The C note is the most natural note to hear, I think... if somebody sings a note without knowing what it is, it'll probably be a C because that's the easiest note to hit with the human voice. I think that a C note just has a certain 'grounded' feel to it, it's hard to explain what I mean but it just sounds like a good starting note.

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Originally posted by DjSimonB The C note is the most natural note to hear, I think... if somebody sings a note without knowing what it is, it'll probably be a C because that's the easiest note to hit with the human voice. I think that a C note just has a certain 'grounded' feel to it, it's hard to explain what I mean but it just sounds like a good starting note.

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If I sing a note it won't be a c. Each voice is different so a easy note forme can be hard for you. each other note is also very usable as a starting note

Melodies are not made up of notes but jumps between notes.

yeah, just learned this the other day.

music was origionally based on religion

all religion has that one note . . weather it be "amen" or "ohmm"

each of those has that appealing note. if you take a tuner into a church or tibetian monestary, you will notice the "amen" and "ohmmm " are both C notes

don't know why it's called C, but it's also the center of the circle of fifths.

same reason we call trees trees, i suppose. just cuz

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Originally posted by enferno yeah, just learned this the other day. music was origionally based on religion all religion has that one note . . weather it be "amen" or "ohmm" each of those has that appealing note. if you take a tuner into a church or tibetian monestary, you will notice the "amen" and "ohmmm " are both C notes don't know why it's called C, but it's also the center of the circle of fifths. same reason we call trees trees, i suppose. just cuz

Ehm you won't find a c on your tuner when you check the tune of amen or else. They also know more scales then c to c. They didn't use the black keys in the beginning. 4 other scales start at the second third fourth and fifth note of c major and stay in this scale.

Interesting stuff .. Ive beeen listening to some perfect pitch seminars on tape on the hope of eventualy attaining perfect pitch ... lmao ... so I can tell what note is what .... just like how my eyes know what is red or blue ... the guy reckons he got the knack by starting to hear that each note has its own character i.e. c and f is rounded/full sounding and b flat has a sinister character ... it isnt working for me so far.. but I can hope for it one day

My girlfriend and one of my friends both have perfect pitch, it pisses me off =P They're really good, they can listen to any song and tell me any note that's being played. My gf can also do annoying shit like tell me that the sub-bass is a fifth below the kick... like wtf, I might be able to figure that out if I spent 20 minutes at a keyboard with a similar bass and kick loaded up.

Back to the topic at hand, I sorta just skimmed the replies, but C is only really particularly relevant on a piano. On a violin for instance, it's not at all and the main note is A.

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To answer the original poster's question: why do we call the colour blue, 'blue'? C is just what that particular grouping of notes ended up getting called. They could just as well have been called Frog.