Anyone who says having Perfect pitch is a drag, either doesn't have it and they are pist that they didn't develop it right, or they have it and their just being a B@tch about everything. Truthfully, it is something to show off cause your perception of pitch is much more keening than another person. Say your friend plays something and he accidentally hits a wrong note. Say he was supposed to play an Eb and he played an E natural. You can let him know right of the bat, and tell him, "you should have played an E natural there, and didn’t you hear how it sounded wrong"? If he doesn't have perfect pitch he probably didn't notice, but you obviously will if you know how the song was supposed to go.

How this is a drag? I don't know. You will get a lot more respect as a musician by doing this. Your friend will appreciated it and you will feel good about it. Actually when you first start noticing things like this, you will sort of blow your self away knowing that you picked up on it so quickly.

Some say having Perfect pitch will drive you crazy cause you'll be able to easier tell if someone is out of tune. OK, you dont need perfect pitch to do this, everybody will know if the band is out of tune or if someone hits a wrong note. If you in a band, and your have perfect pitch, it is much easier to get back in tune more quickly, which I think is a benefit especially live. Say you notice your flat one-half step, you could easier just play everything up 1 fret on your guitar.

Benefits of Perfect pitch. Improvising, you become the king of improvising in your own personal style. Have you ever just started playing something or jamming with a band, and every time you improvise you tend to somethimes hit a wrong note and fall off track. With Perfect pitch this is no longer a problem, you know exactly the note you wanna hit next. Now for shredding a solo, perfect pitch is a major plus but you need good technique. Your probably moving way to fast to think up every note you wanna play.

Now with writting music. For those who write there own music, even if its just little riffs or melodies. How long does it take to you figure out what you hear in your head? Or just riffs? It kind of sucks looking for the right notes, Perfect pitch will help you know the right notes before have to look for them. It also helps you write things in the right key that you wanna hear it in. Transposing is not a drag, you actually become a lot better at transposing than someone who doesn’t have perfect pitch. Say you go to a show and theirs a band there, and there playing a faster upbeat happy song but yet the notes they’re playing are rather downish. This is recognized by people with or without perfect pitch. Although the advantage of perfect pitch is that you would know a good key to transpose a song into using your personal taste. Now this doesn’t mean you hear a song and you don’t like the key its in, thing is you probably would have never liked that song anyways.

Now I know this all sounds too good to be true. It’s not because these benefits are full of sh#t, it’s because you are taught to think this ability is only for the gifted. And you’ll never be able to get, well I know that you can obtain it. You already have it, you just need to know how to use it. So just take 5-10 out of your time and listen for it. What have you got to lose?

*You only have to spend 5-10 minutes listening, don’t think sitting there for hours is gonna make it mature faster. Just chill and relax.

Another thing, having Perfect pitch does not guarantee that you will become a Mozart, or a Malmsteen. Perfect pitch is just a great boost to everything else. But you need to be very creative and you must have good rhythm. You can have perfect pitch and if you have no rhythm or your not able to create, you not going be able to get any better. Sorry.


[Edited by noticingthemistake on 08-06-2002 at 08:38 PM]