Does anyone here have absolute pitch?

**JoeCool888** · Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 7

For those who don't know, absolute pitch or perfect pitch is being able to identify a musical note and name it without any references to other notes. So, if you were to play a E-flat note behind my back, I'd know it was an E-flat, along with the other 11 pitches.

I believe that I "learned" it when my grandpa bought us an electric keyboard that had all the musical notes labeled. I was around four years old at the time.

Test your skill at http://perfectpitchtest.com/

I think it's a pretty cool concept, does anyone else have this?

**FreeXBird** · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 2485

Wow, that sounds like an amazing talent. Seems like it'd take a lot more than basic memorization.

**pman5595** · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:26 am Post subject:

my brother has this. me? not even close

I might be able to tell you what instrument

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**kaflagemeir** · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 1295 Location: Kentucky.

I don't really have any way of telling if I do, but I do know dfan has it.

http://dfan.org/pitch.html

However, it would be a really cool talent to have. And you could always fake it.

**Eastwinn** · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:46 am Post subject:

I can't say I do. I can recognize the low E on a guitar thanks to Yellow Ledbetter and I can think of it off the top of my head but I can't recognize E's in other octaves so it's not true absolute pitch by any means, but simple memorization.

**Vampyromaniac** · Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1216

I've wished I had that ability for a while :P. Oddly enough, I can identify C3 by sound alone, but that's the only one. That's also the note I sing by default if I just hold a note without trying to raise or lower my voice at all, so I suppose I've heard it more than other notes. If I think hard about it I can identify one or two notes above or below it, or other C's.

One thing I've wondered, are there people that can hear a chord and tell you all the notes that are in it?

**polishedbullet** · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 239

I can identify the A Harmonic Minor scale, but that's about it. Kind of weird, eh?
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**PieGuy** · Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 2836 Location: Long Island, NY

"All Done! - you got 0 of 12 correct"

Well shit. I don't know what I was expecting but I'd think I would have gotten at least one. I think I was just off with the scale in my head. I'm gonna try the Relative Pitch Test to see if I do better...

"All Done! - you got 3 of 12 correct"

And one of them was a freebie. ;_;

**UndeadFil13QC** · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:16 am Post subject:

I can do that. It takes me about 15-30 seconds to figure out the note, but I can do it.
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**akeller4265** · Joined: 26 Dec 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Plymouth, MN

Got all correct. I've had this ability as long as I can remember (this can be helpful as well as not in the musical world because I can "hear" what certain notes sound like to keep good intonation on a stringed [orchestra] instrument. However, perfect pitch can be wrongly adjusted if one gets used to notes wrong because of winter weather, etc.)

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**BNghfreak12** · Joined: 17 May 2008 Posts: 583

I can with some. Not so much with others.

**GenericName** · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1630 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

Well... I got 5 right, But I think it was just luck. I didn't try the relative pitch one.
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**blackwidowcd** · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland

I wish I had this. Then I would easily be able to play a song on guitar by ear.

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**Chubbly457** · Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 1978 Location: Ann Arbor, Mi

I have it! I just took that quiz and got 12/12.

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