I think I heard Jack Black say something like this in an interview!

EXACTLY BRO

I do sh!t like that all the time, it’s no joke. If you speak a sentence, I always repeat the pitch your sentence ended on. I could even tell you every pitch in the sentence. I could even tell you the pitches that come from knocking on wood (usually major chords). I could tell you the pitches of percussion instruments like symbols and snares. I once heard a drum set in a band hall that was entirely in the key of A Flat Concert. Seriously, it was Ab, F, Eb, Ab, all in order from highest to lowest frequency. HELP.

@One Guy Named Ivan sounds like it

Lol this is exactly me. Some sounds don't have a clear pitch though, and you're generally not gonna hear a chord in a sound, but yeah, it's fun to just blart that out randomly

after watching and listening to Adam explaining this, I''m having a hard time understanding the "tone" of this video. I felt like the purpose of this video was closer to the title you suggested than anything else tbh.

@@TreegoTunes I think apart of it is that so many musicians starting out are dismayed and it’s a way to help them understand it’s just a different way of understanding music. Def seems like kinda a put down tho

nah, life as in aging ruins it without any outside help.

@@TreegoTunes I mean it's literally both If you don't have absolute pitch, seeing the title of this video in itself is already a nice boost, you're told, "it's ok you don't have it, here's why". Then if you have absolute pitch and see the title it already tells you, "hey, it's obviously cool that you have it, but here's the downsides." And then the video goes with the same energy I think.

Lmao yeah, I have perfect pitch and always wondered how people experience music without it, so I was looking forward to hear what he had to say. Then all of a sudden I'm learning I'm going to be miserable in my old age 🤣😭 Soured my mood a bit but I have to laugh at how that was the absolute last thing I expected him to say.

I experience the same phenomenon as an artist. Before I started taking it more seriously aka learning anatomy, composition, lighting, color theory and whatnot, I was drawing whatever the hell I wanted and I was happy with what I drew. Now I'm just frustrated because I keep noticing everything I do "wrong" with my art. More in depth knowledge can be a curse.

Being a creator of so many different types of content, I experience this with so many different art forms at this point, that my brain just sees it all as math. Everything is math and numbers now.

i’ve been a musician for forever and i haven’t developed any pitch skills or anything lmao i see the notes and play and if it sounds good it does if it doesn’t it doesn’t but anyway it’s fun rawdogging it

It does. I play guitar, and the guitar music I really like is stuff that I can't process what's going on because it's still beyond me. A lot of songs that used fo be like, I can play now. But some people like Tosin Abasi will always be magical to me. Just insane shit.

Wow this is so true. SInce I started singing I always analyse what techniques the singer is using and I know when something is difficult or not. Now I don´t decide if I like someones voice by the sound of it ut I judge it by the way which techniques are used and it also changed my preferences which singers I like a lot.

Lol yes

@@EZheng-bd1bg XD

Hospice nurse: hearing is the last to go.

I just posted a long comment that essentially said "ah, but your memory of what the keys and chords are, and your music theory knowledge, they do not fade in the same way as we age, and they can help 'adjust' and 'recalibrate' the slight changes to perfect pitch as we age (which I've been experiencing for 20 years and counting. (to day, things seem about a half step higher than I remember them being, that is, until I remember what keys/chords I KNOW them to be, (assuming it is music I have heard before.)

sooo goddamn trueeee

tbh, I think the reason is because a decent number of musicians have quasi-absolute pitch, the type of perfect pitch you get from getting used to playing an instrument for some time, and don't realize that's different. In practice it's essentially the same, but one is trained knowledge, the other is (somewhat) innate to the person

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Definitely part of that 5% no-pitch-at-all here. Always had issues learning notes. I tried to learn playing the piano, but just didn't have what it takes to keep practicing all the time. I mean, I hear the blasted things and can repeat them accurately, but heck if I know what letter it is.

I would suggest that is because the viewers of this channel are not a representative sample of the population. Although, I also realize your 95% may be a (partial) exaggeration. (If you were wondering; otherwise, I did enjoy your joke).

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thats the problem with et its equqlly out of tune in every key( think piano concerto,when the piano enters at the end of an orchestral passasge-always totally out of tune - meantone temperaments sound much sweeter

I rarely hear perfectly tuned music, and my guitar always sounds out of tune lol.

Bro... I have a question Can we play piano without having perfect pitch

@@anugrah5083 I'm pretty sure you can play piano without having any sense of pitch at all if you can learn where to place your fingers. It's one of the easier instruments pitch-wise since keyboards don't go out of tune the way other instruments do.

@@syntext thanks bro..

Non color blind people lose color vision when we are in the dark. I see everything in a dark blue tone when my eyes switch to "night vision". I suppose it is the same for other people. As far as I know the part of the eyes that is responsible for color doesn't have very good perception in low light, so the black and white part is all that remains. It sounds plausible that color blind people could have better night vision.

