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Do I have perfect pitch?
Recently I've noticed that I'm hearing notes almost pronounce their name, such as a C note saying C. I talked to my vocal teacher about it and he told me to sing a C (which is why I gave the example I did) and he checked it on the piano. It was correct. I've been listening to more and more music and in my mind I'm just like "G#, G... A, C, E..." I later check a lot of those pitches to find that I'm correct. I've also heard random noises coming from outside my house to find that I can identify most of those pitches. I identified one noise (not sure what it was coming from, to be honest) as a Bb. But the thing is, if I do have perfect pitch, why would it wait until I'm 15 years old to finally start popping up? Doesn't that seem kinda strange? Why wouldn't I have noticed it before? Is it just because I didn't start singing until a year ago so what was a Bb concert pitch was a C on my Bb clarinet or...? I'm just really curious about this seventh sense (my sixth sense is the ability to sense when something chaotic is about to happen) that I seem to have.
1 Answer
- bkaLv 77 years ago
yes, you need training to realize what the pitches are, so its not that you didn't have it before, but that you didn't have names for it or a need for it.
when you are playing an instrument like piano or clarinet, you just play the right motion, and the right note should come out, so you don't have to think about controlling it as actively as you do when you sing or play a string instrument.
and the fact that you were playing a transposing instrument, so you had multiple names for the same pitch could also have made you not bother noticing.
i get this with students a lot, you can't tell if they have perfect pitch at first. one student... we only discovered it because whenever she would sing a song, she would always start on the same note as the recording, and if i sang it starting on a different note, she would laugh at me.
but as a beginning violinist, it didn't mean anything in her playing! its still hard to get your hands in the right place.
also....
its not a "sense", its just storing the pitch in your long term memory instead of your short term memory.
also also....
EVERYONE has more than 5 senses... the concept of 5 senses is a philosophical idea, not a physiological one!
we don't even really KNOW how many humans have... but... we do know it is more than 5.
