I think my kid may have perfect pitch...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

I was working on his piano lesson with him today; and singing some exercises with him, just to get the intervals in his ear. I wasn't being very particular about the starting note...I was more focused on having him hear the intervals. So I started singing "c", and he said, "That's the wrong note, Mom...this is 'c' DAHHHh." I checked his pitch, and sure enough he was right.

Of course, really perfect pitch is when the piccolo goes in the toilet bowl without hitting the rim. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. That's cool!

I have psuedo-relative pitch. :evilgrin: (If you give me a pitch I can hear the next couple in my ear. Doesn't mean I can tell you what the pitch is, though. :P)

;)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. I've heard enough As to have a pretty good idea where it is...

But everything else is relative to that.

[idgiehkt]

2. that rocks!

I want to say congrats, lol, to you but I guess I mean your kid. What an awesome gift. I have a friend who has her masters in music and she is the only one in her family that DOESN'T have perfect pitch, which she says still pisses her off.

that's so cool.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. I've been told it can sometimes be annoying...

like when a group consistently (purposefully) plays above or below pitch...
He just started playing about a month ago. It'll be interesting to see how this develops.

[REP]

8. It IS Annoying

I have perfect pitch, and most of the world doesn't. It can be really, really annoying. Painful, even.

[murielm99]

10. It is painful.

I have perfect pitch. So does my brother, and my oldest daughter.

I remember when my brother was about four years old, and he had to practice a hymn for a Christmas pageant at church. Everyone else in the family kept singing it off pitch. He became very annoyed, and corrected everyone.

He used to be a professional musician, but he found another career that is more lucrative for him. My daughter is a musician, too.

I play musical instruments, but I never studied enough to be professional. But I do experience pain when I some music, especially current popular music. And my dad's whistling? I wish he would just stop that tuneless noise.

[Karenina]

11. Also my experience.

Relative pitch is MUCH MORE useful especially here in Yurp where 443 is the norm unless it's 438 in a cold church. :argh:

GofG, it took me YEARS to ditch absolute pitch. You are wise to stress intervals.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Wow. I'm in awe of people with innate musical ability

... partly because it's so far from where I am. I wish I could carry a note decently.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. When he was a year old, he'd strum his dad's guitar

until he had blisters on his little fingers. He'd scream his head off if we made him stop.
He's got the music bug.

[Burma Jones]

7. Here's my boy at three

Now, he's taking piano and has an electric guitar on which he plays about ten chords ala The Ramones. He has picked out a few Penguin Cafe Orchestra tunes out on the piano and he whips through his piano method books so he can improvise. He's Eight. I wouldn't call him a prodigy, but he definitely thinks musically. He hasn't missed a question on a math test or a spelling word all last year and so far this year too, maybe it's the music.... The thing is, we don't push him, but we do accommodate him. I brought him to one of your Concerts last year, the one with the paper concerto....he really dug that one. BTW, we at the Nat'l Phil are doing Joe Green's (Verdi's) Requiem next Saturday...

I want to bring the boy to another of the Columbia Orchestra's concerts, they're nice, informal and full of younguns.....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. I'm playing the Verdi, too!

Will you be singing in Don Giovanni as well?

The paper concerto was a big hit with Timmy, too. We just gave our first concert last weekend. We've got some interesting things coming up, including John Adams' Harmonielehre in early December. You can take a look at the entire our season here: http://www.columbiaorchestra.org/season.shtml

See you next week!