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This seems way more like a memory test than a pitch test.

even if u get everything right you most likely don't have perfect pitch, but simply a good ear. and a good memory.

Me and my bandmates took this test and we are now the Deftones.

I did choir in high school for one year. A guy in my class had perfect pitch. The choir director got rid of her pitch pipe and would just ask Greg to "give us a B please" or whatever other note we needed. Greg was REALLY good at all things music related. It was like magic.

This is about relative pitch(RP) and also only the beginning parts of RP. To be sure if you have RP u must also be tested on notes outside the major scale. Perfect pitch is different

Perfect pitch is basically when the person hears a sound, can recognize if it's an A B C D E F G immediately.

I've always been able to tell when a song on the radio is played at a different speed than the recorded version since the pitch seems off. And playing by ear/figuring out chord voicings has always come super easily. I don't think that's necessarily perfect pitch but pitch memory. I'm glad I know a name for that now.

The second one got me so confused, I was like “that’s C#, not B”

To be clear as I'm reading a lot of misinformation in the comments... This video doesn't intend on guaranteeing you have perfect pitch, despite the title. It's great if you can get all of them, well done, impressive! However, I've been a musician for nothing short of 10 years now and, despite completely acing this video, I definitely do not have perfect pitch. I have extremely good relative pitch, which I have once mistaken for perfect pitch, but the two are quite different. Charles Cornell explained perfect pitch, well, perfectly. He said (paraphrased) "a person with perfect pitch recognises pitch like we recognise color. Asking someone with perfect pitch 'what note is this?' is like asking non-colorblind people 'what color is this?'." They're on a completely different level, and while you can learn exceptional relative pitch (or true pitch), perfect pitch just doesn't work in the same way, they're two completely different processes. Charlie Puth, for example, can literally recognise any 5 notes played on a piano no matter how random and far apart those notes are and even recognised that a coffee mug, when hit with a spoon, would ring at somewhere between C and C#, or both, on one of those talk shows.

i dont have perfect pitch, im just a musician

I found this test easy and got all correct, but is probably because I have been playing the piano since I was 9 years old. That was 73 years ago. I still enjoy playing and learning new music. I can’t imagine not having music in my live and I find it great therapy for depression or tension. Thanks for the test😊

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I was tested for PP by my organ teacher when I was 11. She tested me on notes and chords, including chords I hadn’t learnt yet at the time. I had that ability to identify each note in the chords she played which told me what chord it was. I was also playing music off the radio for quite some time before I was tested. This is how it was revealed I have PP. I learned later that it runs in both sides of my family (PP usually does run in families). All of my siblings have it and two of my grandparents also had it. Another giveaway that someone has PP is they can sing in tune without the need for musical backup to keep them in tune, they can play a song that they hear on the radio almost identically, they can tell you what key it’s in after listening to a few bars and identify key changes. People with RP take a bit longer or even struggle to identify notes and chords and keys without music in front of them, the key a piece is written in when they listen to it and key changes. They may also require backup if they’re singing. These are the differences between RP and PP.

This is great - I love these challenges and the way you present them - this is a lot of fun! I had bad experiences with music teachers growing up, and have avoided trying again later in life as a result. I REALLY appreciate the style of these videos and now want to try again. If you can recommend a good keyboard for beginners, especially if it is iPad/Mac friendly, I would really appreciate it. Also, I care for my elderly father, who has dementia. I'm thinking of incorporating your videos into our daily mind & cognition exercises - which ones would you recommend, and do you have any experience(s) of using music with people who are suffering cognitive issues? Thank you again for this great channel!

Perfect pitch is best explained with colors. We can see different colors and we dont have to think to distinguish between them. If you have a perfect pitch you hear the notes as clearly as we see colors.

The one where you have to guess which tone is missing in the scale, is actually WAY easier than identifying 1, 2 or 3 notes from the scale I got that first one while i didn't get everything from before that

Yeah, it's more of a relative pitch test, but hey ! I myself enjoyed to hear that i have perfect pitch :) Motivates ! Thank you

I answered almost 80%. But i find myself digging many times to find the right notes and sequences. Practice and years of experiences esp hearing different things and trying to play them will bring me closer for sure.

Fun test. I saw some other videos lately with interesting research. People with perfect pitch actually score lower on quite a few musical/aural skills compared to people with relative (but not perfect) pitch. Also - I never knew this - perfect pitch almost always goes away (or worse, goes 'wrong' ) as people get older.

the 10 years of cello, violin, viola, piano and professional singing finally did me right

A fun quiz! Certainly not scientific, but fun to play. Well presented.

As a person with perfect pitch, I can say that this doesn't test perfect pitch, a person with strong relative pitch can also recognize the notes, as long as they are given the time. People with perfect pitch can know the notes instantly.