@@berman00 it's true that the colour vision goes in low light, and it does so for everyone. But that seems to make it less plausible that colour blind people should have an advantage at night; the darkness just levels the playing field.

they have the experience

There are two types of nerve cells in the retina that perceive light. They're named after their general shape: rods and cones. Rods react to any light within the visible spectrum. They aren't fussy. They don't care what color the light is, they just want to know it's there. Rods therefore detect how bright something is overall, but they do not gather any color information whatsoever. Cones are picky and only react to light within a certain range of frequencies within the visible spectrum. Because they only react to a fraction of visible light, they need brighter light overall in order to function. This is why it's hard to discern colors in the dark -- your rods gather enough light to report visual information to the brain, but your cones can't. If you've ever thought that a place looks different at night and you think you're being silly or going crazy, you aren't. It does look different because you're not getting as much visual feedback. Most humans have 3 cone types that are centered on red, green, and blue (as in indigo, not sky blue) light, and the combinations of these colors at different intensities are interpreted by our brains as the full spectrum of perceptible color. Red, green, and blue are known as the primary additive colors. The screen on your computer, phone, and TV produce these three colors (and ONLY these three colors) in different proportions within each pixel to form an image. For example, equal amounts of all three RGB channels make grayscale shades. Lots of red and lots of green makes yellows, while lots of red and a little green makes oranges and browns depending on the overall brightness. I'm not an expert in colorblindness by any means. However, if you are colorblind, something about your cones or the way your brain interprets their feedback is different. There are different types of colorblindness that have different effects. Maybe your brain can't distinguish between the red signal and the green signal, or maybe you don't get a blue signal at all, so you distinguish those colors by their different luminosity -- how bright they are -- because your rods are still giving you overall brightness feedback. This can be advantageous in cases where the additional color information makes an object's hue similar enough to the hue of its background that a human can't distinguish between the different shades of the same hue. You don't get that additional information, so you can tell the difference much more easily. If you're not colorblind and you want to know what colorblind people see, you can find utilities online that let you view or upload images and convert them into an approximation of how someone with colorblindness might see it. This is extremely useful for accessibility when designing websites, apps, games, and anything else that uses different colors to convey information, because you can make sure that a colorblind person can still parse what they're looking at. There are also similar utilities that try to simulate how different animals see. Most animals only have two sets of cones, and don't see the same range of colors that humans do. (Bulls cannot see the color red. Joke's on you, matadors.) These aren't a perfect representation of how an animal sees -- cats, for example, perceive movement in a way that can't be recreated for humans. There are also some animals that have _more_ sets of cones than us, which lets them see _more_ colors, and sometimes even lets them see electromagnetic frequencies outside of visible light. The most famous example of that is probably the mantis shrimp, which you should Google, because they're [BASS]ing bonkers. I will conclude this comment essay with a fun fact: if you ask a physicist what frequency of light corresponds to the color magenta, they won't be able to answer you. That is because the color magenta doesn't technically exist. Purple does, but magenta doesn't. Seriously, check out the spectrum of a rainbow or a prism -- magenta isn't there. Magenta is just what happens when your cones report a combination of red and blue frequencies in a certain spot. Your brain needs a way to represent that, so it just makes something up. Everything that any of us perceive is sensory feedback being interpreted by the unbelievably advanced organic computer that is the human brain. Not all of us get the same output from the same input. And literally no one is anywhere close to perceiving the quantum physics weirdness that actually makes up reality. Have a nice day! :)

@@skakdosmer They are more trained to understand differences without seeing color though (or seeing a less extensive range of it), so they might have an easier time navigating at night.

It was an F

Yup it was in F

I have a slightly weird question about perfect pitch. Have you ever heard someone fart and known what the pitch was?

It’s quite easy to find out if someone has this terrible disease, because they’ll tell you.

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@@iforgotmyname2739 lol yeah most of them build their whole personality around it

@@hunter00143 loads odd time signature with malicious intent

@@marcusaurelius4941 hot single mother’s with perfect pitch in your area

For sure. And also there is also the chance that in any given group one of the sides could just do worse by chance. Can’t trust case studies 🙃 thanks highschool stat

@@spookiedukey That effect tends to cancel on average and can be readily described by statistical methods. It is the non-random effects you have to be aware of because they cannot be easily detected or removed from data. Assuming you don't engage in p-hacking or try to fit trend lines through noise.

Was looking for this comment considering how his data turned out relative to the audience asked.

It's not really survivorship bias since there isn't any screening making it so that only people with AP would be able to answer. It's better to describe it as volunteer bias because the people answering already have interest in the channel.

@@deadperson7333 ...is there two names for the same effect? I only know it as survivorship bias.

I was thinking about that the whole time as well. "A" being 440Hz means absolutely nothing. Even different professional orchestras tune to different frequencies, and the frequency of "A" has shifted over decades and centuries of music. If I was hearing an orchestra with excellent pitch relative to each other as "wrong" because they tuned to a different frequency, I think I would hate it. I'm honestly thankful that I have excellent relative pitch, but not perfect pitch.

As someone with perfect pitch, I often like music pitched down slightly. It makes it stand out, but also sound retro and laid back, likely due to it's association with vinyl/tape. It's also often a new perspective on music I am likely to have heard many times before.

I think perfect color is more useful Color is also relative to it's surroundings

@@itdepends604 l prefer it very slightly sharper but I am a violinist.

@@chicken_person the same difficulty l have.

Woe that’s crazy…Very interesting!

That's insane! I'm kinda jealous lol 😅

Wonder if there's any science that could explain that

Adam has that (not perfect pitch)

I believe the classical composer Scriabin also saw music in colors.

