Perfect Pitch
AdamB
Apr 13 2012, 03:43 PM
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Hi,

I have been doing ear training of late, I'm trying to find someone who has taught themselves perfect pitch. I have read a lot of articles on the web about it, and it seems a lot of people think it can't be learnt. I wanted to find out if there is anyone here who can say that they have learnt it (in that they didn't posses perfect pitch abilities when they were a child but learnt it as an adult). I basically want some indication of whether I can learn it.

You see, I am trying to learn it myself, I'm just listening to loops of a piano playing C over and over and trying to sing C every day to memorize how it sounds, but so far it's not going well, I'm not seeing much improvement.

Also, some more info - I've been doing a lot of relative pitch exercises, if I use a relative pitch tool on the computer (like at musicthoery.net), I score > 90% every time, and have hit 100% before. I find that easy as anything now, however; I cannot tell pitches apart when listening to real music. If I stick a track on with a strong melody line, I find it impossible to name the intervals that are being played. Why is this? What can I do about it?

Any thoughts?

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SirJamsalot
Apr 13 2012, 10:46 PM
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Perfect pitch means you can sing A440 hz without a reference pitch to help you. My understanding is that it was much more common in early times, and very rare in modern times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch

Relative pitch is more along the lines of being able to stay in key if you have a reference point to begin with.

I'm guessing it's possible to train if you know your own voice well enough. By a certain age, you're voice has a natural intonation / that if you can determine what that is, and replicate it consistently, then that could serve as your reference point to find perfect pitch. But I haven't done the research to know either way.

Relative pitch I think is achievable, but as with all things, some people are better at some things just starting off ~ some call it natural ability.

Chris

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