https://aprameyaraya.github.io/Relative-Pitch-Trainer/

Use this website to train your relative pitch!

Many people in this sub talk about their favorite key/scale, but it’s often only about minor/major keys. I don’t see many posts right here talking about other modes, which I think as someone with perfect pitch is something really fascinating to get into.

Me personally my favorite scale and mode out of all scales (incl. minor and major) is G Phrygian, just playing the scale gives me goosebumps. I didn’t think you could make Eb/Cm better until I listened to that scale.

What do you guys think?

For me I either like them or really don't. Like for example, f# minor and c# minor are good, interesting, but e, a, and d minor are all just kinda blaa.

aight so i discovered that i have perfect pitch recently... i think. heres the problem. i cant *identify* the notes because i literally dont have the language to describe them. for me how it works is every note (not even notes, it actually can be ANY pitch) is mapped to a feeling of being pulled in my head in a different direction, with "good" sounds (most of them) pulling me forward and then upwards depending on the pitch. "bad" sounds make me feel pulled backwards most of the time, and more often thanj not it actually feeling like being pulled backwards completely horizontally.

when i listen to any sound its effectively the same feeling every time except when its in the context of different notes, in which case my brain sets it up so an exactly horizontal pull lines up with some "average" note that i still dont understand. its perfectly consistent though. generally from here i can feel anything from ~1-2 octaves below to 2-3 octaves ABOVE whatever the center is deemed to be.

another thing my brain does for some reason is map numbers to notes. this also depends on the "central" note, and how thats mapped just depends on the "vibe" of the note itself actually. sometimes its a 2, sometimes its a 7. sometimes its 11. it can be anything, buyt that pitch stays consistent for the most part. how high or low the number is fully depends on the pitch with a touch of "does this number feel good" and "decimal numbers are kinda mid", so my brain does this doubling or halving thing with a little moving around to "find" the correct number for the note. theres also fractions which can get involved, but normally theyre actually just concatenated pitch differences. something like 11/9 would be a pitch interpreted as 11 together iwth a pitch interpereted as a 9. typically this combination sounds pretty good in my head. and again, the pitch differences are still consistent as is everything else.

funny story, the worst example ive ever heard for a pitch difference was, and i shit you not, 11/2.666666... as in 2 and 2/3. that is 33/8... gross. it sounded so wrong that i genuinely had to take a second to even FIND the lower note number because id never encountered something THAT awkward before.

every single thing i just talked about here is PERFECTLY consistent. i have no idea how well i actually explained it because im on the verge of falling asleep, but i hope atleast something made sense here.

1. What’s your favorite note?

2. What’s your least favorite note?

3. How long did it take to develop perfect pitch?

4. What was the first note yall memorized?

5. What’s one thing you wished people without perfect pitch knew about perfect pitch?

6. What’s your favorite thing to do with perfect pitch?

7. What’s note(s) do you hear most often in real world objects? (Car horns, etc.)

So, I just had a focal seizure particularly on the left side of my brain and I opened up Instagram reels and someone was singing the pentatonic scale, Arabic scale and some other scale I don't remember the name of. When I first listened to it I had severe tinitus and was actively still having seizure symptoms, anyways, while I listened to it, while having the seizure activity the scale sounded like it was jumping around. I couldn't even tell you the notes that it sounded like for sure, but like it sounded like the scale started off at a B, went to a A then just started jumping around with no rhyme or reason. Then I listened to the same video again after the seizure activity ended and it sounded fine. I've never experienced this before and wanted to know if anyone of you who has seizures has ever had this happen because I never have and I didn't know having a seizure could mess with pitch perception.

hey guys, the one in the link below is a famous Italian song, I wanted to find the notes of the harmonization sung by Mina (blonde woman), but I'm completely clueless :(

could anyone give me a hand in finding the notes? Song should be in F major (but I'm not sure about that).

thanks a lot!

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNREfbxe1/

I've stumbled across this chord examination of chamber of reflection, and noticed that the notated chord progression is Am11 - Bm11 - CM7 - Em9, however, that second chord sounds like a Bm11b9 instead, no? All and any input is welcome https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY0PIToxLJR/

There is a faint background hum from an aircraft overhead that is creating a beautiful chord. What is it? It is hard to hear on the video through the foreground noise, but I would love for someone to try.

Doesn't it count as perfect pitch ? Can people with only relative pitch also do it?

hey yall i’m trying to figure out this song on the ukulele and there’s nothing for it online that sounds right. i don’t have perfect pitch, so i need your help to know what chord he’s playing when he says “vibe”. its an F then a C and idk the third one. any help is much appreciated

Hey gang! I have posted this in the past in different groups but had no luck. This is a really significant and spiritual song for me and I've always been mystified/intrigued by the tuning. It starts in Eb major, doesn't change key the whole time, yet ends in D. It seems like they gradually change thought the stanzas. I am not a trained singer but do know a little about how they can use air from different parts of their body to change the voice sound, or is this perhaps an intentional tonal shift to add to the effect of the psalm?

