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How
I Discovered the
Secret to Perfect Pitch
The
true story by David Lucas Burge,
continued . . .
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I
couldn't figure it out . . .
"How
does she DO it?" I kept asking myself. On
the other hand, why can't everyone recognize
and sing tones by ear?
Then it dawned
on me. People call themselves musicians and
yet they can't tell a C from a C#? Or A major from
F major?! That's as strange as a portrait painter
who can't name the colors of paint on his palette.
It all seemed so odd and contradictory.
Humiliated and
puzzled, I went home to work on this problem. At age
14, this was a hard nut to crack.
You can be sure
I
tried it out for myself. With a little sweet-talking, I
got my three brothers and two sisters to play
piano tones for me -- so I could try to name them
by ear. But it always turned into a messy guessing
game I just couldn't win.
Day after day
I tried to learn those freaking tones. I would hammer
a note over and over to make it stick
in my head. But hours later I would remember it a
half step flat.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't
recognize or remember any of the tones by ear. They
all sounded the same after awhile; how were
you supposed to know which was which -- just by listening?
I would have
done anything to have an ear like Linda. But now I
realized it was way beyond my reach. So after weeks
of work, I finally gave up.
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this true story to a friend
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it happened...
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