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Peripatetic wrote:

lemur68 wrote:I can listen to a cover song and tell if it's in a different key than the original.

I can listen to a cover song and tell if it sucks.

Peripatetic! you have what is known as "Absolute Bitch".



salut.

kerble wrote: "Absolute Bitch".

I think I saw them with Skid Row and Sound Garden

Soundgarden sucks.

kerble wrote:Soundgarden sucks.

Whoa. In today's Onion.

Coincidence.

SecondEdition wrote:
Hey guys, can you tune an E perfectly without the use of a tuner? I mean, right to the correct frequency on ears alone?

I can, a lot of people can. F#? Not so much. I remember how open E string sounds, cause I hear it a lot. Nothing to do with perfect pitch whatsoever.

emmanuelle cunt wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:
Hey guys, can you tune an E perfectly without the use of a tuner? I mean, right to the correct frequency on ears alone?

I can, a lot of people can. F#? Not so much. I remember how open E string sounds, cause I hear it a lot. Nothing to do with perfect pitch whatsoever.

Think of your E--your F-Sharped is one step above that.

I mean I know you know that, but just think of your reference note (E) and go a step higher.

I know this much, but I remember how open E string sounds far better than how one step higher sounds. I'd need a reference sound (or far more exposure to guitar playing) to go one step higher accurately.

For those of you that have absolute pitch--can you sing an A at 440 Hz without hearing a reference note? If someone plays an A on a digital keyboard, can you tell if it's at 440 vs. an A tuned a bit up or down?

newberry wrote:For those of you that have absolute pitch--can you sing an A at 440 Hz without hearing a reference note? If someone plays an A on a digital keyboard, can you tell if it's at 440 vs. an A tuned a bit up or down?

i think that is beyond human. i mentioned this earlier in the thread, but pitch can drift. an A at 438 or whatever is just as much of an A as 440 to me. i'm not sure where each note's cut-off is, but notes can be a little off yet still be identifiable.

old records fuck with me sometimes, because they weren't tuned digitally and often have tape speed issues. older masters of "jumping jack flash" were kind of in-between B and Bb, hard to determine exactly which. then i bought the remastered version of 'hot rocks' a few years ago and the song was clearly in B. bob ludwig must have corrected it (these sort of corrections are done to lots of remasters. 'kind of blue', for instance). i missed the old "jumping jack flash" though, because a straight up B just seems a little too blue for that song. (yes, i associate notes with colors, but that's another post..)

154 wrote:

newberry wrote:For those of you that have absolute pitch--can you sing an A at 440 Hz without hearing a reference note? If someone plays an A on a digital keyboard, can you tell if it's at 440 vs. an A tuned a bit up or down?

i think that is beyond human. i mentioned this earlier in the thread, but pitch can drift. an A at 438 or whatever is just as much of an A as 440 to me. i'm not sure where each note's cut-off is, but notes can be a little off yet still be identifiable.

old records fuck with me sometimes, because they weren't tuned digitally and often have tape speed issues. older masters of "jumping jack flash" were kind of in-between B and Bb, hard to determine exactly which. then i bought the remastered version of 'hot rocks' a few years ago and the song was clearly in B. bob ludwig must have corrected it (these sort of corrections are done to lots of remasters. 'kind of blue', for instance). i missed the old "jumping jack flash" though, because a straight up B just seems a little too blue for that song. (yes, i associate notes with colors, but that's another post..)

I guess I don't completely understand the concept. I understand that certain notes have distinctive sounds on specific instruments, but it's all relative, right? If you tune a guitar a half step up (all strings), then an "A" is really an A#. So what does it mean to have absolute pitch? I'm probably being dense about this--maybe someone can set me straight. Is there something distinctive about an "E" on piano, let's say, no matter how the piano is tuned (440 or otherwise)?