can anyone there identify a note when its played...... or sing in correct pitch a given note?

Question

In Hillary's "Rais your Voice"
The teacher makes a note with a tuning fork and tells the students to identify it!!!!!

If its possible with practice...... what is the way to achieve it??

Answer 1

It's called perfect pitch. Some people are just born with it, some people have to go about it the hard way. It'll be a little different for everyone because everyone hears slightly differently, but you can learn it by learning to differentiate between the colors and frequencies of each note. If you don't know what I mean by that, just sit at a piano and play one note over and over until you can here it vibrate in your head and you'll see.

Answer 2

You are referring to "perfect pitch." The ability the identify a a note that's being played by it's letter designation. It's not something you can acquire. You're either born with it, or you're not. I know two musicians who have it, and it's as much a curse as an advantage. It doesn't make you a better musician (there are certainly plenty of excellent musicians without perfect pitch.) It's a hell of a neat trick though. When I was in 7th grade, a trumpet player in the band had it. Our conductor, being skeptical, walked over to the piano a played an altered dominant chord, and the trumpet player said "That's an A7-9." Not only could he identify the pitch, but he could hear all of the individual chord tones. Really cool, but he said when people played out of tune it was excruciating for him.

Answer 3

I am a guitarist of 30 years. I can only do this on certain songs, but it is the way the guitar starts and plays in the song that i can tell. If someone could actually do this it would take a lot of training or a very gifted person ,and I would like to see it because I don't think it's possible.

Answer 4

I can sing a middle C 90% of the time out of my head
I play piano by ear (and also read music)
I have no idea how I do it - have dont it since I was a child
My mother is a pianist and teacher

Answer 5

Yes! I can! I was notorious for that when I was in high school choir and orchestra. It been ten years since I graduated and I still got it! I never really practiced it or anything, it just came natural for me.