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Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch #54

Open nelsonic opened 1 year ago

nelsonic commented 1 year ago

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735612463948

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate longitudinally the process of acquiring absolute pitch (AP). Twenty-four young children (aged 2 to 6 years) without AP were trained to acquire AP using Eguchi’s (1991) Chord Identification Method (CIM). All children were able to acquire AP (except two who ceased training). Results suggest that, at a minimum, children younger than 6 years old are capable of acquiring AP through intentional training. Furthermore, children’s errors observed during training suggested the transition of different strategies relying respectively on tone height and tone chroma. Initially, children identified chords using a strategy depending primarily on tone height, then gradually they began to attend to tone chroma to identify chords and this process ultimately led to acquisition of AP.

via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753838

Eguchi’s (1991) Chord Identification Method (CIM) -> Eguchi Method Perfect Pitch Training System

Pick up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTkX2sb-WA

iteles commented 1 year ago

The trouble with the Eguchi method from my limited research is that the vast majority of the information on it is in Japanese and I haven't been able to find much practical information on how to teach it.

Soft Mozart is also discussed a lot in the perfect pitch community. It's a video game app to teach children how to play piano but because they sing as they play the notes, it is very in tune (haha) with teaching pitch.

Further research:

My only concern with all the methodologies I've found is that they're pretty hard line - you MUST sit in front of the piano/book/instrument for X amount of time a day and you MUST do these exercises or it'll all fail. It was being 'forced' to practice every day for a set amount of time or being chided for not doing so that made me go from loving my instrument to hating it and showing up to lessons having not touched the keyboard from one week to the other.

We'll have to find a way for it to be fun. Like how A requests to read books several times a day.

nelsonic commented 1 year ago

You can make playing piano fun by doing it more often and making it a game.