THE GENESIS OF ABSOLUTE PITCH What do we know about the genesis of absolute pitch? Some investigators have suggested that it is acquired through learning. On the basis of this assumption, a number of researchers developed programs to train people to acquire it. What was most note worthy about these programs was their lack of success people la bored for many months to achieve absolute pitch, often without succeeding, and even when they were fairly successful, their perceptions did not have the immediacy and effortlessness of the perceptions of individuals who naturally possess this faculty.