylan Beato. Singing and naming tone clusters!
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Brooks Montgomery
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 5:38 am
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Wow! What a gift. It’ll be interesting to see him in 10 to 20 years to see what he gravitates to..
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Brooks Montgomery
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Idaho, USA
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 8:29 am
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Just out of curiosity, are there any apps , tuner apps, or any app game that tests your ability to “name that note�
Watching that kid really makes me want to improve my ear.
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Brooks Montgomery
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 8:50 am
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Answer to my own question—I found a little game at tonedear.com
And an app called ‘perfect pitch “
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 10:07 am He's got an ear
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He's no van gogh 
He definitely has an ear! |
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Dick Chapple Sr
From:
Hardin Montana, USA
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 2:13 pm ears
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Holy guacamole!! I hope he will protect those wonderful ears over the years from damaging noises.
Incredible. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Nanuet, NY
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Dave Little
From:
Atlanta
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Posted 4 Jul 2019 7:59 pm
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| Rick has a few videos where he discusses perfect pitch. He says most people can actually acquire it if they are started out very young (infants/toddlers). If you're already old - Forget It! |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Jul 2019 7:12 am
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Some feel that perfect pitch isn't a blessing, it's a curse.
Everything sounds out of tune.
Erv |
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Brooks Montgomery
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Posted 5 Jul 2019 8:19 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
Some feel that perfect pitch isn't a blessing, it's a curse.
Everything sounds out of tune.
Erv |
I guess I’m not after perfect pitch (that might be a curse), but a modicum of extra ear skill to help identify keys and chords while jamming. The guys that I sit in with at the local watering hole don’t always clue me in on the key—I do know guitar well enough that if I can see their fret hand, I can usually figure it out. I’d love to *hear* the chord and key.
“Ahh, that chord is Ab7#5, carry on boys!â€
They’d blow beer out their noses. 
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Fred Treece
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California, USA
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Posted 5 Jul 2019 11:30 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
Some feel that perfect pitch isn't a blessing, it's a curse.
Everything sounds out of tune.
Erv |
Definitely a curse. If you’ve ever been in a band with a person who has “perfect†anything - pitch, rhythm, hair... - you know what a pain they are.
Not to downplay ear-training. Without it, you are pretty much lost in a band. |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 5 Jul 2019 1:24 pm
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A good sense of relative pitch is a necessity, but perfect pitch is a curse if you have to work at a different one.
Anyway, what is "perfect"? A=440 is more or less an international standard now, but it's varied a lot over the centuries and I don't see how anyone can be born with it. So even if the ability to recognise absolute pitch is genetic, the calibration must take place after birth.
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Charlie McDonald
From:
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Posted 6 Jul 2019 1:34 am
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I concur, Ian.
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