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I learned i had perfect pitch at 14. Its something ur born with, but it remains dormant if you aren't taught how to use it. Thats why not every kid who played piano when they were like 5 has it. Its a rare ability, and it's also a skill. People have different levels of pitch recognition, and some people have higher skill ceilings that others.
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I've never sat and tried to learn the notes but does it mean I have perfect pitch if like, out of like 10k songs or more, you could tell me to sing any song and I would ALWAYS do it in the right key? Or if I think of learning a song on guitar and I always go to the right notes in the right key without thinking about it? I can hum all the open strings on a guitar precisely too and I can harmonize my singing like instantly. Like on the first beat I can start in harmony, a new one that I've never done, without really thinking about it? I remember utterly EVERY song note, for note, for note. Every beat and all the nuance. I often think of a song I haven't heard in 20 years and maybe I only heard it once and I'll just grab the guitar and start playing it and singing it like I've known how to for years. Is that perfect pitch or is my brain just really musically oriented?
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Can you elaborate a bit on listening to music that is a bit flat, do you still recognize the correct note knowing its flat? For example a guitar can be tuned flat to itself, and the music that you play on it will sound OK, because relative to all of the strings they are all off by exact amount of cents. And how does this translate to listening to music that is in say 432hz, does the whole song sound flat?
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When I was in college I used to try and attain perfect pitch. Without any reference notes (on piano) I was either able to 'nail it' or narrow it down to 'within a half step' but never 'perfect.' My professor, who had perfect pitch, found this notable.
Since then I have not really applied myself to it but I tend to agree with you and not the naysayers. There are also more recent studies on this that align with your take. There is a young lady on YT (I think her name is 'Cindy Zou') who says that all of the pianists in her country had it and when she came to America she was surprised to learn that some people didn't. She tries to diminish the role of it in a successful musical career and even says she failed some transcription test because of her perfect pitch.
Are you recommending Burge's course?
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Its a bit complicated because its been proven that even fully "perfect pitch posessors" have pitch perception fatigue and even start failing with sufficient trials in a sequence. So obviously its not a fully entirely qualitative difference between a strong ear and perfect pitch. Just speed and endurance
At this point in time tho science does not know if adults can actually develop perfect pitch, or just improve pitch recognition significantly. It say the diffference is pretty pointless and minor tho. It can be trained but id much MUCH rather focus on chord inversions and chord quality recognition, transcription of lines in different instruments etc etc etc. One of the major hurdles in development of this "aural skill" is that genuine childhood perfect pitch could very well be generalizable to more timbres and this skill developed later in life could be restricted to fewer timbres thar the musician is more comfortable witj
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I don't understand those people who think that this is an innate skill - whether you have it or not.
Absolute pitch is completely overrated. It's a skill like reading books or drawing. It just takes practice and some effort. I practiced a little (just a few hours) and can already hear (recognize) the notes.
Itβs just easier for some and harder for others, just like learning to play the piano or sing.
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@rinnikfox
2 days ago
This topic has interested me a lot lately from a cognitive science perspective I think you hit a lot of the same thoughts I had about how other people approach the subject. I've always thought that given the correct incentives, your body and brain are really good at adapting and learning new things, it's just figuring out how to train correctly is the hard part because your first instinct is to always fall back to the skills you already have.
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