"Perfect Pitch"

IAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... Gotta love him...

If I had more time in my hands, I'd love going there and work my ass off. But that's extreeeeeeeme guitar, so you are right, to get more out of it, you need to have some kind of a decent level. Ia is one of Sweden's top instructor for rock I see... I wish I could do the same in France...

I myself am self taught but not one of those close minded to theory. I would love to attend guitar camp. I think theory is absloutely neccesary but how much? WHat level? I cant be sure so I am just working away at new techniques and theory all the time. If anyone hasnt heard of it I would recommend "the guitar cookbook" by Jesse Gress. Its great alot of stuff to it, it would probally take a few years to pick it all apart I'd bet, nonetheless its a great tool to help learn all aspects of guitar playing. Anyone out there have any books or specific excercises or techniques that they really really think are worth doing or checking out. The only problem I have with the tricks section of the forum is their are alot of "tricks" or "licks" that are useless to me. I think some beginers get a little excited and contribute things they call their riffs that are actually just the minor penta scale. I cant blame anyone for contributing I'm just saying a fair amount of them arent for me and it takes alot of time to sift the poor from good ones. So any good advice or books are much appreciated my friends.

Thomyorke575

On pure technique, check out the book that has been taken from the Video 'rock discipline'.
I've heard that "the advancing guitarist" by mick Goodrick is quite good, haven't used it though.
I also listen to a lot of different things. Your ears are your best teachers.

If the things you say and the notes you play are gracefull and good, they are already "pitched" to the world perfectly,..the rest is only arbitrary semantics.

I like that statement however their is a such a thing as perfect pitch in a more than arbitrary sense. It gives those with it the ability to see music not only hear it and see it in vivid colors. For those of us without it we dont know what its like to have it and therefore cannot miss it. It would be like someone born blind being able to see, sure it sounds good, but you cannot miss something you've never had. I guess thats not the best analogy after all. However if it helps get my point across than great.

Thomyorke575

On a pilgramage one time an old cloaked wise man sat by the road, his eyes were sunken in, he was smilling and singing, obviously blind. We travelled together for a while and I couldn't get over the light and warmth, and wisdom that came from this person. I was very troubled about life at the time. I asked him "old man how come you are so cheerfull and full of life, when you are blind?", Old mihng chang replied..."nechako it is not I (eye) that is blind"

Say, I kept looking at those perfect pitch ads and kept drooling over the idea of being able to think up a note and know where it was, but the $136 price was (and still is) out of my league. Uhh... since there's a 30 day warranty thingy on it, do you think it'd be possible to burn the CD's, then send 'em back? Hmm... The one of you's said you bought the course, and I'm curious if that would work.

hard work is for those who believe regardless of talent,...Master Tzu Nechako.

Yeah, and as once stated by a friend:
"If you earnestly believe that doubling your efforts will compensate for your lack of skill, there is no limit to what you can not achieve." -Matt Rzepa

we who travel this journey together, step by half step together and each day is a mode of discovery.
M.T.Z.

"We're all amatuers. Just some people are more professional about it than others." -George Carlin

"I was self-taught for 30 years... which means that for 30 years, I was getting my instruction from someone who didn't know squat"-Lordathestrings

One small half step for man, one giant lead for mankind.

I've been wonderin myself how to develop this "perfect pitch" thing and Im startin to get a bit upset about what everybody was sayin.. But for me, I will develop "perfect pitch" and I dont care what these guys would say.. Im havin a grasp of it already and by the time I master it, I will come back here for you guys who contradicts the idea.. "Yes you can--if you will..." hehe..

im just very curious about several things:
why are people talking about useless crap on here?

and also, would having perfect pitch really piss you off if your trying to listen to a band, metallica say, and the 2 guitarists are a few frequency Hz out from each other, or from the bass?

im very caught and intrigued by the notion of being a minority and attaining perfect pitch :) but i dont want metallica to sound awful

the whole idea of hearing very very distinct colours totally captivates me...

i must say until it got off subject this was the most interesting thread i've ever read, now i've never used the perfect pitch but i read that what they don't tell you is that you have to pratice it for like 2 hours every day for a year or two, who has that kind of time? yngwie has perfect pitch, and he started music at a young age and probably listened to his sister when he was even younger.

I'm actually posting in reference to the conversation on the first few pages (I'm too damn lazy to read ten pages of posts!) and yeah perfect pitch is a total myth for those of us not born with an enlarged part of the brain (I forget the name) relative pitch is quite simple to develop and I feel I'm pretty good at that, a good test is to tune the B string on a guitar, then, without testing on any other strings, tune the rest of the guitar. Another thing I practiced for years, is singing accapella, I'm now fully capable of singing accapella for 10 minutes before the music comes in, and I'm still totally in tune, I find some people have more of a 'knack' for pitch, I'm more like that, compared to being super talented like many people on this BB. As when I was 14, I couldnt play anything LIKE any of the 14 year olds on here!

ditch the perfect pitch and play like stitch,...or wait isn't that satch?

K, if you can develope relative pitch, why try for perfect pitch? Its good enough to pick out an interval from a root note if you ask me.
With all the stuff everyones talking about on this page I'd just as soon forget the whole idea anyway!