bradejensen writes... 'Hearing a melody in different ways'
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http://www.amazon.com/Hearing-melody-different-ways-synchronization/dp/B000PDSQR6

One night I was trilling, and I began to think ok well I'm hearing a trill descending instead of ascending. So I was like ok well can I switch hearing it ascending while I'm listening at it descending without altering the speed or attack or anything. The outcome was yes I could, but I had to slow it down at first to a moderate fluid tempo. It seemed that hearing it descending though was the dominant of the two cause while listening to it ascending sometimes it would slip back to descending, and from this point it's harder for me to switch back to ascending. Anyone follow what I'm trying to say? Is this kind of like pin pointing the note to figure out what note it is with absolute pitch? Cause beyond this adding in another note it gets more complex, for instance you could hear a 3 note pattern, I'm going to just use numbers it's easier for me but you can apply it to any note, like 1,2,3,2 repeated over and over could also be heard like 2,3,2,1 - 3,2,1,2 - 2,1,2,3 when in fact playing these over and over they are one in the same.

1,2,3,2
--2,3,2,1
----3,2,1,2
------2,1,2,3

Does this have to do anything with absolute pitch? I thought it was kinda like a brain teaser. :P After I searched a few times on google I came up with that URL someone did an experiment about it and wrote a paper. It's like trying to allow yourself to deny any sense of rhythm and let your ear hear it free form any which way. This one is wild.

3,1,2,3,2,1
--1,2,3,2,1,3
----2,3,2,1,3,1
------3,2,1,3,1,2
--------2,1,3,1,2,3
----------1,3,1,2,3,2


Anyone who can switch their listening between that pattern all those different ways is a champion!
2010-01-27 12:33:45
 
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