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Absolute Pitch-handy or not?


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I recently went through some stuff about perfect pitch and became very interested in it.They mainly say that everyone has it.The only problem is that it`s untrained.I`m wondering whether to invest the time and money in it.Does anybody have or know some who has PP?Could it improve my play?

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I got the David Lucus Burg Perfect Pitch course about 10 years ago and worked with it for a while. I was able to learn to identify notes by ear so the program does work. However I would suggest that you work with a relitive pitch course rather than a perfect pitch course it is a lot more useful. The truth is I have only been able to use the prefect pitch trick as a way to show off, other than that it has not been very useful.

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yeh,i know relative pitch is good for understanding music in motion.but i`m looking for something more into the sound experience.play by ear for example.make up melodies in my head.that`s what the perfect pitch is about no?

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Originally posted by goffi

yeh,i know relative pitch is good for understanding music in motion.but i`m looking for something more into the sound experience.play by ear for example.make up melodies in my head.that`s what the perfect pitch is about no?

 

 

Relative pitch is far more useful for those sorts of things. When you play by ear, you're recogonizing intervals (relative pitch) and also relationships of the notes to the harmony, i.e., this note the 3rd of the chord, or the 5th, or so on (again, relative pitch).

 

I've known a few people with perfect pitch, and aside from it being a neat party trick, it never made them any better of musicians. All the phenomenal musicians I've played with have incredible relative pitch.

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I've only known two people with perfect pitch. It seemed like it was innate, not a skill they developed. If you whistled a random note, they could tell you what it was.

 

One of them described it like being able to see a color. It was that obvious to them you were whistling an F#.

 

But like others said, relative pitch, i.e. the ability to identify intervals is much more important in day-to-day playing.

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