Re: [LAU] Developing perfect pitch

From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Apr 17 2010 - 09:48:18 EEST

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, torbenh <torbenh@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have quite good relative pitch, but not perfect pitch. By accident I
> > stumbled upon some information that gave me the idea "why not give it a
> > shot, it might be possible to pick it up". Please let's not go (too
> > deep) into either "it can't be learned" or "it makes you unmusical".
>
> my brother has this theory that those guys with perfect pitch
> have a tinnitus and just use this fixed tone in their head to
> make their relative pitch absolute :)
>

That assumes that that tinnitus is a constant pitch tinnitus ;-)

A more-hard-work approach may be to learn Chinese (see
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=speaking-tonal-languages )

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