C IS RED! A IS PURPLE! (the way you see it is good too I'm just joking around)

@@three_crows_all_day C is blue for me. I wish I had a purple note but I don’t.

I love people with synaesthesia

C is super yellow for me

Interesting! Can I ask any of you if it works across different octaves? Like A3 and A5 have the same color?

😂

Would be interesting to see a study examining whether these two things are actually connected though.

@Samer Mohamed I am color blind but do not have perfect pitch, so if they are connected then I’m an anomaly, and I’m pretty sure that I am not. Either that or I’m weirder than I originally thought possible.

@@dachking6657 I think they are related but it´s not like if you are color blind you will have perfect pitch, but If you are color blind your ears tend to be more developed, just like evreytime when life takes something from you, it will compensate, giving you something else. I am color blind with very good ears, very good relative pitch and working to have quasi perfect pitch. I am pretty sure color blind people are way more likely to depelop perfect pitch than non color blind people. I started ear training being quite old (18).

@@leosonic not how it works. in your brain, perfect pitch is more like learning a language. it’s much easier to develop a language when you’re younger than when you’re older, the only difference being that you can’t become fluent in absolute pitch once you’ve grown out of this ‘language learning’ phase. sure, a blind/colourblind person might be more likely to pick up on individual tones, since they have less stimuli to distract them, but perfect pitch and colourblindness are in no way connected. that would be like saying ‘yeah, knowing norwegian and being blind go hand in hand’.

YES! And this extrapolates to 'innate geolocating'...or an aspect of it: In an unknown location, knowing which way the points of the compass are, east, west, north or south. Dogs especially have this sense, as do migrating animals, albeit magnetite has been implicated in bird brains as a cause of this. The point is that that 'inane' ability diminishes with age...as does IQ (usually peaks at around 50 yrs for humans). But your point isn't the same as this, but a very important vector that bears on it.

Because colour is to an extent relative because the same object will transmit different wavelengths depending on lighting conditions.

true. i’ve been the human pitch pipe for basically every choir i’ve sung in since age 15. it’s kind of a fun status to have. makes you feel special. xD but yes, a cappella pieces mean you constantly have to recalibrate and transpose on the fly, which can be annoying. i wonder if there’s a whole choir out there made up of people with AP. i’m sure someone has done it. it’d be interesting to hear that [or to be in it!].

"Perfect pitch" really doesn't exist, because there are simply too many variables that go into determining what the frequency of any particular note is. While most people say that you can simply assume 440 Hz as the reference frequency for A and 12-tone equal temperament, those are still assumptions, and by being assumptions they inherently introduce ambiguity that prevents generalising this ability to anything other than 12-TET with 440 Hz A. With that out of the way: I go to church a lot, but mainly for the music and the social interaction I get, as I'm not religious. There are five young adult ministries that I am currently going to. Both during normal service and during young adult service, I will often have my earbuds in while we sing. Why? 1. My earbuds serve as hearing protection. 2. They help me hear myself as I sing. -I have absolute pitch but- often times the loud volume prevents me from hearing myself without some form of hearing protection. 3. Too often, there have been cases where one of the singers on stage will be noticeably out of tune (almost always during the young adult gatherings, not normal service) and because their voice is being amplified, it throws ME off even though I have perfect pitch. In these cases, I end up playing a tone (most of the times, it's the root note of whatever key the song is in) in the background because the poor intonation distracts me so much. 4. Often times I will think that something is sharp or flat when it's actually in tune, so I still double-check if I have doubts.

I feel like you could be nicknamed "the Tuning Fork" if you just carry around a tuning fork as well.

Does just intonation sound like pitch drift? I've always been curious. Does a lowered third in a major key sound horribly wrong to you? I've never had anyone to ask.

Because the next level of development AFTER obtaining perfect pitch, is to understand Context is more important than "perfection."

And gives your family his opinion

He can be pretty frightening in some videos. He kind of looks like an old homeless man, experiencing his first line of crystal meth.

...and hums quietly to himself ?!?!?!?!

Guess he has better stuff to do.

Great, I'll get right out of bed and start jamming with him.

HOW COULD YOU FAIL THAT??

the first test is useful; the second is not so useful. There are a lot of factors that give notes identity, so with minimal context the notes don’t establish strong identity. 🐧🐉

A friend of mine can do this. He sat in with a band once and they didnt mix him into the monitors but it was fine as he could simply auralise his part into the whole. He got compliments even though he was just jamming along without hearing a note he played

Is it the wii shop? I hummed the note and man I was pretty fast to think that the first note is in D.

This is the most important skill

@@socksboii3848 Yeah, and I think you're right. I have a bit of relative pitch from playing still dre every day for like a year (the first note of that is c) and it's like an increment up.

lmao i don't know why i like this comment so much but it legit made me laugh

Well now we need to engineer the rest of the stairs to squeak the notes in order. Then every time you go down them you can enjoy the glory of the emeht iiw odnetnin

It is. It sucks a lot.

@@TacComControl lol not it doesn't

@@SunWithBrackets Try being a compulsive perfectionist on top of it. ONE untuned instrument in a big band or orchestra, one faulty mic on a set, you hear ALL of it. And it's like nails on a chalkboard when it happens.

@@TacComControl not only people with perfect pitch get bothered by things like these. I have relative pitch and i find those annoying too. Perfect pitch does not equal something like perfectionism

@@TacComControl I have the same thing whenever I hear the slightest bit of compression, which becomes very apparent with balanced headphones

wait bc same

Yeah people think perfect pitch is an instant musical leg up, but it can make intuitive learning or self taught autodidactic stuff way harder for the reasons in your second paragraph

Good job man I think you got it I believe in you 😊

@@xplodingkatz Thanks!

This is such an underrated comment

O: I have to read that book again

had to read it for my grade 7 lit. Yeah, thats pretty much it.

@@pwnwin same

So the givers are actually killing people with RP? LOL

And apparently a lot of other people

Those grapes surely must be sour

and he succeeds

Exactly

Everyone around me for years thought (and still thinks) that I have perfect pitch, when in reality I just have true pitch. Seems to me that not a lot of people know about this one's existence, sadly

They only had to travel to a different town in their own age. Or different country.Their age was not digital, so instruments were tuned to tuning forks. And tuning forks were not absolute. They varied. I wondered about people with absolute pitch in former times myself, because tuning was not at all standardised.

Actually it's a pear

@@thomas.thomas Or study Improv Jazz.... It's a Papple

Perfect pitch: is 80% red, 10% yellow and 10% green

Jazz: "The red is plant."

Actually it's every color except red

Yeah instantly thought about that.

right. like: this is an apple this is a fern you are looking into a room lit by an amber light and the window you're looking through is reflecting a sunset behind you. (you are looking at jazz)

what if there is also a green apple?? just use melodyne lol

Exactly! Seeing the difference between the wavelengths and calculating based on that

It's like you have a Hue slider and you change it until the apple is red and therefore the plant is green

I was about to say

Yeah get your true pitch straight Adam! 😂

He sent a tweet saying that post production he realized that the truck was a F, but he didn’t change it because the video would get more engagement

@@bernardosantos8020 Playin' the game. what a legend

F is the only reliable note I have memorized and when he said E I was questioning if I had lost that

I was thinking the same thing.

Incoming ProZD meme response video.

My guess is that he got the exact pitches of the lines right

@@ts4gv It sounded like ProZD was a semitone flat (using my excellent Relative Pitch)

@@ts4gv I'm guessing that he's ever-so-slightly off, like his perfect pitch is starting to distort as he's ageing.

I'm 42... never knew I was going to lose it. Starting to worry a bit now!

@@yvindVevang That sounds kind of terrifying, like if I just got up, looked down at my shoes, and suddenly they were in greyscale

I have it too and have noticed it fading as I age -- HOWEVER this is only true when I'm not actively playing music. I recently started playing music again after a multi-year break and within a couple of weeks my PP was as sharp as ever.

@@iamthepinkylifter hehe

@@yvindVevang you might not, just go with the flow. not everyone loses it

I’m pretty sure I have perfect pitch and learning to see colours as complementary etc instead of just “as they are” was literally like rewiring my brain. I’m glad I can do it now tho, eg I’ll see purple and orange, next to blue and yellow, and understand it’s just shifted a little cooler. It’s really useful in identifying when a screen is calibrated wrongly too, I used to just flail around until it matches but now I know which direction to go.

lol

if you have perfect pitch and quick math you dont need a speedometer

yeet.

But then you’d already know what an A is if you had absolute pitch. Duck tales

imagine listening to the pitch of a motor to determine speed. what an unnecessary necessary superpower

adam needs to just dye his hair that color

@@cookie0329 it looks good on him

You may instantly and innately recognise the colour 🔴, but how do you know that the word for it is "red". That is something you learned at some point, and if you learn a new language, you have to learn a new word for it. If you are trying to think of the word for 🔴 in that other language, you might for example first recognise it as "red" then have to think about what the other language's word for "red" is. Maybe what is happening here is that you are having to translate from your own internal language what the note names are?

@@katrinabryce That probably is, but I will usually only translate to the letter names if I have to, like if I’m saying it outloud or it’s for a test or some other situation where you would need to say the note names outloud. What you said is probably what’s happening, since that is usually what I hear internally. Like if you play an E I will automatically think “mi” before E because that is what I memorized when I started reading music.

"I can recognise notes without any reference, but I don't have Perfect Pitch" 🤓

@@GabriTell well its only for piano and some violin notes, not for everything and I can’t sing the pitches without reference

Wait, this is the exact same for me… my main instrument is piano and I learned the “do re mi fa so la ti do” before the “C D E F G A B C” system, and when I hear a piano note, I can instantly recognize what note it is because my brain has somehow encoded piano notes to sound like “do re mi…”. Like if someone plays C, the piano note’s timbre or something sounds exactly like “do” to my ears. Which is freaky because I’m pretty sure piano notes don’t actually have different timbres like that. However, I am less good at recognizing pitches with any other instrument or type of timbre. It’s so weird.

And he looks great with pink hair

Pink light above him

I thought it was purple??🤣

I like Adam’s hair. I don’t know what you are all on about. It’s always been purple.

Why dye your hair when you can just shine a studio light on it? 😆

I literally commented this same exact thing 🤣 It really sucks because it isn't our fault that we hear things that way but often it takes enjoyment or impressiveness away from performances because I hyperfocus on that c7 being slightly flat

Don't let people who don't have it make you hate it. I have it, and it's how I enjoy various genres of music even without having learned music in a formal setting. Makes you feel alone when you have no one to share it with and you have to brace the persecution all by yourself. Still I can enjoy my lonesomeness, understanding that not everyone has it and giving them their space.

@@avigailomichael of course! I’d say it’s more of a love/hate relationship, and being in college where I’m actually around others with perfect or relative pitch is certainly good; I don’t feel so alone now! Also, I guess I’m partially exaggerating when I say it’s a burden. It is genuinely useful and I certainly find pleasure in listening to and finding the intricacies within music, especially classical :)

What type of colorblindness do you have? I have a red/green type so I feel like the analogy would be more complicated. For me it's more like having crude pitch perception... being able to narrow it down within a couple semitones or so. Like "I know both of those notes are between G and Bb, but that's all I can tell you."

I think Adam's analogy is backwards. Colorblindness≈tone-deafness is more accurate (although he didn't directly make that comparison). Someone with perfect pitch would be more analogous to someone who claimed to have either tetrachromatic vision, or be able to identify the Pantone or hexadecimal number of any color without comparing it to swatches. On a side note, anecdotally, it seems to me that a lot of musicians have some degree of colorblindness. I've often wondered if there's some deeper connection there with how perception works (or is shaped) in the brain. Also, (sigh) most colorblind people do not see in black and white.

@@ElectrotypeMusic Exactly. If you see black and white, the analogy might work a bit. But you would not be able to remember that apples are red, because 'red' had no meaning to you. Colors are perceived in such a different way than pitch. Perfect pitch is very hard to really understand if don't have it yourself. So is color blindness.

Ditto!

How do you buy bananas?

*laughs in Brett*

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You can also tell by the many videos he is referencing it that he has quasi-absolute pitch (Still love you Eddy! ^^)

I wish they’d react to this

Crying in A minor

this depends from person to person. I've got it and out of tune notes don't bother me. In fact I quite like hearing displaced keys from time to time.

@@lukaskuipers7791 Yeah this isn't about listening pleasure (and I admit that when I hear someone playing/singing distinctly out of tune I physically cringe, my ears feel like they're being abused), this is about performing and having to adjust your perception to match a consensus that you have learned is "wrong" and in some situations that can be hard work.

Bla bla bla Is It a disadvantage? and something to really complain about? Rubbish talk If people in the western culture would pull their finger out and started teaching young children early on music properly there would not be any nonsense discussion anymore cause most of them would be on pitch It's not a big deal to achieve only if it wasn't for people like Neely who spread that rubbish nonsense view on the subject

@@stewedfaster439 Hey tiger calm down First of all don't accuse me of discounting achievements made by great musicians who don't have perfect pitch So don't talk rubbish accusing me of that tiger!! Your abusive language is inappropriate All that I'm saying is that the bar is going up and people who are musicians of the future need to readjust to be able to play or just to follow the music with microtones Are you going to dismiss Jacob Collier and his lectures on the new wave in music composition and music perception? Your relative pitch will not be good enough and just too slow to follow the topic. For too long it has been fed in our brains that you have to be born with it So what happened? People just got brainwashed and gave up And if people like Mr Neely continue to discount the desire of other people who want something more in music as unwanted waste of time then it will still be a subject taboo among the western population I don't have perfect pitch and I know that I can go by with relative one But don't redicule the desire of others who want to try out and follow other paths in music that forbidden taboo like the medieval inquisition that would brainwash everyone into thinking that the Earth is flat Whoever though differently awas a tall poppy to be burnt on stake There is a similarity here You tiger are showing your claws in a very aggressive way You have to calm down first and let others do what they want And my opinion is that the social media leading figures should shut up and stop spreading propaganda on this subject dismissing it as a tall poppy and as some say a party trick This is nothing else but keeping people in dark ages It's all fine we can enjoy music the way we are now and that brings us joy That's all true However let's think about the future as well I hope You big tiger are going to calm down and give it a good thought before you become paranoid about this topic and tell me again to pull my head out of my arse You ve got a foul mouth mate You're big with your vocabulary Looks like youre a regular in comments section or maybe even a part of a secret death squad Wait wait don't kill me!!! I'm pulling my head out

@@lukaskuipers7791 Hello Sir what a relief to read someone's Sensible and wise comment. There is so much hate and abuse amongst the readers on the subject of perfect pitch People who are agaist it must be in some sort of a secret political party or society They I'm afraid might be storming on the Capital very soon and go through the bulletproof door One thing for sure they want to behead anyone who brings up the subject Do You have perfect pitch Sir? I don't and I'm too old for it but I'm interested and want to know more about it Would You be able to answer one or two questions? Regards and Happy New year for you and family Jack

Please do this lmao. These instagram guitarists make me insecure af

Hahaha yes please! "Why you should buy new instruments and be barely fluent in all of them instead of being good in any one"

@@hmarci I think David Bruce has talked on occasion about that in terms of being a composer. Knowing a little bit about every instrument is better than knowing nothing about any outside of your favorite one.

​@@1980rlquinn Interesting! Do you remember in which one of his videos he's referenced that specifically? I'd love to see him discuss this.

