A little inside baseball: Larry did a workshop on ear training at Stanford. Said he'd been working on identifying notes in a chord just from hearing them, and could do ANY four notes played on piano, w/ his back turned. Saw it live, he did it, no matter how dissonant, crammed-together or far apart. An awesome demonstration. Only other person even close was a classically-trained violinist from Sweden, but no real comparison. Yikes!
Interesting you should post this...I saw a guy on 60 minutes on a segment concerning the strange talents of so called "Idiot Savants" one of them could identify any 5 notes played regardless of how they were played. You'd think more people could do it...that the intervals would eventually just fall into the "ear" but no...apparently this does not happen...so this talent is very very rare and priceless...I got C's in ear training class...it was hard so I appreciate and envy the talent..
stumbled across this....loved it.
A little inside baseball: Larry did a workshop on ear training at Stanford. Said he'd been working on identifying notes in a chord just from hearing them, and could do ANY four notes played on piano, w/ his back turned. Saw it live, he did it, no matter how dissonant, crammed-together or far apart. An awesome demonstration. Only other person even close was a classically-trained violinist from Sweden, but no real comparison. Yikes!
Interesting you should post this...I saw a guy on 60 minutes on a segment concerning the strange talents of so called "Idiot Savants" one of them could identify any 5 notes played regardless of how they were played. You'd think more people could do it...that the intervals would eventually just fall into the "ear" but no...apparently this does not happen...so this talent is very very rare and priceless...I got C's in ear training class...it was hard so I appreciate and envy the talent..
Nice plate sounds throughout...