<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Atte André Jensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atte.jensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">atte.jensen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br>
<br>
I have quite good relative pitch, but not perfect pitch. By accident I<br>
stumbled upon some information that gave me the idea "why not give it a<br>
shot, it might be possible to pick it up". Please let's not go (too<br>
deep) into either "it can't be learned" or "it makes you unmusical".<br>
<br>
However, I don't really know what the steps int the learning process<br>
would be.<br>
<br>
One course seems to start with CDEF and then add more notes when those<br>
are stuck in your head. However with these notes played at random I'd be<br>
able to tell any of the other if I'm told what the first note is :-( To<br>
I guess that wouldn't work...<br>
<br>
Another seems to play all 12 notes at random and then you should only<br>
focus on one at the time, for instance be able to identify whenever C<br>
comes up.<br>
<br>
Are there anyone here that *learned* perfect pitch (don't care 'bout the<br>
lucky bastards that was born with it). How did you learn it?<br>
<br>
Now to the linux part: It would be dead simple to write a script that<br>
throws notes at you, even with different constraints (which instrument,<br>
which group of notes). Besides one would need *really* well tuned notes<br>
of instruments like piano, guitar + more.<br>
<br>
Would anyone here be interested in exchanging scripts, samples and<br>
practice results for such a journey; "collecting a set of files for<br>
learning perfect pitch with your linux box, and using them to learn<br>
yourself perfect pitch along the way"?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Hi Atte,<br>Yes I am also curious to what extent absolute pitch can be learnt. I guess its likely more difficult in my case because i grew up on a piano that was kept tuned flat to preserve it in the Indian climate. More recently when I got an electronic piano I often <br>
- play pieces transposed <br>- play in different tunings than equal tempered<br><br>But this brings me to something related that I have been grappling with for a couple of months -- micro-tuning.<br><br>How easy is it to understand (hear and sing) the difference between an equal-tempered major triad, and a just or a Werckmeister-III etc?<br>
<br>I learnt about fmit (from this list) <a href="http://home.gna.org/fmit/">http://home.gna.org/fmit/</a> . Not sure its much use to your intent but just mentioning it<br>