@@thedoodlingcellist8907 Sorry, not off the top of my head. I remember the camera showing the space of his office with instruments everywhere, and he would pull them down and play them a bit. When he talked about knowing how to play them even just a little bit, it was to help understand the limitations and logistics of playing the instrument and how the music being composed would be perceived from the point of view of the player, how practical the composition was and whether it played to the instrument's strengths, etc. It was a matter of being familiar enough with the instruments to do his job of composing well. And also, it's fun.

I saw someone in another video say people who grew up with wind instruments can’t have it, only pianos, and I was like “that sounds like BS”, and indeed it only takes one to disprove it so you’ve just done it!

@@kaitlyn__L Somebody done lied! My band instructor made sure we knew how to stay in tune by ear and that was since sixth grade for me (I had the same instructor through high school). He said that not always will we have a tuner and he was right. The only annoying thing is I can tell when someone is in pitch or out of it. It drives me nuts when someone is flatter than a tire or is in the wrong key. But I forget that not everyone has an ear for music and I have to let it go.

@@LyssieLysse haha yeah, listening to people whistle out of key is so frustrating to me, especially because I can whistle quite well (not gonna say I’m amazing) as a side effect of playing sax 😅 The worst is when people only can whistle 3 notes though, and they think they’re doing a melody but really they just have their low note for “descending” and their high for “ascending” and really they’re encoding the motion of the melody rather than the melody itself. It’s pretty frustrating when people try to compress 2 octaves into their natural range so that everything is off key, but it doesn’t bother me quite as badly as that “3 notes” thing! Since I can at least try to imagine it’s some avant-garde tuning rather than clearly just 3 notes.

That’s also why eg people who grew up with a piano tuned flat to A438 will have their perfect pitch “tuned” to A438 too! It’s all about a deep-seated memory

Amongs that sample there will be a certain number of people who believe thay have perfect pitch. I knew a kid at college who always swore blind he had perfect pitch and never seemed to pass up an opportunity to prove himself wrong.

Not only that, but the kinds of people drawn to a channel like this are likely to see perfect pitch as a positive attribute. Illusory superiority (a cognitive bias which affects us all) will then drive some proportion of respondents to misidentify themselves as possessing this desirable attribute, further skewing the result.

@@ButzPunk For that same reason, it wouldn't surprise me if people with perfect pitch were more likely to respond to the poll than those without it.

Yes

@@ButzPunk and NOT ONLY that but people with perfect pitch are more proud of that and thus will make sure to answer the polls, while someone with regular pitch might just not answer the poll at all

I’m glad somebody actually picked that up. That bothered me so much.

@@seashell2504same

BuT b MiNoR iS nOt A nOtE

@@cursedcliff7562 how to fix the joke: Someone keyed *3 music notes* into my car

Good one

Someone keyed a musical 'score' on my car... (Merriam-Webster Def. #2.)

@@DragonWinter36 shouldn't it be 7 notes. the *key* of b minor, not the chord?

On a given instrument, are you able to memorize what image you see in order to identify what note was played?

@@benmeron5993 It pretty much works like that. I can remember what a note looks like in order to identify it, but it takes a while to memorize it on an instrument I've never heard before, since they all have a unique sound and "look".

@@spaghettiman3757 Thanks!

@@spaghettiman3757 wait so if someone played an fir would appear as a color like "brown" for you?

f*

I've never been classically taught and I don't play instruments so I can't assign notes to keys, but I have very strong audio-tactile synesthesia that I make use of in singing a lot. The physical sensations and textures of music are why I enjoy it as much as I do, and I love music with all my heart, so the video gave me a surge of very aggressive existential dread since... You know. I don't want to lose that experience before my death. Thank you for sharing this, it made me feel a lot better. Bless you.

With that talent you surely could get pretty far into professional music training, no?

Ok but like how is playing stuff like tchaikovsky violin concerto by ear easier than just reading the notes lol. At a certain point written music just becomes the most efficient way of communication Also if you're in an orchestra you don't get the liberty of playing by ear since you must play WITH the group, not after hearing the part and copying it. And you can't play the other parts either. Just your section

I have been playing guitar for 6 years (I’m 12) and I have perfect pitch. When I first started playing guitar and taking lessons, my guitar teacher would play something for me and I could play it straight back to him. He thought I knew the song so I kept silent. He then played another harder song and I played it perfectly back to him. I think he realized that I could have perfect pitch and here I am now watching a video about why it is bad to have perfect pitch.

“Did something more with your life”? You’re 19! You have all of your life still. You can get back into music now if you want

@@MattsMusic Hey I’m 25 (as of today, actually!) and there’s plenty of “why x is bad” videos on KZfaq. The thing is they’re a general source of information. They don’t know your life, and heck now that you’ve seen this you’re more aware of potential issues.

Purple backlight is often used in greenscreen work as it’s the opposite colour to green so makes for less fringing / spill. Although I don’t think he’s using greenscreen here.

This is exactly what I thought. It makes an interesting point for the classic "is the color red that I see the same as the color red that you see" debate.

It would be interesting to know what happens to people with quasi-absolute pitch as they age. Does their memory of their reference note also shift?

@@ruthsteen6943 well my father is 61 years old right now, and i can say is no, my father still remember those tunes perfectly

I actually had days where familiar songs sounded off. So even without perfect/absolute pitch stuff can feel wrong. Can't imagine how that must be when a permanent shift sets it. Especially since I'm actually getting better at feeling notes.

Rick Beato (He doesn't have perfect pitch) also said that he mixed E and Eb. I think it's definitely an age thing. The difference could be that he doesn't suffer.

you don't have a smartphone? just kiddin

It's also a huge help in memorizing music. If you know how the tunes goes, you automatically know what the notes are. Btw, I'm 60 and it's still as good as ever. The only thing that compromises it is being tired or stressed; get your sleep!

I've got some bad news for you...

@@hiryu64he’s right

WHEN I WAS

TUUUUN TUUN TUUN TUNN TUUN TUN TUNN TUN TUUN TUUN...TUUUN

@@joshjams1978 A YOUNG BOY

@@Spladoinkal to see a father..

@KvAT TOOK ME INTO THE CITY

@Ethan Deister I think @Flynn made a good analogy. With dementia, it's more like you get lost in yourself than just having everything going blank in your mind.

@@ethandeister6567 ...as someone with perfect pitch, I won't be able to enjoy it transposed, it's painful :(

@@ethandeister6567 I don't have perfect pitch amd my hearing is rather poor (untrained) but people always tell me if I did have it I would just be bugged all the time by everything that is out of tune. And I just kept wondering ok but what if I don't care? Out of tune is not wrong, it's just not any of the 12 notes. If something is between idk F and F# why should I be bugged by that? I could just perceive it as neither and move on, idk. Like being bugged that a color is neither purple nor blue and you just can't asign either to it. Why care?

Everywhere at the end of time starts playing

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That's why period instruments tend to drive me up the wall. The tuning used to be about a semitone lower, so a Bach piece in G major sounds like G flat or F sharp instead when played on instruments from that period. I've gotten used to this now to the point where if I'm told in advance, I won't mentally freak out. But without warning, telling me I'm going to listen to something in one key from the baroque period and then it's a semitone lower than I expect is jarring.

@@oceanelf2512 Tuning frequencies in the Baroque period actually varied considerably, sometimes even within the same city or region. Sometimes they were higher than 440 Hz, sometimes lower than 440 Hz. Tuning was never standardised back then, but _in general_ the tuning frequencies were lower than 440 Hz. The Baroque pitch standard of A = 415 Hz is actually fairly recent, and was a compromise that was decided upon in order to give performers of historical instruments something to agree upon to simplify things. While a "proper" A♭ in 12-ET and A = 440 Hz is 415.305 Hz, they round that to 415, again to simplify things. I also have absolute pitch but only recently have I been able to see its limitations for myself. I myself am classically trained, having played piano for 13 years and cello for 8 years, but almost all of the music I've ever dealt with was in 12-ET with A = 440 Hz, and naturally that's what my ears are trained to. It would be quite a learning curve for me to play in a Baroque ensemble because I've based everything around 440 Hz, not 415 Hz.

I was looking for this comment.... Oh how many times I've heard that G note

100%

I was listening to it earlier!

Same, G is a meme for a reason :D.

Damn right.

I'm fairly young and still accurate with my tones, but hearing that I'll eventually lose it is *terrifying* to me

The music I've listened to a lot I remember in the correct pitch, i.e I can "listen" to Bohemian Rhapsody in my mind, and it has Freddie singing and Brian playing the guitar solo and it's almost like a recording of the music. From that I could, if I knew the starting note or some significant note that stands out, figure out the others and, to a point, use that memory of a recorded song to get an absolute pitch to use as a reference for my relative pitch. It'd be interesting to know if these memories of songs shift in pitch based on age in the same way that perfect pitch does? I guess most of us with relative pitch don't rely on these memories, and so we don't really find out. Plus if we listen to the original it's not really clashing because we don't have perfect pitch. i.e if Queen performed live one time playing their songs a semitone lower I wouldn't be thinking "They're flat" so it would be less obvious if my memory of their recorded songs - which is strong has pitch drifted or not. Most of the time, of course, I don't have a strong reference for a melody or harmony. e.g if I think of the song 'twinkle twinkle little star' I can hear the melody in my mind and easily recreate that on a piano or other instrument, but not at any particular starting note. I can imagine it with any starting note but it's all relative (which I think is the more important thing to know anyway - if I'm hearing some band vamping and I want to solo over it, I imagine a melody that goes over the top of what they are playing and then find it on the guitar - and, to the extent that I can do that, I'm not thinking "He's playing Dm7' at all, and it would take far too long to think in those terms and then play - the band would be 3 chords further along. And the real struggle to play music is that most of us, I imagine, can hear far better solos than we can play, and I think that's both in the sense that we lack the musical chops and virtuosity to play what we imagine as well as being unable to 'imagine do be dop a doo be doo' and then find all those pitches on our instrument in real time. I imagine even Guthrie probably has an ability to imagine stuff he can't play albeit he is obviously a lot further down the path of 'playing what he imagines' than most of us. Whereas I imagine Collier's biggest frustration will be that he lacks the chops and technical ability on all the instruments he uses to be able to physically play what he's imagining, even if his perfect pitch means he knows exactly what notes he wants to play - but the latter is easier to solve because you can write down your music and get someone else to play it (as Beethoven et al did) or, in the modern day, you can plug the notes one by one into a DAW.

God I’ve fallen into that trap :(

yeah, cus good looking people are naturally good at things.

@@smugler1 I think you might want to look a little bit more closely for the point of my comment.

That's a good analogy

But I think like Adam said there’s also side effects that make thing like relative pitch harder for people with perfect pitch

Doesn't he have quasi absolute pitch? I am talking about Eddy. He acquired it very late(High school I think?) and he doesn't know the notes immediately upon hearing but has to think for few seconds. Therefore he will never lose it.

@@temp2424 Yeah, I'm pretty sure Brett has quasi absolute pitch.

@@pranaynatvarlal they said he doesn't

@@temp2424 Eddy has perfect pitch. He didn't acquire it late, he trained it, so I guess he always has had the ability. Rick Beato also talked about this in one of his videos. If you train your perfect pitch on a detuned piano, you will then have the wrong reference tones in your head. And in the comment section of the video where Eddy thinks about what note is what there are some users who also have perfect pitch where they talk about just that: That they have the reference tone in their head, just like a tuner. They hear a tone and just know how it relates to their reference tone. I guess that's also the explanation why people who start losing their perfect pitch will hear notes "wrong", because the reference tones in their minds start to get "out of tune", so to speak.

@@wohlhabendermanager I see, thx for clearing it up

I'm tone-deaf between a quarter-step and sometimes a half-step. Everything I make focuses a lot more on rhythm, meter, and noise harmonic filtering than it ever does on melody. I use tuners and frequency graphs to help me form chords and keep stuff in tune, but it's rarely necessary, since I usually use percussion, programmed synthesizers, and atonal filtered noise samples. I can tell who has perfect pitch because they absolutely hate everything I make, while people without perfect pitch usually land anywhere from "meh" to "this is amazing". I genuinely don't think I would benefit from having perfect pitch, especially since it seems that perfect pitch locks people out of an entire collection of music genres as a result. It used to really bother me because I had zero music friends (all the music majors avoided me and treated me as less than them), but then I realized they can only listen to and talk about stuff that has clean tones and crystal pitches, while I have the opportunity to explore the vast range of emotions found in atonal noise and percussion music, and if they refuse to go with me, then it's their loss, lol.

@@jasonyesmarc309 This is such a fantastic take 😮 🫡

Bumping this comment in hopes the algorithm lifts it higher.

@@bunbynoy Thanks man! 😃

@@AdrienMelody heck yeah!

Transposing instruments is always such a pain for me, but I guess I know why now. Thank you for your wisdom!

Scrolled too long to find this, but I thought so too

Was waiting to see this

Well, sure. But hey, he then gave us that awesome Steve Perry imitation (6:30), which, I think, _more_ than made up for it.

Yes! I wasn't crazy hahahha

yep

I relate. I just wanna be able to hear intervals without having to identify each note first.

Intresting. So it's like you guys have relative intervals. That makes sense. I was doing interval training with a person that has perfect pitch, and I was surprised that they were so slow

There is another curse with absolute pitch, you know something is out of tune when you hear it. It’s hell, trust.

I feel that as someone with absolute pitch. Other people can hear the notes and identify the interval instantly because of the distance, but I just hear two notes and then have to count the amount of semitones between each note lol.

That's not a downfall at all. It means you had one skill (absolute pitch) and so never bothered to develop the other (relative pitch). That's not the fault of the first skill. The other musicians saw that they were lacking, and they did what they could to fix it.

people who have photogtaphic memory and could just remember what key to push: weaklings disgust men

That's not perfect pitch. Any good musician should be able to do that. Perfect pitch will just let you know the key instantly. But a good musician can fish around and get the key within seconds.

Relative pitch (i.e. mapping each note to its position within the key, i.e. "do re mi fa so la ti...") also allows you to reproduce/play a melody after hearing it, and is much easier to learn.

If it's a modern pop song, there's a 90% chance I can play along on the first listen. My students think it's a super power. I call it listening for the 145 and occasional minor 6.

@@movesguy Good answer. I have absolute pitch but it doesn't mean that I can play a tune I've just heard straight off though I'll accurately tell you what key it was in.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but green apples exist.

@@deathbunny3048 Spoken like someone without perfect pitch

@@MC_CatMaster Nah. Just spoken like someone who knows what flawed logic looks like and corrects it in a single sentence.

@@deathbunny3048 Ah, but if you had perfect pitch you would know that green apples do not exist, they are all red

@@MC_CatMaster No they most definitely aren't all red.

I feel the same way. Something weird happened to me recently, I got sick and I got a temporary case of a thing called diplacusis, which for me lowered any pitch I heard by 5mHz. So for like 4 or 5 days, anything I heard sounded like how an out of tune piano would be played. Makes me feel grateful it was temporary and how I can't take it for granted.

Same! I'm still a teenager and when I learn new tunes and improvise on saxophone I depend heavily on perfect pitch. I hope I'm in the tiny percentage of people who doesn't lose it, but that's unlikely :(

actually made me so sad I started to cry, not a great way to start your sunday morning while still in bed

@@felipefeldman9149 if you dont already you could learn relative pitch. If your relative pitch is good enough, it's also instantaneous.

This is the first time in my life I've felt grateful for not having absolute pitch. I will hopefully still have the same kind of musical perception when I'm 90. That's wonderful.