YES. I *can* visualise it if i try, but it's not 'natural' and not the main way I do it. (I can still remember some of the gymnastics routines i learnt between the ages of 12 and 14. I can also still lplay (or could, the last time I checked) ~relatively~ well some of the pieces I learnt for my Grade 6 piano exam in Year 10, because I overlearned them so much. Other pieces that I learned less thoroughly, even if they're technically much less difficult, I can't do the same with.)
Heh. I would be described as 'weak' at singing on both those axes (although I've managed to improve the cognitive/audiation side SIGNIFICANTLY in my twenties, largely through singing in choir and explicitly working on singing against other notes and audiation skills (although i didn't learn that word until a few years ago). When i sang in choir in high school, I was considered useful because my ability to sing in tune was quite good (is this what intonation means, or does it cover more than just the actual pitches you're singing?), *and* I could read music well (but not actually sight-sing (ooh, i taught myself/learnt to do that a bit over the past five years, too!). And i could hold the alto line, but only if I was sort-of (but not literally) blocking out the soprano line while I was doing it, otherwise I would get distracted and start wavering. I also pretty muchneed to be able to hear myself to be able to tell if i'm singing in tune or not.
I've always found it more difficult to sing the lower line of two-part harmonies, which is a shame, because i am not, and never will be, a soprano. I would kind of like to be a tenor, but can't actually reliably hit D3, let alone anything lower. All that time learning arbitrary rules of SATB writing, and alto parts almost never used the bottom part of the range. I am still resentful about that. >_
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Heh. I would be described as 'weak' at singing on both those axes (although I've managed to improve the cognitive/audiation side SIGNIFICANTLY in my twenties, largely through singing in choir and explicitly working on singing against other notes and audiation skills (although i didn't learn that word until a few years ago). When i sang in choir in high school, I was considered useful because my ability to sing in tune was quite good (is this what intonation means, or does it cover more than just the actual pitches you're singing?), *and* I could read music well (but not actually sight-sing (ooh, i taught myself/learnt to do that a bit over the past five years, too!). And i could hold the alto line, but only if I was sort-of (but not literally) blocking out the soprano line while I was doing it, otherwise I would get distracted and start wavering. I also pretty muchneed to be able to hear myself to be able to tell if i'm singing in tune or not.
I've always found it more difficult to sing the lower line of two-part harmonies, which is a shame, because i am not, and never will be, a soprano. I would kind of like to be a tenor, but can't actually reliably hit D3, let alone anything lower. All that time learning arbitrary rules of SATB writing, and alto parts almost never used the bottom part of the range. I am still resentful about that. >_