About a week ago, I decided to learn absolute pitch, mostly out of curiosity whether I could do it or not.
I'm not really sure whether I'm unusual in this regard or not, but for many years now I've been able to identify two notes easily: A (from years of tuning my cello, and from the beginning of Grieg's concerto), and D (from Bach's art of the fugue). What I mean by this is that if you asked me to sing an A or a D out of the blue, I could (usually) do it, and if you played a note, I could tell you if it's an A, a D, or neither. (By the way, is this kind of absolute pitch unusual?)
So I'm now working on the rest of the notes. Since what I know so far is based on remembering the sounds from specific pieces of music (albeit only 2), I'm going to try to find a piece for each of the other notes.
So I've also found a good E piece: the beginning of the winter wind etude. I'd like to hear suggestions for pieces (preferably piano pieces, but it's not essential) that have a very identifiable first note, and one piece for each note.
