Perfect pitch testA4 = 440 Hz

What perfect pitch is

Perfect pitch, also called absolute pitch, is naming a note, or singing one, without hearing another note first. Most trained musicians have relative pitch instead: they hear the distance between notes and name the second note once they know the first one.

Reading your result

Naming most notes correctly without the A points to absolute pitch. Naming them only after the A is relative pitch at work, and it is the skill that aural exams test. Many answers one semitone off usually mean you hear the region of a note but not its exact name yet.

Can adults learn it?

For a long time absolute pitch was thought to be possible only for people who started music very young. A 2019 study in PLOS ONE (Van Hedger, Heald and Nusbaum) trained adults for eight weeks: some reached the accuracy of people with absolute pitch, and the best learner still had it four months later.

How Hearmony trains it

The perfect pitch programme in Hearmony Pro starts with two notes, adds new ones as you succeed and plays the A reference less often at each stage until it is gone. Wrong answers lead to a Contrast Duel on the two notes you confused.