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Post by Johnkenn on Dec 18, 2015 17:13:03 GMT -6
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Post by M57 on Dec 18, 2015 17:35:25 GMT -6
At Berklee back in the late 70's we all took a slew of ear-training courses, and I knew a couple guys that could do this. Perfect pitch is just pitch recognition. They simply have the ability to remember pitches. It's incredibly impressive and intimidating, but the minute we were handed music in Db and asked to sing it in A, the field was level, and some of the perfect pitchers were actually at a disadvantage because they were trying to transpose. In the end, their only recourse was to start from scratch like the rest of us and learn to hear intervals - not notes.
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Post by dandeurloo on Dec 18, 2015 17:38:55 GMT -6
That's Dylan My buddy Rick ' s son. He's amazing.
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Post by wiz on Dec 18, 2015 17:41:45 GMT -6
Incredible...
just incredible....
cheers
Wiz
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Post by ericn on Dec 18, 2015 18:05:36 GMT -6
That's Dylan My buddy Rick ' s son. He's amazing. Dan , Make sure he keeps it fun for the kid, I have seen way to many kids with this kind of talent who are the most F'd up adults, because the parents pushed to hard in fact I'm related to more than one of them ! |
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Post by tonycamphd on Dec 18, 2015 18:08:41 GMT -6
god dammit! I'm gonna kick that little shit's ass when i see him!!
haha, that is friggin awesome! he's got a future in music for sure, he's bound to make hundreds of dollars a year!!!
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Post by ericn on Dec 18, 2015 18:11:33 GMT -6
god dammit! I'm gonna kick that little shit's ass when i see him!! haha, that is friggin awesome! he's got a future in music for sure, he's bound to make hundreds of dollars a year!!! No $125 They just upped the streaming royalty rate! |
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Post by dandeurloo on Dec 18, 2015 18:42:34 GMT -6
Rick is a smart guy. Great Producer. He has done records a bunch of us have heard!
Dylan is a crazy smart kid. It is not just music, he is smart all around. He's got 2 younger sister who are gonna keep Dylan and Rick busy!
I will show Rick this thread. He is a teacher at heart and he has a company that is based around child development and music. Maybe I can get him to drop by. We could learn a ton from him in general. I know I have and do!
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Post by sopwith on Dec 18, 2015 19:08:58 GMT -6
Very impressive kid! When I first moved down here to NZ, one of my roommates in the music school was blind and had an amazing grasp of pitch and interval relationships. Fascinating to watch her sit in the sunroom and write out her compositions on her braille music typewriter - no instruments involved. Great piano player to boot. Tough because I could never be the least bit out of tune around her or she'd make sure I knew it  We did have fun switching round the salt and sugar on her in the pantry, but she got us back by loudly telling us every time she'd wash her glass eyes in the sink :-| Her seeing eye dog was amazing, could navigate to almost any place in the centre of the city on command. Wonder if the dog had perfect pitch as well? |
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Post by yotonic on Dec 18, 2015 19:10:54 GMT -6
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Post by ericn on Dec 18, 2015 19:48:37 GMT -6
Rick is a smart guy. Great Producer. He has done records a bunch of us have heard! Dylan is a crazy smart kid. It is not just music, he is smart all around. He's got 2 younger sister who are gonna keep Dylan and Rick busy! I will show Rick this thread. He is a teacher at heart and he has a company that is based around child development and music. Maybe I can get him to drop by. We could learn a ton from him in general. I know I have and do! Good to hear, I'm sure we could all learn something ! |
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Post by LesC on Dec 18, 2015 20:10:31 GMT -6
When we were in grade 12, my bass player and I played violin in music class and in our school orchestra, and our music teacher had perfect pitch. One day I brought a guitar in to class, and started playing some jazz chord progressions and some Hendrix. For fun, I asked the teacher to name the notes in some of the chords, which of course he did. Then my bass player and I sat down at the piano and played random notes, 20 notes at once. It sounded like shit, of course, but the teacher was able to name every single note. It was amazing, to say that's not so different from the rest of us seems fairly silly and smacks of jealousy.
I've know two kinds of people with absolute pitch. One kind is based on memorization, as noted above. A lady who was a good friend of my parents when I was a child, who sang in a choir, recognized notes by memorizing the beginning notes of songs that began on the various notes. I was too little at the time, but in retrospect I think she could have been fooled in the ways mentioned in one of the articles above. With the other kind of absolute pitch, the musical spectrum is actually "seen" as colors. I'm not sure what this actually means, because I've never experienced it, but I consider this the "real" form of absolute pitch, I'm not sure these people could be fooled.
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Post by dandeurloo on Dec 18, 2015 20:14:36 GMT -6
Holy cow, I just saw how many views this has. I think I was the first one to like and share it. So cool for Rick and Dylan!
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Post by Randge on Dec 18, 2015 20:19:40 GMT -6
Synesthesia is the term you are looking for. I understand that Quincy Jones had it and Bruce Swedien, who is still with us, still suffers from it. I read an article in which Bruce talked about it and said it sure didn't help him in the engineering realm.
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Post by Johnkenn on Dec 18, 2015 21:06:03 GMT -6
Don't think Quincy is dead, is he?
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Post by Ward on Dec 19, 2015 0:20:14 GMT -6
Don't think Quincy is dead, is he? Mr. Quincy Jones is 82 and very much alive. Mr. Bruce Swedien is also very much alive. |
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Post by Randge on Dec 19, 2015 7:39:26 GMT -6
Sorry, I had thought Quincy passed last year. I must have heard that through one of those stupid death hoax's that go around all too often. Great to know he is still around! I know Bruce is still around as I got to talk with him on the phone for a sec a while back thanks to John Jennings of Royer Labs.
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Post by henge on Dec 19, 2015 8:55:52 GMT -6
Holy crap that's amazing!
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Post by Guitar on Dec 20, 2015 17:22:50 GMT -6
Wow.
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Post by dandeurloo on Dec 20, 2015 17:24:47 GMT -6
Look at all those views. That is also amazing! Way to go Dylan.
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Post by joseph on Dec 20, 2015 17:43:27 GMT -6
Synesthesia is the term you are looking for. I understand that Quincy Jones had it and Bruce Swedien, who is still with us, still suffers from it. I read an article in which Bruce talked about it and said it sure didn't help him in the engineering realm. Also Olivier Messiaen. |
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Post by EmRR on Dec 20, 2015 23:40:11 GMT -6
I sure can't do that.
I had one client who insisted on putting down a lead vocal before doing the supporting acoustic guitar. WHAT?!?! She did it in that order, and it was correct.
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