Perfect Pitch Training - Lesson 6

Here's a tip to turbocharge your absolute pitch development.

Lesson 6: Triggers

--------> Accelerated Learning Technique: First, take the time to let yourself daydream about something relaxing. Focus on your breath flowing in and out. When you are relaxed and attentive, read on. <--------

Pick your favorite song, preferably a song from your adolescence or a song you've written, and imagine it. Now listen to that song and see if you imagined it in the correct key. Chances are, you did.

When I was learning absolute pitch, I had a trigger for every note. The opening riff to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" gave me a trigger for 4 notes!

This technique will prove that you have a good memory for pitches and you will build your confidence. Build a catalog of pitch triggers and test yourself throughout your day. Don't worry if you're wrong some of the time. Eventually, you'll be 99.99 percent correct!

Lesson 7: Narrow your focus

 --------> Accelerated Learning Technique: First, take the time to let yourself daydream about something relaxing. Focus on your breath flowing in and out. When you are relaxed and attentive, read on. <--------

How is your absolute pitch progress coming along? If you're actually doing the lessons, then your pitch recall range should be narrowing. What I mean by this is, if you had no idea where a C was before, you probably now know that it's not a G or an F because that would be too far away.

What the entire Absolute Pitch Power process is doing is focusing your ear. So you might notice that when you try to guess a C, you are aware that an F is too high to be a C and a G is too low to be a C. Soon you will recognize that an E flat is too high to be a C and an A is too low to be a C. And when you have absolute pitch, you'll know that a C is only a C. And you'll be able to refine it even further to know how sharp or flat any given C is. But whereas this level of absolute pitch takes a lot of time and practice, simply being able to name notes will come much quicker.

Thanks for all of the hard work you have put in.