To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: RE: Perfect Pitch was: Arias Transposed
Date sent: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 00:21:35 +1000
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

I have perfect pitch as well. I'm not exactly sure if it was innate or
something learnt, but I have a strong feeling it is something more inborn.
Also, my whole musical life I've learnt from a FIXED 'Do'. For nearly 10
years all I sung and learnt was fixed Do, then later tried movable do. I
can do movable do, but find it more difficult than fixed. When I transcribe
a song, I always use fixed Do, it's just something I've grown up with I
guess. So why fixed do? The most important reason, looking back, is that
now, if I hear a note, I know it immediately. I think it's the sound
perhaps that I've associated with the sol-fa, I'm not sure. If I was taught
movable Do from the beginning, I believe I would only have relative pitch,
because the tonic is changed for every key and that strong association is
not there at all.

Daniel