Does anybody find it disconcerting (no pun intended) when they hear a live version of a song that is not in the same key as the recorded version they know and love?

I'm getting that right now with Phil Collins, of all people.

Why is it that some perfect pitch possessors claim that relative pitch is more important then perfect pitch alone when playing music?

That's all folks!

Elcon

Hi, my name is julien. I've been interested in AP phenomenon for few years now and I always had a lot of questions I would like to ask to people with perfect pitch. So if you don't mind here are a few ( Read more... )

My name is Elcon, I sing and mess around the keyboards and harmonica and interested in aurall musical abilities. I also have a decent pitch memory ( Read more... )

Hello, looks like things have been dead for a couple months. I'm new here, just saying hi. I go by Doranwen online (Doran for short), I play piano, soprano recorder, a little guitar, and have played violin in the past. (I also try to play dulcimers--hammered or not--anytime I run across one.) I know I've got good relative pitch for sure, and I' ( Read more... )

Mods please feel free to remove if it's a problem.

I'm aware that a few of you here might also be members of pianists. Up till an hour ago this was an active community with 1,600 users and many useful posts for people to look at and reference.

ETA: have removed the rest of the post in the interests of fairness as it seems increasingly clear that the ( Read more... )

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I'm just curious...are there any TAs (teaching assistants/grad student teachers) here? I'm going to be one in the fall for written music theory. If you are a TA, and you have AP...do you disclose it to your students? Or do you make an effort to hide it ( Read more... )

Hey, I've been a member of this comm in the past, but I've gotten a new journal. (Old one was noscream_bone if you care to dig back that far in the archive, lol ( Read more... )

What are some good methods to improve one's ears?