Il giorno Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:33:13 +0200 Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > 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". > > However, I don't really know what the steps int the learning process > would be. > > One course seems to start with CDEF and then add more notes when > those are stuck in your head. However with these notes played at > random I'd be able to tell any of the other if I'm told what the > first note is :-( To I guess that wouldn't work... > > Another seems to play all 12 notes at random and then you should only > focus on one at the time, for instance be able to identify whenever C > comes up. > > Are there anyone here that *learned* perfect pitch (don't care 'bout > the lucky bastards that was born with it). How did you learn it? > Challenged by a friend born with perfect pitch, I learnt how white keys "sound like", I associated every note with a musical piece I know well, for example, C is the first note of Mendehlson wedding march, if someone play a single isolated C i can say: "Hmm, that sound like the first note of wedding march, so it must be a C" This is pretty unuseful and slow process, the error rate is high (I find notes in fifth similar in couples, expecially C-G and D-A), but I got it in short time (one or two weeks) if you really want it you may go much furter by practising a lot. > Now to the linux part: It would be dead simple to write a script that > throws notes at you, even with different constraints (which > instrument, which group of notes). Besides one would need *really* > well tuned notes of instruments like piano, guitar + more. > > Would anyone here be interested in exchanging scripts, samples and > practice results for such a journey; "collecting a set of files for > learning perfect pitch with your linux box, and using them to learn > yourself perfect pitch along the way"? > GNU solfege have an exercise that ask to identify tones, you may configure it to play only a small selection of notes up to the whole 12 tone scale. And it keeps track of statistics. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
