From c_schonberger@yahoo.com Mon Jan 17 10:34:50 2011
Subject:Re: Perfect Pitch

Agreed. Even if one doesn't have perfect pitch, it sounds "off" when the keyboard is transposed. Some voicings sound muddy when transposed down since they might be lower than the low interval limit.
Another problem are slur notes. It's imposible to slur up from a white to a black key (which in blues occurs often from the minor to the mayor third, so all keys with two sharps or more are rather bad for blues - a two finger slur doesn't quite sound the same...
 
IMHO jazz isn't such a problem, since most traditional standards go through many tonal centers (keys of the moment) - it's likely one ends up in momentary keys like F# somewhere within the tune.
 
Well, we keyboarders are supposed to be music geeks anyway ;-)
 
...just my 2c,
Christian

--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Dennis Gurwell wrote:

 

Yeah, perfect pitch can be a pain sometimes. If I just hit the pitch shift
button on whatever keyboard I'm playing, then I'm constantly trying to correct
what I'm doing. It just cuts against the grain to be playing a C natural and
hearing a C#. So, I just have to learn the tunes in the keys they're really
in. It has been interesting with a blues band I've been playing with recently.
The guitar and bass tune down a whole step. That isn't too bad. It means we're
playing in some "normal" keys. Earlier in the year, though, they were tuning
down a half step, which was putting me in keys like G flat, D flat, etc.

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