@nathanmantle I'm sorry to inform you that fur elise is on an E.... He plays the entire song so that you recognize it, but the thing you have to focus on is the minor second between D# and E
I've been using this method for a year and a half, I can still only name notes in isolation and by using the melody triggers. If there are any good methods for learning to unlock chords, go ahead and respond, I'm here:
@NathanMantle he's playing it and then saying the note, u got it backwards and that's why u think he made mistakes. at 1:08 he first plays a D and then says D and b4 that he first plays an E and then says E. got it?
@amistrymister because its not.perfect pitch cant be taught anyways.if you hear the recording a few times of course you ll think you are able to recognize pitches.Step away for a while...pitches are gone.Perfect pitch is like growing tall.If it happens at a young age fine....later stretch all you want you wont get any taller.
Why are you so negative if I may ask? Even people with perfect pitch lose it as they age unless they actually use it. It's like with every skill, if you don't use/don't do it several years then obviously you get worse at this. It's ridiculous to believe that you are born with perfect pitch. Lets say we would have a system with 8 notes, 9, 13 notes or even 17 notes within an octave, would people be born with perfect pitch then too?
People that claim to be born with perfect pitch probably weren't born with it but picked it up in a young age, children can learn alot of things way faster than adults. Some might pick up perfect pitch by chance.
Anyways, what sense does it make to assume that there is a perfect pitch gene or whatever you might call it? There is no conection between nature and the chromatic scale (which is a human invention). We are born to recognize harmonies, not pitches.
@Dreamdancer11: This is not true. Quite a few musicians have developed it. I have a Timpanist friend who developed it as a result of spending a lot of his time needing to fine tune timpani's. He is 100% sure that it is something he developed. He can sing any note on demand and recognise random tones without any reference. Random noises too if needs be.
So, you, my misguided friend, are 100% wrong. Now get a life and stop pretending you are an expert. You aren't, merely ignorant.
@emanonami Same old story when it comes to bullshit...i have a friend of a friend who has this friend...etc etc.Bottom line is this can you teach someone relative pitch? Sure you can cause that is music, the distance between notes.But PP cant be taught and worse still,asking money for it...Dont tell me the...friend of a friend bullshit.Try teach it to someone that doesnt already have it and then come and tell me the results.
@Dreamdancer11 I don't have a friend of a friend. This is FIRST HAND. I studied with him.. In fact, I just had wine and indian food with him.
He did not enter the conservatory where I studied with perfect pitch, but being his friend I saw him develop. And he is the most professionally sort after timpanists in Australia for his age, as well as being selected for YouTube Symph etc.This guy isn't imaginary. So stop calling me a liar, because I HAVE PROOF of my claim, YOU do NOT.
@emanonami Mate i dont know him or you but i have a simple question for you.Can you(or your friend) teach someone perfect pitch?If you can you ll be a very rich man cause no one can...look at this thing here...he uses triggers which means reference..which means..relative pitch...nothing absolute about it...but if you can by all means..get rich....
I don't see your logic. You say that none can teach absolute pitch, yet many researchers agree that it can be taught at a young age. That's one of your errors. My old piano teacher taught himself absolute pitch and he was maybe like 18 or 19 when he did it (I don't know exactly, I know he has it). Anyways, the point is that absolute pitch is a memory thing and how does memory work best? By association ofc and this is association.
This is not only just association, it is the right kind of association, music associated with music. While it might seem relative, that's the point. After a time you don't explicitly need the associations and you just know that a C is a C and not necesarily hear Mozart's Sonata when a C is played. Absolute pitch is not something you can be born with. It's not like seeing or hearing or anything which is ofc something all of us are born it.
@Rickeeey1 Νο idont...i have relative pitch and not that perfect either.But you havent answer my question.If you or your friend can teach it...go right ahead...you ll solve your money problem for life.....you know how many people wanna learn it?You ll hit the jackpot....When you try yourself then you ll know the answer.....the rest are just fairytales... try it learn it....teach others to hear it too..and then we can talk.
You're on a Youtube video that does teach absolute pitch and yet you complain that none can teach it. There is no magic way to learn something (like in the Matrix), you need to work on it...
@Rickeeey1 Just cause there is a youtube video about it doesnt mean you can learn it.....by all means...still you havent answer me.Teach it to someone..anyone and if...1 out of 100 learns it...then cool... you can use study...magic...hypnosis...take your pick....if you can do it even for one person then..great...you ll be the first.But i seriously doubt it.
Lol, "be the first". Firstly I don't have absolute pitch yet, learning it. Secondly, even if I would have absolute pitch, I'm not a good teacher. I would instead refer to the method that I've learnt it by and tell them to use it. Thirdly, if you want someone who have taught absolute pitch (maybe indirectly, but still) why don't you talk with the guy that came up with this method?
you cannot learn to have perfect pitch .... i can name some notes too sometimes by associating with another piece witch i know what key its in and the instrument is important too that emits the sound.... for with absolute pitch dose'nt matter what instrument or piece or key it is ... and he can name it instantly without any effort .... don't try to learn it .... it doesent help anyway ... just train your ears to the max and you should be sattisfied
@jsyangyu You're most likely using relative pitch then :-) So you're judging the notes based on the interval from the previous note. Try randomly clicking to a pitch and I'm sure you'll find it harder. Otherwise, congrats! You've mastered perfect pitch lol.
This is a great way to memorize the pitch colors! a few years ago, i couldn't tell you any pitch i hear. now they are all clear and if you test me, i would be able to tell you correctly. this method of learning perfect pitch comes from the method of relating intervals to simple melodies in order to memorize their sounds.(obviously) after time, you can just recall the intervals (in this case- the pitches) by themselves, without having to relate them to their melody. you will just know it!
It should be noted that this is nothing to do with absolute pitch - absolute pitch is the ability to PRODUCE notes (sing, hum, whatever) with no reference to an instrument.
Absolute pitch can be practiced, but I've never come across anyone that's actually learned it, only people that just do it.
@JonBannerLive While you are not born with perfect pitch, people who have perfect pitch have a genetic predisposition to develop the ability, they just have to do it. If one does not have that predisposition then they most likely cannot develop perfect pitch.
@gumbionics Perfect pitch is never "developed" but "discovered". Relative pitch may be developed or learned, but perfect pitch cannot. PP is KNOWING all aspects of all notes in all the possible shades, among clusters and on different instruments, not remembering them. Memory is an over-simplified way of explaining the phenomenon. The ability to memorise music is very different. I find it extremely hard to memorise pieces yet have absolute/perfect pitch.
i dont think it will give you PP.PP is something your born with,but you can get a very good ear from this not PP.a good teacher will tell you that. I would say PP is someone that had no training and never picked up an instrument heard a song first time and could play it no prob.. this is memorizing sounds..kinda like tuning a guitar with out a tuner..PP people wouldnt have to memorize theyd just tell ya.Im diff tho I got relative pitch.i can play any of these song by listn to it. loks cool tho
@Musicmaker703. There is no evidence that PP is genetic. If you can memorize a tone then logically you can obtain perfect pitch. To be able to pick up a guitar and tune it without a tuner is a skill that can be learned over time. If you can remember a color without a reference why would it be any different with your ears? That doesn't make sense. You just have to learn to hear delicately. If you believe that you can't learn perfect pitch then you won't.
@JonBannerLive.. u could be right..im just going by what music teachers told me over the years... idk if i have pp but, my piano and guitar teacher didnt know what i had also.. i couldnt read sheet music, so he would play it for me... with in an hour i could play the song by ear.. im trying to find out if its pp or relative pitch..
the thing is( i havent seen the vid yet..so.. bare with me)
People have said to me that people with perfect pitch can listen to a song and sing it back in the correct pitch. I can do that with ease but i cant always tell someone a note when im asked.??
