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David wrote:"Within an octave" is a pretty strange way to judge singing; usually it is more important that you are singing the same pitch even if you are in a totally different octave.

That was my point. Unless this person sings extremely high or low notes and you're trying to get somewhere near that, I see no purpose to singing "within an octave"...

Ren, read this and shut the fuck up for a while.

Oh I have that too. I have absolute pitch. I can also sing at perfect pitch, and people would tell me to sing music they wrote because my pitch was perfect and I could hit any pitch within 4 octaves.

i can't tell what pitches i can sing in...all i know is that every pitch i can sing *well* in is like...not normal
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Ultimatum479 wrote:Ren, read this and shut the fuck up for a while.

No.

*shrug* Okay. Your choice if you wanna keep making an idiot of yourself, not mine. Can't say I didn't warn ya.

Ultimatum479 wrote:*shrug* Okay. Your choice if you wanna keep making an idiot of yourself, not mine. Can't say I didn't warn ya.

No.

I know two musicians that have perfect pitch, and the vast rest of musicians I know doesn't. It's very rare from my experience.

I think it has a lot to do with your exposure to pitch variation as a child; it is relatively common among musicians who start training very young, or are native speakers of a tonal language like Mandarin Chinese.

Kinda like how pianists lift their hands at the end of a string of notes? I used to play piano when I was young and I still find myself lifting my hands when I'm typing.

David wrote:I think it has a lot to do with your exposure to pitch variation as a child; it is relatively common among musicians who start training very young, or are native speakers of a tonal language like Mandarin Chinese.

Research supposedly supports that, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me (as I started piano when I was almost 8, and the research I've seen indicated that such exposure should occur from the age of 5 or before) and for the one other person I know with perfect pitch.

Recently, all the music in Star Wars Battlefront decided to jump 1.5 steps in pitch, permanently. I don't know why, but it's pissing me off.

there was another study done showing that tone based language speakers are far more likely to have perfect pitch , for example I know there is one asian dialect (the name escapes me right now) that the same word can mean four different things depending on the pitch of it the study showed that of the countries that spoke that dialect almost 70 percent had perfect pitch as opposed to the U.S.'s under 30%