Going to have to incorporate this in my piano lessons. We do ear training but this would mix things up a bit. Yes, i got them right.

This is a relative pitch test. Perfect pitch would have asked what scale am I playing? What note is this? What chord is this?

Do you have perfect pitch? Me: Yes 1st note group: Me: Well, apparently not....I didn't know A and B were the same pitch....

I only made a couple mistakes. I started making rap beats in 2018 in a computer software, no previous musical knowledge. I still don’t know much, but all I’ve learnt was thanks to this hobby. I’m glad it has given me some sort of “musical ear” or a sensitive ear when it comes to pitches and tones.

I played piano for ten years without knowing I had perfect pitch until one day my piano teacher made me stand with my back at the piano, pressed several notes, and asked me to tell him what notes they were. I thought everyone has it. That's when I realized why my peers had a much harder time learning songs whereas I could just listen to the recordings and play right away. I do agree that this seems to test relative pitch rather than perfect pitch.

Inner pitch is very interesting and I think even among those who securely have “perfect” pitch they relate to it in individual ways, eg depending on what sort of performer/musician they are. As for me, I don’t have perfect pitch, but I have a very high level of musical training and to a great extent am able to audiate scores at sight, and listen to music and fully reproduce it on the piano at once. But because I don’t have “perfect” pitch I’m also able to transpose whatever I hear to any key simply by imagining that I heard it in that key. But I guess there’s a lot of pitch memory there because I immediately recognised the pitch of this video’s intro. And consequently the rest of the video. EDIT: I know this video is actually bullshit but it made me stop and reflect.

I’m a music student and I didn’t even get past the second one lmao

LOVING IT! Please more secs between exercise ❤

Thank you very much for this test. It means a lot to me.

Being a French horn in a band has helped me understand note harmonies and differentiate sounds within small ranges which is probably why I did well

I am a music student, and I am more than sure that this training would be much more fun trying different scales, at least with A Minor, but very good job.

I can, tell that my major scale degree recognition is OK after 20 years of playing guitar based on this test . Thanks for the video it's very easy and entertaining. Maybe can you make one more for minor scales? That will be more challenging for the most of people.

Love it, only you let the notes bleed in eachother at the preview and at the test, its all clean. Kinda makes it harder

This is absolutely fantastic! Missed a few but quite happy with my result!😊

Best notes to learn by heart as a song are e,a,d,g,b,e Then you could tune your guitar way easier. But the most important and hard exercise is, even you sing perfectly the notes, to tune each string exactly on the good frequency. The difficulty is there is infinite different frequencies that lure cause it sounds like good but they are not. For example the a string must be a 440hz sound note. But if it tuned at 450, your brain could consider it is tuned ok. The real exercise is to hear that kind of differences, then you know how much you have to train your ear. Instead of using electronic tuners, i recommand to simply use some guitar tuner player on youtube. They play each note for a long time each. Take your guitar and try to make the note sound equal, then you will probably witness how it can be sharp as hell to get the real frequency. With training and time, you may be able to tune your guitar without any help of any kind, not even the string to the other trick. Sorry my english is poor but my ear is rich.

No mistakes at all. Since I started learning music, music theory was kind of hard and time consuming for me. Then I found out that I can learn something 10 times faster by ear, I memorize songs perfectly, I can identify notes very easily, the year I started playing electric guitar I never used an tuner to tune it while I see professionals who can't tune a guitar without a tuner.

Cute I like these assignments, would love to do more intermediate stuff. This is pretty easy stuff though to a moderately trained musician I think.

As a person who thought herself to be tone deaf, I am proudly saying that I managed the first two 😂😂 haha

If you can think of a note based on it's frequency then compared it to what you hear. You may be able to identify approximately what is the frequency of the note. I remember 20Hz 40Hz 80Hz 220Hz 440Hz ~1000Hz 2000Hz etc. I'm also able to sweep the frequencies up or down a little. Memorize letters with pitch (which I didn't do) to relate the two. Or imagine the keyboard with the frequencies sweeping across it. It becomes easier as you play with oscillator and seeing what's the frequency. That's how I think.

That was a very fun relative pitch exercise, but I certainly don't have perfect pitch and was able to answer all tests correctly...I friggin hope'd I'd be able to since I've been playing music since 7th grade

😂 I m so excited because I got all the answers correct 🎉. I am a self taught guitar player, and recently I acquired a piano and I am starting to get the hand of it. I simply love it

I got everything right, but I don't have perfect pitch xD. I'm just a pianist who has heard the c major scale so many times that I memorized it to the point where I could answer every question.

I'm an perfect pitch, so this relative test was very funny and easy for me! Good video!

