Does a musician need perfect pitch?If yes, why?
I have the supercourse and I have used it, then quit, now slowly starting to practise it again and will do so throughout the summer. Right now I can faintly tell differences between pitch colours, but it depends of the octave... Try it, I have read plenty of posts by people who have benefitted from it. By the way try searching these forums..
I have a friend who quite regulary uses her perfect pitch. Unfortunately it is confusing for her to accompany transposing instruments (Clarinet, Trumpet, Fr. Horn, etc.) because the note she sees on the score is not the note she hears. An example of a disadvantage of perfect pitch, or at least the inablillity to control it.
is there some here who has perfect (absolute) pitch? how is it?
um I'm not buying this "perfect pitch" stuff. So today instruments are tuned at 440Hz. That means if you brought Mozart, Bach, Beethoven to a modern day piano they wouldn't have perfect pitch. Tuning your ears to 440Hz is the dumbest idea I've ever heard.For example, if someone claims to have "perfect pitch" and I tuned a piano to 410 Hz they wouldn't be able to know any notes because the definition of their perfect pitch relies on a 440Hz instrument.Do you know that 440Hz is COMPLETELY an arbitrary number?