How can you help a child develop perfect pitch?
How should one train a child to develop perfect pitch? This time, I’d like to delve into that intriguing question.
What is perfect pitch?
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Absolute pitch (Japanese: 絶対音感, zettaionkan; English: perfect pitch) is the ability to recognize the pitch (frequency) of a tone—whether a pure tone or a musical tone—absolutely, based on memory, when the tone is heard in isolation.
In the narrow sense, it is the ability to strongly associate pitch perception with note names and to immediately express a musical tone using note-name or scale-degree notation upon hearing it.
There’s nothing in particular that’s troublesome about having perfect pitch.
People often say things like, “I’m troubled because everyday sounds like ambulance sirens sound like do-re-mi,” and that’s absolutely true, but if you live with this sensitivity long enough, you eventually get used to it.
The accuracy of perfect pitch and personality might also be factors, but it hasn’t really been a problem for me.
When I go overseas, I'm surprised to hear a completely different melody, and I actually end up enjoying it.
Also, apparently to people who don't have it, my habit of immediately humming along as soon as I hear something comes off as nothing but showing off, so I even try to be careful not to hum as much as possible.
What are some tips for helping a child develop perfect pitch?
You can do it with a simple tweak in your everyday life.
Because it only develops when they’re little, please be sure to put it into practice for your beloved child.
You’ll need to make a few tweaks to your lifestyle, but it can be done with just a little ingenuity.
I'll list a few methods that come to mind.
Make sure to set aside time without the TV on.
It’s to cultivate ears that are sensitive to the sounds you hear.
When I'm always hearing sound, I feel like I become desensitized.
I think it’s also something necessary to help a child become good at studying.
I think this also applies to games.
You must not forgive forever.
Let’s let them play in moderation.
Create an environment where we can listen to music together and enjoy it.
Let them experience the ears of an adult who listens to their favorite songs.
A 'pleasant feeling when listening' or a 'sense of excitement and fun' travels through the air and makes people resonate with it.
Though invisible to the eye, I constantly feel there is something that unmistakably comes across.
Putting it into words and talking about it—like saying “It’s a good song” or “It’s lovely”—can also be effective.
Play them lots of music, find out what they seem to like, and let them listen to that over and over.
There’s always some kind of reaction to songs they like—such as reacting oddly to certain tracks or becoming unusually calm with others.
I listen to it a lot if it’s a song I like.
You want to play as many of your favorite songs as possible to train your ears, right?
Make them imitate and sing along to songs they like and are good at, sing to them, sing together, and dance together.
It means showing how you enjoy music and sharing it together, right?
I think this is a clearer version of conveying the feeling from earlier.
It's obviously more fun to take part in music—by singing or playing—than just to listen to it.
It will become possible to send your feelings along with the sound.
Play various sounds to find out what kinds of sounds they prefer.
Just as people have different preferences in music, they must also have preferences in types of sounds.
Only God knows what one will prefer, so you won’t really know until you let them listen to various things.
Is it a voice, or the sound of a piano?violinIs it the sound of ...?saxWhether it’s the sound of a piano or the sound of a cello, the sound that resonates will differ from person to person.
I think the genres of the songs are also quite varied.
By the time they’re around two to three years old, I think they’ll be consciously aware of what they like. Even before they get that big, though, you’ll start to see things like “that piece with this instrument somehow makes them move” or “somehow makes them stop.”
Let them listen to lots of things they like, and raise them to be someone with perfect pitch.
Alright, go dig through your CDs at home and try playing a bunch of them!!
I sincerely hope your life broadens in many ways!
Lastly
By the way,relative pitchIt’s easier to acquire than perfect pitch, and I first learned about the existence of relative pitch when I was in college.
Anyone with perfect pitch also, without exception, possesses relative pitch.
Once you understand how it works, you can put it to use right away.
So if you run into trouble with perfect pitch, you can just switch to using relative pitch.
As long as you don’t shy away from studying relative pitch, there won’t be a single thing you’ll have trouble with when it comes to music.
If someone doesn’t have perfect pitch, once they understand what relative pitch is, it should be possible to develop it even as an adult.