Hearing inside each note

When you listen to music, what do you hear when each note, chord, harmony, and melody are played? Does it all sound the same no matter what key a piece of music is played in? Or can you appreciate music when it's played in another key?

The secret is to increase you sense of hearing and to listen more deeply to each note. The only way to do this is to listen carefully to each note and make a personal distinction of what makes it unique. Just as a physical color will have its own flavor and character, each of the 12 tones in western music has its own as well.

How can you come to hear this? There's only one course put there that can teach you Perfect Pitch successfully. It can be found here:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

Equally as good is the companion course  on relative pitch:

Relative Pitch Ear Training

Hope you enjoy them!!

Vasili-

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Is perfect pitch important to develop?

Is perfect pitch really important to develop? This question has been debated by many musicians over the years and you will get various answers.

From my prospective, I have perfect pitch and it is a wonderful skill to have. I can listen to a piece of music and know what key it's in. I can hear a note and instantly know what note it is without referring to my instrument. I can tune by ear. I can sing songs without an instrument and correctly sing in the right key.

The benefits far outweigh any sort of so called disadvantage others claim perfect pitch has.

Question is: can anyone develop it or do you have to be born with it? Simple answer is, yes, you can develop it!!

The best course for developing it is right here:

Perfect Pitch Ear Training

A good companion course for developing relative pitch is right here:

Relative Pitch Ear Training

What is perfect pitch?

So let's get down to the definition of "perfect pitch". What is it? What is it not?

One definition is as follows:

Absolute pitch (AP), widely referred to as perfect pitch, is an auditory phenomenon characterized by the ability of a person to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone.^[1]

AP can be demonstrated via linguistic labeling ("naming" a note), auditory imagery, or sensorimotor responses. For example, an AP possessor can accurately reproduce a heard tone on their musical instrument without "hunting" for the correct pitch.^[2][3]

Generally, absolute pitch implies some or all of the following abilities, achieved without a reference tone:^[4]

• Identify by name individual pitches (e.g. A, B, C♯) played on various instruments.
• Name the key of a given piece of tonal music.
• Reproduce a piece of tonal music in the correct key days after hearing it.
• Identify and name all the tones of a given chord or other tonal mass.
• Accurately sing a named pitch.
• Name the pitches of common everyday sounds such as car horns and alarms.

People may have absolute pitch along with the ability of relative pitch, and relative and absolute pitch work together in actual musical listening and practice, but strategies in using each skill vary.^[5] Those with absolute pitch may train their relative pitch, but there are no reported cases of an adult obtaining absolute pitch ability through musical training; adults who possess relative pitch, but who do not already have absolute pitch, can learn "pseudo-absolute pitch", and become able to identify notes in a way that superficially resembles absolute pitch.^[6] Moreover, training pseudo-absolute pitch requires considerable motivation, time, and effort, and learning is not retained without constant practice and reinforcement.^[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch

The original article above (too long to mention in this blog but you can read it on your own if you'd like) has more details regarding this including scientific and historical information.

So what is perfect pitch not? It's not the ability to hear any piece of music and play it perfectly the first time. This is an entirely different skill set not possessed by most musicians except those with exceptional ability and talent. Also, perfect pitch is not relative pitch. I've written a number of articles and blog posts covering that topic as well. Check out: http://eartrainingawareness.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-is-relative-pitch.html

Is developing perfect pitch that important?

I will be discussing this in a future post. Stay tuned!!

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Perfect Pitch

Perfect Pitch, perhaps you've heard of it and perhaps you haven't. What's so special about having it? What will it do for me?

Welcome to the What Is Perfect Pitch blog!! I'm glad you discovered this site because you will be well on your way to discovering many more musical gems which I will help you to uncover.

But back to the musical question of the century: what is perfect pitch?

I'm glad you asked cause I will not only reveal what it is, more important, I will show you personally how you can develop it and what it will do for you as a musician or even non musician.

So stay tuned and bookmark this site as I will be regularly posting articles to help you understand and develop "Perfect Pitch".

Vasili Kulikov

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