Oh one more thing, I`ve been playing the cello for 8 years and the first few years I totaly sucked at playing it.

Perfect pitch as in someone can play a B on a piano and you can say, taht was a b, without looking at the piano, isn`t really essential. What`s important is being able to hear if stuff is in tune. Having a sense of pitch, whether you have "perfect" pitch or not is waht`s important, and yes, there are several programs/sites out there that can help you develop it.

I have near perfect pitch (half-step off it off at all) and it has helped me a lot. Now, I play worship at our church, so it`s nice if I wanna just start backing someone up with piano and don`t know where they`re playing. I also play by ear ... can`t siteread worth anything. I think that if you have it, that`s great. If you think you`ll use it a lot, then try to learn it. But don`t kill yourself trying ;-)

-g

Would any of thoes Perfect pitch cources be worth buying? It seems to me the more time you spend with your insterment the beter a you get. I guess what Im asking is, do thoes cources hold some sort of key, or a new way of teaching that will allow me to identify rythmic wave langths (notes) by name?

hey guys, check out the site which let u test your perfect pitch ability...
I thought I have perfect pitch but I can only only score tone(32), piano(32)....... If someone can make it higher...please show me the trick..

http://perfectpitch.ucsf.edu/ppindex2.html

it`s freakin me out!
hello,
i just took up piano a couple of months ago and recently i`m noticing that things are starting to sound *different*... i`m hearing it in the church bells ringing at night outside, while i`m playing piano, in the lights, songs on the radio...it`s like there`s something IN the note!? what`s going on w/ my hearing?!! is this that perfect pitch thing i`ve heard about?
i REALLY noticed it yesterday- while listining to a song on the radio all of a sudden the chords started to hum/ring or something in my head, i wasn`t hearing the piano but something else (it was beethoven`s sonata #7 Dmaj). i have NO IDEA how to explain it -- is this what you people with perfect pitch hear!?!?
thanks for anything you can tell me

I think some people are confusing perfect pitch with a good ear. I can tell if someone is off, and I can sing on tune, and I can pick out a song on the piano, but I don`t have perfect pitch. Perfect pitch is when someone can ask you to hum the G sharp above middle C and you can do it (without using a piano to hear middle C first!); they can hum any note you ask for and it will be exactly the right note. My piano/violin teacher had perfect pitch and people used to call her up to hum an A so they could tune their violins to her! She just knew in her head immediately what an A (or C, D, E, etc.) was. She was born with it. Being able to pick out a song after you hear it is not necessarily perfect pitch--it`s just having a good ear.

I have been playing guitar for many years, but I just listened to
notes horizontally instead of vertically. I am able to recognize over half the tones now. Think about it, if we can memorize for a test, recall intervals, what is stopping anyone from hearing the difference in tones? It is silly if you think about it.

I have had perfect pitch for as long as I can remember. However, my ears have AIDS now and are falling off. Sucks to be me....Buckle