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Perfect ear trainer reddit3/27/2023 ![]() What we call "green" is a collection of diverse wavelengths as percieved by our eyes. A color is also defined by its wavelenght. Related to you comment to it is funny that you bring the subject of naming colors, as it is somewhat similar. It is the popular opinion that perfect pitch is an innate ability, and that people "without it" can only perfect their relative pitch, but their brain is just not able to store and memorize an absolute frequency. Some abilities are more on the acquired side and some are easy to learn. This is more like "frequency subtraction" in the brain, and does not rely on absolute memorization of a frequency, therefore is much easier to learn.Īs with many other abilities, some people seem to be better than other, either do to intrinsic factors (genetics, health, etc) or external (musical education, etc). Most people have what is called relative pitch, which is the ability of recognizing intervals of two notes. Of course this only works in our audible range. People trained with our tonal system learn to associate a 440 Hz wave to the note "A", 466.16 Hz as "A#" and so on. What is called perfect (or absolute) pitch refers to the ability of recalling an auditory (mechanical) frequency as perceived by our ears. There is a lot of fuzz over this subject, but here is my 2 cents: I guess it could be extended by hearing any note, and mentally comparing it to your 'known note'. ![]() But that's certainly not absolute pitch, or anything near to it. The others are within a semitone, so it's not there yet! Obviously, any other note subsequent to that is easy to name using relative pitch. I've done it for several years now, and get it spot on 8/10 times. You could mentally reference the first note of a particular tune you play, or listen to. Not an official condition, I think! For me, that involved singing a note (middle C, as it happens, considered as the M3 of key A♭), every time I walked past a piano or other instrument, and checking it by playing said instrument. The best you could probably do is to attain 'specific pitch recognition'. That happens pretty well unconsciously while practising. Most people, certainly trained musicians, will have developed relative pitch, which involves playing/singing another note related to one listened to. For both, one needs to have experience in either acoustics (maybe) and/or music. Factual answer - if you don't already have perfect (absolute) pitch, there's a darned good chance you never will.Ībsolute pitch is the ability to hear any sound and recognise its pitch - either in Hz or more commonly in musical letter name.
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