How long did it take you to learn?
2007-01-21 06:25:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
i should very much imagine it's like looking at photos of a lady in a pornographic magazine and playing out various scenarios in your head
2007-01-21 06:30:09 · answer #1 · answered by Troubled Joe(the ghost of) 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, this is a skill called 'Perfect Pitch' Some people are just born with it. This allowed someone to hear notes and know exactly how they should sound. They can also tell if ur in tune or not very easily. THey're like a human tuner!
I think u can develop it, but its a tough thing to do. u might do some ear training or just play a lot
by lokoing at music its easy to get a general idea of the melody, but to kno exactly what pitch all the notes will be, thats tough
2007-01-21 14:29:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes work, and you do not have to have perfect pitch to have some idea of what the music will sound like. I learned sight-reading with a movable "do" system, and after working on it in choir for 8 years now, I can pretty well look at a piece of music and imagine what it might sound like. It's not perfect, though, definately an art, not a science.
2007-01-21 14:33:31 · answer #3 · answered by incandescent_poet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just about perfect pitch. It's about learning to read music too. Perfect pitch will just place the melody in the exact key it's written in. Reading music will give you a general idea of the intervals of the melody and knowing the rhythms will help you know when the different notes will sound.
I can look at something and hear it, and I do not have perfect pitch. I have good relative pitch, which is a skill you develop through good general music training.
2007-01-21 23:20:20 · answer #4 · answered by Katrina M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the right teaching and training, it doesn't take that long to read music and hear it in your head. It's not as much about notes as it is about intervals. If you see notes are so far apart (intervals), you can recognize those intervals, and sing them to yourself. I can look at a conductor's score, which has more than 10 instruments on it, and hear in my head a rough version of the song. That took a few years. It does help to have a natural ear for music, which I have, and it really helps to have perfect pitch, which I don't have.
2007-01-21 14:37:29 · answer #5 · answered by Paul H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's not perfect pitch, believe me. Simply being about to know the pitch in your head doesn't mean you can follow a melody in your head or even less be able to hear the harmonies. But these things are very possible, and common in a lot of musicians who have worked at it all their lives. It takes practice and time, but it does develop.
It's all about relationships, each note has a relationship to another note, and after awhile, you've seen so many variations on these relationships- one note going to another- and you've heard them so many times, you know in your head what it is without hearing it.
It first starts when you hear music and follow along in a sheet of paper, and sometimes notice that what's being played isn't what's written. You then start writing what you hear onto paper- without the help of a piano... and eventually, you write what you think without hearing and it, and hear it by just reading it.... it's full of baby steps.
2007-01-22 16:37:04 · answer #6 · answered by locusfire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Once I had learned to read music well, it just came naturally. If I want to know what a piece of music sounds like, all I usaully have to do is look at it.
2007-01-23 18:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people are born with it. Let me tell you I'm not someone who was born with it. However, I did grow up around music. It takes years to develop the skill of being able to look at music and know how it sounds in your head.
2007-01-21 19:23:20 · answer #8 · answered by lowndes_grl220 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
P.S. I think someone up there said that you can develop perfect pitch through practice... I believe this is incorrect. If one doesn't have PP by the age of 5, it's not something one will develop later in life.
And no, musicians/scientists/whoever don't know exactly what causes one to have perfect pitch, though I suppose early exposure to music can't hurt! :)
2007-01-24 03:48:04 · answer #9 · answered by aeshamali 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've had perfect pitch since i was four years old, and study violin at Juilliard now, so i might be pretty advanced, but....
look at the music, and sing it in your head. like, if you see the note "la", hum "la" in your head (the pitch). keep doing that, then gradually pay more attention to the rhythm, tempo, etc. be sure to know what key it's in, too. when you get used to it, you'll be able to look at the key, time signiature, and tempo indication, and look at the notes... and just know what the music sounds like. i think it took me about two to three years... i could do it by the time i was around seven.
2007-01-21 17:23:43 · answer #10 · answered by scarlett 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a concept I've learned in high school. It was introduced as "The hearing eye" also the reverse concept of "The seeing ear" was introduced. This is the ability to picture in your mind what the piece would look like scored as you listen to it.
2007-01-21 14:58:00 · answer #11 · answered by ThinkaboutThis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