teaching a parrot to actually sing

[notscaredtodance]

I was in choir from 5th grade until I graduated so singing is one of my passions, and my teachers always taught there is a difference between mimicking and singing. I wonder if a parrot can be trained to actually learn different notes in music, like it learns different tricks. Has anyone heard of a parrot doing this?

Basically, a major scale is sang in solfege as do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. Each of these notes also have hand signals to go with them:



So the parrot would associate the sound with the hand signal, and instead of singing up the scale over and over, I can jump around the scale, like "mi re do re mi mi mi, re re re, mi sol sol" (which is mary had a little lamb) or "sol la sol mi, sol la sol mi" (which is silent night ) but instead of learning the song it is learning the notes as I show them. Theoreticaly, the bird can sing hundreds of songs just by learning 8 notes of a scale. It doesnt seem too far from teaching regular trick training and mixing up the order of the tricks.

Think it'll work? Guess we'll find out in a few weeks/months.

[HyperD]

I would have thought it would be hard to get it to do more than a couple of notes at a time... not because they're not able but because they will run out of motivation and patience for their treat

But the best of luck, it will be very impressive if you manage it!