Playing By Ear

[DoubleBlade]

yes cool in a way that you could rip guitarist riffs off with just your ears...

but don't you think that after a while , always ripping guitarist riffs may be a bit boring????
Now the next level to it would be to improvise a guitarist riff in such a way that it sounds different if being played by you...

imagine improvising steve vai's solos in such a way that it sounds more like funk , pop , jazz instead of the usual shred metal.... cool huh? 8)

 

[turbochicken]

After I found out my perfect pitch, I started listening to piano pieces (non-classical) to figure out the notes and chords.

oooh, you have perfect pitch? it's a rare skill you know.

you can sit amongst a crowd and figure out what key pple are talking in, and what key the engines of the vehicles that go past?

 

[BlackMoo]

What key is the human fart in?

 

[iansoh]

i believe fart is in the key of F-fart major.

it's one thing to listen to a sound and tell it's pitch. it's even harder to work it the other way round - singing it.

 

[turbochicken]

What key is the human fart in?

erm, seriously, it varies. hahahaha.

but it usually doesn't stay in one key, with each fart.

 

[Vio]

If you think following tabulation would make you the next Steve Vai for instance, please go ahead. But do make sure its accurate first..

agreed.

i said wat i did bcos i know of guitarists who played a particular cover by ear but the riff comes out pretty far off from the real thing. It's more a case of bad hearing and him being unable to read music, and actually avoiding the option of researching how it is actually played.

so... yeah... to me thats laziness also.

i honestly think it takes more effort to read tabs than to play by ear.

 

[stars]

anyway ... just to add in a little side note about differences in asian and western musicians

i read somwhere in a magazine tt in premier music colleges like the berkley school of music or sumthing like tt , onli 10 - 15 % of the musicians there have perfect pitch.

in comparison , in the peiking school of music or sumthing like tt ( i m not too good with names but its REAL i assure u) 75 % of the students have perfect pitch

bottomline : for some weird reason or another , asians tend to have perfect pitch. scientists believe tt its because of phonoteic language such as chinese ( no offence here !) because of tone / pitch differences , it makes the aevrage dude more better at pitching

 

[3notesAbar]

bottomline : for some weird reason or another , asians tend to have perfect pitch. scientists believe tt its because of phonoteic language such as chinese ( no offence here !) because of tone / pitch differences , it makes the aevrage dude more better at pitching

Makes alot of sense

 

[Cheez]

you can sit amongst a crowd and figure out what key pple are talking in, and what key the engines of the vehicles that go past?

People don't talk in monophonic tones, unless they sing...

But I did once told my friend the pitch of the road piler (the machine used to pound heavy metal poles into the ground during construction) when I was in school. The one I heard I think was in A flat. Can't remember. He didn't believe me, until we found a piano in school and played the note...

But seriously, I think perfect pitch can be trained. No prove, but I believe so. If I don't play my piano (go cold turkey for a long time - when I'm overseas) and don't listen to music consistently, I find my ears getting less sharp. I need more time to think about the pitch. But it easily comes back once I get back to playing. 75% perfect pitch is definitely not about the genes. Don't think you can compare Berklee with China. The admission criteria is different - in China, only the best of the best are selected. In Berklee, I don't think so.

 

[duskalways]

sigh... i have a long long way to go. don't think this pair of ears gonna make it. congrats to those who are more musically inclined. you must realise you are gifted in a way! rayer:

 

[turbochicken]

But seriously, I think perfect pitch can be trained. No prove, but I believe so.

you bet. otherwise there won't be THAT many students in berklee and that china something something music sch with absolute pitch.

it's like 1 in every 100,000 pple.

most absolute pitch holders, i believe, are trained.
much less are born with it. they're like only at max 40 pple with absolute pitch in sg.

 

[BlackMoo]

Thats such a small proportion.

 

[Ambidextrous]

But seriously, I think perfect pitch can be trained. No prove, but I believe so.

you bet. otherwise there won't be THAT many students in berklee and that china something something music sch with absolute pitch.

it's like 1 in every 100,000 pple.

most absolute pitch holders, i believe, are trained.
much less are born with it. they're like only at max 40 pple with absolute pitch in sg.

I used to be in an orchestra. There are at least 15 in that orchestra with perfect pitch. And no, the orchestra is not a fantastic one. Believe me, there are way more perfect pitchers than you think. Some studies have shown that children who start taking music lessons at the age of 3 tend to acquire this ability.

Perfect pitchers are not necessarily always very good players, for i've seen a perfect pitcher with mediocre playing techniques and musicality. But most of them are really superb though.