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Pitch memorization: - Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down.

Very interesting and educational video that doesn't hate perfect pitch or think that people without it are worse musicians. And your examples were perfect, congratulations!

I am norwegian and “gift” is actually poison in norwegian aswell, just like in german. So “gift” can mean married AND poison, it just depends on the context of how it’s used in a sentence. Don’t ask me if there’s a reason for why…

Pretty crazy how every comment ive read has had perfect pitch. Its like youve managed to gather every perfect pitch person that can speak english under one video

The graphics were hilarious and the explanations were very well done so that any level of music experience could understand. Subscribed!

As someone with perfect pitch, I just wanna say that sometimes, it’s better not to have it. This is just my personal opinion. And through my personal experiences, sometimes perfect pitch can be quite annoying. Whenever I hear a song, I usually hear the notes themselves instead of the actual tune and melody. Like instead of just being able to listen and enjoy, I am saying what note each note is in my head, and I can’t control it. :(. So don’t worry if u\you don’t have perfect pitch, it is not necessary if you want to become a great musician or anything!

My ex is definitely that UNM(untrained natural musician) category. Its really a phenomenom to witness that. Its like something else. Could harmonize, make whole songs in her head, every part, and every single detail just in her head! Not jealous, not jealous at all :D

I was never musically inclined as a kid. I started taking band in middle school for the easy grades, and after a few years I started to develop an "early stage" of perfect pitch, where I could tell you what a played note was most of the time & sing an instructed note less often. Jump to today, and I have the curse of total perfect pitch; I call it a curse because _everything_ has a pitch that my brain now automatically tries to listen for. Even after stepping back from band & choir entirely, some friends still want me to "do the note thing" as a party trick, and that's honestly the only enjoyable part of it right now.

I'm a violinist and that part about tuning pitch memorization is so true, I can easily pick out E5, A4, D4, and G3 and relative pitch to pretty much any note I need. It's so nice to finally get an in depth explanation to this

Finally something that talks about the spectrum between having good ears and having perfect pitch! I have memorized the notes C, D, E, G, and A, but when asked if I have perfect pitch in the past, I have had no idea how to respond. Thank you for this in-depth and easily-relatable description about this topic!

I rarely ever talk about my absolute pitch or even demonstrate it at rehearsals because I know it's socially a touchy subject; even when, for example, I know the key a singer's in and the other musicians are trying to find it, I've learned to keep quiet because it can come off as being pedantic, which I guess is understandable. There's also a lot of misinformation online. Something to add to this great video is that you can improve your AP with practice: you can learn to recognize microtones and all the notes in really complex chords for instance :)

My freshman music theory professor memorized what a G was from binge-watching The Office and not skipping the intro. No perfect pitch, but now he can find stuff pretty well without it. As for me, I have perfect pitch (or “the curse” as I call it) and learning B-flat trumpet years after starting piano was well…a trip and a half. Also, American music schools emphasize relative pitch over absolute, so in sight-singing and dictation classes the examples would almost always be transposed some amount Edit: Should also mention, a lot of people with perfect pitch (especially untrained) don’t hear key relationships well. For the longest time, I could sing a song in a different key just fine, as long as there wasn’t a key change. It took years to be able to mentally transpose key changes. Also, for me, hearing something in a different key changes the meaning, so if there’s a song I like, being sung by someone who’s voice I like, but in a key that I feel isn’t amicable to the song, I can’t listen.

back in elementary school, when we had music class, i used to practice scales on melodica and recorder. it's so repetitive to the point where it's engraved inside my brain. i can identify any pitch on different instruments too. now my friends think i have perfect pitch, but in reality, i don't have it. i can't tell if the note is exactly on pitch or not.

"This is an f, just kidding, it's an e flat" a joke that sadly not many people would get 😂

9:34 I saw what you did there with your John Mulaney reference sir, well played.

As someone with perfect pitch, that wasn’t born with it, thank you for this video. I firmly believe that perfect pitch can be developed during childhood and adolescence. It is a complete MYTH that musicians cannot develop perfect pitch, if they are not born with it. Context: I’m in my late 20’s, and developed perfect pitch when I was in my teens. Also work as a professional musician.

I learned piano when I was ten, on an old piano that had not been tuned in years, so it had been tuned to itself, but nearly one semi-tone lower than A-440. This messed with my sense of pitch.

Having perfect pitch because of my synesthesia means that transposed instruments can drive me nuts!!! I had such a hard time with it in music education classes for band in college, (but my musical “color” perception made theory and aural skills a breeze). I certainly understand why people with perfect pitch would prefer to go with instruments and ensembles that are already concert pitch or in octaves (chorale and guitar ensemble for me). I remember going on a chorale music tour in Europe and the conductor’s pitch pipe broke right before we had to sing in Leipzig at Bach’s tomb. The conductor looked at me and said “Would you give starting pitches?” Talk about nerves… Wait, does that mean I was the concert master? 😁

Hilarious and extremely informative. Awesome work on the graphics, we can tell the amount of work you've put into this. Thank you! 🙌

Loved the graphics, they made me laugh! The research and explanation is amazing. As a Dutch girl who learned how to speak Ewe (a Togolese language, as you showed) I can definitely say that it's possible to train your ears. Don't give up guys!

As a singer, my perfect pitch gets in the way when I listen to or sing with a harmony that is in Baroque tuning. I was in a chorale that was performing a Bach piece with a keyboard tuned to A440, but the practice recordings for my tenor part were in Baroque (likely A415) tuning. It became painfully obvious that my relative pitch was lacking because I could not get any meaningful practice with the recording. I also get completely lost if the song I've been practicing is suddenly played in a different key that I haven't practiced with. If I have sheet music, I would have to transpose to the new key in my head, which is exhausting and much slower than using relative pitch and thinking in intervals. Sort of like translating to a different language on the fly.

Wow! The way you get information across is fluid and easy to follow. Happy to have found this channel. Thanks for your efforts!

This is brilliant. Graphs and examples were absolutely well thought out. Thanks for sharing!!

Wonderful video. I'm particularly glad you mentioned that perfect pitch drifts with time; that's a thing a lot of these videos miss

I FUCKING LOVE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR. And it helps me so, so much to engage with the first-class information that you provide. I hope you already know this, but I'm sure that many of us can appreciate your authenticity and dedication. Thank you. Saludos desde México:)

Best video ever on this subject. Your comparaisons are great to help understand this concept. Congratulations !

I am the UNM. When I was a toddler, my parents knew the love I had for music so they provided me with stereo systems groing up and basic low quality instruments. During middle school, they tried getting me into learning guitar, but I quit after a couple of months because my fingers couldn't handle it. Decades go by... I still have a love for music and I got into DJing and music production using drum machines. While making drum grooves, I needed to add rhythms and melodies, so i purchased a midi keyboard and some sound modules. I started playing around with the keys and I blew my mind own what type of grooves I came up with with no prior experience. Later on, I needed bass lines, so I bought a bass guitar and blew my mind once again when I was able to identify the pitches I was looking for. Today, I am able to play bass lines and follow along to songs I've never heard before. I still can't read music, but my friends who are experienced musicians were blown away at what I could do because they require sheet music in order to play. They told me that if I was able to read music, I would be a musical genius. I agree, I should havenever stopped learning the guitar.

As someone with perfect pitch - it most definitely has its practical benefits, but there's two sides to the coin. Oftentimes it can actually get in the way of daily tasks. For example going shopping, lots of the time I find myself not being to focus properly because all my mind can focus on is all the different pitches produced by the scanners and checkouts. Even going on walks, listening to the pitches of car engines/horns or planes flying overhead etc. Fortunately though, in my experience, the benefits do outweigh the annoyances! I don't like to talk about it very much as one can come across as a bit 'big-headed', but when people have asked in the past they often don't understand when I say I hardly ever listen to the lyrics in a song because my mind is constantly fixed on the chord progressions. However what is most important is strong relative pitch as, ultimately it doesn't really matter if you have the exact (perfect) pitch. But being able to immediately work out the relationship between chords/notes (relative pitch) is such a strong ability to have. But if someone has perfect pitch then I imagine that they would have strong relative pitch anyway! Most people say that one is born with perfect pitch, but my opinion is that quite a few people could have it within themselves but the correct musical experiences have to be gained at an early age so therefore some people who could maybe develop it often may not. So I believe that it is a combination of being born with it and developing it - nature AND nurture.

