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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[Ben Higgins]

I totally believe perfect pitch is attainable. Why not ? Our brain is the best computer in the world and it never fails to astound us with showing us new capabilities that we used to think were impossible.

Anyone who can determine a dog bark to a bird's chirp can differentiate between a lower pitch and a high pitch. Anyone who can do that can develop their ear and they have the potential to develop perfect pitch. It's like anything.. practise. Nobody is born with the ability to speak foreign languages.. they learn it.

Sir Jamsalot is quite right in his descriptions of relative pitch and perfect pitch. However, if you make use of relative pitch then you're already doing really well. That's a platform to get you to perfect pitch.

I would add that perfect pitch in itself isn't necessary, just being somewhere close by about a semitone is pretty damn good and useful enough to figure out a guitar riff without even picking up a guitar. You can do that with relative pitch too

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