>Yes, he can do that... He can also recognize veeeeeery known tunes
>like Happy Birthday,
Then he _does have at least some ability to recognize pitches, and is
therefore not tone-deaf, unless he is recognizing them fromm the
rhythm. CAn he recognize Happy Birthday if you sing each note as a
quarter? (I.e., with distorted rhythm, without words, but with the
correct sequence of pitches.)
> but if we go to something more "complicated"
>that he, of course, knows, like tunes of songs of Bruce Springsteen,
Even though I like Bruce Springsteen, I would venture to guess that
the problem may be the lack of sufficient melodic content in Bruce's
songs.
>What I see is that what he cannot do is to "imitate" a note, that is,
>if I sing a note, whichever, he cannot repeat it. Not even an
>approximation of half tone or so...
As I've written before, _that does not show that he is tone-deaf.
>I could send you a copy of une recorded conversation (in English, I
>guess that would be better...),
Actually I'd like to hear him speaking his first language as well as English.
> as I have no idea of how to post it
>in the Internet... You can send me a private mail with your postal
>address to my inbox, as I think my address is in my Yahoo profile...
Who's afraid of spammers? Send it to johnlink@n....
>And, may I suggest you to have a look to www.wilfart.com? Is the
>website of the singing method I follow, with Mr. Serge Wilfart and,
>as I told you, is based, inter alia, in the Feldenkrais Method,
I glanced at the site yesterday and will look at it more carefully.
What an unfortunate name!
John Link
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