How does perfect pitch work?
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It just means you can identify and sing the correct note. A person with perfect pitch can usually do this without a reference tone. For example, if you play a C on the piano, it’s relatively easy to identify and match another note in the same octave. If you have perfect pitch, however, you could hear any note and immediately identify without playing that C first (or another reference note).
Perfect pitch is when a person can hear a note and tell you what that note is without having to reference any other source.
They will also be able to produce the exact tone when given a note to sing without reference.
That is more or less what it is. I don’t really understand what you mean by ‘how does it work’ because it’s just the brain’s ability to do that.
Like if you have proper colour vision, you see something red and you go ‘oh that’s red’ except that in perfect pitch, it’s with sound. How else can you explain ‘how’ that works?
A lot of people mistake perfect pitch for relative pitch, which many many people have and isn’t too uncommon or special. Relative pitch is when you hear a note or tune, and can transpose it to another key without problems.
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Perfect pitch is misleading, as it isn’t really more precise. Absolute pitch would be better.
When you don’t have absolute pitch, you hear the differences between two notes, but you cannot hear the pitch as such. One sound has no pitch alone, you need to compare it with another sound to hear if its pitch is higher, lower, or the same.
With absolute pitch, you hear the pitch of sounds as such. It’s actually the simpler one of the two. Sounds have pitch that you can hear and that’s it.
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