mattrattley

I find F#/B/Db majors alright actually - the ones i have trouble with are the 3/4 sharp/flat keys (Ab, Eb, E etc.). With C major, F, G etc. you know that most of the notes, if not all, will be naturals (white keys); with F#, B, Db etc. you know most will be accidentals (black keys) - but with the sort of in between ones I'm sometimes left guessing as to which notes I should flatten/sharpen, and I find they are the ones that go wrong most often. Ab Major is a pig of a key for me, but I sight-read the B major study in my study book...

i'm part of the flight of the bumblebee club - my teacher had an arrangement for bassoon and piano and the bassoon part ends on a super high E (on top of 3 ledger lines in tenor clef!), so i think this may be a piece i'll have a go at when i'm like 80 or so! also to be able to play all the vivaldi concerti up to speed would be nice. maybe a more realistic one is the sorcerer's apprentice, that's not ridiculously hard but would require a bit of practice to say the least :)

hey all, i have perfect pitch but i don't recognise notes by intervals, which is what alot of you seem to be saying... each note just sorta sounds different, and you can just "tell" what a note is much in the same way as if you hear a clarinet you know it's a clarinet because it sounds like a clarinet...? @daniel: not too sure what you mean. I've read in an ear training book that major thirds are about 1/10th of a semitone too sharp, and minor thirds are 1/10th of a semitone too flat in western tuning, so western ears have learnt to give alot of leeway to thirds (for example, you can bend a third up and down when you sing and it still sounds like a third, you try doing it with a perfect fifth and you're in trouble!) ...anything like what you meant? oh yeah, and i'm new - hey everybody, this looks like a pretty cool site, it's great to see a bunch of people that aren't gonna laugh at me when i say i enjoy composition :mellow: