@@waterboy50-zb6xf It is true that when I hear some beep on the street, sometimes the song that actually begins with that exact note comes to mind, sometimes I am certain it is that key, but that's not 100% accurate of course. I guess I can follow that vein and train it, but I find it hard to believe it is trainable. If it was, wouldnt the thousands of music students who graduate each year have done it? I know no one who has done it as an adult not seen one on the internet. I don't think it's doable. By the way, I don't even want it necessarily. I've trained relative pitch a lot, I already can transcribe very fast. And I've heard of friends with absolute pitch who are uncomfortable listening to a piece if it is not tuned in 440, even if all the instruments are in tune in reference to each other. I don't want that, that's an annoyance, not something that helps me.
This is the Central Scrruutinizer. It is my duty to inform you that "music" leads to a slippery slope. This horrible force called "music" will lead you to do wrong things and is dangerous to society at large !! Especially "high" "information" music such as you describe !
It's good for someone like me who developed perfect pitch right from the start. But when he gets in the video, when he discusses "use it or lose it", It can apply to many things. I got the music thing and play by ear. But, I must not have had the exposure for so many other things in my life that would have helped me get by. I did very poorly in school and never really could/can hold a regular job because of my drawbacks. But those drawbacks, those secondary things, kept me from being able to make a career out of music because it all hindered the process and got in the way. So, I am an excellent musician, composer, arranger in my own right, but I just cannot get it all in gear because of the mundane things, non music related that hold me back. Not to mention a severe learning disability. But just saying.
You just need to PRACTICE developing relative pitch to the highest level. That is much faster than PP. Dylan uses Relative Pitch much more than his PP. That's why he's so fast at these complex chords.
i ve practiced for 3 months singing 3 whole steps down and up( from major third to Tonic or from tonic to major third) while i was practicing, i ve pictured evry intervall in my mind... and now, when i listen to some songs on the radio, i can transcribe melodys without my instrument(keyboard), i just hum the melody, and i know the intervalls, specially major third, major second,tonic,major sixth....and i ve figured out that i trancribe songs in a different key than it is originall...sometimes i m in B major, sometimes i m in C major, or C# major...always in that spectrum no matter what key the original song is in what i transcribe....
I'm cracking up. You tinked that note in the beginning and said this is an Ab and I instantly said in my head, are you sure it's not an A? Lololol I'm laughing so hard then Dylan runs up and corrects you this is great humor
there are 2 ways to analyze music. first, is to analyze the melody by mentioning every tone (perfect pitch). second, is to analyze the melody by comprehending the emotion resulted by specific intervals of tones in a song (solfeggio/solmization)
you can get "pretty good pitch" with practice though. I can tune my guitar within a semitone without a tuner. There are songs that I've listened to so much that they appear in my head pretty close to their right pitch. From that, I can fake my way to "pretty good pitch" by actually using relative pitch. I bet most musicians can do something similar. Of course not to diminish the wonderful skill that would be to have perfect pitch.
I think the reason you can do that is because a different pitch on a stringed instrument has a different tambre as well as pitch (the string is looser) so you can approximate the tone more easily than pitch
I don't know I'm starting to be able to pull notes out of the air without an instrument with me and I check it with the tuner on my phone and I'm right more times than I expect. I know it's not the same but it's something I could not do years ago and have worked towards being able to do so
Actually it brings hope for me that one day my kids will have perfect pitch! And I don't really care about perfect pitch, for me it doesn't make music less pleasant.
Rick, thanks for your no-nonsense summary of the AP ability. I would just note that there are documented cases (in online forums since 2000s) of people who apparently had their AP almost ripe but still latent, and they did not exhibit it until they got a final "push" from some ear training exercises in their late teens/early 20s. Their cases therefore appear as non-children developing AP from ear training exercises way outside the "pliable brain" window. And I'm talking about the resulting ability to name all the notes in complex chords just like in-born AP'ers and otherwise being "one of them," not just pitch imagery. Thanks. )
As such cases exist it does prove that perfect pitch can be developed or acquired by adults, the mare fact one case is known shows that it is possible for adults. I would of agreed if there weren't any cases at all but the fact that the scientists need numbers to prove that adults have or can obtain perfect pitch is nonsense, maybe they should test more adults all across the world to make such conclusion. Other than, the rest of the info was good in the video, however, the video should be renamed: 'Babies with perfect pitch' , quite misleading the name.
Amazing. Some of my students have developed perfect pitch, and in my old age I am getting better at it. Wish I had it - I have a constant 'G' in my ears from tuning the bass for so long, and I can compare other pitches to it, but you kids' abilities are just astonishing. Good work, dad.
From my own experience, I believe there are degrees of ability in pitch recognition, and that it is something that can be developed. As a child, I took piano lessons but had no concept of absolute pitch. But as an adult I began to notice that sometimes when I heard a note, some song would suddenly pop into my head for no apparent reason. I felt totally sure that the note I heard was the exact note from the song, and upon playing the song, found that I was almost invariably correct. I have been developing this method for re-producing a "B" at will, by imagining the first note of the song "Surf City" by Jan and Dean (for some reason this song is easy to imagine in the right key). I have not mastered this but have definitely improved and probably hit it right about 4 out of 5 times, even in the morning when I haven't heard any music for over 8 hours. And of course if I hum a B correctly , I can quickly figure out any other note I hear since my relative pitch is good. My point is that there are degrees of this ability, ranging from someone who can instantly and effortlessly identify any note, to some one like me who, with great concentration and mental effort, can identify any note a fairly high percentage of the time. I do have an uncle who has 100% perfect pitch, so perhaps I have the gene.
First of all, I’m interested to know how good you have gotten. I’m 17 and a few weeks ago I started practicing singing the 2nd guitar string from memory (2nd because E2 is a bit to low, which might make me sing an F2) but I do still think about how the E string sounds and THEN the A string. And I also get it right quite often.
Yeah, I do this aswell to identify the notes. For example, if I'd want to imagine a D, I'd think of the first note in Nirvana's Come As You Are, and so on and so forth. I started ear training properly around a couple weeks ago and can identify most notes pretty quickly, but chords are still difficult for me at the moment.
You are exactly right! I sing and play keyboards for a living and cannot read music. But I can easily identify if a song is in A, for example, by relating it to songs I know that in A and I recall the memory of what an A sounds like. From there I can find any key or note just by relating it to the sound of songs in that key or the prominent note repetition of that song. I am almost always correct!
I am a retired musician, I was always proud of my good relative pitch. I learned to be thankful for it when I observed one of my colleagues, a pianist who happened to have perfect pitch, struggle whenever he had to perform a recital on a piano that could not be tuned properly.
I don’t have perfect pitch. But I would struggle with a piano that is not properly tuned. Relative pitch does not provide any advantage here. Being used to instruments that are always in tune is what causes anyone to struggle with instruments that are not in tune.
Great video, and spot on. It's sad however, the amount of people in the comments who are associating perfect pitch with talent, and that not having it means your chances with music are doomed. These people have clearly never studied, practiced music, or been around talented musicians that have shown you what a well practiced relative pitch and creativity can achieve.. Perfect pitch certainly is a powerful tool, but it doesn't make you a great musician on its own. Exaggerated analogies here, but you're not a great chef because your taste buds work and you're not a great painter because you can identify colors, although it will help! Like the man said, a whole lot of people graduated from music conservatories without it (most of them) and guess what, a lot of them are accomplished musicians
This is like pure gold. I just clicked an interesting compression theory video and I discovered one of the best channels I have ever seen. Thanks so much for your videos like this, and thanks for show your son learning in a very nice way to understand the learning process of music in a several ways.
Hey Rick, I'm a 17 year old male, and i've just recently discovered I have perfect pitch. (After being in band and playing guitar aswell for 5 years). The reason I never knew I had it is because I never put any names to the sounds i was hearing, just thought I didn't have perfect pitch and didn't even try, because I could name a note right away, but its because I never actually named the Note in the first place. It is very weird, It is very easy for my to identify all the White notes of the piano no matter how low or how high, and chords, I am not as good with the chromatics as I don't think I've been exposed enough, but with my daily testing I am improving on them. Yes, I do actually have perfect pitch, I hear notes around the house and all sorts, can tell what key things are in and sing a note on command wether you wake me up in the middle of the night or not. Has there been any similiar cases of this you know of? (My Brother also has perfect pitch I just thought I never had it).
LegendOfzLink, uh, the g at the beginning I got instantly, as it's the first note of the Song Of Time (judging by your name I'll assume you know what that is). I'm trying to focus on learning one thing to play that starts with each note. This is because I don't read music or think of them as notes, but use Synethstesia (the app not mental condition) so I see notes when they're played. As a gaming fan, I use Zelda stuff to learn loads, as well as the odd anime theme.