I definitely don’t have perfect pitch, but I do have somewhat good relative pitch. I got two wrong towards the end of the video, but the only way I was able to get the others was by humming the scale out loud and matching that to the note played. 🤷‍♀️

Ive played piano and sang for a good majority of my life and really enjoyed this! Good relative pitch here but hearing loss is definetly taking its toll I fear

2:51 NO FREAKING WAY I GOT THAT

Thanks buddy i had them ALL correct - I suppose it comes from singing and singing in a choir or group. It was a great exercise.

Nailed it. I don't have PP but I accept that I have very good RP. Not a ton of musical training (3 years of piano lessons as a kid, choir in school). I like to sing, fool around on the piano (try to play by ear), and wish I had a drum set. Assume this test is easy for all actual musicians.

I'm really good at playing music by ear but not fast like all the other pianists, because I'm not a pianist lol. However, I noticed that I was unable to identify multiple tones being played in a scale all together verses just two to three. Though I will say, that I don't play the piano every day and sometimes I don't play it for a month or so, as my life is busy. Great video.

That was a great test, love it! I only got the last question wrong. 😊

Omg I almost found them all. I didn't expect to find the last one, but I found it😁 Tysm for making this video. It helps me so much, because I'm learning piano by myself and I need exersises like these. Pls make other videos about the perfect pitch

Only confident with my answer if the note sequence corresponds that of the pentatonic blues scale and some scales often used by famous rock guitarists.

I have a degree in classical music, and got 10/10 BUT I don't have perfect pitch. This test is just testing if you have a good ear. I'd even say that it's not testing relative pitch because that involves multiple different keys and scale types.

3:36 just means you can recognize a pentatonic scale

all done, I have not perfect pitch because I need to listen to the scale first, but ok I have relative pitch

Guessing just a single note is the hardest one since you dont have a recent melodic context in your memory, I picked 7 instead of 3. Also running down the scale for the listen first example actually confuses than helps since it completely resets the melodic structure of the scale thats already memorized after the first upward run. For reference, Ive been playing electric guitar for 15 years and have transcribed many hard songs, but some of these are still challenging on a first try without any tools or ability to repeat.

When I was younger I took piano and keyboard lessons from a professional trainer. This is very similar to alot of the training that I did. This was kinda cool to see!! I passed all of them, no pausing which was very suprising at my age now and how long ago that was. Alot of fun for sure. I produce music now so that may be part of the reason why I can still pick up "most" instruments and learn them by ear. Most of the time.

For me, I have (or had ) what I called relative pitch. I could hear (for example) a solid D minor chord (like from Bach's Toccata in D minor). Then from that point/sound, I could figure out keys and identify note names from that.

you made a perfect pitch test, that doesn't tell you if you have perfect pitch, every music major ever could do this easily

i did most of these exercises correct - actually had my mistakes on the easier exercises. I don't think I have a good pitch at all, my memory is just quite good and I guess you get better the more you practice. Still it was very fun trying this so thanks a lot for posting

Very fun, thanks for sharing

10/10....my music teacher tested my ear a lot when i was very young...and yea i needed a confirmation on the internet

Haha this is not perfect pitch in the slightest wtf??

This kinda made me sad. I used to hear in "perfect pitch," it helped me in choir, but after a head injury I lost it. Kinda miss it.

I got them all right. And while I can usually recognize notes and chords (at least the tonic and if they're not too complex, and much better if I have a starting note), I don't have perfect pitch, not even close. Like several people said, this seems more like a memory test rather than a pitch test. But hey, I got them all right, I want my cookie! :D

I am really surprised. I got everything right. But my problem is that I don't do a lot with music and I can't read notes. So I am not that good in remembering the sounds. But I think if my voice would be better😂I would be actually quite good at singing.

I have perfect pitch and the two notes played at 0:38 are an a and a c sharp, is that intentional?

I passed them all !! 💪 Vrey entertaining !! I want more !! Thanks !

0:01 What's the name of the song at the beginning?

Since I was 6 I have been knowing I have perfect pitch!

I have a learned form of perfect pitch. meaning I started off just knowing what a standard E note or chord was cause we had a black sabbath tape in our car stereo growing up. I can't tell you how many thousand times I've heard Paranoid or War Pigs by the time I was like 6. I got into music by the time I was maybe 8 or 9. I started playing guitar. I cant' recognize all the notes. But I can fairly quickly pick up G , A, C, and D now. And starting to know almost as quick when I hear B and F's as well. Of course this is only in Major and Minor tones. when you get to suspended and what not I don't know them that specifically. But can still pretty correctly recognize the root

I definitely do t have perfect pitch or phenomenal relative pitch either but I did quite well considering my only experience with music is listening to it lol

Got everything right apart from telling which it was between A B C hahaha

I might have partial pitch🤷🏾‍♂️

This was really fun to do! I'm classical music lover and I'm guessing it's for a reason!

