Perfect Pitch: Can we develop it?

 Perfect Pitch is the ability to hear a music note and identify it right away. It is also someone that can hear harmonies, clusters and any given sound and be able to write it down for multiple purposes. The majority of the musicians are Relative Pitch, this is when someone can recognize a given note for example "A" and find his or her way around the other notes using intervals.


-Musicians who are used to "playing by ear" are masters of the Relative Pitch.

- Many arrangers, orchestrators and composers have Perfect Pitch, they can hear the score in their heads, this will help them organize their ideas without any problem, they know how it would sound like.



We know that we can develop Relative Pitch with some training, but the question is:


Can we develop Perfect Pitch?  
 
Some people say you have to be born with this gift......
Other say that you either have it, or not......
I have never heard you can develop it other than the courses they sell online,

but will they work? Have anyone tried it?






Post your answers!!

Perfect Pitch vs. Relative Pitch


This are some common abilities of a PERFECT PITCH person.

• Identify by name individual pitches (e.g. A, B, C♯) played on various instruments

• Name the key of a given piece of tonal music just by listening (without reference to an external tone)

• Identify and name all the tones of a given chord or other tonal mass

• Sing a given pitch without an external reference

• Name the pitches of common everyday noises such as car horns

• Identify the numerical value in hertz of a given note.

 On the other hand this are some common abilities of a  RELATIVE PITCH person.

• the distance of a musical note from a set point of reference, e.g. "three octaves above middle C"

• a musician's ability to identify the intervals between given tones, regardless of their relation to concert pitch (A = 440 Hz)

• the skill used by singers to correctly sing a melody, following musical notation, by pitching each note in the melody according to its distance from the previous note. Alternatively, the same skill which allows someone to hear a melody for the first time and name the notes relative to some known starting pitch.

• developed through intense training, practicing hearing differences between major, minor, diminished, and augmented intervals

Check if you have Perfect Pitch:

http://perfectpitchtest.com/