You remember when you were a little kid and you learned the primary colors? Red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and so on…

That learning process you experienced to learn the colors is the same learning process you will need to use if you want to learn to hear musical tones and be able to identify them.

It is abstract in a sense, but so are the colors if you think about it. They were given names eons ago and that is what they are called – Period.

Perfect pitch means you can hear one note alone, and say the name of the note. You don’t need to relate it to another note, as you do with relative pitch.

Many successful musicians don’t have perfect pitch. If you were not born with perfect pitch you can absolutely learn it, through a process called ear training. It is done by listening to notes through headphones, along with a teacher’s instructions, which will give you some tricks and tips to distinguish the various tones, i.e. musical notes.

Ear training requires daily repetition, just as you needed daily drills to learn to read and write. With a short daily session, you will experience a metamorphosis in your ability to hear. You will be so delighted, if you love music like we do, that you can hear a single note and say, “that is a B flat” or whatever the note is.

Hearing individual notes is only part of the world of learning perfect pitch. You will be able to hear a band or singer and say “They are in the key of F”, or whatever the key is.

You will be able to hear if a singer is slightly sharp or flat, by ¼ or ½ step. If you are a singer, you will be able to sing on key because of your trained ear.

You will be able to sight read a sheet of music when you have mastered perfect or absolute pitch. You could be handed a piece of sheet music with notes and chords, and hear it in your head by looking at the paper, even though you have never heard the piece of music ever in your life.

People who can sight read are thought to be brilliants, and you will be if you decide to dedicate time every day to learn perfect pitch.

As a songwriter it will help you to easily play a new song that you just heard in your head. Say, a melody that is new to you pops into your head. Then you can write it down on a sheet of music paper, and play it on your instrument.

Not only is perfect pitch beneficial for playing and singing, but it improves your hearing, and ability to remember what you hear. This makes it easier if you want to learn a foreign language, or remember what the professor said in your biology class, so you can get a better test score. If learning to hear perfect pitch is what you need to advance in your music career or if you want to learn it for the sheer joy of it, we encourage you to sign up for a training program. You will be proud of your newfound musical abilities.

With that said, perfect pitch is great, but as a musician it migth be more useful to learn relative pitch.



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