This is Brilliant, it is exactly how a person learns a language and one needs to hear well to speak well.
So whats the difference? Nothing, English is a Language and So is Music, only Difference Music is Universal. The Fact Perfect Pitch Exists means it can be learned just Like Love Exists and did before we did so we can Know it!
is there a program that just lets you identify individual notes, i have ear trainer but that starts you at intervals, how the hell can i hear an interval if i cant even hear one note.
No problem, as soon as i here the first tone of each scale i know what it is. I can hear each and every tone. Am i special??? It take me not even a second to here what tone it is... Something i had since i was very little
people will $buy any con job goin wont they. PP is something you are "born with" period. Hey...send me your money Ill help you acquire a "degree" of PP ah hahahahahahahahha
@halomaster1218 of course its true...just send me your money....Il help you get a "degree" of PP. I can run the con just as good as the next guy. Hey, Ive had the Burge course since the 80s , still dont have PP though, and everyone Ive met thats tried the Burge course has the same degree of PP as everyone else thats not "born " with it. So, repeat after me...F#'s are twangy and Eb's are mellow. There, first lesson is free. Ah hahahahahahaha
@tramoliter I wasn't born with perfect pitch and I "aquired" it (as an adult) using the very same method that is in this video. I KNOW you are wrong because i'm a living proof, and I write this because comments like your's are what held me back in the past.
@ItayoMan what youve acquired is very good relative pitch. Wanna proove it? Take a guitar with totally slack strings and tune it to concert pitch without a refrence. Plug it into a guitar tuner. If youre dead on...Im wrong..if youre not...keep believin the con. Our music teacher in Highschool could do that. We'd take our guitars to him and he would tune them all without a refrence. He had PP. There are no "degrees" of it. ya gots it or ya dont.
I have found that acosutic pianos teaches you perfect pitch easier than electronic keyboards - they must have a richer overtones and thus clearer colors
accoustic pianos are well tempered. some electronic keys arent. the ones that are have an artificially created overtone series on top of the fundamental and sometimes not even at all.
My god. This is working for me. I tryed it 24 hours later and jumped right away to the second part of the video and i could identify everything without any reference. Good lord !!!!! I am speechless !
i never thought i would be able to do this but i did it first time, which is really encouraging. Its limited at the moment but in time i hope it will become instinctive. i will purchase your book, do you have any idea when the other volumes will be available
the tones are like colours, You know what red looks like and you know what blue looks like. Can you guess how many A's you have heard in your life? all the small noises from cars driving by and a buzz from a TV ? The important part of ear training is that you know what the tone your ear hears. like a person teaches you how C sounds like when its really a B, later on someone plays a real C, you would say its a B, the person tells you its a C and you just change the name of the note to C from B.
for example i teach you how blue looks like, when i really teach you how red looks like, the name of the color i taught you is really red when i said to you i am teaching you the color blue.
I get that, but what did you mean by what "tone my ear hears"...Does my ear have a specific tone it is "tuned" to? Also - If you have perfect pitch, maybe you could help me. I can find a note almost instantly on a guitar/piano (i've been playing piano for 3 weeks), and even with my voice, but i don't know the NAME of the notes i'm hearing, so i cant write the music i hear in my head...If that doesn't make sense, let me know. Thanks.
I don't believe that your ear is tuned to a specific tone, but your ear can probably remember a tone really well than another tone, like i started with remembering G, then C and then F#.. i don't know why but i suspect it had something to do with the music i heard from Bach, (Bach's Little fugue in G minor) G was the first tone my ear "learned" to hear with pitch memorization, and i worked my way up from that. Just play a lot piano and eventually you will know what tones you are hearing.
it usually seems people can identify one exact note in their head, it's just a matter of exercising it and then finding the other notes relative to it
Exactly the point.... a piano is an "out of tune" instrument, i.e. tempered. So if you memorize pitches using it, you'r ear will be slightly messed up and you won't easily recognize the subtle differences in pitch which are of the utmost importance for playing a non tempered instrument or for singing.
Its too subtle of a difference, and if you have a well set up piano I imagine the tones would be in pitch. So, unless you have a really shitty piano; theres no worry =P
every WESTERN instrument is of "well tempered" tuning. its the only way to play in all twelve keys without encountering a "wolf interval". there IS a difference in pitch between C and B# in "equal tempered" tuning. also, when people with perfect pitch say they "see colors when they hear keys" that occurs in "well tempered" tuning because all of the intervals are slightly different. a P5th in A and is not the same distance as a P5th in E. thats what gives keys their "color"
OMFG...this is fucking amazing!it's gorgeous! in a couple hours of practice i'm recognizing everything...in songs in guitar...This was so simple, it makes so much sense! THANK YOU, i'll get the rest of it as soon as i create a paypal account. thanks bro.
Yes, you are right. Absolute pitch is something you are born with. It's something EVERYONE is born with. All babies have absolute pitch.
Without exposure to music at a young age, babies will discard their absolute pitch abilities (since it's pretty useless). However, it does seem that people can "relearn" absolute pitch.
wow, do you even know what relative pitch is? it's not kind of know where a note is it is how notes relate to each other and absolute pitch can be aquired if you use the method thats works for you. were you born knowing what every colors name was? no, you had to learn. This goes for perfect pitch as well. listen for each notes color tone like f# has kinda of a twang where as Eb has a mellow feel to it. learn the sounds within the notes to aquire P.P. just like when you see red you know it's red.
I found that I can find E on my guitar by playing the Braveheart theme until its in the right key. And I can tell when it's E so I guess that means I'm getting better.
NO ONE is born with perfect pitch. If you're flat out tone deaf, then it's like being color blind. You plain can't see color. But if you can speak and Not sound completely monotone, then you are not tone deaf. So my point is, no one is born with the ability to recognize pitch. How many infants do you know are born reciting the alphabet much less tell you what the name of a pitch is? So perfect pitch is a learned skill. Whether learned very young, or older. No one is Born with it.
Some people believe that you are born with perfect pitch. But even I know of many people are able to recognise a tone without reference, and they claim to have trained themselfs to do that. But the truth of the matter is, unless we have perfect pitch ourselfs it's irrelevent to say someone can or can't aquire it. We just don't know enough about the brain, and how it relates to sound, to make unbased assumptions. Dispite all that, there's no harm in practicing, and it improves musical awareness.
If you have perfect pitch someone can play a very involved chord on a piano; say - a B7 #9/b 9 with an added 13th; and without having ANY musical training whatsoever- without looking at the piano, you would be able to pick out all the notes that make up that chord and know that it's a dominant chord. Assuming you know what Major, minor and dominant means in musical terms. You wold also know how the particular chord is voiced.
Pciking out a tone can be learned relatively easily.
"But the truth of the matter is, unless we have perfect pitch ourselfs it's irrelevent to say someone can or can't aquire it."
More over, even those who aquired it at a young age would be unawre as to how they learn it. Chances are their brain learnt it, after a period of time.
You CAN train your hearing to get to the level of the example I wrote below; but the very fact you had to train to get to that level proves you don't have perfect pitch and to maintain that level you WILL have to keep training your hearing.
That's relative pitch. A well trained ear.
If you have perfect pitch it's simply not an issue.
All that proves is you worked hard at hearing the relationship between notes. If you train to be an olympic runner you're body is strong, that doesn't mean you're also a martial artist, just because you use your body.
