Why would anyone _want_ to have perfect pitch? For musicians it's a curse! 
From what I understand, it hampers listening to any recording that's 
transposed, or playing a piece transposed, because your ear is hearing the 
absolute pitches, and not the relationships between them.

Relative pitch is what you want to learn, not perfect pitch.


On Wednesday 24 August 2005 19:12, Anthony Kozar wrote:
> Thanks Peder!
>
> In my youth, I was obsessed with perfect pitch (which a friend of mine had,
> but I did not).  I too was sucked into the David Burge tapes but never got
> very far with them.
>
> Maybe it's time to give it another try?
>
> Anthony Kozar
> anthonykozar@sbcglobal.net
> http://akozar.spymac.net/
>
> Peder Karlsson wrote on 8/24/05 4:43 PM:
> > those of you who read musicians magazines have probably read ads from
> > David L Burge about his perfect pitch training courses.
> >
> > I bought his tapes years ago & it makes sense to me. But you need to be
> > two people to play notes at random from the piano. in short.
> >
> > here is a csound orc+sco that is an attempt to do what the first
> > chapters of the perfect pitch course does.
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