But my fingers are so clumsy the problem is playing the fuckers. As far as I'm concerned, since my brain is still developing, I'll drill learned skills like this in as much as possible, since music and German has since piqued my interest, my scores have gone up rather dramatically, from grade 1/5 to 4/5 in about three months with no revision. Like, it must suck having to revise stuff.
lol right, for as long as I can remember I've instantly recognized notes as, for example, the first note in x song without conciously thinking about it. I don't accidentally transpose music when I recall it either
It seems I can also isolate notes in complex chords pretty well, if the timbre of the instrument isn't too noisy.. With harder ones I imagine the chords as an ascending arpeggio instead of a block chords and I can usually tell when I'm missing a subtle dissonance. I think I just need to really work on memorization
Absolutely agree. There are scientific articles on this topic - it is called "Window of Opportunity for Learning Language", but, obviously, it is applied to Perfect Pitch development. Basically, it is very important to spread the word regarding the importance of the importance of very early infants development.
This inspires me to make my daughter to have perfect pitch too. Thank you for this video , 😊😊 we are learning and we're blessed here in the Philippines 😊.. GOD bless you Sir and your family.. !
Where there is a will there is a way...its all familiarity...if you have a good nervous system and are able to hear you can do it.... It may take ten or 15 years of dedication, but if you really want it, you can get it...Perfect Pitchhhhh, I'm coming for YOUUUU
I did a great course on bilingualism and part of the course included perfect pitch - and you're 100% correct - The course was run through the Houston Uni Neuroscience department - I beileve it was called the Bilingual Brain. Very informative course.
Having been present at the birth of, and shepherded the development of three humans - I'm convinced that nature and nurture work hand in hand. From the first few seconds of life outside the womb, each of my children presented themselves as individuals. Their personalities were different and evident literally from the first moments. As a scientist/engineer, this completely distorted my view of humans as being blank slates at birth - and that nurture held precedence over DNA programming. But as a father, I found that not to be completely true - only partly. Now as my children are all past college and into adult life I am privileged to see the arc of development of complete people - and I can say for a fact that nature played a huge component in who they became. Much more than I would have liked to admit. This leads me to believe that in order to develop these "interesting advanced" skills - there has to be a fertile ground with which to work. I think you are either born with the ability to develop perfect pitch - or not. People without the genetic capability can try all they want - and fail. Just like most of us would fail at becoming a Lebron James-quality NBA player no matter how hard we try (height, for example, plays a role in that), if you don't have the right-stuff for perfect pitch - you're not going to develop it. But if you do have the capacity, and your parents work to develop it in you from a young age - then you'll always have it. My parents worked with me on my math capabilities from the time I could walk, and thus, I did extremely well in math and reading (and science) as a young person - and thus I was always at the top of my classes. But my brothers and sisters - with whom they also put in the time - did not. Same nurturing environment, utterly different outcome.
Wow! This is SO fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing this - makes me believe even more about the wonder and beauty of the world and what magic humans are capable of, if channeled the right way.
Thanks, Rick. You are brilliant. I’m a former NYC session trumpet player (‘68 to ‘72) with a few degrees in music. I was only OK, so I regretfully gave up music as a career. Now, retired, I listen all day, favoring session trumpet players such as Wayne Bergeron. I only wish I had the talent to be one. I want to get back playing again. Thinking of taking a lesson. Anyway, I’m fortunate that my musical brain works like yours. Again, Bravo!
Since you're apparently Perfect Pitch, I'm curious. Is it flat or sharp? Or just closest to an A. Cause if it's closest to a A but it's a bit flat... He could kinda technically be corrreeect? Can you hear micro-tones?
MegaMech It's an A, not noticeably sharp or flat enough to be a different note. It can still be a flat A without being flat enough to be Ab, if that makes sense lol
You are absolutely right, Sir. It's a developed trait when we still have that window. I think my own case is extremely interesting. I have been recovering my perfect pitch on the 2nd 3rd and 4th octave since about 1 year ago when i started my vocal training since age 36. I still wonder till yesterday why I can acquire these ability while others cannot. and i saw your video. Yes I remembered I listened to classical pieces even before i could speak, because of my father, and i learned piano when i was a kid, very briefly, but still it gave me some deep memory about music pitches. now after more than 30 years the pitches still rings in my head, i am picking them up one by one. Thank you again for the brilliant explanation. Wish you and your family well and happy. Now it's time to call my father and say "I love you", i suppose. :D
You have been gifted with a miraculous son and I take my hat off to your excellent training regime. As regards teaching children in all facets of education, including music, there is still waaaaay too much guess work and slavish adherence to what educators think works best. The truth is that as you have discovered, there needs to be a strong understanding of neurological development and theory to develop learning systems that take the best advantage of each "learning window" as they present themselves. The plasticity of the brain at each level of development will not return unless some intensive "unlearning" of poor habits takes place at a later time. Unfortunately by then the damage is done. I used to be an elementary teacher and I'd love a dollar for every time I heard a parent ask (especially as regards boys) "How can I get my kid to read more?" Often times these were the same parents who let their kids watch tv as much as they wanted, never modelled reading or taking pleasure in reading and never had a "quiet time" during the evening in which everybody in the house took some time to read. For kids like this more often than not the horse had bolted and they would face some years of "reading recovery" to get back on track or some damn good teachers who could instil a love of reading into them when they were still in their pre-teen years. Teacher training should comprise mandatory study of neurological development and teachers in ongoing service should be provided periodic training in the latest neurological discoveries.
I have perfect pitch, which helps me learn and arrange my music by ear. I used to think I must’ve earned it through hard work and smarts, but after watching this video, I guess luck had a little to do with it too, haha. :)
That's great. I played piano before I could walk. :) I don't have PP, but I can identify easily. :) I wish my parents had been as smart and as supportive as Rick B. :D (Not dissing my parents, they're awesome. Just didn't know to support music this way or anything close to it.) I hope these kinds of videos set a new precedent for all kids with such abilities. I love what this guy said about the neurosurgeon-musician at Harvard.
This is the most fascinating clip I've watched all year. The comparison of sound with colour (it is all frequencies & amplitudes after all) makes total sense. I think we all have the language of music intuitively, given even the most complex orchestral piece can be reduced to amplitude & frequency ie it's all decoded by the brain. Most of us just can't transcode music into spoken language (like we all do with colour). Those with perfect pitch have the benefit of being able to translate music into the spoken & written linguistic code. It looks like a miraculous super-power until you start breaking it down.
I gained perfect pitch by listening to lots of harmonic music and building up a catalogue of sounds of what different notes, chords and harmonies sounded like. This process took about three years before I could fluently know these from merely hearing them but it happened. Trust me, studying piano at university, having perfect pitch makes melodic dictation and chord recognition for theory soooo much easier.
@@FutureAbe you are of course very correct, I actually just found for note recognition that that was the easiest process for myself. So thinking about it, I guess rather than perfect pitch now that you mention it I’m now thinking about it as just really fast relative pitch. I do know the difference, I just was explaining my process rather than mentioning jargon that non-musicians don’t necessarily know the differences. Singers I work with do ask me to sing notes on the spot which I can do but I guess the thought pattern is still the same, minus the initial vocalising of relative notes. I don't need a reference note to produce a pitch which is the definition of absolute/perfect pitch though. Thank you, you made me realise something in a way I hadn’t considered myself.
This is really good to get you thinking. One thing I have discovered is that I coiuld probably fine tune my listening to develop perfect pitch. Yes I know you've said it cant' be done unless you do it as a kid but I'm finding the more I listen and play the easier it becomes to put names to the frequencies I hear, Music melodies are the same. There is so much music I could hum or sing but have no idea what peice it is. Just listened to "The swan" and my first thought was "Ah that... Of course I know that" (I just didn't know it was the swan)
@@ДмитрийКончаков-п5ы tempo is way different from rhythm... tf, and no people that cant tell the difference between ryhthm and tempo probably cant "feel" a quarter note triplet.
Imagine being the piano teacher for Rick's kids. Like going to see your girlfriend's parents for the first time and finding out that The Rock is her father.
I remember the first time I met a guy with perfect pitch I was in 6th grade and I thought he was playing a trick on me until years later. I had never heard of perfect pitch back then. This is the most interesting vid you've ever done Rick.
Super interesting video Rick, thanks. It'll be interesting to see a few years down the road how reliably Neuryl is able to result in kids with perfect pitch.
Dude, Rick, you are exceptional man. And as your own father did for you with music etc. your children will grow and also benefit from having you. Thank you for sharing!
Ahh!... It makes me sad my parents weren't musicians! And I discovered I LOOOVE music only I was 20-30! And now I'm a full time composer and often make a living composing music, but I feel I'm so much weaker than all the 12 year old musicians who studied it since they were 5 just because they had musical parents. It makes me so self-concious!
Love your vids! The whole "use it or lose it" is actually a misconception. It would be interesting to conduct a new study in the light of the new research that has surfaced. Neuroplasticity and neurogenesis is actually possible well into adulthood. Thats what makes it possible to learn multiple languages as an adult. This stuff lights a fire in the music nerd in me. Thanks!
I am 57 and about a year and a half ago I started to develop the ability to sing E, G, and A without aid. There is the odd occasian where I will be off by about a 1/2 step, but most of the time I hit it right on, and it seems to have improved. These notes are used at the beginning of the news broadcast on CBC Radio 1, which I listen to while driving long distances. I did not practice to get it, I just realized I could nail the notes just about every time. I have never been able to do that in the past. Just thought I would mention it.
Amazing how children can teach us & how critical early leaning and training actually is to cognitive development. The future of music is in safe hands. I always assumed that something played out of tune would give those with perfect pitch extreme discomfort. Apparently not. You must be one proud dad!
Rick, I am living in Vietnam and it is usual to sing karaoke here with friends in front of your house. They turn the volume up so high that all the neighbors 100s of meters around can hear it - no kidding. I've never heard anybody singing well and in tune 😂
I hear it as an encouragement to treat music as a language and expose children to music theory from birth instead of waiting until they are older. It's a great gift to be able to pass this insight on to the next generation, because the only way they can get it at a young age is for us to give it to them.
I grew up speaking a very tonal language (Cantonese, 9 tones), my mom had a very good ear (could sight-sing impeccably), and my uncle (her brother) has absolute pitch. Sometimes I wonder if I could have developed it myself if only I'd shown more aptitude for music at a younger age... After all, I seem to have the heriditary advantages! My parents tried to put me in piano lessons at age 4 but I had zero interest. I started again at age 6 and now I'm a pretty decent musician, but only with mediocre relative pitch.
The best video I never seen talking about perfect pitch and the exposition of many ideas and characteristics of this hability. Im a mexican musician and I have perfect pitch too, But many people didnt believe me when I tell them that its a characteristic that can be acquired.
Hey Rick, I don't have perfect pitch... and I'm a 30 year old adult. I'm going to be the guy who learns perfect pitch. I don't believe in limitation. There has to be a way to develop it! It might take a while but I'll let you know how it turns out :)
Lmao well.... Its still hit or miss.. No clue as to how long its gonna take to lock it in like his child in the video but my ear is def getting more accurate with time! I see what he means as far as why he thinks it impossible but im sure with proper focus and regularly testing myself that i will eventually figure it out in a very consise and clear manner. Might take a year... Might take ten years... Maybe 50 years haha we'll see. Thanks for checking in with me!
Just found Rick Beato's channel yesterday and I was astounded at his high level of knowledge on various music topics, but now I'm even more impressed and surprised by his scientific knowledge. He even busted out a pub med study on his one perfect pitch video lol. I'm a pharmacy student and a musician so I have love for both
I watched this video a few years ago and adopted all of your suggestions in a guitar context. My main goal is creativity on the guitar, rather than strict virtuosity in any sense, so I've been trying to take your ideas and apply them by inventing my own idiosyncratic patterns and exercises, so that I can build my own guitar vocabulary that's not bound by what I've heard in the guitar music that I already know I like. It's really interesting to rewatch now, and discover what you suggested that I didn't focus on as much the first time around. I'm really excited about the idea of doing more ear training and sight reading, to expand my musical brain and get into some new things.
@@debolinabhattacharyya5179 Yeah, he probably gained instrument-specific-absolute-pitch, or absolute-recall-from-memory. Perfect pitch, on the other hand, is immediately identifying *any* note without a reference. He basically created a "virtual reference", through ear training. He may have reinforced this by hearing a single song multiple times, or playing the same notes on his violin multiple times.
@@arunkarthikma3121 I also developed perfect pitch at 14, and I'm able to identify and sing notes without reference. Granted, it's worse than it would be had I acquired it earlier on. Sort of like learning your colours really late.
@@terralexj9468 Hmm, this could be "absolute recall from memory" that I spoke of.. I think this stuff exists on a spectrum. Some people have internalised all 12 notes while others can only recall a few Do watch Adam Neely's video "Why you don't want Perfect Pitch". He explains much better than I could (providing research). He also explains his personal experience -how he doesn't have perfect pitch but is able to recall all the notes using memory
@@terralexj9468 If you feel that "Relative Pitch" doesn't apply to you then, maybe, it could be that you already had perfect pitch all along! Like seeing the colors but not knowing their names. On the other hand, maybe we don't know the full story about perfect pitch yet?
Wow! Great video, I teach chemistry in high school, and I have a huge background in neurology. I have said there is a window for learning and we do our students a big disservice in trying to teach them language in the teen age years. That window for language has closed. It is sad we don't spent the money to teach them language in nursery school to 4 th grade, and boom they would be speaking another language. Instead we teach them too late and they feel like they can't succeed. Its nice to hear you say something similar.
They would, in theory, have the ability to speak another language....but to what end? Thing about language is you NEED other people you can speak to. A bunch of random words or phrases is unhelpful. Sure you can try to teach Wisconsin kid Russian, but with no one to speak to they'll never really 'learn'. Music is much easier because it is everywhere.
Deaf musicians that can play use a higher level of vibratory sense. I think there are ways to overcome a lot our deficiencies by stepping outside the ear and listen with the body, fingertips, hands, Feet, etc. Great vid! I've seen colors in music since I was young. Geometric patterns.. Truth, for me, is that like language, like notes and words are just reference points in the relative universe. The young man is on his way to a Great Career. Blessing to your family. Joey is a Legend.
Simple. He would recognize the microtones.. the same with ethnic music in Klezmer or Arabic music that uses semi-tonal notes... it would be recognized and identified even with a simple "that's weird, it's inbetween x and y"
Comparing the recognition of specific sound wavelengths, perfect pitch, to light wavelengths, colors, is an interesting idea that is discussed around the 6:57 mark. I think it’s important to remember that when we think in tonal music it’s is within a harmonic context, and keyality context, where the specific distance between two or more sounds is what determines the quality of intervals and how they relate to the overall tonality of a musical piece. So context matters in tonal music. It’s not just that we can identify pitches based on their frequency. We also want to have a sense of how the pitches relate to each other in the context of tonal music. (How do the colors mix together, to use the color analogy) So it is going to be much more important for learners to be able to identify intervals and harmonies more broadly than to be able to name exact individual pitches.
Interesting fact Rick, I grew up in England, When the TV came on and no channel was selected, it emitted a HUM. ( 1960's black and white TV) I was poor and used to use this HUM to tune my guitar it was a perfect A....... :) So I guess there is/were a household item that was perfect pitch, thanks for the great Video.
I have a conjecture/hypothesis regarding this. Hear me out, Rick! If the reason why babies and infants assimilate this sense so easily can be attributed to the brain waves especially since they're mostly in Theta or Delta; will it be possible to acquire for us unfortunate adults to develop such a sense through any kind of programming that allows us to be in those level of brain waves, such as hypnosis,deep trance etc? Can it be possible for adults to acquire perfect pitch through hypnotic programming? Maybe Nuryl for adults becomes such a thing. Is it a legit inquiry or am I totally off?
This was super interesting thank you for making this. Outstanding work with your son BTW. What a gifted child. If you have time, I have a question: When I hear the note C on the piano I automatically start to hear the "do re me" vocal exercise over it and can name the tone. E, I hear the intro to Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover over it. G I hear REO Speedwagon's "take it on the run"...Ab is ain't talkin bout love intro and so on.. Is that relative pitch? or just some form of logic my brain automatically does to name and associate tones?
Hi Brian - Check out my 2nd or 3rd videos in this series because I discuss this exact thing you are describing (I have it too :) Thanks! Rick P.S. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Thanks!!
Brian Auer This is exactly how it starts! Now if you can reverse it and deduce an E by mentally hearing the Cliffs of Dover, then you may be able to develop it. But it's very hard for adults, but not impossible!
Yeah with c I do that too I don’t really do it with the other notes as much though. I can sometimes identify notes by going through the scale in my head. I’m 12, almost 13, so even though I’m a little older than the stage where you should learn perfect pitch if you want it easiest, I probably have a lot better chance than an adult.
I am reminded of my friend's baby at less than a year. She would hold him up close to here face and slowly repeat, " I love you." That infant would get a serious look on his face and try very hard to copy what his mother was saying. His little voice had a single unsteady pitch and the syllables all mashed together, but it was clear he was trying to repeat what she said. I was amazed!
I was a late bloomer. I played trombone and could not afford to take private lessons as a kid. I could always sing well and play melodies on the piano on guitar I heard. I did not have the chance to develop it at a younger age. Like the guy said no one told me this is a c or this is an f. I studied music in college. I began to walk to a piano every morning and play the notes over a few years I developed my pitch. No where near your sons ability. I 100 percent think it can be learned if someone teaches it like colors.
I wished my parents had teached me each note when i was a baby :( ; i love playing music but when i want to play a song i recently heard on my piano i get the rhythm etc. right but i play it in a different key because i cant differientiate it :(
When I was 5 yrs. old my pitch was tested by the Orchestra director of the high school. He spent the next 5 years working with me during the school year with the goal of adding me to the violin section. I wound up first chair cello by choice. The cello is by far my most favorite stringed instrument but I spent most of my life as a singer/guitarist. I stopped playing cello after high school.
This is thoroughly engaging! I have read about perfect pitch in the past but there was a lot of new information for me in this video. Your kids are amazing and it's awesome that you have been able to provide such a strong start for them in music and education!
I think it actually is sort of possible to develop some sort of pitch reference using certain notes. It's very similar to perfect pitch... I can easily identify A, D, C, G, and E now from playing in orchestra. I originally didn't have perfect pitch to begin with, but I now find it easiest to go from the closest reference note and quickly mentally ascend in half steps. It works and helps me compose music without my cello.
