Ok. Statement retracted. I guess you can try this system on your students and see how it goes. I for one am curious how successful this is. If this works, I'll be extremely thrilled for I belong to the group of people who believes absolute pitch can be trained and not necessary born with. That proves it can be trained and conditioned. Excellent!
Interesting that your brain register the white keys and you extrapolate to the black keys. In your example, you first identified F, then ascertain it's F# because it sounded "sharper/brighter" than F. For me, F# is just F#. It's very different from F. The "character" is very different. Just like Ab is Ab. It's absolute. I wonder in your case, the absolute pitch training registers the white keys, then you use relative pitching to identify the black keys as they are a semi-tone apart. Not sure if that's how the training goes, but it's interesting nevertheless.
Do let us know how the training goes with your students. Still, I stand by one thing - it's way more important to train relative pitch hearing than absolute pitch.
