[LAU] Developing perfect pitch

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 02:38:34 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have quite good relative pitch, but not perfect pitch. By accident I
> stumbled upon some information that gave me the idea "why not give it a
> shot, it might be possible to pick it up". Please let's not go (too
> deep) into either "it can't be learned" or "it makes you unmusical".
>
> However, I don't really know what the steps int the learning process
> would be.
>
> One course seems to start with CDEF and then add more notes when those
> are stuck in your head. However with these notes played at random I'd be
> able to tell any of the other if I'm told what the first note is :-( To
> I guess that wouldn't work...
>
> Another seems to play all 12 notes at random and then you should only
> focus on one at the time, for instance be able to identify whenever C
> comes up.
>
> Are there anyone here that *learned* perfect pitch (don't care 'bout the
> lucky bastards that was born with it). How did you learn it?
>
> Now to the linux part: It would be dead simple to write a script that
> throws notes at you, even with different constraints (which instrument,
> which group of notes). Besides one would need *really* well tuned notes
> of instruments like piano, guitar + more.
>
> Would anyone here be interested in exchanging scripts, samples and
> practice results for such a journey; "collecting a set of files for
> learning perfect pitch with your linux box, and using them to learn
> yourself perfect pitch along the way"?
>

Hi Atte,
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
- play pieces transposed
- play in different tunings than equal tempered

But this brings me to something related that I have been grappling with for
a couple of months --  micro-tuning.

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?

I learnt about fmit (from this list) http://home.gna.org/fmit/ . Not sure
its much use to your intent but just mentioning it
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