Some thoughts about your questions about perfect pitch. (which could imho better be called non-relative pitch. That way it would not have the connotations the words "absolute" and "perfect" can have.) Am 16.04.2010 um 14:33 schrieb Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen(a)gmail.com>om>: From what I have heard of your invention and playing that is good for you and may be quite an understatement. :-) It's all that really matters. Imagine having perfect pitch but lousy relative capabilities! You would probably not bother us with music as great as the tunes you keep posting on LAU, (will you please do so, I really love them). Don't care, it's nothing magical. It is just remembering a certain quality of sound. Lucky? What about having to listen to music that is out of tune most of the time? OTOH I don't think there is anyone born with it. It is a product of practice. String instruments. Violin, guitar, bass guitar. Especially with vl and gt I started to notice that I could imagine the notes of the empty strings before really touching the instrument. It developed from there. Never really perceived it as an advantage. No, wait: maybe with singing in a choir there can be some. Being able to perfom relative analysis and imagination is far more important. I noticed this quality of my perception one day in the park, playing guitar, hanging around in the sun, moving from one camp fire to the next. A friend asked me why I had tuned his guitar before playing it, he was sure that it had been tuned perfectly. (Ha! That ambiguos word again!!) yeah, I thought, but not to my pitch. I discovered that when I was about to pick up the violin in the morning I could remember how it had sounded the day before without touching it, just by imagining to do so. Fading memory that gets more persistent along with your daily practice. That's how I'd explain it. And it varies a bit, depending on how much I play. I don't play the piano very well. Don't know a good technique for what I think is your main instrument. Do you have a favourite tune or beginning of a tune you could start every day with? The hook for my memory was the empty strings. Maybe it could be the first two or eleven notes of "Sophisticated Lady" for you? (blocked chords, anything that feels natural and beautiful to you and your hands. Ritualise! It's all about remembering. Let the body help your imagination. ) Count me out. That sounds like setting up a gym for your musical mind (booooring!). But maybe consider learning an instrument that must be tuned before you play. Even better: learn an instrument that requires practicing intonation. Even better++: don't overrate perfect pitch. It won't make your music and your playing any better, imnsho. All the best to all of your efforts, no matter how I'd judge them, - Burkhard