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    1. 11 years ago I joined a guitar tution only to stop in just 20 days because I had that much to pay for the fees and I was too scared to ask my parents, later on I started writing rap music and went to music studio and gave auditions until I realised the competition was too much and I thought I was not that good. So I quit music 4 years ago but I guessed all these 3 notes correctly. I didn't cry but it was a weird feeling.

    2. I got one of them correct.

      The first one I heard the answer too early.

      The second I actually got it

      The third I said B flat (I was trying to find the note in the context of a key or melody in my head)

    3. entertaining, but i dont get it. having perfect pitch is like being able to tell colors apart. for them its nothing special. but everytime someone "challenges" a perfect pitch hearer, i always see it like,
      "..and quick! what color was that!?"
      " blue…"
      " wow! correct!!" .
      a challenge would rather be like
      "which 7 notes did we play for a split second?"
      i would like to see at what stage it would be challenging for perfect pitch.

    4. True pitch is impressive because is really hard to memorize a reference sound and be able to play it in your mind every time you want to identify a note but it doesn't have a chance against perfect pitch. For people with perfect pitch, every note has it's own sound clearly different from the others.

      A good analogy using colors would be true pitch is like seeing in black and white, memorizr an specific shade of grey and then be able to tell how many degrees of dark or light from your reference grey is the color you want to indentify while perfect pitch would be like seeing in color. You don't need a reference to differenciate between red and blue, they are just different and that's how notes work for people with perfect pitch.

    5. Here's my question: can perfect pitch people deal with notes outside the western classical scale? I know people with PP hate things being out of tune, but will that mess with their ability to identify notes? Also, what happens when you have more than 12 notes in an octave

    6. Perfect pitch is not inate it is learned at the same time you learn speech and therefore is as instant as any speech recognition in your mother language. If you have perfect pitch tonality is part of your actual language

    7. i guess i have perfect pitch. sucks that i dont know what flat etc means.

      for example i knew all, especially noticeable to D when i realized they use "flat" term.
      i was questioning whats flat

    8. It always makes me feel better to know that everyone with perfect pitch loses it as they age. Something about the inner ear changes so it shifts down i think?

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