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Absolute Pitch, it worked for me.

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Juggo

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Dec 29, 2006
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Alright guys I don't know if this works for everyone but give it a try. What I did to gain AP was listening to a constant note for example a C on my headphones while sleeping.

Now I can hear it directly. Took me like 3-5 days to get the note stuck in my brain. And it was not a note that went like pam pam pam pam but it was constant like paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, if that makes any sense. Nobody in my family has absolute pitch except me then of course. Just thought I would share this information because the community has helped me.

I can't guarantee anything, maybe I'm a lucky bastard.
 
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Juggo said:
Nah mate, you start with one note and then you go for the next. I remember that I went C and then G first.
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So how many are you up to now?


Incidentally, I don't have perfect pitch, but years and years of only learning songs by ear definitely made it to where I can hear most of them. It really isn't all that much of an advantage musically speaking, other than it makes the already fast pace at which I can pick out a song even faster. A good part of the time I can pick out most of a song without even having a guitar in my hand.
 
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Floyd Eye said:
So how many are you up to now?


Incidentally, I don't have perfect pitch, but years and years of only learning songs by ear definitely made it to where I can hear most of them. It really isn't all that much of an advantage musically speaking, other than it makes the already fast pace at which I can pick out a song even faster. A good part of the time I can pick out most of a song without even having a guitar in my hand.
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I am done with them all bro and I would actually have to agree that it is overrated. Cool party trick though.
 
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Haha, yeah you didn't have perfect pitch last year and you have "developed" so you have it now.

While we are spouting things off on the internet, I have actually gained the ability to fly, nobody else in my family can do it, but now I can!

You cannot gain perfect pitch, you are born with it, you might get relative pitch like floyd (and most talented musicians) develop so you can hear intervals to create chords. Unless you can have somebody walk up to a piano, hit as many notes as they can to make a chord, and you can call out each and every individual note clear as I could call out the colours in a painting I am looking at.

Posts like this create posts like the one yesterday, where a fellow put up yesterday asking if he could develop perfect pitch with those ads you read out of guitar world.
 
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DiabolusInMusic said:
Haha, yeah you didn't have perfect pitch last year and you have "developed" so you have it now.

While we are spouting things off on the internet, I have actually gained the ability to fly, nobody else in my family can do it, but now I can!

You cannot gain perfect pitch, you are born with it, you might get relative pitch like floyd (and most talented musicians) develop so you can hear intervals to create chords. Unless you can have somebody walk up to a piano, hit as many notes as they can to make a chord, and you can call out each and every individual note clear as I could call out the colours in a painting I am looking at.

Posts like this create posts like the one yesterday, where a fellow put up yesterday asking if he could develop perfect pitch with those ads you read out of guitar world.
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Stop talking **** boy, first of you don't know what I have and haven't. Don't come here to flame me. Consider this, that the western note system I.E the 12 notes are man made that is one reason it can't be a "born with it thing". Hence why I think anyone can learn it. I learned it and I believe anyone can. But do whatever you like bro. Ads? I am not talking about any ads, what I did was free of charge and I don't work for anybody. All I am saying is, if anyone wants to give it a try, go ahead and try it out. And it seems to me that absolute pitch is nothing but recalling it in your memory. And it seems that I am not alone in this, check this video out too.

 
#12
Slight point of clarification needed...that's not absolute or perfect pitch. That's what's known as "relative pitch," because while you can figure out C without needing a reference, you still need to refer back to your C in order to figure out keys, whereas someone with perfect pitch can hear any note and instantly tell you what it is without that translation. Don't get me wrong...it is an absolutely wonderful skill to develop, you're going about it the right way (one note at a time), and it will totally serve you well. Just wanted to clarify the difference.

I have perfect pitch (well I used to...it's deteriorated a little with age so it's not as perfect as it used to be but still excellent), it's great if you need to figure out the key of a song and don't have an instrument in your hands, and it does enable you to figure how to play stuff a little quicker. A little more useful than a good parlor trick, but I'll agree that someone with decent relative pitch could accomplish the same thing, albeit a few seconds slower. Big deal.

But it's really nothing someone with good relative pitch couldn't accomplish, so I think it's fantastic that you figured out a way to develop your relative pitch. If you can lock onto a C dead-on every time, then it's just a matter of training yourself to recognize the different intervals as related to C. Takes a few seconds longer to translate than having perfect pitch, but will put you worlds ahead of most if you develop it and stay up with it.
 
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JimmyM said:
Slight point of clarification needed...that's not absolute or perfect pitch. That's what's known as "relative pitch," because while you can figure out C without needing a reference, you still need to refer back to your C in order to figure out keys, whereas someone with perfect pitch can hear any note and instantly tell you what it is without that translation. Don't get me wrong...it is an absolutely wonderful skill to develop, you're going about it the right way (one note at a time), and it will totally serve you well. Just wanted to clarify the difference.