Okay, I know the periodic table in order and 60 digits of pi. But I can’t tell if you’re playing an A note or a D note. Hell, you can play two A notes in different octaves and I wouldn’t be the wiser as to what they are. Lmao I can play back a small section of music by ear (if it’s simple enough) though, on the guitar or piano. That “perfect pitch” just befuddles me.
Hello ... You just said the right words ... and I add ( the ears are what they get used to ) , if a child was born in a jungle where there are he would hear a different animal sounds , every day , he could of copy all of these sounds , and easily performs them. Not like who was born in city listening every day to a " traffic noise pollution" damaging the sixth sense of human been. Also .. your kid is one of the extraordinary kids in the world.......So please keep him up, till he grows up and be able to depend on him self.
Thanks for this amazing video. And thanks for explaining to me why I can't get AP no matter how much effort I put into it. I thought I was just not trying hard enough when in truth the brain physiology I need is simply gone. In a way I feel liberated but I also feel depressed. It is almost like unrequited love.
WOW!! Thank you so much for doing this video. As a musician that does not have perfect pitch I really wanted to teach my kids perfect pitch but did not know how to go about it. Now that we are expecting this video help me allot!!!
yes, this was my initial theory as well! I also theorize that singing or playing a stringed instrument will improve perfect pitch the fastest (strings emulate the voice very well, clear tones with harmonics resembling voice). Sadly I do not have perfect pitch myself but I can hear entire works by Bach/Beethoven/Chopin very accurately in my mind and they are at the EXACT pitch as written. How is this possible ? My theory: maybe some people have "missed" their musical development time despite their aptitude towards perfect pitch meaning they can "hear" perfectly but their brains cannot make the connection between the tonal color and the actual name of said tone. Sadly it seems that this "skill" can only be learned by a young child/baby.. but it could be worth experimenting and see what happens.
I got a gig playing Hammond organ in a black gospel church for several years. The choir and congregation would sing the same song always in different keys. I never had anything close to pp. Next thing I knew my finger would go to the exact key all the time. It was uncanny. Rick, how did I develop this?
+MIchael Kozaczek. Thanks Mike. But there was nothing focused about it. It was more like a blind man throwing a dart and hitting a bullseye everytime. I like to think there was something quite supernatural going on in that old beautiful black church. They expected this old long haired blue-eyed hippie to deliver and something angelic seemed to grab my hand and place it on that incredible B-3. I waited 40 yrs and my dream came true!!!
TEN YEARS TO LEARN TO SPEAK LIKE A NATIVE - LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT. It was interesting when you likened a baby to learning a language and learning pitches perfectly. In an ESL class I took, the linguistic professor said that research world wide amongst linguists world wide, demonstrated that a person needs to LIVE in the environment for 10 years to learn to speak the language like a native, interact xyz hours, and read - practice, or actively study. (Muscle development freezes ups and makes many of us carry accents when we learn to speak a new language. Some will expertly attack overcoming an accent or developing one.) That professor later learned Chinese and the last I heard he moved to China to further his language development in Chinese. He also said if one had a higher language development in their primary language they could pick up secondary languages faster than a child does, or rather a lawyer could learn a second language faster than a child.... but generally adults will inhibit their own learning by beliefs that they can't learn. MUSIC LEARNING WHILE IN THE WOMB - A colleague of mine once heard a story of a mother who composed a song and played it while her baby was in her womb. She died giving birth. The father locked her music away and never shared it. One day he came home and his son (the baby she died bearing) was playing her music on the piano. The father/husband was angry that the son and broken into his treasure of locked away items. The son denied breaking into anything and said he had written the music. The father found his treasure box still in-tack and not broken into. So it was determined the son had heard the music while in the womb. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT FROM A YOUNG AGE Hearing this my colleague decided to speak to her child while her child was in the womb, to help her baby to develop language. While a baby 0 months - 18 months etc.... She constantly spoke to her baby and explained what she was doing. (I supported this idea as I had lived in Brazil for a few months. To learn the language, Portuguese, I first heard sounds. Then I learned to separate the sounds. Some sounds became words that popped out of speech. Soon I could separate words and phrases. Some phrases/words were blobs of sound that I didn't recognize. . . Later, in college I studied Spanish. The words were written in books but I had little involvement in aural learning. Now I have forgotten most of what I learned of both those languages but if I watch videos of Spanish vs Portuguese speakers it is still faster for me to separate the sounds in Portuguese and hear words, where as with Spanish I can't hear the words, the rhythm, or the tones that indicate a word. Ah - languages have their own music or dialects.) I babysat for my colleague while she was taking classes for her Masters. Her baby 12 - 18 months at the time constantly cried while her mother was gone, unless I held her and talked to her. I walked around having her touch things and I would say what they were (nouns). I did opposites such as lifting her up and saying "up" and "down" as I moved her down, lowered her. I put her hand in water in the sink, under the temp and said "hot" as we touched hot water, or "cold" as we touched cold running water. I touched similar sounding objects, such as ball or wall.... Her mother laughed and so did I when her mother walked her up and down the stairs and explained to her what she was doing as she held her. The baby repeated what her mother did as she did it, demonstrating an understanding of up and down. . . . I stopped babysitting, and the neighbor kids watched her. They taught her to read by the age of two. Her mother called me years later saying her daughter had a scholarship to Yale at the age of 16. (I jumped from the idea of learning perfect pitch to learning in general.)
I can name any note in western music within 12 tries...always...without fail. I must have perfect pitch!
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You and me both. We're only two of this kind!
underrated comment!
Same
only if that is in tune, so no
Can adults learn perfect pitch? "No." Putting my smile away and getting on with the day...
First find the fountain of youth so you can go back to 7 years old, the cut off age for learning perfect pitch.
Dayum im 16. Late af
I somehow refuse to believe that.
@@076657 He has a detailed video. Also all of the professional musicians that have been playing for over 40 years that never developed it.
@@waterboy50-zb6xf It is true that when I hear some beep on the street, sometimes the song that actually begins with that exact note comes to mind, sometimes I am certain it is that key, but that's not 100% accurate of course. I guess I can follow that vein and train it, but I find it hard to believe it is trainable. If it was, wouldnt the thousands of music students who graduate each year have done it? I know no one who has done it as an adult not seen one on the internet. I don't think it's doable.
By the way, I don't even want it necessarily. I've trained relative pitch a lot, I already can transcribe very fast. And I've heard of friends with absolute pitch who are uncomfortable listening to a piece if it is not tuned in 440, even if all the instruments are in tune in reference to each other. I don't want that, that's an annoyance, not something that helps me.
my cousin recently had a baby. i'm ready to bombard her with high information music now
how is it going
yeah update?
Any progress?
This is the Central Scrruutinizer. It is my duty to inform you that "music" leads to a slippery slope. This horrible force called "music" will lead you to do wrong things and is dangerous to society at large !! Especially "high" "information" music such as you describe !
Lol
Video just confirms that I nor my kids will ever be a Ling Ling...
Albert Yang Do you mean Lang Lang?
@@observingentity Watch TwoSet Violin's videos and you'll know who Ling Ling is 🎻🎻
Dont forget eddy
Unexpected 40h
Unless u practice 41 hrs a day
This video should be called, “watch this to gain instant depression”.
It's good for someone like me who developed perfect pitch right from the start. But when he gets in the video, when he discusses "use it or lose it", It can apply to many things. I got the music thing and play by ear. But, I must not have had the exposure for so many other things in my life that would have helped me get by. I did very poorly in school and never really could/can hold a regular job because of my drawbacks. But those drawbacks, those secondary things, kept me from being able to make a career out of music because it all hindered the process and got in the way. So, I am an excellent musician, composer, arranger in my own right, but I just cannot get it all in gear because of the mundane things, non music related that hold me back. Not to mention a severe learning disability. But just saying.
Vue U you need ayahuasca.
@@BongoSuvio Ahh. doesn't last long enough. I could do with a more permanent or at best, a long lasting remedy.
I'm so sad and feel like I'll never be good at any music now 😭😭 for real so sad I'm being beat by a 2 year old.
@@jerry-skids try crack, you can get addicted as long as u want
Rick (smashes his finger with the hammer): Fuuuuuuuuck!
Dylan: Thats an F sharp ... and a flat finger
well in just under 15 minutes my whole idea of practice has been destroyed
Langford Arkinson same
AND I SAY PRACTICES MIGHT HELP! BELIEVE IN YOURSELF YOU PEOPLE!))) WE'LL BE FINE!
You just need to PRACTICE developing relative pitch to the highest level. That is much faster than PP. Dylan uses Relative Pitch much more than his PP. That's why he's so fast at these complex chords.
Rick Beato Right, thank You!
i ve practiced for 3 months singing 3 whole steps down and up( from major third to Tonic or from tonic to major third) while i was practicing, i ve pictured evry intervall in my mind... and now, when i listen to some songs on the radio, i can transcribe melodys without my instrument(keyboard), i just hum the melody, and i know the intervalls, specially major third, major second,tonic,major sixth....and i ve figured out that i trancribe songs in a different key than it is originall...sometimes i m in B major, sometimes i m in C major, or C# major...always in that spectrum no matter what key the original song is in what i transcribe....
