i heard that people are born with perfect pitch...

well i think i dont have it..

but it would be embaressing as im planning to go to music college...

Having perfect pitch isn`t a requirement for being a musician... I`m sure musicians have survived without it. I`ve actually heard that having perfect pitch is a bit of an annoyance, and it`s better to have relative pitch (which is what I`ve been taught), where you use intervals (such as fifths, octaves, minor sixths, etc) to tell a pitch.

It`s possible to develop perfect pitch though. There`s programs out there you can buy that will teach you... I don`t know how well they work or anything though.

You might want to read http://www.fact-index.com/a/ab/absolute_pitch.html

I`ve heard that people are born with perfect pitch, but I`m starting to doubt it. Did you know that though we tune to an A=440 now, flutes used to be made at A=435 or even A=430. Nowadays, some orchestras tune to an A=442. If people were born with perfect pitch, pitch wouldn`t change so much over the decades. Mind you, this is only a theory, but I`m starting to believe it.

Good luck with your music,
Gumdrop

i dont think there is something called perfect pitch i just think that you are born with good hearing and are better than others at noticing being out of tune. but that is only an opinion
relpy with your thoughts!!!

Well you definately can develop it because when I first started playing it was like I could never tell when things are out of tune. Then there was an accident with some chemicals that I was helping with and I am now blind. After that I relied on my ears for almost everything. I now use my ears to learn music, memorize it and then I can tune it. It is really hard to learn because you have to have somone next to you playing it first so you can then match what they are playing. So technically it can be developed although for some it might bbe hard but mine just kind of came because I had to use them so much. i have never let being blind get in my way though. I playin in a profeesional polka band and I am first chair in our concert band.

I have perfect pitch, and the only time it has ever come in handy is during sight singing and when tuning in my orchestra. I`m at university for music right now, and people with perfect pitch are a rarity. I do no better then my colleagues because I have it. And I certainly do not plan to become a professional sight-singer. I think the only reason I have perfect pitch is because I have poor hearing and have had to compensate by hearing the note in my head before attempting to play.. this technique could help other people try to develop a relative or even perfect pitch.

There`s different degrees of pitch sensitivity within perfect pitch, too. Before I started university, I could identify the note and tell if it was badly out of tune.
Now my ear has developed to such a degree that on a good day I can hear a recording and tell whether it`s at A=440 or not.
But anyway, relative pitch and the ability to recognise things like chord inversions, scales etc by ear is more useful. Perfect pitch is very helpful, though.

i have what people call "perfect pitch" ... but i`m not a flute player, i`m a trumpeter and learning saxophone.. but my cousin plays flute... well... if you let your perfect pitch control you, it can be a disaster... i can`t read trumpet and saxophone notes because of me being unable to "control" my perfect pitch so when i see the note "c" written i imagine the pitch of concert C... but on the trumpet it`s b flat so thats where the problem comes in.... (my pitch isn`t exactly perfect.. perhaps... A=440.5 or 441.. but it still disturbs my transposing, especially that i`m playing transposing instruments..