![]() ![]() If you want to ability to pass perfect pitch tests, that's fine. But, we are here for the facts, and spreading misinformation isn't helpful to anyone in the community. The community isn't saying that either is superior to the other. They're both indistinguishable from each other in most circumstances. One is a genetic ability to identify underlying notes without any reference tone, and the other is memory. ![]() But the underlying factors behind the two are separate. In fact, many people without any sort of Absolute Pitch or Absolute Pitch training can. No-one was doubting that you had the ability to pass the tests. However, as my analogy demonstrates, the underlying mechanisms are different. Fortunately, there are only so many different tones in music (12) so pitch memory does often get confused with absolute pitch. A person with photographic memory could practice and memorize the first thousand prime numbers, and past the same tests, but the mechanisms behind both are different. However, memory and identification are not the same.**Ī mathematical savant might have the ability to identify prime numbers at a single glance. The paper also specifically demonstrates that individuals without absolute pitch are more likely to remember pitches in their original key, which many people have used to establish their own sense of perfect pitch through using their enhanced pitch memory. Passing online tests isn't necessarily an indicator of absolute pitch, as individuals that have mastered their pitch memory skills can perform similarly. With pitch memory, you associate a pitch to a specific memory (such as the opening key to a song), while with absolute pitch, identification is instantaneous. ![]() This paper details the differences between pitch memory and absolute pitch, and how the underlying mechanisms are different. If anyone was wondering the difference between Pitch Memory and Absolute Pitch, I'll copy paste and slightly tweak my answer from that thread. We then tried to reason with you further here and provide more research, which you just ignored. We tried explaining to you that there was a difference between Pitch Memory and Absolute Pitch/Perfect Pitch. You first posted about implying how we didn't want people to learn a skill that was not learnable. To all those who told me to stop wasting my time and that I would never get it: eat crow! It's gets better and better the more you practice. Also to start what I call the "Absolute Pitch Revolution" and encourage/help others to learn AP. ![]() Goals: To eventually learn AP as well as the Beato kid of youtube fame and document my case. There's nothing special about me, and I'm a middle-aged man, so ANYBODY should be able to do this. I'm convinced that this can be learned in a few short months. Once I figured out that I was doing something that was working, I saw progress every single day. Theory: Anybody can learn this at any age. I didn't practice pitch recognition so much and focused mainly on pitch recall (sight singing). I just learned to sing with fixed chromatic solfege. I started training during the covid19 quarantine, and made quick progress. So here it goes.īackground: I'm a 35 year old man, who has been a musician most of my life and could never do this. I made a few posts some months back talking about my progress training absolute pitch (some of you might remember) but never got around to posting "proof". ![]()
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