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Little kid: hold my periodic table
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"how to develop perfect pitch" informs you that you can't
SuperJV4x lmao
lol
"If you can read this, you can't develop perfect pitch :("
Giorgi Japiashvili
dude i have no idea what you wrote
Maybe the video should be called "How perfect pitch is developed"
I'm cracking up. You tinked that note in the beginning and said this is an Ab and I instantly said in my head, are you sure it's not an A? Lololol I'm laughing so hard then Dylan runs up and corrects you this is great humor
there are 2 ways to analyze music. first, is to analyze the melody by mentioning every tone (perfect pitch). second, is to analyze the melody by comprehending the emotion resulted by specific intervals of tones in a song (solfeggio/solmization)
Surya Tchandra same with ancient greece notation
Cool
you can get "pretty good pitch" with practice though. I can tune my guitar within a semitone without a tuner. There are songs that I've listened to so much that they appear in my head pretty close to their right pitch. From that, I can fake my way to "pretty good pitch" by actually using relative pitch.
I bet most musicians can do something similar. Of course not to diminish the wonderful skill that would be to have perfect pitch.
Yup, I tune my guitar without a reference tone and I am about a half tone off most of the time. PP is impressive though!
I think the reason you can do that is because a different pitch on a stringed instrument has a different tambre as well as pitch (the string is looser) so you can approximate the tone more easily than pitch
I'm not good with all notes but most of the time I'm half a note off or correct i guess. really wish I had perfect pitch tho 😔
Yea that’s what I do but I play the piano
I don't know I'm starting to be able to pull notes out of the air without an instrument with me and I check it with the tuner on my phone and I'm right more times than I expect. I know it's not the same but it's something I could not do years ago and have worked towards being able to do so
Now I feel dumb. Your kids are awesome. Keep up the good child rearing.
Thanks! I'm sure you did fine :)
super fuxking dumb, damn, why am i even exist here
Don't you mean you feel deaf?
Right? Give ya' hope, doesn't it!
Actually it brings hope for me that one day my kids will have perfect pitch! And I don't really care about perfect pitch, for me it doesn't make music less pleasant.
People always tell me I'm a big baby. Can I develop perfect pitch?
Maybe one day
😂😂👌
Giant baby
Perfect bitch
Yes you will but perhaps not this lifetime through but if it's a thing that can then you will eventually in an infinity, nearly repeating universe.
Rick, thanks for your no-nonsense summary of the AP ability. I would just note that there are documented cases (in online forums since 2000s) of people who apparently had their AP almost ripe but still latent, and they did not exhibit it until they got a final "push" from some ear training exercises in their late teens/early 20s. Their cases therefore appear as non-children developing AP from ear training exercises way outside the "pliable brain" window. And I'm talking about the resulting ability to name all the notes in complex chords just like in-born AP'ers and otherwise being "one of them," not just pitch imagery. Thanks. )
+Khurram Aziz Tip: Self Love is absolutely the key!!
"It's never too late for a happy childhood"... What a beautiful thing to say!
Right on! - I did something similar with guitar, keyboards, bass and drums and voice was the last piece of the pie for me.
Yeah. I guess it's just like as an adult you can still learn a new language if you want 😉
As such cases exist it does prove that perfect pitch can be developed or acquired by adults, the mare fact one case is known shows that it is possible for adults. I would of agreed if there weren't any cases at all but the fact that the scientists need numbers to prove that adults have or can obtain perfect pitch is nonsense, maybe they should test more adults all across the world to make such conclusion. Other than, the rest of the info was good in the video, however, the video should be renamed: 'Babies with perfect pitch' , quite misleading the name.
Amazing. Some of my students have developed perfect pitch, and in my old age I am getting better at it. Wish I had it - I have a constant 'G' in my ears from tuning the bass for so long, and I can compare other pitches to it, but you kids' abilities are just astonishing. Good work, dad.
From my own experience, I believe there are degrees of ability in pitch recognition, and that it is something that can be developed. As a child, I took piano lessons but had no concept of absolute pitch. But as an adult I began to notice that sometimes when I heard a note, some song would suddenly pop into my head for no apparent reason. I felt totally sure that the note I heard was the exact note from the song, and upon playing the song, found that I was almost invariably correct. I have been developing this method for re-producing a "B" at will, by imagining the first note of the song "Surf City" by Jan and Dean (for some reason this song is easy to imagine in the right key). I have not mastered this but have definitely improved and probably hit it right about 4 out of 5 times, even in the morning when I haven't heard any music for over 8 hours. And of course if I hum a B correctly , I can quickly figure out any other note I hear since my relative pitch is good. My point is that there are degrees of this ability, ranging from someone who can instantly and effortlessly identify any note, to some one like me who, with great concentration and mental effort, can identify any note a fairly high percentage of the time. I do have an uncle who has 100% perfect pitch, so perhaps I have the gene.
First of all, I’m interested to know how good you have gotten.
I’m 17 and a few weeks ago I started practicing singing the 2nd guitar string from memory (2nd because E2 is a bit to low, which might make me sing an F2) but I do still think about how the E string sounds and THEN the A string. And I also get it right quite often.
Yeah, I do this aswell to identify the notes. For example, if I'd want to imagine a D, I'd think of the first note in Nirvana's Come As You Are, and so on and so forth. I started ear training properly around a couple weeks ago and can identify most notes pretty quickly, but chords are still difficult for me at the moment.
You are exactly right! I sing and play keyboards for a living and cannot read music. But I can easily identify if a song is in A, for example, by relating it to songs I know that in A and I recall the memory of what an A sounds like. From there I can find any key or note just by relating it to the sound of songs in that key or the prominent note repetition of that song. I am almost always correct!
I am a retired musician, I was always proud of my good relative pitch. I learned to be thankful for it when I observed one of my colleagues, a pianist who happened to have perfect pitch, struggle whenever he had to perform a recital on a piano that could not be tuned properly.
I don’t have perfect pitch. But I would struggle with a piano that is not properly tuned. Relative pitch does not provide any advantage here.
Being used to instruments that are always in tune is what causes anyone to struggle with instruments that are not in tune.
Great video, and spot on. It's sad however, the amount of people in the comments who are associating perfect pitch with talent, and that not having it means your chances with music are doomed. These people have clearly never studied, practiced music, or been around talented musicians that have shown you what a well practiced relative pitch and creativity can achieve.. Perfect pitch certainly is a powerful tool, but it doesn't make you a great musician on its own. Exaggerated analogies here, but you're not a great chef because your taste buds work and you're not a great painter because you can identify colors, although it will help! Like the man said, a whole lot of people graduated from music conservatories without it (most of them) and guess what, a lot of them are accomplished musicians
This is like pure gold. I just clicked an interesting compression theory video and I discovered one of the best channels I have ever seen. Thanks so much for your videos like this, and thanks for show your son learning in a very nice way to understand the learning process of music in a several ways.
Hey Rick, I'm a 17 year old male, and i've just recently discovered I have perfect pitch. (After being in band and playing guitar aswell for 5 years). The reason I never knew I had it is because I never put any names to the sounds i was hearing, just thought I didn't have perfect pitch and didn't even try, because I could name a note right away, but its because I never actually named the Note in the first place. It is very weird, It is very easy for my to identify all the White notes of the piano no matter how low or how high, and chords, I am not as good with the chromatics as I don't think I've been exposed enough, but with my daily testing I am improving on them. Yes, I do actually have perfect pitch, I hear notes around the house and all sorts, can tell what key things are in and sing a note on command wether you wake me up in the middle of the night or not. Has there been any similiar cases of this you know of? (My Brother also has perfect pitch I just thought I never had it).
LegendOfzLink, uh, the g at the beginning I got instantly, as it's the first note of the Song Of Time (judging by your name I'll assume you know what that is). I'm trying to focus on learning one thing to play that starts with each note. This is because I don't read music or think of them as notes, but use Synethstesia (the app not mental condition) so I see notes when they're played. As a gaming fan, I use Zelda stuff to learn loads, as well as the odd anime theme.
LegendOfzLink, I'm kinda like you actually, just minus 3-4 years. Black keys are the spawn of satan as far as I'm concerned.
But my fingers are so clumsy the problem is playing the fuckers. As far as I'm concerned, since my brain is still developing, I'll drill learned skills like this in as much as possible, since music and German has since piqued my interest, my scores have gone up rather dramatically, from grade 1/5 to 4/5 in about three months with no revision. Like, it must suck having to revise stuff.
lol right, for as long as I can remember I've instantly recognized notes as, for example, the first note in x song without conciously thinking about it. I don't accidentally transpose music when I recall it either
It seems I can also isolate notes in complex chords pretty well, if the timbre of the instrument isn't too noisy.. With harder ones I imagine the chords as an ascending arpeggio instead of a block chords and I can usually tell when I'm missing a subtle dissonance. I think I just need to really work on memorization
that note is a glass of water!
Damn, I wish I had watched this 24 years ago before becoming a parent.