I have perfect pitch (well I used to...it's deteriorated a little with age so it's not as perfect as it used to be but still excellent), it's great if you need to figure out the key of a song and don't have an instrument in your hands, and it does enable you to figure how to play stuff a little quicker. A little more useful than a good parlor trick, but I'll agree that someone with decent relative pitch could accomplish the same thing, albeit a few seconds slower. Big deal.

But it's really nothing someone with good relative pitch couldn't accomplish, so I think it's fantastic that you figured out a way to develop your relative pitch. If you can lock onto a C dead-on every time, then it's just a matter of training yourself to recognize the different intervals as related to C. Takes a few seconds longer to translate than having perfect pitch, but will put you worlds ahead of most if you develop it and stay up with it.
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I don't think you understand, I don't need the C as a reference. A person could play a B on the piano and I would figure out it's a B without having to sing the C first to figure out he played a B. Not even need to think how the C sounds in my head. Hence why it is not relative pitch.
 
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Juggo said:
Stop talking **** boy, first of you don't know what I have and haven't. Don't come here to flame me. Consider this, that the western note system I.E the 12 notes are man made that is one reason it can't be a "born with it thing". Hence why I think anyone can learn it. I learned it and I believe anyone can.
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No, actually some people are born with it. I was. Naturally, until you actually sit down and learn the 12-tone system (or whatever musical system you use), you don't have any sort of reference point to apply your perfect pitch to, but make no mistake, some people are absolutely born with it. I've seen people with no musical training be able to sing a song in the original key without hearing it immediately before. That is being born with it.
 
#15
Maybe you should do a little research on perfect pitch before you start spouting off to others you have developed it.

People have spent piles of money attempting to develop perfect pitch, and it cannot be done, it is scientific fact.

I am not trying to "flame" you, but you shouldn't post lies on the internet. It is misleading to the ignorant folk. Plenty of folks share your mentality that is merely remembering and recalling a note, but it does not work like that.

Consider it this way, you were born musically blind, like colour blind, do we have the technology or techniques to restore colour to a person's vision? Nope. Why would be able to do it with our auditory abilities.

BTW Jimmy, mad jealous of your perfect pitch, I used to date a girl with perfect pitch, I didn't believe it until I witnessed it, amazing.
 
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JimmyM said:
No, actually some people are born with it. I was. Naturally, until you actually sit down and learn the 12-tone system (or whatever musical system you use), you don't have any sort of reference point to apply your perfect pitch to, but make no mistake, some people are absolutely born with it.
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You had to learn it one way or another, when you were born as a little baby you didn't know how the pitches sounded. You learned how they sound, you memorized it. It seems that with age the brain seems to memorize these pitches much harder and I would guess it's because some kind of confusion in it because of all the other sounds you have memorized. I believe that if we take a deaf person who has not heard any sound and somehow cure his deafness he would not have any trouble at all to register the pitches in his brain.
 
#17
Juggo said:
I don't think you understand, I don't need the C as a reference. A person could play a B on the piano and I would figure out it's a B without having to sing the C first to figure out he played a B. Not even need to think how the C sounds in my head. Hence why it is not relative pitch.
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Well maybe you were born with it and didn't realize it till now ;) But from your explanation, it sounded like you trained your ear to recognize a C and were using that as a springboard to find other pitches.
 
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DiabolusInMusic said:
Maybe you should do a little research on perfect pitch before you start spouting off to others you have developed it.

People have spent piles of money attempting to develop perfect pitch, and it cannot be done, it is scientific fact.

I am not trying to "flame" you, but you shouldn't post lies on the internet. It is misleading to the ignorant folk. Plenty of folks share your mentality that is merely remembering and recalling a note, but it does not work like that.

Consider it this way, you were born musically blind, like colour blind, do we have the technology or techniques to restore colour to a person's vision? Nope. Why would be able to do it with our auditory abilities.

BTW Jimmy, mad jealous of your perfect pitch, I used to date a girl with perfect pitch, I didn't believe it until I witnessed it, amazing.
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I have done my research and plenty of scientists agree that it can be learned especially the chinese ones for some reason. If you compare colour blindess to MEMORY which absolute pitch clearly is you are pretty much wrong. I think you are the one who should make a little bit of research. Colour blindess (daltonism) is because of a physical damage in the eye, when you grew up without memorizing the pitches your ear did not take any damage. I am done with you, you clearly don't know what absolute pitch is if you compare it to colour blindness.
 
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Juggo said:
You had to learn it one way or another, when you were born as a little baby you didn't know how the pitches sounded. You learned how they sound, you memorized it.
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That is incorrect. When you posses perfect pitch, you are born with it. You might not know the names, but a baby would recognize a G as clear as they would see the colour blue.

Do you think they don't know blue unless they are taught it? No, they just do not know the name of it. They can identify it clear as day.

Go listen to Van Halen's first record, if it sounds all in tune to you, like it does to me and 9/10 of people, you do not have perfect pitch.

Lots of tracks on it are record with A440 somewhere between A and A flat, they tuned to each other, I am pretty sure it was merely to annoy people with perfect pitch.
 

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