This doesn't mean you have to have perfect pitch to be a great or even brilliant musician. There are people who have perfect pitch who don't have natural musical abilities. It just means you might wanna be skeptical if someone is selling software training (or any kind of training) promising you that you will have perfect pitch. It doesn't work like that.
I agree having perfect pitch does not make you a musician. I also think being a virtuoso instrument player doesn't make you a musician. In my opinion, a musician is somebody who has an ability to express ideas through the medium of music.
I believe that having the ability of perfect ptich, as a tool, is very benificial, rather then having the skill in isolation. I also think it's unwise to believe in promises made by people trying to make sales.
I believe that people have an opportunity to develope perfect pitch. I also think that perfect pitch is a neurological/biological thing, but not genetical.
I am tired of arguing about it now, and we just seem to be going in circles, so lets agree to disagree.
NOT TRUE! Myself I developed it trough hard work when I was older than 20. It works for some notes better than some others because some of them have similar characteristics. I know some others, mostly violin players who never had it before but developed it later. It is NOT genetic! Noone is born with it! If Mozart was alive now he couldn't recognize any of the pitches accurately, thats because the tuning at his time was NOT 440 hz. So it is very relative thing.
yes, this is relative ear, or tonal memory, but...dont cry guys, what hapen if you play on 454, or 428?.......they can fall from earth!!!!! relative is a powerful tool, just memorize 12 tunes and that is enough!!!!!anyway, with perfect pitch you can do A+ on ear trining classes.....THAT'S GREAT!!!!!!!!!
its not tonal, or relative. Don't get me wrong i know what they are. You can use relative and tonal but thats not the point as you've guessed. You should try and clear your memory before the next note. Try some messed up chords on the piano to clear.
how many of you have listened to the same cds and music infinite amounts of times. Does the song pop into your head when you hear the note? Associating songs only helps for intervals because songs are perceived in relative terms.
jimmyr thanks for the great relative pitch ear training program you made. It has helped me tremendously. However, have you ACTUALLY tried this method? I can genuinely say that this worked for me. I started recognizing c, d, e, and f after a week.I continued to practice for about 15 minutes a day for a year.Now I can hear not only any note on my piano, but also intervals, even 3 note intervals and i can name chords. I can name notes on other instruments too but not as well due to sound timbre
went even further grabbing the songs I heard since childhood that can remember as symbols rather than melodies long before this video existed. I learned to recognize some pitches and it progressed but it was not practical. you may gain it to some degree but when asked to produce the pitch I was never able to. also reproducing a melody using pitch does not work unless you were born with perfect pitch. Most people think in scale/intervals/distances. its not the same.
Progress is very slow, it took me a year to get to this point. I will wait for a few years and let you know my results. Hopefully they will be more inspiring.
try prolobe. search trainear comparison of ear trainers and there's a few perfect pitch trains at the bottom. My relative pitch program probably has the best perfect pitch trainer as a feature if you scroll down the first drop down to perfect pitch. Reproducing a pitch just by letter name seems a whole different challenge. I've got it around 3 semitones in correctness using my vocal range as an aid. You should master relative pitch first if you hadn't already.
I think it would be easier to hear the notes using something atonal - with atonal I hear every note without a pitch reference and it has nothing to do with drills or memory - it just is and I,m glad I have it without effort. many people probably have this ability without even knowing it - and they won't find out with memory drills in tonal keys. in so called "atonal" music - you actually hear the note, and it is inevitable, irrevocable and indisputable. you hear, you don't "listen"
Good question... Hopefully I'll have some or all of my planned extension volumes out the end of the summer. Life is quite busy these days, though, and I'm a party of one unfortunately. If you have any advanced questions, however, I'm happy to help out. Just email me!
im veri sorry sir... but i don´t think that perfect pitch can be trained, i spent too many time trying to teach myself that, but failed, i can sometimes name the right note, but sometimes get wrong, im no match for someone with real perfect pitch
Only a systematic application of melody triggers to music will yield the desired result of perfect pitch --- in other words, you've got to expand the scope of your training. No amount of walking is ever going to make you into an Olympic sprinter.
this method really works, for the past three days, ive been using "violin romance" by beethoven which starts with an F, after one day i could recite the note of F at about 98%. however this did not help me recognize the note when i heard it.
Great! What you have described is evidence of active absolute pitch development (singing); being able to hear it is know as "passive absolute pitch". This can be developed as well, but you need to listen the pitch and the melody repeatedly before the tone begins to "trigger" the tune. You may want to consider purchasing Pitch Paths to facilitate this initial development.
I was already using Invention #8. You have to maintain it though. I once sang an E instead of an F, but that's as far off as I've ever been. Thanks. I sent you a message too about being a musician.
Pitch noun: (in music, speech, etc.) the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations (i.e. the frequency) by which it is produced
What do you mean? What can't you wrap your head around? In the western world, we usually use a 12 tone equal temperament (12-TET). The standard pitch in the US is A = 440 Hz, the A above middle C on the piano. All the other notes are tuned off this pitch. The A one octave below vibrates at exactly half the frequency (220 Hz), and the A below that is 110 Hz, etc. The A above is twice the frequency. The ratio of frequencies between adjacent notes is equivalent to the 12th root of 2 or 2^(1/12).
I can only recognize the melodies I can play, D for Bach & E for Elise. I don't even know the rest of the melodies and I can't identify them. I wish they put the name of the melodies under more..
i desperately need a lot of help! I really want to have perfect pitch but i don't know where to begin! I have no idea what's going on in this video... you're naming the key right? but how can you tell? are you naming the last note??? could you please help me?
Sorry for the confusion! Perhaps this summer I'll make a new video...
After the melody, I name the first note (not the key). In the second half of the video, you hear the tone then it's name. To develop absolute pitch, 3 elements must be associated:
TONE (pitch) - TRIGGER TUNE (melody) - TAG (letter name)
In this trial video, you only hear the latter two; in my method, you get all 3 in the order above.
I bought this and I think it has helped me decently, at least much more than any other program I have bought. I passed every single test 100 percent the first time I tried them, during the first week. Naming tones within that particular octave on a piano is very easy to learn. I just listened to the tags over and over again on my iPod for two days and I'm automatic now. This seems like a good thing, but its not, because I still don't have AP and there's nothing else in your method.
It's harder in other octaves, which I don't really understand, but for some reason the Triggers don't really go off all the time unless they are within that middle octave of the piano. And when I listen to music, I am just completely lost. I have no idea what to be thinking of or listening for, and I saw nothing in the book that said how to apply this talent (guessing notes on a piano) when we listen to music. I only have AP in the most useless form: a party trick.
There is not a *magic pill* in absolute pitch development, just like anything in life. Does a beginning piano student play Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto after a week? Of course not.
Do not give up hope so soon! You have developed initial absolute pitch and this is great! But it is also only the beginning. Absolute pitch is what you make of it. If you take it no further, then perhaps it is nothing more than a useless party trick (and a bad one at that if you can't name any key on the piano).
But indeed you can take it further, much further. My method is only the first installment of several planned volumes. Pitch Paths volume 1 does what it claims: you will develop initial absolute pitch for the center octave of the piano.
Once initial pitch chroma is established, it gets stronger with time and music application. Apply the same trigger tune technique used for the center octave to all octaves. After this, begin applying it to other instruments. You should also switch to fixed-do.
After you are able to name pitches instantly across the piano, sing any pitch in your vocal range, and name pitches on 2-3 additional instruments, you may begin to tackle the difficult task of naming pitches within scales, intervals and chords.
