![]() I don't have perfect pitch yet, but I seem to be getting closer. I've gotten to where I can almost consistently hum a C without playing it. I have had the most success by simply trying to hum a C, and then checking myself on a piano or pitch pipe to see whether I was too high or too low. The more 'far out' associations are associated with synesthesia, a condition where sense input and outputs are confused in the brain, allowing the person to 'hear' colors and 'taste' sounds. This association doesn't have to be colors, but can be any stimulus, such as feelings, textures on the skin, physiological reactions, even tastes. With concentration and practice, this color should appear when the tone is heard. It suggests that you close your eyes, listen to a pure tone and see what color your mind associates with it. But adherents to color hearing techniques say that these can be overcome with practice.Ĭolor hearing can also be defined as the technique of applying colors to certain tones. This means that choosing exact tones, such as 440 hz exactly, is also difficult. One contradiction to this states that though people know the color red, they cannot choose a definite shade, such as 650 nm exactly. The tones in between notes are like different shades of a color, and theoretically can also be recognized like the tones themselves. By just realizing this, and listening to notes and learning to recognize their unique tones, perfect pitch is possible. Color hearing says that we can learn to identify pitch just by their unique sounds, in the same way that we recognize colors, along with voices, faces, and other things in our life. Tones are also defined by their vibrations (of lightwaves), such as A4 is 440 hz, and C3 is 130.813 hz. Musical tones, however, are generally not taught at a young age, and not considered as significant as knowing colors.Ĭolors and tones are extremely similar when viewed in this way. We are much easier at recognizing colors because we have been submerged in a world of color our whole lives. We recognize these colors easily, _without knowing their relation to anything else_ (meaning we do not have to see the color green to be able to recognize blue, as opposed to relative pitch, where one needs to hear a C first, and then is able to recognize the interval between the C and the note). For instance, we define 'red' as 650 nm in the visible light spectrum, and 'blue' is around 475 nm. It is called Color hearing, and the theory is based on this assumption:Ĭolors, like sounds, are defined by their vibrations. One of these is a program called Absolute Pitch 2.16, available for free download here Learning projects Color Hearing There are several courses and software programs that claim to be able to teach perfect pitch. Some research indicates that passive absolute pitch (the ability to identify the letter name of any given note) can be learned through certain types of ear training. It is not clear whether perfect pitch can be fully learned by someone who does not posses it naturally. Someone with perfect pitch may also be able to sing any named note without hearing it (active absolute pitch).Ĭan perfect pitch be learned? ![]() Someone with perfect pitch can identify the letter name (A, G# etc.) of any musical pitch just by listening to it (passive absolute pitch). ![]() Perfect pitch, also called absolute pitch, is the ability to identify or sing a musical note without hearing a known reference pitch.
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