On music

Pachabel rant comedy



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Music is a beautiful thing - it is marvellous that particular intervals of Hz should sound pleasant (God's creation!).

Personally i take quite fondly to a wide range of music: instrumentals to new age, and oldies to contemporary to pop - the most important thing is that the melody must be nice. But i can't stand heavy rock or metal...

The other thing is that i'm perfect pitch (though i get confused frequently) . I took Yamaha from young, their exams have a listening segment where they play something both hands and u play back the exact thing to them. Being perfect pitch sometimes sux badly... it is damn painful on the ears whenever someone sings off-tune, or some lousy song has too many dissonants, or the note a drum plays (very low but still discernable) is dissonant with the song...

I think AB exams sux... come on lah music is not only about getting all the technicals and theory and "learning about composers" right, and definitely not about playing 3 stupid songs and lousy scales for the whole year. But well, i'm going to complete liao, so no point stopping now... theory exam only a couple of weeks more... no time to mug (especially those italian terms). Sian.