perfect pitch

[shredder487395]

how many of you have perfect pitch?

 

[Liquid Shadow]

I have very strong relative pitch (meaning I can hear intervals between notes) and like...halfway perfect pitch. There are certain notes that I recognize when I hear them, but not all 12 chromatic tones. But, while I can't HEAR any note and know what it is, I can SING a note on command. So if you were to say "Give me a Bb" I could give you just that. That doesn't qualify as perfect pitch though (or at least I don't think it does), it's just some other weird thing.

 

[Asgath]

I have very strong relative pitch (meaning I can hear intervals between notes) and like...halfway perfect pitch. There are certain notes that I recognize when I hear them, but not all 12 chromatic tones. But, while I can't HEAR any note and know what it is, I can SING a note on command. So if you were to say "Give me a Bb" I could give you just that. That doesn't qualify as perfect pitch though (or at least I don't think it does), it's just some other weird thing.

You could use that if your trying to tab something out, or just find out a note easily. Just go through all the notes till you find the one you want, If you keep trying this, you'd probs get perfect pitch.

For myself I dont really have very good perfect pitch

 

[Liquid Shadow]

Well actually, the notes that I DO have perfect pitch for have grown in numbers. I think I used to get C, E, and A, but now I can recognize an F, D, and Bb as well. I got 6...I'm halfway there. Plus I can usually figure out a note even if I don't recognize it instantly by using something else as a reference point. Someday, I too will have perfect pitch, and pose in cheesey ads in guitar magazines.

 

[ABQShredHead]

how many of you have perfect pitch?

Not even close!

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Hahaha, I'm nowhere close. My ear training is pretty good - I do fine on melodic and harmonic dictations and everything, and my sight singing is decent. But perfect pitch? No way.

 

[Katalepsy]

I don't think very many people do have perfect pitch, it's usually only on a few notes, but never the entire chromatic scale, at least not to my knowlege. I don't even want to imagine how friggen hard it would be to accomplish something like that.

 

[SyXified]

There are really 2 types of perfect pitch:

#1 I play a C, and you say "that's a C" and
#2 I say "C", and you sing it

I can't do either worth a damn, but if you want to learn it, don't feel like it is somthing that comes naturally to some and then others won't ever be able to do it. That kind of thing, especially recognition, is ALL about practice practice practice. I could never recognize intervals before I took 3 years of theory and delved into it, now I hear trucks backing up and can tell you what the interval is. If you want to get perfect pitch, you can, the question is just is it worth the time and effort for the bragging rights?

 

[aiwass]

Pitch memory and perfect pitch are NOT the same.

People with perfect pitch hear specific notes almost as different "colors", and will tell you that Bb sounds radically different from B. True perfect pitch isn't an acquired skill, it's something you are usually born with.

Truth is, though, I'd much rather have good relative pitch (this I have) and pitch memory (I am worse now than I used to be) than true perfect pitch. In fact, I consider these two skills fare more useful.

 

[Zax666]

I have good relative pitch, but no way I could be cursed with perfect pitch!

 

[shredder487395]

i wounder if michael has perfect pitch

 

[Liquid Shadow]

People with perfect pitch hear specific notes almost as different "colors", and will tell you that Bb sounds radically different from B.

I actually do associate notes with colors, and that's the reason that I recognize the pitches that I do. I also associate certain songs with certain colors, as well as different key signatures and scale modes.

 

[shredder487395]

i was woundering you guys that have strong relative pitch can you pick up anything by ear?

 

[Liquid Shadow]

That's what you use it for, yes.

 

[Rose Immortal]

I actually do associate notes with colors, and that's the reason that I recognize the pitches that I do. I also associate certain songs with certain colors, as well as different key signatures and scale modes.

I think that kind of perception is a form of synesthesia, if these associations occurred to you completely spontaneously.

 

[Liquid Shadow]

Your post makes me think of red.


Oh wait...the background is red.

 

[Zax666]

The background is blue, unless you're on crack.

 

[aiwass]

i was woundering you guys that have strong relative pitch can you pick up anything by ear?

Yes, unless something goes by too quickly for me to make out every note.

 

[Granskog]

Yes, unless something goes by too quickly for me to make out every note.

yes i agree. there is a point where relative pitch doesnt count anymore. because if you cant hear the individual notes (because of sound quality, speed etc), then you dont have anything to "pick up". this is where programs can help you.
another side of the transcribing thing lies within being familiar with sounds and feelings created by the music (ie you cant really here the notes, but you recognice the thirds sequence, and the sound of the Lydian scale).
of course, you can also be familiar with licks (ie yngwies typical diminished sweeps. you dont have to hear every individual note and make out wether its 16th notes or whatever, you just know that he usually plays them a certain way.)

i have a pretty basic relative pitch. i can make most of the intervals smaller than an octave. and also some basic chords (minor, major, dominant, maj7 etc.) i dont have perfect pitch.


you who stated that "pitch memory" is some thing different than perfect pitch, please explain a little further what this is all about.