Pitch perfect vs. tone deaf?
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You've either got it, or you don't.  I can hear a tone, and tell you what note it is, with about 80% accuracy, and no matter how much I try to teach someone else to do it, and no matter how hard they try, not everyone can do it.  Just like, if you play me a random note on any instrument, I can play the same note on the keyboard almost immediately.  I've never learned to do this, I just can.  I think it is genetic, because my uncle's a band teacher, and my father is a musical genius.  There is no way to learn how to be not tone deaf.
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mute deaf n puts out....\njust joking  ;>
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Check out this website. They discuss both direct and reverb loudness. It seems the steady-state reverb level depends on surface area and absorption coefficient while direct is 1/R^2 dependent. Unfortunately the symbols in their equations are not always defined right below the equation but they will be somewhere on the page. If you see a symbol that looks like 2 vertical sides and the top of a square, it's pi. Also they're not too careful about parentheses. One eq. you'll notice says\nWreverb = Wsource * (1 - a / Sa) but I'm betting it should be (1 - a) / Sa. (Otherwise they're using the fraction a/Sa which reduces to 1/S with 'a' irrelevant). Good luck. Maybe you'll find a more readable site.\nP.S. Of course one major effect you'll notice if your program material extends into the deep bass is a falloff of low-frequency response below about 22 Hz. From the ref., Fcutoff = c / 2 * longest dimension, should be c / (2 * longest dimension).
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The correct term is Deaf Mute.
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Choir is an excellent answer!you start out quiet and get louder as you get more comfortable...also they will teach you everything you need to know about breathing,tone,pitch..all that!Better than lessons...ITS FREE!!!!Let everyone be heard!!!\n               ****Good Luck****
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The only solution for pleasant singing tone is practice....\nkeep on practising.....if you were practising for 1 hour make it 2 hours......you can definately feel better ....sadhana(practising with dedication) definately matters as told by many sangit pandits(music teachers)\n\ngood luck.\n\n:)
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Nobody is perfect or normal for that matter. Yes, the popular terminology sucks. I'm sorry for your dificulties with your family and the "establishment".\nThe language presumes incorrectly that different is damaged.\n\nWould you agree that some things can be more Challenging for the deaf?\nOne of My Daughters has a high frequency hearing loss and learning clear speech and reading were both quite challenging for her. She did learn and now does much better than many people who are supposedly "abeled" .  We also object to the label.
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i'm not sure either. but the person before me is tune deaf if they think her music sucks! i love the gurl, and she CAN sing! i will definitely be buying her CD when it does come out!
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well, if you want to sing opera you must have vibrato and a full clean smooth voice, and if you sing death metal you must be able to scream at lower that usual tones, on the right note, so there definately is differences.
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Like on a chalk board? the high pitch just sounds unnatural. My brother will throw up if he hears high pitched sounds. I always say don't scratch your butt around him, LOL.
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Phonemic restoration is a powerful auditory illusion in which listeners "hear" parts of words that are not really there.\n\n\n\nIn earlier studies of the illusion, segments of words (phonemes) were replaced by an extraneous sound; listeners were asked whether anything was missing and where the extraneous noise had occurred. Most listeners reported that the utterance was intact and mislocalized the noise, suggesting that they had restored the missing phoneme. In the present study, a second type of stimulus was also presented: items in which the extraneous sound was merely superimposed on the critical phoneme. On each trial, listeners were asked to report whether they thought a stimulus utterance was intact (noise superimposed) or not (noise replacing). Since this procedure yields both a miss rate P(intact/replaced), and a false alarm rate P(replaced/intact), signal detection parameters of discriminability and bias can be calculated. The discriminability parameter reflects how similar the two types of stimuli sound; perceptual restoration of replaced items should make them sound intact, producing low discriminability scores. The bias parameter measures the tendency of listeners to report utterances as intact; it reflects postperceptual decision processes. This improved methodology was used to test the hypothesis that restoration (and more generally, speech perception) depends upon the bottom-up confirmation of expectations generated at higher levels. Perceptual restoration varied greatly wih the phone class of the replaced segment and its acoustic similarity to the replacement sound, supporting a bottom-up component to the illusion. Increasing listeners' expectations of a phoneme increased perceptual restoration: missing segments in words were better restored than corresponding pieces in phonologically legal pseudowords; priming the words produced even more restoration. In contrast, sentential context affected the postperceptual decision stage, biasing listeners to report utterances as intact. A limited interactive model of speech perception, with both bottom-up and top-down components, is used to explain the results.
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http://deafness.about.com/cs/celebfeatures/a/cjjones.htm
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The Trombone is in C.  It will play the concert pitch and is written in bass clef.  The Alto is in Eb, it will sound a minor 3ed up from concert pitch.
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The fundamental frequency = the first harmonic.\nThe first overtone = the second harmonic.\nThe second overtone = the third harmonic.\nand so on...\n\nSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic for lots more surrounding detail.
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For your hearing? Yes. Even loud volumes aloud are better than soft volumes in headphones. Earbuds are especially bad.
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basically because they are small people. The pitch of the human voice depends on the length of the vocal chords. The shorter the person the shorter the vocal chords. Longer vocal chords make a lower pitch sound and shorter ones higher sounds.\nOften jockeys have almost child size bodies in adult form.
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they connect notes when the notes are two different pitches. they allow the music to have a more lagato feel, more connected.