From c_schonberger@yahoo.com Wed Jan 19 12:10:15 2011
Subject:Re: Perfect Pitch

I guess so.... ;-)
 
Anyway: I always admired those rare pianists (in some tv shows or in hotels and casinos and similar) who can accompany an amateur singer on the spot. The guest starts singing poorly in some random key (a pro would at least name the tune, the key and ask for a refence tone or chord), and the pianist just hits the "closest possible fit" with the correct chord changes, voicings and fills, all on the fly - just after hearing a few notes being sung.
I would never be able to do that, even though I have my scales and roman numbers for chords and all the other math together. Doing it in real time is hard, that's why I am much more of an arranger/composer than a prformer. I highly respect people who can do that and don't make much of it - they even help the amateur singer make it through the tune, smiling politely. Looks like this is becoming a lost art...  That IS a very useful application for perfect pitch plus talent.
 
Christian
 

--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Paul Cunningham wrote:

 

isnt 448 the same as 440 using the metric system? ;-)

On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Christian Schonberger wrote:

> We Europeans don't tune to A 448, at least I never heard about it.



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