With the ear training that I have been doing, I decided to take Toned Ear’s perfect pitch test to see how things were coming along. The results were about what I expected. The test is fairly straight forward: the website will play a piano note, and you have to name it. At first glance, myContinue reading “I took a perfect pitch test. This is what I got.”

Perfect pitch, also known as absolute pitch, is the ability to identify or sing a given note without reference. In other words, if I were to play an E (and only an E) on the piano, someone with perfect pitch would be able to identify the note blind folded. A singer with perfect pitch couldContinue reading “What is Perfect Pitch?”

When I was growing up, I had a worship pastor who had this seemingly magical ability. He could name any note by ear without reference. He could tell you what key any song was in just by listening to it once. He could also, apparently, look at sheet music for the first time and hearContinue reading “Can You Develop Perfect Pitch?”