The reason you are not able to do this now is because you have only learned the pitches in one harmonic scenario - the given melody. You should not expect to go from this to being able to hear and name pitches in any harmonic context. This takes time!
This is really the process of going from melody-dependent absolute pitch to independent or complete absolute pitch - which I actually call ABSOLUTE TONALITY - the symbiosis of absolute and relative pitch to where you can hear and identify both tonality (major/minor, etc.) and *keyality* (F Major, d minor, etc.).
I'm glad to hear that you'll be coming out with more installments. I thought the training was all over and that I'd have to do the rest all alone, and I really didn't have any idea where to start. Thanks for all the help.
Good job. However, I do find that you have simply ripped off Levitin's idea. So, it is not true that you were the first to get the idea that one can associate tones with respective melodies. As Levitin has shown, even non-musical people can name tones correctly by melodic association.
Please do not slander or impugn my motives. I give credit where credit is due. Spend a little time researching absolute pitch and you'll discover it was it S. Grebelnik, a Russian musicologist, who first came up with the idea (at least in the scientific literature) back in 1982. Secondly, I make no claim to be the sole author of this idea on the very first page of my website. Thirdly, you cannot copyright ideas.
Finally, just FYI, I discovered this technique completely on my own and only afterwards, while researching and writing my method, discovered the work of Grebelnik, Levitin, and others. Please think before you write in the future.
No, it's not in the wrong key. I name the first note of the melody, which is "E", to associated the tag (letter name), the trigger tune, and the tone. This is a technique for developing absolute pitch. The key is in A minor, but that is irrelevant to our task at hand.
Thanks for this. Very helpful.
hier0phant 1 month ago
wow I learned a basic
fishmania0 2 months ago
It works!!! Really! After four days I can recall all natural notes, it's amazing!!!!!!!
Alessandro Fausto (Italy)
kobayashimaruaikiken 2 months ago
uhm interesting but i hate the d melody, how the main tonality is not actually D but g, it confuses me like fuck
Doika86 2 months ago
@nathanmantle I'm sorry to inform you that fur elise is on an E.... He plays the entire song so that you recognize it, but the thing you have to focus on is the minor second between D# and E
FragRaptor 3 months ago
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NathanMantle 3 months ago
I've been using this method for a year and a half, I can still only name notes in isolation and by using the melody triggers. If there are any good methods for learning to unlock chords, go ahead and respond, I'm here:
splendeat 3 months ago
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NathanMantle 3 months ago
@NathanMantle oops, I meant M6 interval between A and F#, sorry.
NathanMantle 3 months ago
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NathanMantle 4 months ago
@NathanMantle he actually says D at 1:11, he says E the note b4 that.
rochabeatlesfan 3 months ago
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NathanMantle 3 months ago
@NathanMantle I don't have perfect pitch yet but I'm training my ear and that is clearly a D. And as i said b4, the note b4 that is E.
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NathanMantle 3 months ago
@NathanMantle he's playing it and then saying the note, u got it backwards and that's why u think he made mistakes. at 1:08 he first plays a D and then says D and b4 that he first plays an E and then says E. got it?
rochabeatlesfan 3 months ago
Im buying this book right away, I dont care if it ends up being a scam. The results I made from watching this video is miraculous.
Lexilenia1 6 months ago
isnt this relative pitch or something i dont get how this is teaching perfect pitch
amistrymister 7 months ago
@amistrymister because its not.perfect pitch cant be taught anyways.if you hear the recording a few times of course you ll think you are able to recognize pitches.Step away for a while...pitches are gone.Perfect pitch is like growing tall.If it happens at a young age fine....later stretch all you want you wont get any taller.
Dreamdancer11 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11
Why are you so negative if I may ask? Even people with perfect pitch lose it as they age unless they actually use it. It's like with every skill, if you don't use/don't do it several years then obviously you get worse at this. It's ridiculous to believe that you are born with perfect pitch. Lets say we would have a system with 8 notes, 9, 13 notes or even 17 notes within an octave, would people be born with perfect pitch then too?
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago 2
@Dreamdancer11
People that claim to be born with perfect pitch probably weren't born with it but picked it up in a young age, children can learn alot of things way faster than adults. Some might pick up perfect pitch by chance.
Anyways, what sense does it make to assume that there is a perfect pitch gene or whatever you might call it? There is no conection between nature and the chromatic scale (which is a human invention). We are born to recognize harmonies, not pitches.
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11: This is not true. Quite a few musicians have developed it. I have a Timpanist friend who developed it as a result of spending a lot of his time needing to fine tune timpani's. He is 100% sure that it is something he developed. He can sing any note on demand and recognise random tones without any reference. Random noises too if needs be.
So, you, my misguided friend, are 100% wrong. Now get a life and stop pretending you are an expert. You aren't, merely ignorant.
emanonami 3 weeks ago
@emanonami Same old story when it comes to bullshit...i have a friend of a friend who has this friend...etc etc.Bottom line is this can you teach someone relative pitch? Sure you can cause that is music, the distance between notes.But PP cant be taught and worse still,asking money for it...Dont tell me the...friend of a friend bullshit.Try teach it to someone that doesnt already have it and then come and tell me the results.
Dreamdancer11 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11 I don't have a friend of a friend. This is FIRST HAND. I studied with him.. In fact, I just had wine and indian food with him.
He did not enter the conservatory where I studied with perfect pitch, but being his friend I saw him develop. And he is the most professionally sort after timpanists in Australia for his age, as well as being selected for YouTube Symph etc.This guy isn't imaginary. So stop calling me a liar, because I HAVE PROOF of my claim, YOU do NOT.
emanonami 3 weeks ago
@emanonami Mate i dont know him or you but i have a simple question for you.Can you(or your friend) teach someone perfect pitch?If you can you ll be a very rich man cause no one can...look at this thing here...he uses triggers which means reference..which means..relative pitch...nothing absolute about it...but if you can by all means..get rich....
Dreamdancer11 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11
I don't see your logic. You say that none can teach absolute pitch, yet many researchers agree that it can be taught at a young age. That's one of your errors. My old piano teacher taught himself absolute pitch and he was maybe like 18 or 19 when he did it (I don't know exactly, I know he has it). Anyways, the point is that absolute pitch is a memory thing and how does memory work best? By association ofc and this is association.
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11
This is not only just association, it is the right kind of association, music associated with music. While it might seem relative, that's the point. After a time you don't explicitly need the associations and you just know that a C is a C and not necesarily hear Mozart's Sonata when a C is played. Absolute pitch is not something you can be born with. It's not like seeing or hearing or anything which is ofc something all of us are born it.
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11
Besides why so skeptical? Do you have perfect pitch and want to feel like it's something exclusive just for you?
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago
@Rickeeey1 Νο idont...i have relative pitch and not that perfect either.But you havent answer my question.If you or your friend can teach it...go right ahead...you ll solve your money problem for life.....you know how many people wanna learn it?You ll hit the jackpot....When you try yourself then you ll know the answer.....the rest are just fairytales... try it learn it....teach others to hear it too..and then we can talk.
Dreamdancer11 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11
You're on a Youtube video that does teach absolute pitch and yet you complain that none can teach it. There is no magic way to learn something (like in the Matrix), you need to work on it...
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago
@Rickeeey1 Just cause there is a youtube video about it doesnt mean you can learn it.....by all means...still you havent answer me.Teach it to someone..anyone and if...1 out of 100 learns it...then cool... you can use study...magic...hypnosis...take your pick....if you can do it even for one person then..great...you ll be the first.But i seriously doubt it.
