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First of all I’d like to say that perfect pitch shouldn’t be defined as something that you can learn or you must be born with. It’s just a better understanding of the pitches that you hear. And everyone has some degree of this ability if you’re a musician. Like if you were jamming with a friend, say your playing guitar or any other instrument. And your playing a E and your friend is playing a C#, if you can tell those 2 notes aren’t the same. You have some sort of perfect pitch, cause you can tell there is a difference in sound between those 2 notes. You’re probably saying well that’s relative pitch. No using relative pitch you would know the interval between the 2 notes. But knowing the notes are not the same is the concept behind perfect pitch. Perfect pitch isn’t hearing the notes any different from anybody else. People with perfect pitch just understand the sound of the note, like a G is a bright sound, and an Eb is a softer weaker sound. It’s not looking at it and saying G is higher than Eb (or the other way around) cause if you move one note up or down an octave that’s not the case anymore. But the note you moved up or down still sounds like the same note. That sound is the ‘mystery sound’ of perfect pitch. And those who are referring to the David Lucas Burge’s super course, who are thinking all notes, have a certain color to them. This is completely ridiculous. If you are actually listening to these notes and waiting to hear in the background, this note is the color blue. Your way off, just turn it around. When you look at the color red, do you hear a sound coming from it??? NO. If you do, I want the trip your on. Listen, all he is trying to do is to get you to hear the characteristics of each pitch, like Eb is softer, what is a soft color? Maybe it is a light blue to you. And F# is bright and vibrant, well a bright and vibrant color is red. So Color and Pitch relating together is not Perfect pitch or any kind of pitch perception. Perfect Pitch is just the highest level of pitch perception. Just like 20/20 (or above) vision is the highest level of seeing, Perfect Pitch is the highest level of hearing. If you can understand pitches at this level. Yes, you will be able to name a pitch from ear, and all the other kool things associated with Perfect Pitch.