On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:59 PM, Bill Canty wrote: > > There're some ear training thingies (interval, scale and chord > recognition) here that could be worth a try: http:// > www.musictheory.net/ > > And the price is right, i.e. FREE! =8-) > > But they're only for relative pitch, not perfect pitch... Relative pitch is a necessary prerequisite, I think; if you don't have good relative pitch it will probably be very difficult to learn perfect pitch. I learned perfect pitch as a kid by starting with relative pitch (piano lessons taught me about intervals.) I played double bass in a youth orchestra and heard and tuned to Concert A so much that I could hear it in my head. From there I could figure out a pitch by recognizing the interval from A and doing the note math. Eventually the notes just took on their own character and I could name pitches. I thought it was a parlor trick until I started playing in a band, where it made things a lot easier, particularly since I never mastered the trick of reading a guitarist's left hand. ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details