Dreamdancer11 3 weeks ago
@Dreamdancer11
Lol, "be the first". Firstly I don't have absolute pitch yet, learning it. Secondly, even if I would have absolute pitch, I'm not a good teacher. I would instead refer to the method that I've learnt it by and tell them to use it. Thirdly, if you want someone who have taught absolute pitch (maybe indirectly, but still) why don't you talk with the guy that came up with this method?
Rickeeey1 3 weeks ago
@Rickeeey1 Then great.Teach yourself then..when you suceed we ll talk again.....or not..
Dreamdancer11 3 weeks ago
Pianos are not tuned to perfict pitch
jdfloyd1995 8 months ago
you cannot learn to have perfect pitch .... i can name some notes too sometimes by associating with another piece witch i know what key its in and the instrument is important too that emits the sound.... for with absolute pitch dose'nt matter what instrument or piece or key it is ... and he can name it instantly without any effort .... don't try to learn it .... it doesent help anyway ... just train your ears to the max and you should be sattisfied
kutibotond 9 months ago
Strange to me. I can't distinguish C/D/E/F from the melody. but I can do it easily in single note as in second half.
jsyangyu 1 year ago
@jsyangyu You're most likely using relative pitch then :-) So you're judging the notes based on the interval from the previous note. Try randomly clicking to a pitch and I'm sure you'll find it harder. Otherwise, congrats! You've mastered perfect pitch lol.
vetiarvind 11 months ago
This is a great way to memorize the pitch colors! a few years ago, i couldn't tell you any pitch i hear. now they are all clear and if you test me, i would be able to tell you correctly. this method of learning perfect pitch comes from the method of relating intervals to simple melodies in order to memorize their sounds.(obviously) after time, you can just recall the intervals (in this case- the pitches) by themselves, without having to relate them to their melody. you will just know it!
shilohpatten1 1 year ago
00:20 ...does it say E ? ...im sure of its A
Ectura 1 year ago
@Ectura I'm sure it's E. "Für Elise" begins in a E, not a A ^^
tchingtchangtchong 1 year ago
...whats the first song? ...thanks
Ectura 1 year ago
great,,,,but i have my own style,,,check on my channel....pei1403
pei1403 1 year ago
It should be noted that this is nothing to do with absolute pitch - absolute pitch is the ability to PRODUCE notes (sing, hum, whatever) with no reference to an instrument.
Absolute pitch can be practiced, but I've never come across anyone that's actually learned it, only people that just do it.
Certif1ed 1 year ago
@JonBannerLive While you are not born with perfect pitch, people who have perfect pitch have a genetic predisposition to develop the ability, they just have to do it. If one does not have that predisposition then they most likely cannot develop perfect pitch.
gumbionics 1 year ago
@gumbionics That's like saying someone is born with a predisposition to learn Arabic.
philnoll 1 year ago
@philnoll Perhaps you would find this study interesting. perfectpitch.ucsf.edu/study/
gumbionics 1 year ago
@gumbionics Perfect pitch is never "developed" but "discovered". Relative pitch may be developed or learned, but perfect pitch cannot. PP is KNOWING all aspects of all notes in all the possible shades, among clusters and on different instruments, not remembering them. Memory is an over-simplified way of explaining the phenomenon. The ability to memorise music is very different. I find it extremely hard to memorise pieces yet have absolute/perfect pitch.
Certif1ed 1 year ago
I hate to admit it but I can almost always distinguish a B flat on a guitar or bass coz it is the first note to the riff of "Satisfaction"!
999manman 1 year ago
@999manman I think the first note Satisfaction is B not B flat
tweetertv 8 months ago
@tweetertv I'm pretty sure it's B flat...the sheet music bears this out anyway.
999manman 8 months ago
@tweetertv @999manman oh why? i played it in piano and guitar, and it's a B!
Vgjuanna1 8 months ago
@Vgjuanna1 I'm sorry I mistake
Vgjuanna1 8 months ago
i dont think it will give you PP.PP is something your born with,but you can get a very good ear from this not PP.a good teacher will tell you that. I would say PP is someone that had no training and never picked up an instrument heard a song first time and could play it no prob.. this is memorizing sounds..kinda like tuning a guitar with out a tuner..PP people wouldnt have to memorize theyd just tell ya.Im diff tho I got relative pitch.i can play any of these song by listn to it. loks cool tho
Musicmaker703 1 year ago
@Musicmaker703. There is no evidence that PP is genetic. If you can memorize a tone then logically you can obtain perfect pitch. To be able to pick up a guitar and tune it without a tuner is a skill that can be learned over time. If you can remember a color without a reference why would it be any different with your ears? That doesn't make sense. You just have to learn to hear delicately. If you believe that you can't learn perfect pitch then you won't.
JonBannerLive 1 year ago
@JonBannerLive.. u could be right..im just going by what music teachers told me over the years... idk if i have pp but, my piano and guitar teacher didnt know what i had also.. i couldnt read sheet music, so he would play it for me... with in an hour i could play the song by ear.. im trying to find out if its pp or relative pitch..
Musicmaker703 1 year ago
I learned perfect pitch. I can name chords and any note by ear. Check out the video on my account to see for yourself.
learningperfectpitch 1 year ago
Can someone with PP tell me what the pitch of the vuvuzela noise is?
nightmareticket 1 year ago
@nightmareticket
Most blow in B flat.
ydabom 1 year ago
The answer to the first song is incorrect. The key is in G major, not in D major.
Minfire 1 year ago
the thing is( i havent seen the vid yet..so.. bare with me)
People have said to me that people with perfect pitch can listen to a song and sing it back in the correct pitch. I can do that with ease but i cant always tell someone a note when im asked.??
ShunShunRikka3 1 year ago
I learned perfect pitch.
AlexClouseComposer 1 year ago 25
@AlexClouseComposer Using this course? Or some other method? I've sent you a pm! Please reply!
jimiclaptoncarl18 1 year ago
This is Brilliant, it is exactly how a person learns a language and one needs to hear well to speak well.
So whats the difference? Nothing, English is a Language and So is Music, only Difference Music is Universal. The Fact Perfect Pitch Exists means it can be learned just Like Love Exists and did before we did so we can Know it!
LiveFuturesTrading 1 year ago
is there a program that just lets you identify individual notes, i have ear trainer but that starts you at intervals, how the hell can i hear an interval if i cant even hear one note.
1lastrun 1 year ago
No problem, as soon as i here the first tone of each scale i know what it is. I can hear each and every tone. Am i special??? It take me not even a second to here what tone it is... Something i had since i was very little
ac81017 1 year ago
i no what key theyre all in :@ i have pp anyway im 12
jimjo78 1 year ago
people will $buy any con job goin wont they. PP is something you are "born with" period. Hey...send me your money Ill help you acquire a "degree" of PP ah hahahahahahahahha
tramoliter 1 year ago
@tramoliter Not true buddy
halomaster1218 1 year ago
@halomaster1218 of course its true...just send me your money....Il help you get a "degree" of PP. I can run the con just as good as the next guy. Hey, Ive had the Burge course since the 80s , still dont have PP though, and everyone Ive met thats tried the Burge course has the same degree of PP as everyone else thats not "born " with it. So, repeat after me...F#'s are twangy and Eb's are mellow. There, first lesson is free. Ah hahahahahahaha
tramoliter 1 year ago
@tramoliter I wasn't born with perfect pitch and I "aquired" it (as an adult) using the very same method that is in this video. I KNOW you are wrong because i'm a living proof, and I write this because comments like your's are what held me back in the past.
