Perfect Pitch Options

[AdamB]

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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[Todd Simpson]

Perfect pitch is actually a fairly controversial topic as you may have noticed. Some feel it's a myth, others seem to be able to pull it off with no problem though it's quite rare. It has a lot to do with whats call 'Tonal Memory" or essentially memorizing a given tone/note the way you would memorize a picture. If you want to try to work on your tonal memory, try this link.

[url="http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer?chap=7&menu=3"]http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer?chap=7&menu=3/url]

It will play a tone and have you try to guess which one it is. When you can determine the notes without missing any, repeatedly, your in good shape Keep in mind some people work for years and can't quite get it but it's worth working on.

Having a pal play piano or guitar notes and letting you guess is about the same thing.

Todd

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