Thread: Perfect Pitch?
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Old June 11th, 2007
Fretsource Fretsource is offline

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I've never heard of anyone acquiring perfect pitch by any method. I don't believe it's possible.
And anyway, it's no great advantage. On the other hand RELATIVE pitch is everything. Every musician needs it and EVERY musician can develop their relative pitch ability FREE.
Save your money.

In almost 30 years of teaching, I've only come across one case of perfect pitch, a 9 year old Japanese boy, whose mother, a piano teacher, had taught him from a very early age.
But he lost interest in playing and studying music when he discovered Sony Playstations, etc. His mother asked me to give him a few guitar lessons to try and recapture his musical interest - but the Playstation had too strong a hold on him. Anyway, perfect pitch wasn't very useful for him, even before he lost interest.


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