SolfetoAbsolute pitch, explained
Absolute pitch is naming a note when you hear it on its own. These guides say what it is, how it differs from relative pitch, what the research found about adults learning it, and how to train it and test it honestly. The reference has every note's frequency, to read and to play.
Guides
- What absolute pitch isAbsolute pitch is naming a note heard on its own, with no other note to compare it with. What it is, how rare it is, and what it is good for.
- Absolute and relative pitchRelative pitch hears the distance between notes. Absolute pitch names one note on its own. How the two differ, and why a slow answer gives one away as the other.
- Can adults learn itTwo peer reviewed studies trained adults to name pitches. What they did, what most learners reached, and what the numbers mean for anyone starting now.
- How to train itStart with two pitches far apart, answer with no reference note, check every answer, and add a pitch only when you are fast and right. The method the studies used.
- How to test itMost online pitch tests can be passed with relative pitch. How to run a test that cannot: single notes, random order, mixed instruments, no answers until the end.
- The training appSolfeto trains absolute pitch recognition in five minute daily sessions. Two pitches on day one, a new one when you hold them, and a check every seventh day.
- Fixed do and movable doIn fixed do, do is always C. In movable do, do is the first note of the key. Which one names absolute pitches, and the syllables of each.
- The names of the notesWestern music names twelve notes, then repeats them. Sharps and flats, why a black key has two names, and what the number in C4 means.
Reference
The twelve notes
In the order they join a learner's set in Solfeto. Each has a page with its names and its frequency in every octave.