Can you learn perfect pitch?!?

Question:I don't have perfect pitch, but I am a musician and have alway's been facinated by my perfect pitch friends who can identify notes, chords, tonality, key and tuning all through listening. I would love to be able to posses perfect pitch. Any tip's?

If you have perfect pitch, feel free to tell how you go about identifying in your head. Is it a concious process or do you just have an idea straight away?

Cheers.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't have perfect pitch, but I am a musician and have alway's been facinated by my perfect pitch friends who can identify notes, chords, tonality, key and tuning all through listening. I would love to be able to posses perfect pitch. Any tip's?

If you have perfect pitch, feel free to tell how you go about identifying in your head. Is it a concious process or do you just have an idea straight away?

Cheers.

Hey there,

I used to not have perfect pitch, but after I started playing guitar and bass, it slowly developed on it's own.

What you could do at home, is go to a piano, and play any not e over and over again and test yourself. You could do this with a guitar as well.

Good luck!

actually i didn't quite get your question.what exactly do you mean by perfect pitch? i guess pitch varies depending on different factors...

Yes you can learn! some people have it naturally and some people just practice and practice untill they get it! There is nothing ttha helps me identify I just know a C is a C! There are some Aural training that you can do! Do 10 minutes a day! sometimes practice is all that it takes

You're going to want to read the entire article (see link in source below), but the simple answer is no, probably not. Relative pitch yes, but not absolute or "perfect" pitch.

"Researchers have been trying to teach absolute pitch ability for more than a century,[36] and various commercial absolute-pitch training courses have been offered to the public since the early 1900s.[37] It has been shown possible to learn the naming of tones later in life, although some consider this skill not to be true absolute pitch.[38] Although it has been shown possible to learn to identify pitches, keys, and everyday sounds later in life, no training method for adults has yet been shown to produce abilities comparable to naturally occurring absolute pitch.[39]"

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No, you have to be born with perfect pitch. But you can develop relative pitch which is far more useful ie. the ability to play by ear. You can hear something and then play it back on your chosen instrument.

This takes practise but it can be done.

Those people who say they learnt perfect pitch probably already had it but just did not it know until they started learning an instrument..

Music majors in college are required to take courses in music theory and sight-singing, in which they develop good relative pitch if they don't already have it. It's not unusual to see them walking about with a tuning fork, regularly tapping it and holding it to their ears so that they can hone in on what "A 440" sounds like. After enough weeks of study, most of them can come within a half-tone of that A from memory, and that's about as close as one can come without being born with perfect pitch.

Now, I did hear an anecdote once about a musician who sat his son, age 3, down at the piano, hammered away at "A 440" about a dozen times, and said "that is A; don't ever forget it"--and the kid said that's how he got perfect pitch. We can't be certain he wasn't naturally born with perfect pitch and was simply mis-attributing it to this early episode...

Some people are confusing perfect pitch with relative pitch. Relative pitch is learned. Perfect pitch is something you are born with. It is quite rare, and I believe some of your friends who claim to be perfect pitched may actually just have good relative pitch.