| By whatever name you call it, be it the perfect | | | | interested in music as a career, then you should |
| pitch, the absolute pitch or the pure pitch, it is the | | | | train to develop this abililty. |
| ability to identify the frequency or musical note of | | | | It is indeed a myth and contrary to popular belief |
| a specific tone, or the ability to produce specific | | | | that having the perfect pitch is a born talent. Yes, |
| musical note or musical pitch without comparing | | | | some may be born with this skill naturally, but you |
| the note with any reference note or relative tone. | | | | can be trained to develop perfect pitch. This skill |
| If you are in the music industry and want to | | | | can be learnt and aquired. That means that |
| advance your career, then it is necessary for you | | | | anyone who wants to can develop pure absolute |
| to develop the skill. | | | | pitch through good ear training and practise. |
| Having a perfect absolute pure pitch is a skill all | | | | Some of the more famous musicians, composers |
| musicians and singers would love to develop | | | | and singers with perfect pitch, just to name a |
| except that there are only about 10% of music | | | | few, are Frank Sinatra, Leonard Bernstein, Barbra |
| students having this amazing musical identification | | | | Streisand, Julie Andrews, Stevie Wonder, Nat King |
| ability. However, the percentages gets better and | | | | Cole, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, |
| higher with better quality professional musicians | | | | Jascha Heifetz, Paul Shaffer and Yanni. |
| and singers. | | | | Many musicians and composers, such as Danielle |
| For example, a typical symphony orchestra will | | | | LaRocco, cited the importance of perfect pitch as |
| have 20-40% of its musicians with absolutely | | | | an excellent tool for arranging music. While most |
| perfect pure pitch and it is estimated that about | | | | people will have to sit by the piano and play a key |
| half of today's most popular recording artists and | | | | in order to arrange a piece of music, those with |
| singers have this unique ability with the number | | | | perfect pitch ears can simply arrange it directly on |
| rising up to 87% for top concert performers. | | | | a piece of paper without reference to any musical |
| From these statistics, you can infer that | | | | instruments. That means that you can also write |
| perfomers with pure pitch are definitely more | | | | and arrange music anytime anywhere! |
| successful with their career as a musician or | | | | So how can you acquire relative absolute pitch? |
| singer. Is it any wonder why all musicians and | | | | While some people have the innate ability to |
| singers strive to attain the absolute pitch? The | | | | instantly recognize musical notes and tones, |
| answer is pretty obvious, isn't it? | | | | others develop perfect pitch ear training by |
| In other words, if you have the ear for pure | | | | creating a mental template of notes in their heads |
| pitch, your chances of being wildly successful as a | | | | as they are exposed to music, usually at a very |
| singer or a musician is phenomenally higher and | | | | young age. Many more are trained with hearing |
| could be your ticket to superstardom. This is why | | | | by ear to acquire this amazing skill. |
| most career minded singers and musicians take | | | | So if you want to take your musical career to |
| perfect pitch ear training lessons to catapult their | | | | another level, then isn't it about time you learn |
| career to world class level. So if you are | | | | how to develop the perfect pitch? |