Absolutely agree. There are scientific articles on this topic - it is called "Window of Opportunity for Learning Language", but, obviously, it is applied to Perfect Pitch development. Basically, it is very important to spread the word regarding the importance of the importance of very early infants development.
Such beautiful children 💓 You're a great dad Rick & your wife must be amazing too. Committed & engaged. Blessings!
This inspires me to make my daughter to have perfect pitch too. Thank you for this video , 😊😊 we are learning and we're blessed here in the Philippines 😊.. GOD bless you Sir and your family.. !
Where there is a will there is a way...its all familiarity...if you have a good nervous system and are able to hear you can do it....
It may take ten or 15 years of dedication, but if you really want it, you can get it...Perfect Pitchhhhh, I'm coming for YOUUUU
Changed your mind?
I did a great course on bilingualism and part of the course included perfect pitch - and you're 100% correct - The course was run through the Houston Uni Neuroscience department - I beileve it was called the Bilingual Brain. Very informative course.
Having been present at the birth of, and shepherded the development of three humans - I'm convinced that nature and nurture work hand in hand. From the first few seconds of life outside the womb, each of my children presented themselves as individuals. Their personalities were different and evident literally from the first moments. As a scientist/engineer, this completely distorted my view of humans as being blank slates at birth - and that nurture held precedence over DNA programming. But as a father, I found that not to be completely true - only partly. Now as my children are all past college and into adult life I am privileged to see the arc of development of complete people - and I can say for a fact that nature played a huge component in who they became. Much more than I would have liked to admit. This leads me to believe that in order to develop these "interesting advanced" skills - there has to be a fertile ground with which to work. I think you are either born with the ability to develop perfect pitch - or not. People without the genetic capability can try all they want - and fail. Just like most of us would fail at becoming a Lebron James-quality NBA player no matter how hard we try (height, for example, plays a role in that), if you don't have the right-stuff for perfect pitch - you're not going to develop it. But if you do have the capacity, and your parents work to develop it in you from a young age - then you'll always have it. My parents worked with me on my math capabilities from the time I could walk, and thus, I did extremely well in math and reading (and science) as a young person - and thus I was always at the top of my classes. But my brothers and sisters - with whom they also put in the time - did not. Same nurturing environment, utterly different outcome.
12:20 That's why you came here.
Taiguara Simão nah im 15
Im 13
Thanks, i was gonna waste my time.
Thanks 😂
I'm 12 and I'm miserable because a child's making me feel dumb, lol.
Wow! This is SO fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing this - makes me believe even more about the wonder and beauty of the world and what magic humans are capable of, if channeled the right way.
Thanks, Rick.
You are brilliant.
I’m a former NYC session trumpet player (‘68 to ‘72) with a few degrees in music. I was only OK, so I regretfully gave up music as a career.
Now, retired, I listen all day, favoring session trumpet players such as Wayne Bergeron. I only wish I had the talent to be one.
I want to get back playing again. Thinking of taking a lesson.
Anyway, I’m fortunate that my musical brain works like yours.
Again, Bravo!
Lol I kept replaying the first 15 seconds because I kept hearing the note as an A, not Ab. I was really confused until I watched him name it as an A😂
HEADLESSwebcam yep I panicked, and thought I was wrong
it sounds like an a-flat to me!
i thought it was a Q, so i mean...
Since you're apparently Perfect Pitch, I'm curious. Is it flat or sharp? Or just closest to an A. Cause if it's closest to a A but it's a bit flat... He could kinda technically be corrreeect?
Can you hear micro-tones?
MegaMech It's an A, not noticeably sharp or flat enough to be a different note. It can still be a flat A without being flat enough to be Ab, if that makes sense lol
You are absolutely right, Sir. It's a developed trait when we still have that window. I think my own case is extremely interesting. I have been recovering my perfect pitch on the 2nd 3rd and 4th octave since about 1 year ago when i started my vocal training since age 36. I still wonder till yesterday why I can acquire these ability while others cannot. and i saw your video. Yes I remembered I listened to classical pieces even before i could speak, because of my father, and i learned piano when i was a kid, very briefly, but still it gave me some deep memory about music pitches. now after more than 30 years the pitches still rings in my head, i am picking them up one by one. Thank you again for the brilliant explanation. Wish you and your family well and happy. Now it's time to call my father and say "I love you", i suppose. :D
Dylan, Layla, and Lennon? A nice tribute to Musical genius...
You have been gifted with a miraculous son and I take my hat off to your excellent training regime.
As regards teaching children in all facets of education, including music, there is still waaaaay too much guess work and slavish adherence to what educators think works best. The truth is that as you have discovered, there needs to be a strong understanding of neurological development and theory to develop learning systems that take the best advantage of each "learning window" as they present themselves. The plasticity of the brain at each level of development will not return unless some intensive "unlearning" of poor habits takes place at a later time. Unfortunately by then the damage is done.
I used to be an elementary teacher and I'd love a dollar for every time I heard a parent ask (especially as regards boys) "How can I get my kid to read more?" Often times these were the same parents who let their kids watch tv as much as they wanted, never modelled reading or taking pleasure in reading and never had a "quiet time" during the evening in which everybody in the house took some time to read. For kids like this more often than not the horse had bolted and they would face some years of "reading recovery" to get back on track or some damn good teachers who could instil a love of reading into them when they were still in their pre-teen years.
Teacher training should comprise mandatory study of neurological development and teachers in ongoing service should be provided periodic training in the latest neurological discoveries.
Rick, I thank you for making great videos for me to watch whilst stoned.
This makes me emotional, I'm happy to see you share the gift and work with your family to fine tune the natural skill.
I have perfect pitch, which helps me learn and arrange my music by ear. I used to think I must’ve earned it through hard work and smarts, but after watching this video, I guess luck had a little to do with it too, haha. :)
That's great. I played piano before I could walk. :) I don't have PP, but I can identify easily. :) I wish my parents had been as smart and as supportive as Rick B. :D (Not dissing my parents, they're awesome. Just didn't know to support music this way or anything close to it.) I hope these kinds of videos set a new precedent for all kids with such abilities. I love what this guy said about the neurosurgeon-musician at Harvard.
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I envy you
Oh god I envy you soo much,you should know that you are very lucky i am a musician but I don't have perfect pitch and it's kinda annoying
This is the most fascinating clip I've watched all year. The comparison of sound with colour (it is all frequencies & amplitudes after all) makes total sense. I think we all have the language of music intuitively, given even the most complex orchestral piece can be reduced to amplitude & frequency ie it's all decoded by the brain. Most of us just can't transcode music into spoken language (like we all do with colour). Those with perfect pitch have the benefit of being able to translate music into the spoken & written linguistic code. It looks like a miraculous super-power until you start breaking it down.
I gained perfect pitch by listening to lots of harmonic music and building up a catalogue of sounds of what different notes, chords and harmonies sounded like. This process took about three years before I could fluently know these from merely hearing them but it happened. Trust me, studying piano at university, having perfect pitch makes melodic dictation and chord recognition for theory soooo much easier.
@@FutureAbe you are of course very correct, I actually just found for note recognition that that was the easiest process for myself. So thinking about it, I guess rather than perfect pitch now that you mention it I’m now thinking about it as just really fast relative pitch. I do know the difference, I just was explaining my process rather than mentioning jargon that non-musicians don’t necessarily know the differences. Singers I work with do ask me to sing notes on the spot which I can do but I guess the thought pattern is still the same, minus the initial vocalising of relative notes. I don't need a reference note to produce a pitch which is the definition of absolute/perfect pitch though. Thank you, you made me realise something in a way I hadn’t considered myself.
This is really good to get you thinking. One thing I have discovered is that I coiuld probably fine tune my listening to develop perfect pitch. Yes I know you've said it cant' be done unless you do it as a kid but I'm finding the more I listen and play the easier it becomes to put names to the frequencies I hear, Music melodies are the same. There is so much music I could hum or sing but have no idea what peice it is. Just listened to "The swan" and my first thought was "Ah that... Of course I know that" (I just didn't know it was the swan)
What about perfect tempo?
I litterally have that XDD
Everyone has perfect tempo
Ids Verbeek but what about your friends favorite song, i’m sure they would know the tempo for it
@@Sora-o, so can anyone feel quarter note triplet?
@@ДмитрийКончаков-п5ы tempo is way different from rhythm... tf, and no people that cant tell the difference between ryhthm and tempo probably cant "feel" a quarter note triplet.
Usually super analyzing is pseudo intellect
But this is benevolent research
This is the most amazing and informative video i have ever seen
Imagine being the piano teacher for Rick's kids. Like going to see your girlfriend's parents for the first time and finding out that The Rock is her father.
I remember the first time I met a guy with perfect pitch I was in 6th grade and I thought he was playing a trick on me until years later. I had never heard of perfect pitch back then. This is the most interesting vid you've ever done Rick.
Super interesting video Rick, thanks. It'll be interesting to see a few years down the road how reliably Neuryl is able to result in kids with perfect pitch.
Thanks Link! We've been at is for a few months and parents are already sending us videos with their kids doing some amazing things.
