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.