JoeVice
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relative pitch really has nothing to do with perfect pitch. its in an entirely different vein. if you can find emotional meaning in music, then you have the potential for relative pitch. if you can hear the difference between a minor and a major chord, you are using relative pitch. someone with relative pitch can hear a chord and tell you, its a minor 3rd inversion with a major seventh in the bla bla bla. someone with perfect pitch can tell you what notes the pitches represent.
so really, you don't have to have perfect pitch to pick all nine pitches out of a chord. someone with a strong sense of relative pitch can do the same....but, its all based on the pitches' relation to eachother.
relative pitch is by far the more important skill. its the understanding of the language and emotional meaning of music....its recognition of the sentence instead of the individual words.
so really, you don't have to have perfect pitch to pick all nine pitches out of a chord. someone with a strong sense of relative pitch can do the same....but, its all based on the pitches' relation to eachother.
relative pitch is by far the more important skill. its the understanding of the language and emotional meaning of music....its recognition of the sentence instead of the individual words.