Dude, Rick, you are exceptional man. And as your own father did for you with music etc. your children will grow and also benefit from having you. Thank you for sharing!
Me: stares at screen
5 secs later
Me: THIS KID IS A TOTAL GENIUS
Again, you are a musical (and in general) genius. Thank You!
Ahh!... It makes me sad my parents weren't musicians!
And I discovered I LOOOVE music only I was 20-30!
And now I'm a full time composer and often make a living composing music, but I feel I'm so much weaker than all the 12 year old musicians who studied it since they were 5 just because they had musical parents. It makes me so self-concious!
Love your vids! The whole "use it or lose it" is actually a misconception. It would be interesting to conduct a new study in the light of the new research that has surfaced. Neuroplasticity and neurogenesis is actually possible well into adulthood. Thats what makes it possible to learn multiple languages as an adult. This stuff lights a fire in the music nerd in me. Thanks!
I am 57 and about a year and a half ago I started to develop the ability to sing E, G, and A without aid. There is the odd occasian where I will be off by about a 1/2 step, but most of the time I hit it right on, and it seems to have improved. These notes are used at the beginning of the news broadcast on CBC Radio 1, which I listen to while driving long distances. I did not practice to get it, I just realized I could nail the notes just about every time. I have never been able to do that in the past. Just thought I would mention it.
Amazing how children can teach us & how critical early leaning and training actually is to cognitive development.
The future of music is in safe hands.
I always assumed that something played out of tune would give those with perfect pitch extreme discomfort.
Apparently not.
You must be one proud dad!
Rick, I am living in Vietnam and it is usual to sing karaoke here with friends in front of your house. They turn the volume up so high that all the neighbors 100s of meters around can hear it - no kidding. I've never heard anybody singing well and in tune 😂
I hear it as an encouragement to treat music as a language and expose children to music theory from birth instead of waiting until they are older. It's a great gift to be able to pass this insight on to the next generation, because the only way they can get it at a young age is for us to give it to them.
I think I should just give up on life at this point
Maybe you can't but I am sure that with a reference note you can learn the notes of any song
Relative pitch is more useful. For music, desire and hard work are more important than talent. Don't give up if it makes you happy!
How did you come to that conclusion from this video???
Paranoid Android 😂😂😂 i did too lol
What a love for the world Nick Beato has! This stuff is brilliant. 2 men at there best!
I grew up speaking a very tonal language (Cantonese, 9 tones), my mom had a very good ear (could sight-sing impeccably), and my uncle (her brother) has absolute pitch. Sometimes I wonder if I could have developed it myself if only I'd shown more aptitude for music at a younger age... After all, I seem to have the heriditary advantages! My parents tried to put me in piano lessons at age 4 but I had zero interest. I started again at age 6 and now I'm a pretty decent musician, but only with mediocre relative pitch.
The best video I never seen talking about perfect pitch and the exposition of many ideas and characteristics of this hability. Im a mexican musician and I have perfect pitch too, But many people didnt believe me when I tell them that its a characteristic that can be acquired.
You and your kids are awesome
Hey Rick, I don't have perfect pitch... and I'm a 30 year old adult. I'm going to be the guy who learns perfect pitch. I don't believe in limitation. There has to be a way to develop it! It might take a while but I'll let you know how it turns out :)
Nicholas Sergiacomi well....how did it turn out?
Lmao well.... Its still hit or miss.. No clue as to how long its gonna take to lock it in like his child in the video but my ear is def getting more accurate with time! I see what he means as far as why he thinks it impossible but im sure with proper focus and regularly testing myself that i will eventually figure it out in a very consise and clear manner. Might take a year... Might take ten years... Maybe 50 years haha we'll see. Thanks for checking in with me!
Keep up the practice mate.
I want to believe! I'll keep practicing like you do, you gave me hope! :)
Hey, so how is it going?
Just found Rick Beato's channel yesterday and I was astounded at his high level of knowledge on various music topics, but now I'm even more impressed and surprised by his scientific knowledge. He even busted out a pub med study on his one perfect pitch video lol. I'm a pharmacy student and a musician so I have love for both
I’m pregnant and just found out about this 🙌🏼😁✨✨✨ I’m already picturing my mini musical genius 😂💖💖
Me, too! I LOVE music - classical, jazz, prog rock, new age, etc. etc. I hope your little baby loves music!
I watched this video a few years ago and adopted all of your suggestions in a guitar context. My main goal is creativity on the guitar, rather than strict virtuosity in any sense, so I've been trying to take your ideas and apply them by inventing my own idiosyncratic patterns and exercises, so that I can build my own guitar vocabulary that's not bound by what I've heard in the guitar music that I already know I like. It's really interesting to rewatch now, and discover what you suggested that I didn't focus on as much the first time around. I'm really excited about the idea of doing more ear training and sight reading, to expand my musical brain and get into some new things.
Eddy from twoset violin got perfect pitch when he was in high school, so HAHA
Yeah I saw the video where he mentioned that. I g that means it's just great relative pitch. He said he spent considerable amounts of time on it.
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Yeah, he probably gained instrument-specific-absolute-pitch, or absolute-recall-from-memory.
Perfect pitch, on the other hand, is immediately identifying *any* note without a reference.
He basically created a "virtual reference", through ear training. He may have reinforced this by hearing a single song multiple times, or playing the same notes on his violin multiple times.
@@arunkarthikma3121 I also developed perfect pitch at 14, and I'm able to identify and sing notes without reference. Granted, it's worse than it would be had I acquired it earlier on. Sort of like learning your colours really late.
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Hmm, this could be "absolute recall from memory" that I spoke of..
I think this stuff exists on a spectrum. Some people have internalised all 12 notes while others can only recall a few
Do watch Adam Neely's video "Why you don't want Perfect Pitch". He explains much better than I could (providing research). He also explains his personal experience -how he doesn't have perfect pitch but is able to recall all the notes using memory
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If you feel that "Relative Pitch" doesn't apply to you then, maybe, it could be that you already had perfect pitch all along!
Like seeing the colors but not knowing their names.
On the other hand, maybe we don't know the full story about perfect pitch yet?
what a gift. paid by time and interest
Wow! Great video, I teach chemistry in high school, and I have a huge background in neurology. I have said there is a window for learning and we do our students a big disservice in trying to teach them language in the teen age years. That window for language has closed. It is sad we don't spent the money to teach them language in nursery school to 4 th grade, and boom they would be speaking another language. Instead we teach them too late and they feel like they can't succeed. Its nice to hear you say something similar.
They would, in theory, have the ability to speak another language....but to what end? Thing about language is you NEED other people you can speak to. A bunch of random words or phrases is unhelpful. Sure you can try to teach Wisconsin kid Russian, but with no one to speak to they'll never really 'learn'.
Music is much easier because it is everywhere.
Deaf musicians that can play use a higher level of vibratory sense. I think there are ways to overcome a lot our deficiencies by stepping outside the ear and listen with the body, fingertips, hands, Feet, etc. Great vid! I've seen colors in music since I was young. Geometric patterns.. Truth, for me, is that like language, like notes and words are just reference points in the relative universe.
The young man is on his way to a Great Career. Blessing to your family.
Joey is a Legend.
Me: hears a note
Me: calls it a b sharp
I suddenly feel blessed because my mother tongue is Vietnamese. Thank you for a great video. I start to train my ear to get familiar with notes
what happens when Dylan hears a microtonal Guitar.
martyisabeliever **dies**
Simple. He would recognize the microtones.. the same with ethnic music in Klezmer or Arabic music that uses semi-tonal notes... it would be recognized and identified even with a simple "that's weird, it's inbetween x and y"
He explodes
He shuts down
He starts spazzing although its A double sharp triple flat 7th
Comparing the recognition of specific sound wavelengths, perfect pitch, to light wavelengths, colors, is an interesting idea that is discussed around the 6:57 mark. I think it’s important to remember that when we think in tonal music it’s is within a harmonic context, and keyality context, where the specific distance between two or more sounds is what determines the quality of intervals and how they relate to the overall tonality of a musical piece. So context matters in tonal music. It’s not just that we can identify pitches based on their frequency. We also want to have a sense of how the pitches relate to each other in the context of tonal music. (How do the colors mix together, to use the color analogy) So it is going to be much more important for learners to be able to identify intervals and harmonies more broadly than to be able to name exact individual pitches.
Funny intro, Dylan coming out of the swimmingpool.
Interesting fact Rick, I grew up in England, When the TV came on and no channel was selected, it emitted a HUM. ( 1960's black and white TV) I was poor and used to use this HUM to tune my guitar it was a perfect A....... :) So I guess there is/were a household item that was perfect pitch, thanks for the great Video.
I have a conjecture/hypothesis regarding this. Hear me out, Rick! If the reason why babies and infants assimilate this sense so easily can be attributed to the brain waves especially since they're mostly in Theta or Delta; will it be possible to acquire for us unfortunate adults to develop such a sense through any kind of programming that allows us to be in those level of brain waves, such as hypnosis,deep trance etc? Can it be possible for adults to acquire perfect pitch through hypnotic programming? Maybe Nuryl for adults becomes such a thing. Is it a legit inquiry or am I totally off?
Very interesting concept!
