chinese, for one. not tonal in the music theory sense, but the meaning of many words depends on the pitch they're spoken in

You have heard of Google?

I am in a helping mood.


http://www.answers.com/topic/tone-linguistics

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural...age/tonal.html

I meant which language do you speak.

u r right about that, i am chinese ,

when i say "ni hao" with down "tone" means" how do u do"
but when i say"ni hao" with rising tone means" u like to do "

[quote=blah]chinese, for one. not tonal in the music theory sense....

i do not know meaning about that
plz tell me in simple english again

thank u

i think perfect pitch would be terrible to have. like it was said earlier, you are constantly dealing with off-pitch elements that would just drive you nuts. i have relative pitch, but even that gets annoying sometimes since i have a fairly good idea of tonal center when it's astablished. but perfect pitch..i dunno, i guess it really is a blessing and a curse.

I've found perfect pitch helps me most in my own cause of songwriting. When I was younger I would often pull over and jot down melodies that appeared in my head out of fear of losing them before I got home (which happens often when you party all the time and your brain is scrambled eggs).

It is maddening when I hear familiar classical pieces in a different key (typcally a half-step lower), or I hear what I feel are missed opportunities in any other form of music when a given key signature is used, but I can listen to the melody and think of a better one. I find that in some cases I can't stand songs I might otherwise love if only they could be transposed.

All that said, I'm glad I have it.

I have perfect pitch and it really doesn't bother me. I learned to just listen instead of listen if you get what I am saying. I love it. I can sing a tune in my head and write it out without much of a problem. Also I write random songs around random tunes. Like the air condition on the 3rd floor of my school is a little under G but not yet a F#, so I wrote a little please that revolves around that. It's really fun, but it does get annoying at times. For example, at ear training. My teacher will play an A and call it a C. We then have to figure out the song by intervals ect. Well, it really messes me up knowing it's a C not an A, so I have to force myself to focus really hard and get the right interval instead of writing the right note.

I think it would be fantastic...you'd always know what key people are playing in, you'd never need a tuner for any instrument...for drum tuning it would be phenomenal!

I don't think perfect pitch is necessary to be a singer, sometimes a little imperfection can be a beautiful thing.