My Favorite Ear Training Exercise for Perfect Pitch (Color Hearing - Because Nobody Is Perfect)

When I was in college, my music professor told me that it's impossible to develop perfect pitch as an adult because you have to be "born with it"…
Being the stubborn person that I am, I set out to prove him wrong and what I found was as rewarding as it was surprising…
Here is one of the exercises I use to nurture my own color-hearing perception...

[@anonymous4711_]

starts at 4:50

[@thepainterlyflutist2069]

This is great! You have a real gift not only for making music, but also for teaching. I love your series on singing, and now I've run across this series on perfect pitch. Keep 'em coming!

[@jetdeleon]

oh thanks so much Vicki! It's just so much fun talking about these things… haha

[@smizmar8]

I'm not a musicion but I was sitting one day harmonising with the traffic sounds, and I thought oh maybe this is it. So I went to my music teacher sister and said, I think I have perfect pitch. I got harshly shut down of course, but it wasn't of course to me at the time, I just thought it was something you had or didnt. Out of that discussion came a question from me that went unanswered, how can you have perfect pitch if you don't know the names of the notes or chords etc. For example she would play a note and say what's a 5th above that, and I'm like what's a 5th? Also, I could never sing, family is all musical, singers mainly, and I'm like the non-musical one. Everyone says you can't learn it, but then there are all these ppl on youtube learning it, so what if it wasn't that simple, what if the underlying ability is inate (have it or not), but even if you have it, you then have to go and learn the names of the colours so to speak. Colours make more sense to me because I'm a painter, and they really feel similar, mix in a bit of this and a bit of that untill you find what you like. One of my favourite colours is burnt umber, but do you think I knew the word for burnt umber when I was a kid, nope, but I loved that colour. If I hear a mixture of sounds that I don't like, I know about it immediately lol.

[@anthonymadura9854]

I’m in Portland would be cool to learn from your personal on ear training vocals

[@hefewiseman]

ha, nice,..fun..good job..so many misconceptions about this stuff...keep up the good work!..

[@insidechocolatewithjimothy5313]

You have a really great style mate. Love your music too.

[@jetdeleon]

thanks so much!

[@MRizzolli]

Thanks

[@jetdeleon]

Welcome

[@ramperbear]

Your looking babe. Like the long hair. I live in TX now.

[@jetdeleon]

There you are? I don't see you on Facebook anymore…

[@ramperbear]

@@jetdeleon not on Facebook anymore

[@jetdeleon]

@@ramperbear - understandable. Send me an email at [e-mail] so we can stay in touch

[@JVsMusicalSoundscapes]

I admire your ability to sing pitches from memory... but you are flat wrt your instrument.

[@jetdeleon]

Actually, you are correct…
It’s an entry level Cordoba which I’ve since replaced with a higher quality instrument. Thanks.