I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
I don't really sing... I just hear notes so I know what it's supposed to sound like, if that makes sense. You ever hear someone try to teach a choir how to sing, but they can't sing? That's me.
A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.
No disrespect to people that don't use music theory or don't know it. It does help to be able to figure out what key a song is in, even though with your scales you can figure it out so you can set your Auto-Tune right. So many songs with Auto-Tune are off or have the wrong note playing on the 808. And they pass it off as being hood.
Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.
There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.
Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.
I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I've got that mama vibe. I don't look at it with an ego.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.
Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.
I sing in key, thank you very much.
Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot.