ItayoMan 1 year ago
@ItayoMan what youve acquired is very good relative pitch. Wanna proove it? Take a guitar with totally slack strings and tune it to concert pitch without a refrence. Plug it into a guitar tuner. If youre dead on...Im wrong..if youre not...keep believin the con. Our music teacher in Highschool could do that. We'd take our guitars to him and he would tune them all without a refrence. He had PP. There are no "degrees" of it. ya gots it or ya dont.
tramoliter 1 year ago
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ItayoMan 1 year ago
Awesome method! I love it
tunglour 1 year ago
nice
memila1 1 year ago
I have found that acosutic pianos teaches you perfect pitch easier than electronic keyboards - they must have a richer overtones and thus clearer colors
her0esfan 1 year ago 9
@her0esfan
accoustic pianos are well tempered. some electronic keys arent. the ones that are have an artificially created overtone series on top of the fundamental and sometimes not even at all.
b1llybrown 1 year ago
Good lord. i am still speachless.
Frisou277 1 year ago 2
My god. This is working for me. I tryed it 24 hours later and jumped right away to the second part of the video and i could identify everything without any reference. Good lord !!!!! I am speechless !
Frisou277 1 year ago
i never thought i would be able to do this but i did it first time, which is really encouraging. Its limited at the moment but in time i hope it will become instinctive. i will purchase your book, do you have any idea when the other volumes will be available
llwayneio 1 year ago
the tones are like colours, You know what red looks like and you know what blue looks like. Can you guess how many A's you have heard in your life? all the small noises from cars driving by and a buzz from a TV ? The important part of ear training is that you know what the tone your ear hears. like a person teaches you how C sounds like when its really a B, later on someone plays a real C, you would say its a B, the person tells you its a C and you just change the name of the note to C from B.
claus93Sethsen 1 year ago
You've confused me...what tone my ear hears? How do i know that?
1KOOLRIFF 1 year ago
for example i teach you how blue looks like, when i really teach you how red looks like, the name of the color i taught you is really red when i said to you i am teaching you the color blue.
claus93Sethsen 1 year ago
I get that, but what did you mean by what "tone my ear hears"...Does my ear have a specific tone it is "tuned" to? Also - If you have perfect pitch, maybe you could help me. I can find a note almost instantly on a guitar/piano (i've been playing piano for 3 weeks), and even with my voice, but i don't know the NAME of the notes i'm hearing, so i cant write the music i hear in my head...If that doesn't make sense, let me know. Thanks.
1KOOLRIFF 1 year ago
I don't believe that your ear is tuned to a specific tone, but your ear can probably remember a tone really well than another tone, like i started with remembering G, then C and then F#.. i don't know why but i suspect it had something to do with the music i heard from Bach, (Bach's Little fugue in G minor) G was the first tone my ear "learned" to hear with pitch memorization, and i worked my way up from that. Just play a lot piano and eventually you will know what tones you are hearing.
claus93Sethsen 1 year ago
Ah, I see...I made that way to complicated, lol.
E is a lot easier for me than others for some reason...I suspect you developed Perfect Pitch?
1KOOLRIFF 1 year ago
@claus93Sethsen
exactly!
b1llybrown 1 year ago
it usually seems people can identify one exact note in their head, it's just a matter of exercising it and then finding the other notes relative to it
keyboardplaying1 1 year ago
Oh, nowi get it. you first played the song then you said the note. sorry
MozartJunior22 1 year ago 4
when you said "D" the song started with F!
when you said "F" the song started with C!
what's going on?
And if you don't belive me. use a tuner.
MozartJunior22 1 year ago
Doesn't it louse up your pitch to use a piano to study pitch.... given that the piano is a tempered instrument?
SparkleSong84 1 year ago
its pitch memorization
b1llybrown 1 year ago
Exactly the point.... a piano is an "out of tune" instrument, i.e. tempered. So if you memorize pitches using it, you'r ear will be slightly messed up and you won't easily recognize the subtle differences in pitch which are of the utmost importance for playing a non tempered instrument or for singing.
SparkleSong84 1 year ago
@SparkleSong84
Its too subtle of a difference, and if you have a well set up piano I imagine the tones would be in pitch. So, unless you have a really shitty piano; theres no worry =P
WilliamBonneau 1 year ago
@SparkleSong84
every WESTERN instrument is of "well tempered" tuning. its the only way to play in all twelve keys without encountering a "wolf interval". there IS a difference in pitch between C and B# in "equal tempered" tuning. also, when people with perfect pitch say they "see colors when they hear keys" that occurs in "well tempered" tuning because all of the intervals are slightly different. a P5th in A and is not the same distance as a P5th in E. thats what gives keys their "color"
b1llybrown 1 year ago
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Eglantine9Lunar 1 year ago
I got most of them right :D I dunno how. I just kind of let my mind go blank and I guessed them :/
kiikasi 2 years ago
Well I have it too, I just hear song and I can play it on piano. Ofcorse not imidiatly but I find right notes fast.
Careica 2 years ago
OMFG...this is fucking amazing!it's gorgeous! in a couple hours of practice i'm recognizing everything...in songs in guitar...This was so simple, it makes so much sense! THANK YOU, i'll get the rest of it as soon as i create a paypal account. thanks bro.
ertwro 2 years ago
watch?v=JwOsuYAIuNA
This guy did, I know him.
DannyWrigley 2 years ago
You cannot develop perfect pitch, but you can develop very good relative pitch. Absolute pitch IS something you are born with.
speedcubingjubjub 2 years ago
Yes, you are right. Absolute pitch is something you are born with. It's something EVERYONE is born with. All babies have absolute pitch.
Without exposure to music at a young age, babies will discard their absolute pitch abilities (since it's pretty useless). However, it does seem that people can "relearn" absolute pitch.
jbz7890 2 years ago 3
wow, do you even know what relative pitch is? it's not kind of know where a note is it is how notes relate to each other and absolute pitch can be aquired if you use the method thats works for you. were you born knowing what every colors name was? no, you had to learn. This goes for perfect pitch as well. listen for each notes color tone like f# has kinda of a twang where as Eb has a mellow feel to it. learn the sounds within the notes to aquire P.P. just like when you see red you know it's red.
floored2112 2 years ago 2
Did you develope PP yourself?
bolo4545 2 years ago
@floored2112
i agree but what you hear when you hear individual pitches is arbitrary.
b1llybrown 1 year ago
I found that I can find E on my guitar by playing the Braveheart theme until its in the right key. And I can tell when it's E so I guess that means I'm getting better.
nygrow10 2 years ago
I just wanted to say that this technique works very well. I learned perfect pitch, and this program was a big part of that process.
AlexClouseComposer 2 years ago
NO ONE is born with perfect pitch. If you're flat out tone deaf, then it's like being color blind. You plain can't see color. But if you can speak and Not sound completely monotone, then you are not tone deaf. So my point is, no one is born with the ability to recognize pitch. How many infants do you know are born reciting the alphabet much less tell you what the name of a pitch is? So perfect pitch is a learned skill. Whether learned very young, or older. No one is Born with it.
MattieSongbird 2 years ago
We CAN learn perfect pith. The fact that some people have this ability when they've born is just proof that spiritism exist.
bateragabriel 2 years ago
lol.
DannyWrigley 2 years ago 2
thank you so much! this helped a lot. thank you thank you. :D
xXSS501ForeverXx 2 years ago
There's perfect pitch which you either have or don't and there's relative pitch which comes from ear training.
You can train your ears to a great degree and develop an excellent tonal and chord recognition. sight singing also helps.