Excellent article on pitch recognition - one of the best I've seen. My father fine tuned his relative pitch into near perfect, by checking A440 first thing after/before waking/sleeping with a tuning fork. When Frank Denke wasn't out playing music in San Francisco I remember Dad leaping to the piano to check the key my mother sneezed in, or what note a water glass breaking as it got accidentally knocked off the table made. He also associated pitches with colors. I'm challenging myself each day to play whatever music I happen to hear in my head (ranges from Old McDonald to Beethoven's 2nd Movement of the Pathetique to various Jazz Standards). I often dream in near perfect pitch, but in reality could use more refining! Learned a new word, "Amusia" - thanks Brad & sharing this.

Wonderful video! I had basically no perfect pitch most of my life, but heard that Eddy from 2setviolin got it in high school, so I started training and now I have perfect pitch. There aren't any cheat codes going on in my head, I've just listened to songs like you mentioned and practiced enough that now I can hear an A and immediately know it's an A. I seriously believe lots more people could have perfect pitch than the amount that do right now.

Thank you for this video! I used to think that I had perfect pitch but couldn't exactly memorize all the notes, but now I know that relative pitch is an actual term! I associated notes with songs I regularly practiced as a kid, like Mary had a Little Lamb conventionally starts with E, or River Flows in You starts with A, Canon in D (obviously), and A Thousand Miles started with B. Then everytime I read other notes, I would use these songs as the baseline and scale up or down

I actually didn’t even realize that I had perfect pitch until I was a junior in high school. And that was after I quit band after being in it since fifth grade-sophomore year. In band we used to play the Bb scale as a warm up. And sometimes and Eb but mostly Bb and I was able to tell which one was which by ear if it was a Bb or Eb scale. Once I realized I recognized F# in a video, I decided to try and train my musical ear on an online piano and now I can tell you any note on command whether natural or sharp and on any instrument. Very useful for tuning my guitar as well. For example when the card reader beeps I can instantly tell what note it is(most of the time it’s an F#) but when I was younger I would never be able to listen to songs in different keys, or when the drive thru beeps I picked up that note instantly. It always bothered me when I heard a cover of a song in a different key too.

Something that I really like is that you emphasized that you don’t have to have AP to be a good musician. I’m a singer, and most of my peers think they can never reach my level of musicianship BECAUSE of my AP, which is definitely not true. They also reduce my 7 years of experience in vocal practice and rehearsals and performances to having AP which is frustrating because I worked hard to become a better musician too! There’s so much more that goes into music besides reproducing “correct” notes. I haven’t finished the race by any means, I just have a head start. You can always improve your musicianship, even with AP.

I have relative pitch but can identify the notes being played in an absolute way. My band told me i had perfect pitch and i told them i use my guitar strings as reference. I am so relieved to find a video about it explaining what exactly makes me do this and i sent it to them.

Never expected such a video to be published on KZfaq. Purely educational 👌

This is one of the most thought out, clear and easy to understand videos I've ever seen. As a music student, it's good to know that it's still possible to sort of develop perfect pitch. Great video!

7:44 "and I'm super not jealous of these people at all, why would I be jealous" so trueee💀

Literally one of the few informative videos I would consider heavily underrated

Wow. I am so happy that I actually do not need perfect pitch, because I turned out to have both relative pitch and pitch memorization! This was a great and informative video. Well done!

