What Do Mariah Carey, Mozart and Frank Sinatra Have in Common?
What do you suppose great composers and musicians such as Beethoven, Mozart and others knew about music that set them apart from others in their field? Why did they go down in history while thousands of their contemporaries are long forgotten? The answer is that they had the ability to recognize absolute and relative pitch.
Understanding and using absolute and relative pitch is the prime factor that separates the top musicians from the also rans.
More recently this absolute and relative pitch recognition skill has been found in such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and hundreds of the most successful modern day talents.
The top people in the music business agree that possessing a good sense of pitch is essential to real success.
Here are some facts that you should know about pitch.
10% of students at the leading music schools, including the Julliard School of Music have absolute pitch recognition ability.
About 20% to 40% of the muscians with symphony orchestras usually can recognize absolute pitch.
Numerous surveys conclude that at least 50% of today's top recording artists recognize either absolute pitch, relative pitch or both.
So what is absolute pitch? Quite simply it is the ability to hear a musical note or chord and name it.
Some people say that the ability to have absolute pitch is genetic and can't be learned.
Fortunately for thousands of musicians, that is just not true.
Relative pitch is the ability to recognize the relationship between one note and another.
In other words, a musical interval.
When you were born, did you know what the note C sounded like? Of course not.
As an infant, you had no sense of music.
Music and pitch recognition are learned skills, just like language.
As you grow you gain a sense of rhythm and, if you study, you'll learn the pitches of musical notes.
The happy truth is that recognizing absolute and relative pitch is something that can be learned.
You are not just born with the talent.
And pitch recognition can be learned by anyone regardless of their age or background.
It is simply a learned skill like any other.
Understanding and using absolute and relative pitch is the prime factor that separates the top musicians from the also rans.
More recently this absolute and relative pitch recognition skill has been found in such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and hundreds of the most successful modern day talents.
The top people in the music business agree that possessing a good sense of pitch is essential to real success.
Here are some facts that you should know about pitch.
10% of students at the leading music schools, including the Julliard School of Music have absolute pitch recognition ability.
About 20% to 40% of the muscians with symphony orchestras usually can recognize absolute pitch.
Numerous surveys conclude that at least 50% of today's top recording artists recognize either absolute pitch, relative pitch or both.
So what is absolute pitch? Quite simply it is the ability to hear a musical note or chord and name it.
Some people say that the ability to have absolute pitch is genetic and can't be learned.
Fortunately for thousands of musicians, that is just not true.
Relative pitch is the ability to recognize the relationship between one note and another.
In other words, a musical interval.
When you were born, did you know what the note C sounded like? Of course not.
As an infant, you had no sense of music.
Music and pitch recognition are learned skills, just like language.
As you grow you gain a sense of rhythm and, if you study, you'll learn the pitches of musical notes.
The happy truth is that recognizing absolute and relative pitch is something that can be learned.
You are not just born with the talent.
And pitch recognition can be learned by anyone regardless of their age or background.
It is simply a learned skill like any other.