In college we had to identify chords such as 9ths' and 13ths'. They would play chord concurrently though not consecutively.
Something helpful; chords are the vertical expression of intervals-scales are the horizontal expression of intervals.
pollylodges 2 years ago
no, perfect pitch can be developed too
portuguesehulkamania 2 years ago
Some people believe that you are born with perfect pitch. But even I know of many people are able to recognise a tone without reference, and they claim to have trained themselfs to do that. But the truth of the matter is, unless we have perfect pitch ourselfs it's irrelevent to say someone can or can't aquire it. We just don't know enough about the brain, and how it relates to sound, to make unbased assumptions. Dispite all that, there's no harm in practicing, and it improves musical awareness.
CrazyTalkin 2 years ago
If you have perfect pitch someone can play a very involved chord on a piano; say - a B7 #9/b 9 with an added 13th; and without having ANY musical training whatsoever- without looking at the piano, you would be able to pick out all the notes that make up that chord and know that it's a dominant chord. Assuming you know what Major, minor and dominant means in musical terms. You wold also know how the particular chord is voiced.
Pciking out a tone can be learned relatively easily.
pollylodges 2 years ago
"But the truth of the matter is, unless we have perfect pitch ourselfs it's irrelevent to say someone can or can't aquire it."
More over, even those who aquired it at a young age would be unawre as to how they learn it. Chances are their brain learnt it, after a period of time.
CrazyTalkin 2 years ago
Have you ever tried to learn to hear pitch, or are you just assuming you can't because thats what people have told you?
CrazyTalkin 2 years ago
I took 4 years of ear training.
You CAN train your hearing to get to the level of the example I wrote below; but the very fact you had to train to get to that level proves you don't have perfect pitch and to maintain that level you WILL have to keep training your hearing.
That's relative pitch. A well trained ear.
If you have perfect pitch it's simply not an issue.
pollylodges 2 years ago
All that proves is you worked hard at hearing the relationship between notes. If you train to be an olympic runner you're body is strong, that doesn't mean you're also a martial artist, just because you use your body.
CrazyTalkin 2 years ago
This doesn't mean you have to have perfect pitch to be a great or even brilliant musician. There are people who have perfect pitch who don't have natural musical abilities. It just means you might wanna be skeptical if someone is selling software training (or any kind of training) promising you that you will have perfect pitch. It doesn't work like that.
pollylodges 2 years ago
I agree having perfect pitch does not make you a musician. I also think being a virtuoso instrument player doesn't make you a musician. In my opinion, a musician is somebody who has an ability to express ideas through the medium of music.
I believe that having the ability of perfect ptich, as a tool, is very benificial, rather then having the skill in isolation. I also think it's unwise to believe in promises made by people trying to make sales.
CrazyTalkin 2 years ago
Being virtuoso instrument player DOES make you a musician.
You talking as if perfect pitch isn't a neorological/biological/ genetic thing. It is.
You either have it or you don't. If you don't, you can train your hearing. But, you will have to maintain it. That is relative pitch.
pollylodges 2 years ago
I believe that people have an opportunity to develope perfect pitch. I also think that perfect pitch is a neurological/biological thing, but not genetical.
I am tired of arguing about it now, and we just seem to be going in circles, so lets agree to disagree.
CrazyTalkin 2 years ago
I know several people who developed it.
DannyWrigley 2 years ago
NOT TRUE! Myself I developed it trough hard work when I was older than 20. It works for some notes better than some others because some of them have similar characteristics. I know some others, mostly violin players who never had it before but developed it later. It is NOT genetic! Noone is born with it! If Mozart was alive now he couldn't recognize any of the pitches accurately, thats because the tuning at his time was NOT 440 hz. So it is very relative thing.
moriscengic 2 years ago
superb statement! ist all relative..
mrm4xim4m 2 years ago
I have no training in music but I want to be able to hear something and play it on my guitar... send help
mystro810 2 years ago
yes, this is relative ear, or tonal memory, but...dont cry guys, what hapen if you play on 454, or 428?.......they can fall from earth!!!!! relative is a powerful tool, just memorize 12 tunes and that is enough!!!!!anyway, with perfect pitch you can do A+ on ear trining classes.....THAT'S GREAT!!!!!!!!!
jesemus33 2 years ago
its not tonal, or relative. Don't get me wrong i know what they are. You can use relative and tonal but thats not the point as you've guessed. You should try and clear your memory before the next note. Try some messed up chords on the piano to clear.
fortune32 2 years ago
this is more relative pitch than perfect pitch, but cool aid though!
mummyfunk 2 years ago 4
No it's not. You don't understand if you're using relative pitch.
fortune32 2 years ago
how many of you have listened to the same cds and music infinite amounts of times. Does the song pop into your head when you hear the note? Associating songs only helps for intervals because songs are perceived in relative terms.
jimmyrcom 2 years ago
jimmyr thanks for the great relative pitch ear training program you made. It has helped me tremendously. However, have you ACTUALLY tried this method? I can genuinely say that this worked for me. I started recognizing c, d, e, and f after a week.I continued to practice for about 15 minutes a day for a year.Now I can hear not only any note on my piano, but also intervals, even 3 note intervals and i can name chords. I can name notes on other instruments too but not as well due to sound timbre
amin789 2 years ago
went even further grabbing the songs I heard since childhood that can remember as symbols rather than melodies long before this video existed. I learned to recognize some pitches and it progressed but it was not practical. you may gain it to some degree but when asked to produce the pitch I was never able to. also reproducing a melody using pitch does not work unless you were born with perfect pitch. Most people think in scale/intervals/distances. its not the same.
jimmyrcom 2 years ago
Progress is very slow, it took me a year to get to this point. I will wait for a few years and let you know my results. Hopefully they will be more inspiring.
amin789 2 years ago
try prolobe. search trainear comparison of ear trainers and there's a few perfect pitch trains at the bottom. My relative pitch program probably has the best perfect pitch trainer as a feature if you scroll down the first drop down to perfect pitch. Reproducing a pitch just by letter name seems a whole different challenge. I've got it around 3 semitones in correctness using my vocal range as an aid. You should master relative pitch first if you hadn't already.
jimmyrcom 2 years ago
I think it would be easier to hear the notes using something atonal - with atonal I hear every note without a pitch reference and it has nothing to do with drills or memory - it just is and I,m glad I have it without effort. many people probably have this ability without even knowing it - and they won't find out with memory drills in tonal keys. in so called "atonal" music - you actually hear the note, and it is inevitable, irrevocable and indisputable. you hear, you don't "listen"
concertobub 2 years ago
Even I of 17 years old can do it this much
I do not understand that it is this picture to miss it even if I do an unfair thing
kanmyyane 2 years ago
Hey thanks for the speedy reply..
Btw I brought your course and its going great!!!
Are you going to concentrate on the 2 octaves imediately below and above mid C???
blacknight39 2 years ago
Hey when are you coming out with the second edition..
blacknight39 2 years ago
Good question... Hopefully I'll have some or all of my planned extension volumes out the end of the summer. Life is quite busy these days, though, and I'm a party of one unfortunately. If you have any advanced questions, however, I'm happy to help out. Just email me!
pitchpaths 2 years ago
im veri sorry sir... but i don´t think that perfect pitch can be trained, i spent too many time trying to teach myself that, but failed, i can sometimes name the right note, but sometimes get wrong, im no match for someone with real perfect pitch
hechi22 2 years ago
Only a systematic application of melody triggers to music will yield the desired result of perfect pitch --- in other words, you've got to expand the scope of your training. No amount of walking is ever going to make you into an Olympic sprinter.
