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Position:Home>Performing Arts> Can you be taught perfect pitch?Question: Can you be taught perfect pitch!? i saw an ad in guitar world magazine advertising a program that teaches you perfect pitch, there were some testimonilas but i was under the inpression that you have to be born with perfect pitch and also i was told that relative pitch is more useful because if u have perfect pitch and an instrument is even slightly out of tune, you'll notice it and it will annoy you
any help would be appreciatedWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Ok!.!.!.!. just some clarification on some of the answers you've already received: If you memorize what A(440) sounds like and learn the intervals around it, you are exercising what is called "relative pitch!." This is not perfect pitch!. Relative pitch is being able to recognize and/or produce a pitch by knowing its relation to another pitch (hence the name)!. You do not have perfect pitch by simply being able to match a note you hear in a song!. This simply means you can match pitch, and you are not tone deaf!. Being able to identify whether or not concert F is in tune also doesn't mean you have perfect pitch!. It means you pay attention well in band class!. You probably hear over a hundred times in a week; therefore, it has become "home base" to your brain!. You cannot be taught absolute perfect pitch!. This is something you have to be born with!. You can, however, be taught relative pitch, pitch matching, and even what certain important notes sound like, so well that others might claim you have perfect pitch simply because you can identify the pitches better than the average person!. I, for example, do not have perfect pitch by any means!. But I know exactly what F, B-flat, and C sound like!. I also have a pretty good ability to recognize the interval between two notes!. But I've gotten to this point by playing piano for 30 years, teaching a lot, and accompanying bands, choirs, and soloists a lot!.Www@QuestionHome@Com IMO: No!. People with perfect (or more correctly, absolute) pitch are born with it!. There have "always" been people selling "Perfect pitch training" but, IMO, that's a big bunch of hog wash!. Being trained to name the notes that you hear from memory is not perfect pitch!. Perfect pitch has no particular use in music!. It comes from a different part of the brain relating to colors and doesn't appear to help playing or composing music!. Relative pitch is more relavent to playing music or composing it!. Perfect pitch can actually hinder playing because there is usually some variation in tunings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com you can "learn" perfect pitch simply by memorizing one pitch and learning intervals!. all you need is a recording of a constant pitch, or just use a tuning fork, and put it on before you go to bed at night!. do some basic ear training exercises (sing / play intervals of a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc) and suddenly you know the exact pitch that every single note should be!. i would agree with other posters though, it gets really annoying after awhile, especially when you are listening to an amateur ensemble!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Everybody has perfect pitch who can sing on the key!. Perfect pitch means to sing a note A-440!. I have perfect pitch but developed it by playing with records and CD over and over again to learn the complicated leads!. Eventually, your ear gets to recognize intervals so easily as one poster puts it!. If you can sing a note onn a piano by pressing it and singing it on key, that is considered perfect pitch!. How else can you call it !? Either you see on key or off key!. No two ways about it!. Just for the record, the best guitar players in the world don't care about perfect pitch!. Just sound the top E string and , like me, will be able to tune their guitars perfectly!. Playing is much harder than perfect pitch!. It is irrelevant!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Some people are born with it, some aren't!. I'm in the band, and the only note I can tell is out of tune is concert F!. Where as my band director can tell when Concert Bb is outta tune!. The only reason I know what concert F sounds like is because our director drilled it into our brains!. So I think you can, you just have to practice it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com perfect pitch is really annoying!. If anything is even a little bit out of tune, it sounds like nails on a chalkboard!. You can't learn it, and you don't want it!. You can learn to recgonize if something is out of tune with something else!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You can always hear when something is out of tune when more than one person is playing or singing (you hear a wave-like sound), although it is significantly harder to hear when playing or singing alone!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Not really You can learn near perfect pitch but perfect pitch is something you usually either have or dont haveWww@QuestionHome@Com |