![]() ![]() Oddly, or not, it took him several years to learn to hear music on a relative basis - to hear C-G as similar to D-A. This is accuracy to the discrimination level of trained musicians - I estimate about 0.5% or 1/10 of a semi-tone. As in, he can start singing a song in the exact pitch he learned it - close enough to sound in tune with the recording. #PERFECT PITCH EAR TRAINER MOVIE#Same situation - trained musician, excellent ear (I can make those Karaoke backing tracks) - but zero absolute/perfect reference without a tuning fork or tuned instrument.įunny story: Watching "A Hard Day's Night" with my son, when he was around 8 years old: "Daddy, why are the Beatles out of tune?" (The tracks in the movie were slightly off-pitch compared to the album.) A good ear for relative pitch, and an understanding of harmony go much farther. I could use absolute pitch to identify chords and modes, but it didn't help me 'think' about and play within them the way relative pitch does. Harmony in general is determined by the relationships between tones, not the absolute tones themselves (mostly - there are of course differences in sound playing three octaves up or down), and an ear for absolute pitch doesn't help much there at all. For jazz especially, the modes, chords, progressions, and relationships between tones are really important and are what determines the 'color' of what you're playing. When I was learning to play jazz, it was actually a major crutch for me. ![]() Mandarin) have absolute pitch with higher frequency, possibly because their ears have needed to train to distinguish tones in this critical period.Īs someone with absolute pitch, I should say I have not found it musically useful, and I would hesitate recommending people train for it even if it was possible. I agree, the scientific consensus appears to be that absolute pitch cannot be developed after a certain age, and that this age is related to the 'prime' language acquisition ages. And while I can imagine what that might be like, there's no way for me to train myself to be that. And for someone with perfect pitch and synesthesia, I understand it can be different still - notes and keys are perceived as colors. Whereas for someone with perfect pitch, I understand it can be different. If I hear the same song played in C, and then in Db, the two of them will hit me emotionally the same. If you play me a song, I can hear what the chords are - the color (major, minor, dominant, diminished, etc.) and the degree of the scale. If you play me C, I can tell you what the other notes are based on that, and my internal reference for what C is persists for quite a while. I have very good relative pitch, and a highly trained ear, and that you can teach. No matter how much ear training I do, that will never be the case with me. ![]() I can play a record and move the pitch knob to make it play a bit fast, and it will bother her enough to get up off the couch and change it back. ![]()
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