I never realized I had perfect pitch... I play the flute and piano for fun and in-school reasons, and I thought everyone could do this. 😭

1:49 Cmon I got 4! Can I please still get a cookie? 🙏

I don’t think this means I have perfect pitch but after playing 5 years of piano I could say my ear playing has progressed. Overall cool video 👌🏿

My mom plays the piano so I had access to one growing up, never learned to read music besides a little for singing (but mostly just likr oh the music goes up or down, how long to hold a note) but i have been known to sit down randomly at the piano and pick out the melodies from songs. Usually accurately on the first go, sometimes its like a half step off on a note or two. And i can hear when something is off, piano tuning days were not fun.

Pitch is a frequency of sound, you could call it in Hertz rate. Attaching a note letter to that sound is a matter of musical application to pitch. Hearing a pitch and making the identification immediately is what "perfect pitch" would be about.

I am so happy! I got all right, even tho I'm a beginner in music theory. 🥳

At 40 seconds the notes are NOT A B but A C#. I was so annoyed at this

man i was failing some of the easier stuff and it was embarrassing cause i used to be in orchestra (from 5th-9th grade lol) but i have memory issues and its like 4 am or some bs time, but the one where you had to figure out which one was missing from the scale was so easy, like it stuck out like a sore thumb

I don't know anything about music theory, only learned some music rifts on guitar when I was a teenager. But I passed all the questions, the first few were actually hard but the lastest ones were really really easy to tell apart - Do I have "perfect pitch"? Maybe I should change carrear ahahah

Well I already have relative pitch, I’ve had it for a while. I’ve just took this test and got everything right so I have perfect pitch. It took a lot of concentration though lol

Got all right but no way I’ve got perfect pitch, I cannot hear an F# and know it’s an F#. I do often guess correctly cuz I can kinda “memorize” notes from songs. (If I know the song good enough I could sing it in the right key without music, so if I know what the notes are of what I sing I can kinda count from there)

Nice test got it perfect. Im not sure i have a perfect pitch, but my piano teacher thinks so.Started playing piano since a few years and i found out i mostly play by ear instead of by notes. I can figure out tone heights of everyday objects quite easy. Like a doorbell or a microwave ping. I can hit the note on spot on the piano but im not really trained into naming the notes. 😊

Damn guess I have perfect pitch. Thanks for boosting my confidence lol

I'm shocked I was able to answer all correctly. I guess playing the mandolin has subconsciously improved my music ear.

Anyone else can easily identify C and F, on the natural scale?

I nailed the first ones, when there were only two notes. Then i proceeded to miss every single test onward by one or two notes, which i found particulary amazing. I mean, what are the odds of consistently being mistaken by the same sharp margin?

When I first went into music school as a kid, we were tested for pitch, and the teacher said I probably had perfect pitch, deduced so by testing me with the piano and tuning forks; it's probably a standard test, she would have me vocalize the notes, she would have me play the notes she vocalized, etc. This was a free school program, and we came to these tryouts very late because my mother had work until late afternoon, and I really wanted to play guitar or a fiddle as second choice - but since we were so late, there was only room for accordion and cello (cello is technically a fiddle, but owning one would be way too expensive and my father was against the idea to begin with for some reason), so I enrolled for the accordion class after much persuasion from the teacher -- she was absolutely insistent, going so far as to offer buying an instrument with the school funds if we could not afford one. She claimed I was the only student with that degree of talent that applied that year from multiple schools. I can still remember how her face changed mid-way through the test, the twinkle in her eyes and her smile, contrasting the tired and sad face she wore when we first walked in. Accordion turned out to be ok, and within a year I started performing with it regularly, solo and group. But as I grew into my teens, performing with the accordion seemed so very uncool, and I would also begin getting terrible stage fright, especially when my school mates would attend any of my performances, so after 4 years I intentionally failed the yearly test and flunked a year of music school and stopped playing. Today I am in my 30s, and in the last couple of years, I started producing music, singing, playing keys and guitar, but strictly as just a hobby and perform only for close friends. I still deeply regret not keeping with it and performing from childhood though, and I still feel terrible disappointing my music teachers and accordion tutors.

i got a little more than half correct. i have the most issues when it comes to memory and more than one note

Perfect pitch gang here 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️ Edit: 58 likes in 3 weeks??????? Wow guys thanks😍😍, the most I have had in my life!!!

This is pure musical solfege, of the type "it was learned in the 3rd grade at the music school". But it was a lot of fun. It brought back memories. 🙂

As someone who played piano since I was 8, this was incredibly easy. Especially because so many of them were just C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C. And I don’t have perfect pitch.

Somehow three people (including me!) in my grade at school have perfect pitch, it’s such a coincidence and we sometimes randomly test each other to improve our skills even more