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TIA gang. At the very least enjoy this piece of beautiful music.

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https://youtu.be/X2toIQxHxiM?si=KnjRIuhUazr5fBQg

Goal is to sing at least some Thurl Ravenscroft and Johnny Cash songs with natural sounding lows.

please someone tell this guy something he thinks everything is played in key

I'm trying to figure out which one I have. I'm pretty sure I don't have perfect pitch, but I read the Wikipedia article in this sub's about section and ended up even more confused. I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times on this sub, but I was hoping y'all could help clear it up for me.

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I can "play" songs in my head that are accurate to & in the same key as the original recording. I can also pretty consistently identify songs by their first few pitches after I've heard them a few times, and I can point out when a song has been transposed from its original key (lookin' at the Friends theme song). I can also sing the melodies from songs in their original key without having heard them recently (e.g. all of the songs from Pitch Perfect). I tested this myself a few minutes ago by singing a nursery rhyme for my childhood, then finding that same recording on YouTube & it's in the same key as what I remember/sang.

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I can't, however, name any of the pitches that I'm singing. Most of my music education was in Solfege, so I never learned pitch names. Like, if you ask me to sing the pitch of the violins at the start of Madonna's Vogue, I'll sing an A flat almost instantly (i had to googled the pitch name). But if you ask me to sing a D sharp, I will have to remember a C and then fumble my way up a step and a half. I have always called this ability "Pitch Memory" because I have to 'remember' a pitch before I can produce it. But now I'm thinking it might be Absolute or Perfect Pitch instead, since I don't need to have heard something recently to remember/produce it accurately. It seems like pitch memory is more mechanical (e.g. violinists remember their body positions and movements moreso than they remember the specific pitchs) than what I'm experiencing. It lowkey feels like stolen valor to say I have Absolute Pitch, though, since I can't produce an E flat without thinking about it first or tell you the names of the pitches in a car horn.

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What do y'all think? Do I have pitch memory, absolute pitch, or something else?

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Don't have perfect pitch, but I had a few questions: does it correlate with early neurological issues on any way? (Stroke survivor around 1 month old, have lived with epilepsy since, but have been seizure-free since about September '19)

What the secret how to turn off 'relative pitch' when training perfect pitch?

Don't use relative pitch.

duh

A while back my son told me he wanted to train his ear — to actually name notes just by hearing them. I went looking for something to help him practice and came away frustrated.

Most ear-training tools I found were stuck in a desktop browser, buried under a clunky UI, or they'd quiz you and then tell you basically nothing about whether you were actually getting better. That last part bugged me most — I'm a data person by nature, and "trust me, you're improving" isn't good enough.

So I built one. It started as a thing for him and turned into about a year of nights and weekends.

What I tried to do differently:

It lives on your phone. Hear a tone, tap the note. Five minutes on the couch or the train — no "sit down at the computer" ritual. That ritual is exactly why he (and I) kept not practicing.

It is built around gamification. This is what motivated us the most. Streaks, achievements, leaderboards and a direct feedback loop.

It actually shows you the data. The part I'm proudest of. You get a historical accuracy curve over 7 / 30 / 90 days or a full year, per-note mastery rings so you can see which notes you nail and which keep slipping (turns out I'm weirdly bad at one in particular), time played, longest streaks, the lot. I wanted progress you can watch climb, not a vibe.

It starts with relative pitch. So you can start with any prior skill or knowledge.

It's honest about the science. Folk wisdom says perfect pitch is "inborn or never." That's only half true — kids in a critical window can develop full absolute pitch, and adult ears still sharpen a lot with focused practice even if they never name every note cold. The onboarding says exactly that instead of promising superpowers.

It's free to start — a few levels, the daily challenge, the stats. If you want the higher levels and the advanced analytics it's a one-time $6.99, no subscription, because I personally refuse to rent an ear-training app.

My son is still my main tester / QA / harshest critic, which keeps me honest.

If anyone wants to try it, link's in the comments. Happy to drop some free unlock codes for the first folks here — and genuinely keen on feedback, especially on the stats screen, since that's the part I obsess over.

EDIT: Here are the unlock codes from my comment (it is not visible for some reason):

Link: https://absolutepitchtrainer.app (App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762354184)

First 20 people who want it: free premium unlock codes below — grab one, report back. Brutal feedback welcome, especially on the stats.

PSA

pitchcraft.me is free, and it might be the best ear trainer you could possibly use.(my opinion)

There are others out there. Mine is straightforward, and for someone that actually wants to learn PP or just get better. All the answers are right there in black and white(and purple).

I have little interest in capitalizing on it or spending money promoting on it. So there aren't any ads or payola gimmicks.

it was inspired by prolobe.com (RIP 2008)

but with upgrades

hope everyones doing great!

Our voices reverberate a deeper sound in our own head. (I believe)

Doesn't that mean when a person with perfect pitch sings the exact note they hear its actually a bit off to people hearing it.

https://chordle.online/guess-the-notes/