Greg Keefe
Acquiring Perfect Pitch
2008.02.07
I've been trying to acquire perfect pitch for the last several years. I initially bought an audio course on
CD (back around 2002 or 2003), but I didn't get results. So after that I bought two pitch pipes and stuck them
in my desk drawer, and once in a while when I get something from the drawer I see the pipe there and give it
another try.
A few days ago I came up with this idea: Have the computer randomly play two tones (one of which is an E, the
other a D# or F)
then try to decide which one is the E. This seems to be a big help, because I now can pick out the E pretty
consistently. I'm not sure if this will turn into perfect pitch or not, but I'll post follow up results
below.
Here is the tool I use to listen to the random tones (only works in some
browsers)