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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[derper]

I eventually taught myself to tune to E, because I would just remember this song (http://www.ourstage.com/tracks/BATDLGSLOCLU-yo-mommas-ready) I wrote/was playing frequently at that time. Though I would never I have "perfect pitch", this skill certainly wasn't with me in earlier years of playing, and it's also time tested....still works to this day. I try it nearly every time I put on strings!! I'm sure, with effort, I could eventually learn other "tricks" for other keys, or I could currently develop off of my ear for "E". So, I would argue that based on my experience, that it could in fact be learned. Again, I am not "perfect", but can tune to "E" VERY closely, every time....so pretty close!

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