Intro to Perfect Pitch Training

[@julianpizano5586]

I don't have perfect pitch, but i instantly recognized the note Ab at 6:21 lol

[@MiraclesSaint-Hilaire]

thank you for passing on the knowledge from the david lucas burge course. I recently bought it but my cd player died before I could get beyond the sixth lesson and I didnt even memorize C and D yet.

[@jetdeleon]

Absolutely! David is a fantastic teacher! I’m glad you mentioned the part about memorizing C and D… this would be a great topic for our next lesson!

[@hoolehoop]

thanks for this vid! hyped for more

[@thepainterlyflutist2069]

There seems to be a certain elitism among people who have perfect pitch, and I'm glad to hear that it is in fact accessible to the rest of us. Do you believe that it is possible, when you've reached the highest levels, to hear the difference between an A-444 and an A-440? I have heard that it is difficult for people with perfect pitch to enjoy playing music with others when the pitch center of a band drifts. For example, a band might tune to a Bb, using an electronic tuner, but by the time the song is finished, the Bb has drifted higher or lower because the band members are relying on relative pitch to get through the song, and they don't always get it exact. On another topic, I'm looking forward to trying the exercises on my instrument, but I feel like it's cheating in a way. I say this because certain notes on the flute have a different timbre. For example a C# on the staff has all of the keys open, and the sound quality is more light and filmy (a light gray-blue, if you wanted to assign it a color), whereas a D, just a half-step away, is played with most fingers down, with the left finger lifted to try to match the timbre with the surrounding notes. If I listen to flute music on the radio, that C# can be very obvious to me because of its timbre (and it tends to run sharp), but if I heard that same pitch on a piano, I doubt that I would know that it's a C#. Also, certain notes tend to run sharp or flat, and if I hear someone play a high-register note that is too sharp, I can guess that it's a high E, while the adjacent Eb tends to run flat. I haven't tried these experiments yet, but I'm curious to know your thoughts about instrument-specific timbre and intonation quirks.

[@jetdeleon]

I always chuckle when I hear stories about perfect pitchers complaining when something sounds out of tune, because you don't have to have perfect pitch to know what that feels like. Anyone who can enjoys music can hear when something is not in tune… complaining is a choice. And I think some perfect pitchers choose to complain because it makes them feel important. As for hearing the difference between 444 & 440…. yes I do believe it is possible for some people to perceive that extremely subtle difference. But it's important to remember that perfect pitchers do not perceive sound like a computer calculating frequencies. Perceiving these sounds doesn't actually involve measuring how high or low a note it is. When we train for perfect pitch, we are training ourselves to become sensitive to the subtle qualities (color, flavor, feeling) of each note. So you could say that perfect pitch is like knowing how a note "feels". Although sharpness and flatness can be intellectually understood by measuring how high or low a frequency is… unlike with relative pitch, the ability to perceive and identify these sounds has nothing to do with the intellect… It's not something that we need to think about… even when we're training for perfect pitch… we avoid thinking about it… because it is a perception, a feeling…. that's why some perfect pitchers are able to identify a note instantaneously... it's not something that they have to calculate in their minds…

[@MarysAwesomeVideos]

I think It's possible to be born with it. But I agree that young kids get perfect pitch from early training, especially when it's classical. However, I have developed it to some degree after playing piano, steel drum, and kalimba. I can sing from memory c,g, a,f,e,d,c and can call it correctly 8-10 times when played, but still working on learning b and getting them right more consistently.

[@flonixcorn]

Very nice, i have relative Pitch and i wanna get it perfect!

[@jetdeleon]

You can do it! Consistency and persistency!