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Perfect Pitch ear training?


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Every time i see the ad for this in guitar player, it seems so obviously bogus to me( i mean come on, those are about the cheesiest(and creepiest!) pictures ive ever seen!). However, I also think about how great it would be if it worked. Unfortunately, not many people just have 100 bucks to spend on something that probably doesnt work, so if there are any people here who have done that, how is it?;)

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I haven't done it, but rather than talk about whether it works or not, ask yourself what you'd gain by having it.
There are plenty of free resources that help you develop much better aural skills, such as http://www.musictheory.net, and there are lots of great ways of training your ear yourself.
I know a couple of people with perfect pitch, and while it helps them to sightread music in choir they're, on average, no better musicians than anyone else I know. The thing that unites all of the great musicians I know is good relative pitch.
In fact, here's a game: tell me what it is you hope to get from having perfect pitch, and we'll see if there might be better ways of getting the same skills.

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Perfect pitch isn't the thing to strive for as far as I've been told, relative pitch is the goal. Perfect pitch can be an obstacle, it can hinder you in your enjoyment of music. With perfectr pitch you'll hear how out of tune everyone else is. And I know people with perfect pitch who can't sing in tune to save their life.

However, the people I've met with really great relative pitch have a deep understanding of the music they hear around them or inside their own minds. Everything that's good about perfect pitch is also true for relative pitch.

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it is impossible to teach yourself perfect pitch. you can be born with it but it is not able to be taught. They are right you should learn relative pitch and how every degree in a scale relates to another and how they sound.

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This does a good job of explaining the importance of learning both relative pitch and perfect pitch:

 

http://www.discount.perfectpitch.com/perfectrelative.htm

 

It's also a very extensive ear training course. Very expensive too.

 

I've only heard the 1st CD on relative pitch, but really enjoy it so far. It's pretty relaxing to listen to, another ear training course I'd tried was too intensive and boring and I gave up. But this guy teaches through lots of repetition until it naturally sinks in.

 

In any case, if you're really serious about ear training, from what I've heard, this is the way to go, but it's something that will take years to develop.

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it is impossible to teach yourself perfect pitch. you can be born with it but it is not able to be taught. They are right you should learn relative pitch and how every degree in a scale relates to another and how they sound.

 

 

Negative. Not perfect, but it is possible to teach yourself very very very close to perfect pitch.

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Ya, I fell for it. Bought it about a couple of years ago. Starts out like your entering the twilight zone. Close your eyes. go into deep thoughts, ect.
Never really got to the end or the 2nd part. I always fell asleep. :bor:

Now I just close my eyes and listen to the notes and cords on my guitar or listen to songs on tapes that I know.

Perfect Pitch takes practice for most of us.:thu:

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I have both the Relative and Perfect Pitch courses (borrowed and copied), and they don't do anything for me, because all the exercises assume you can sing, and I can't sing even a pitch, let alone do things like sing all the pitches in a chord like the first exercise has you do.

 

That being said, I think that if you could sing the courses would work.

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