A whole new idea to my understanding of music is born. Heard what I have never heard before. Appreciate this teaching. A big thumbs up
This was super interesting thank you for making this. Outstanding work with your son BTW. What a gifted child.
If you have time, I have a question: When I hear the note C on the piano I automatically start to hear the "do re me" vocal exercise over it and can name the tone. E, I hear the intro to Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover over it. G I hear REO Speedwagon's "take it on the run"...Ab is ain't talkin bout love intro and so on.. Is that relative pitch? or just some form of logic my brain automatically does to name and associate tones?
Hi Brian - Check out my 2nd or 3rd videos in this series because I discuss this exact thing you are describing (I have it too :) Thanks! Rick
P.S. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Thanks!!
Rick Beato Sure thing. Thanks Rick.
Brian Auer This is exactly how it starts! Now if you can reverse it and deduce an E by mentally hearing the Cliffs of Dover, then you may be able to develop it. But it's very hard for adults, but not impossible!
Yeah with c I do that too I don’t really do it with the other notes as much though. I can sometimes identify notes by going through the scale in my head. I’m 12, almost 13, so even though I’m a little older than the stage where you should learn perfect pitch if you want it easiest, I probably have a lot better chance than an adult.
I am reminded of my friend's baby at less than a year. She would hold him up close to here face and slowly repeat, " I love you." That infant would get a serious look on his face and try very hard to copy what his mother was saying. His little voice had a single unsteady pitch and the syllables all mashed together, but it was clear he was trying to repeat what she said. I was amazed!
I was a late bloomer. I played trombone and could not afford to take private lessons as a kid. I could always sing well and play melodies on the piano on guitar I heard. I did not have the chance to develop it at a younger age. Like the guy said no one told me this is a c or this is an f. I studied music in college. I began to walk to a piano every morning and play the notes over a few years I developed my pitch. No where near your sons ability. I 100 percent think it can be learned if someone teaches it like colors.
This makes me cry tears of joy....... 😀
I wished my parents had teached me each note when i was a baby :( ; i love playing music but when i want to play a song i recently heard on my piano i get the rhythm etc. right but i play it in a different key because i cant differientiate it :(
When I was 5 yrs. old my pitch was tested by the Orchestra director of the high school. He spent the next 5 years working with me during the school year with the goal of adding me to the violin section. I wound up first chair cello by choice. The cello is by far my most favorite stringed instrument but I spent most of my life as a singer/guitarist. I stopped playing cello after high school.
I always thought this people in my aural skills class with perfect pitch were cheating
This is thoroughly engaging! I have read about perfect pitch in the past but there was a lot of new information for me in this video. Your kids are amazing and it's awesome that you have been able to provide such a strong start for them in music and education!
I think it actually is sort of possible to develop some sort of pitch reference using certain notes. It's very similar to perfect pitch... I can easily identify A, D, C, G, and E now from playing in orchestra. I originally didn't have perfect pitch to begin with, but I now find it easiest to go from the closest reference note and quickly mentally ascend in half steps. It works and helps me compose music without my cello.
Your very thoughtful videos completely blow my mind. Kudos, and God Bless! Thanks for sharing this.
Okay, I know the periodic table in order and 60 digits of pi. But I can’t tell if you’re playing an A note or a D note. Hell, you can play two A notes in different octaves and I wouldn’t be the wiser as to what they are. Lmao
I can play back a small section of music by ear (if it’s simple enough) though, on the guitar or piano.
That “perfect pitch” just befuddles me.
Hello ... You just said the right words ... and I add ( the ears are what they get used to ) , if a child was born in a jungle where there are he would hear a different animal sounds , every day , he could of copy all of these sounds , and easily performs them. Not like who was born in city listening every day to a " traffic noise pollution" damaging the sixth sense of human been.
Also .. your kid is one of the extraordinary kids in the world.......So please keep him up, till he grows up and be able to depend on him self.
Actually daddy, that is an Ab
Gautam it is an A natural.
daddy says its an Ab, the kid says its a natural A l0l
No, it's A natural.
A bit flat, but not A flat.
Same difference.
Thanks for this amazing video. And thanks for explaining to me why I can't get AP no matter how much effort I put into it. I thought I was just not trying hard enough when in truth the brain physiology I need is simply gone. In a way I feel liberated but I also feel depressed. It is almost like unrequited love.
My music teacher had perfect pitch, but lost most of it when she was pregnant. How the heck does that work?
WOW!! Thank you so much for doing this video. As a musician that does not have perfect pitch I really wanted to teach my kids perfect pitch but did not know how to go about it. Now that we are expecting this video help me allot!!!
I feel like I'm listening to a college lecture that I don't understand at all
yes, this was my initial theory as well! I also theorize that singing or playing a stringed instrument will improve perfect pitch the fastest (strings emulate the voice very well, clear tones with harmonics resembling voice).
Sadly I do not have perfect pitch myself but I can hear entire works by Bach/Beethoven/Chopin very accurately in my mind and they are at the EXACT pitch as written. How is this possible ?
My theory: maybe some people have "missed" their musical development time despite their aptitude towards perfect pitch meaning they can "hear" perfectly but their brains cannot make the connection between the tonal color and the actual name of said tone.
Sadly it seems that this "skill" can only be learned by a young child/baby.. but it could be worth experimenting and see what happens.
This video make me depressed
:((
Your son is so freaking cute. You're raising a wonderful blooming child. Best dad of the year
6:35 "BBC Documentary"
*Says ITV 2 in the corner*
This kid is going to be a MONSTER musician and or composer!
I got a gig playing Hammond organ in a black gospel church for several years. The choir and congregation would sing the same song always in different keys. I never had anything close to pp. Next thing I knew my finger would go to the exact key all the time. It was uncanny. Rick, how did I develop this?
Experience, and focused work is how you did it. Playing a tune in 12 keys is the secret sauce. You did that too.
+MIchael Kozaczek. Thanks Mike. But there was nothing focused about it. It was more like a blind man throwing a dart and hitting a bullseye everytime. I like to think there was something quite supernatural going on in that old beautiful black church. They expected this old long haired blue-eyed hippie to deliver and something angelic seemed to grab my hand and place it on that incredible B-3. I waited 40 yrs and my dream came true!!!
TEN YEARS TO LEARN TO SPEAK LIKE A NATIVE - LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT. It was interesting when you likened a baby to learning a language and learning pitches perfectly. In an ESL class I took, the linguistic professor said that research world wide amongst linguists world wide, demonstrated that a person needs to LIVE in the environment for 10 years to learn to speak the language like a native, interact xyz hours, and read - practice, or actively study. (Muscle development freezes ups and makes many of us carry accents when we learn to speak a new language. Some will expertly attack overcoming an accent or developing one.) That professor later learned Chinese and the last I heard he moved to China to further his language development in Chinese. He also said if one had a higher language development in their primary language they could pick up secondary languages faster than a child does, or rather a lawyer could learn a second language faster than a child.... but generally adults will inhibit their own learning by beliefs that they can't learn.
MUSIC LEARNING WHILE IN THE WOMB - A colleague of mine once heard a story of a mother who composed a song and played it while her baby was in her womb. She died giving birth. The father locked her music away and never shared it. One day he came home and his son (the baby she died bearing) was playing her music on the piano. The father/husband was angry that the son and broken into his treasure of locked away items. The son denied breaking into anything and said he had written the music. The father found his treasure box still in-tack and not broken into. So it was determined the son had heard the music while in the womb.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT FROM A YOUNG AGE
Hearing this my colleague decided to speak to her child while her child was in the womb, to help her baby to develop language. While a baby 0 months - 18 months etc.... She constantly spoke to her baby and explained what she was doing.
(I supported this idea as I had lived in Brazil for a few months. To learn the language, Portuguese, I first heard sounds. Then I learned to separate the sounds. Some sounds became words that popped out of speech. Soon I could separate words and phrases. Some phrases/words were blobs of sound that I didn't recognize. . . Later, in college I studied Spanish. The words were written in books but I had little involvement in aural learning. Now I have forgotten most of what I learned of both those languages but if I watch videos of Spanish vs Portuguese speakers it is still faster for me to separate the sounds in Portuguese and hear words, where as with Spanish I can't hear the words, the rhythm, or the tones that indicate a word. Ah - languages have their own music or dialects.)
I babysat for my colleague while she was taking classes for her Masters. Her baby 12 - 18 months at the time constantly cried while her mother was gone, unless I held her and talked to her. I walked around having her touch things and I would say what they were (nouns). I did opposites such as lifting her up and saying "up" and "down" as I moved her down, lowered her. I put her hand in water in the sink, under the temp and said "hot" as we touched hot water, or "cold" as we touched cold running water. I touched similar sounding objects, such as ball or wall.... Her mother laughed and so did I when her mother walked her up and down the stairs and explained to her what she was doing as she held her. The baby repeated what her mother did as she did it, demonstrating an understanding of up and down. . . . I stopped babysitting, and the neighbor kids watched her. They taught her to read by the age of two. Her mother called me years later saying her daughter had a scholarship to Yale at the age of 16.
(I jumped from the idea of learning perfect pitch to learning in general.)