GoatDaddyVersion2 2 years ago
this method really works, for the past three days, ive been using "violin romance" by beethoven which starts with an F, after one day i could recite the note of F at about 98%. however this did not help me recognize the note when i heard it.
olivegreen41 2 years ago
Great! What you have described is evidence of active absolute pitch development (singing); being able to hear it is know as "passive absolute pitch". This can be developed as well, but you need to listen the pitch and the melody repeatedly before the tone begins to "trigger" the tune. You may want to consider purchasing Pitch Paths to facilitate this initial development.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
I was already using Invention #8. You have to maintain it though. I once sang an E instead of an F, but that's as far off as I've ever been. Thanks. I sent you a message too about being a musician.
HuggumsMcgehee 2 years ago
I dont understand pitch at all. I need some help :/
RaidenTheAlmighty 2 years ago
Pitch noun: (in music, speech, etc.) the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations (i.e. the frequency) by which it is produced
HuggumsMcgehee 2 years ago
I dont mean the definition.
RaidenTheAlmighty 2 years ago
What do you mean? What do you want to learn? Relative pitch? Absolute pitch?
HuggumsMcgehee 2 years ago
I dont know. I cant really wrap my head around it.
RaidenTheAlmighty 2 years ago
What do you mean? What can't you wrap your head around? In the western world, we usually use a 12 tone equal temperament (12-TET). The standard pitch in the US is A = 440 Hz, the A above middle C on the piano. All the other notes are tuned off this pitch. The A one octave below vibrates at exactly half the frequency (220 Hz), and the A below that is 110 Hz, etc. The A above is twice the frequency. The ratio of frequencies between adjacent notes is equivalent to the 12th root of 2 or 2^(1/12).
HuggumsMcgehee 2 years ago
Well, i don't understand why does this video say that Menut is in D.....???!
kharlitoz 2 years ago
I can only recognize the melodies I can play, D for Bach & E for Elise. I don't even know the rest of the melodies and I can't identify them. I wish they put the name of the melodies under more..
azulaperez 2 years ago
Can somebody please post the name of C & F melodies? I heard them before but I don't know their names. Thanks
azulaperez 2 years ago
C = Mozart Sonata in C (K. 545)
F = Bach Invention in F
pitchpaths 2 years ago
I seem to have this ability naturally. It's sort of like I can hear the actual letter when the note's being played.
Darkasthenight06 2 years ago
ahhh, my friend told me the same, i thought she was crazy haha
I am so jealous! i have a really good ear but not perfect :(
KerenX16 2 years ago
For some reason it doesn't work with F though which is a shame.
Darkasthenight06 2 years ago
It works especially well for me on F. They all take time for you to hear them in that way. C# and Bb don't come in as clear to me as of now.
twinmusic 2 years ago 2
i desperately need a lot of help! I really want to have perfect pitch but i don't know where to begin! I have no idea what's going on in this video... you're naming the key right? but how can you tell? are you naming the last note??? could you please help me?
leekssneeks 2 years ago
Sorry for the confusion! Perhaps this summer I'll make a new video...
After the melody, I name the first note (not the key). In the second half of the video, you hear the tone then it's name. To develop absolute pitch, 3 elements must be associated:
TONE (pitch) - TRIGGER TUNE (melody) - TAG (letter name)
In this trial video, you only hear the latter two; in my method, you get all 3 in the order above.
Passive AP: the tone triggers the tune
Active AP: the tune trigger the tone
pitchpaths 2 years ago
The last bit above is how the AP process works in the beginning. Passive = hearing; active = singing.
Hope this helps. Consider ordering my method for maximum tutorial - it's about $20 for an immediate download.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
I bought this and I think it has helped me decently, at least much more than any other program I have bought. I passed every single test 100 percent the first time I tried them, during the first week. Naming tones within that particular octave on a piano is very easy to learn. I just listened to the tags over and over again on my iPod for two days and I'm automatic now. This seems like a good thing, but its not, because I still don't have AP and there's nothing else in your method.
hoopsmaster13 2 years ago
It's harder in other octaves, which I don't really understand, but for some reason the Triggers don't really go off all the time unless they are within that middle octave of the piano. And when I listen to music, I am just completely lost. I have no idea what to be thinking of or listening for, and I saw nothing in the book that said how to apply this talent (guessing notes on a piano) when we listen to music. I only have AP in the most useless form: a party trick.
hoopsmaster13 2 years ago
There is not a *magic pill* in absolute pitch development, just like anything in life. Does a beginning piano student play Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto after a week? Of course not.
Do not give up hope so soon! You have developed initial absolute pitch and this is great! But it is also only the beginning. Absolute pitch is what you make of it. If you take it no further, then perhaps it is nothing more than a useless party trick (and a bad one at that if you can't name any key on the piano).
pitchpaths 2 years ago
But indeed you can take it further, much further. My method is only the first installment of several planned volumes. Pitch Paths volume 1 does what it claims: you will develop initial absolute pitch for the center octave of the piano.
Once initial pitch chroma is established, it gets stronger with time and music application. Apply the same trigger tune technique used for the center octave to all octaves. After this, begin applying it to other instruments. You should also switch to fixed-do.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
After you are able to name pitches instantly across the piano, sing any pitch in your vocal range, and name pitches on 2-3 additional instruments, you may begin to tackle the difficult task of naming pitches within scales, intervals and chords.
The reason you are not able to do this now is because you have only learned the pitches in one harmonic scenario - the given melody. You should not expect to go from this to being able to hear and name pitches in any harmonic context. This takes time!
pitchpaths 2 years ago
This is really the process of going from melody-dependent absolute pitch to independent or complete absolute pitch - which I actually call ABSOLUTE TONALITY - the symbiosis of absolute and relative pitch to where you can hear and identify both tonality (major/minor, etc.) and *keyality* (F Major, d minor, etc.).
pitchpaths 2 years ago
Finally, I had hoped to release several supplemental Pitch Paths volumes last summer, but my wife was pregnant and we just had our second child.
I plan to complete all supplemental volumes this summer, when I finally have some free time again. Please be patient. I am a party of one here.
Thanks for your comments, I hope my response is helpful.
As always, email me if you have additional questions. I may not be able to respond right away sometimes, but I do answer all inquiries.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
I'm glad to hear that you'll be coming out with more installments. I thought the training was all over and that I'd have to do the rest all alone, and I really didn't have any idea where to start. Thanks for all the help.
hoopsmaster13 2 years ago
Cool
KudouShinichiConan 2 years ago
Good job. However, I do find that you have simply ripped off Levitin's idea. So, it is not true that you were the first to get the idea that one can associate tones with respective melodies. As Levitin has shown, even non-musical people can name tones correctly by melodic association.
somor98 2 years ago
Please do not slander or impugn my motives. I give credit where credit is due. Spend a little time researching absolute pitch and you'll discover it was it S. Grebelnik, a Russian musicologist, who first came up with the idea (at least in the scientific literature) back in 1982. Secondly, I make no claim to be the sole author of this idea on the very first page of my website. Thirdly, you cannot copyright ideas.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
Finally, just FYI, I discovered this technique completely on my own and only afterwards, while researching and writing my method, discovered the work of Grebelnik, Levitin, and others. Please think before you write in the future.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
No, it's not in the wrong key. I name the first note of the melody, which is "E", to associated the tag (letter name), the trigger tune, and the tone. This is a technique for developing absolute pitch. The key is in A minor, but that is irrelevant to our task at hand.
pitchpaths 2 years ago
but the first time through you say C... ??