I started playing guitar and eventually bass around 2005. I was never born with great ears or anything close to a perfect pitch. But I've been practicing independently through youtube and tips from some friends I was able to develop something close to a relative pitch where I can get close to a note (or at times exactly) figure out the rest of the melody. Which is close to what he's explaining about maps. Great stuff

The reason perfect pitch is more prominent in tone dependent languages is because people learn the subtle differences in tonalities from a very young age (as they speak and learn the language). Anyone can learn to speak those languages later in life, and so it is possible to learn perfect pitch (source: I am writing a masters thesis on the assimilation of tonal information). The sooner someone can connect their acute sense of pitch differentiation to the vocabulary, labelling, and organization of Western European music theory, the sooner they can start developing "perfect pitch". But what about someone who doesn't subscribe to that organization of musical sounds? Someone who speaks cantonese most likely says words and phrases over and over with the same pitch every time with no established key, but since it is not in a musical setting and deliberate, most people do not perceive this as someone with "perfect pitch". The numbers that I know off the top of my head are: around 2% of people have perfect pitch and around 80% of people with level 3 autism have perfect pitch. TL;DR more and more research is showing that perfect pitch is NOT about "automatically" labeling notes and more about training yourself to have the ability to differentiate micro-tonalities (possible for anyone without hearing damage to the hair cells in your ear). For some reason, we then require people to spell those out into traditional Western European music theory for it to count as "perfect pitch".

I started following this channel because of my music course, but i ahve long failed that class yet i still watch. thank you for being entertaining & informative !

Alot of your comparisons to color really helped me understand what you were saying. I see very vivid color (even if I'm incredibly near sighted) and find that almost nobody i know is able to quite understand the difference between colors that i can. I'm gonna have to see if there's a video on color vision as succinct as you were here now. You definitely helped me understand that I'm not as tone deaf as I've always worried. I'm no musician even if i like to sing when I'm in a good mood and doing menial tasks. I swear I've got a good ear for sound and I'm rather picky with the music i listen to because of it. But i can't seem to correlate notes to a letter or replicate them easily. I'm not sure if i ever sing in key, even if I've been complimented often when caught singing when i thought i was alone. Based on what you've explained i think i just have confidence issues. So thanks! I appreciate the practical comparisons, they really helped.

There's an English researcher called Sam Leak who's experimenting with ways to learn some degree of absolute pitch. I'm in one of the training groups and have a pretty good level now, although I make frequent small errors. I'm still doing the exercises, although I completed the programme a while ago. It's a really fun skill and the fact that it's possible to learn as an adult gives me hope that we'll find even more efficient training methods in future.

Even though I have played both piano & flute (both badly) in my youth, in my old age I am going to learn keyboard. Your channel is a godsend! I appreciate so much that I can learn from the bottom up from your videos. I have a lot to learn and you make everything crystal clear. Thank you very much !!!

Nice explanation. Enjoyed listening to your lesson on Perfect Pitch!

Wow, thanks for this amazing video! 13 minutes passed like 2 and I loved those comparisons haha As a musician, I‘ve always been fascinated by this crazy ability so this was super interesting to me :)

I loved how easy you described it and the humor. Great video

Excellent presentation and fun comments and graphics. I never heard of Amusia before. Brilliant teacher.

Thank you for also pointing out what true tone deafness is! As a singing teacher, I have come across people who find it difficult to match pitch when singing and assume they are “tone-deaf”, but are actually quite good at picking up nuances in music as they listen. A lot of people jump to recommend ear training in that kind of situation, but in my experience, it actually comes down to the relationship between what you hear in your head and how you coordinate your body. It’s oftentimes an issue of breath management (which can determine how fast your vocal folds vibrate, i.e. the pitch). If you don’t realize you’re singing out of tune at the time, but listen back to a recording and notice that you are, you’re definitely not “tone-deaf” 😁

This was a really well made video! Great job on the explanations. One suggestion: either your voice has a lot of low end, or you’re close to your mic, resulting in proximity effect, but there’s a taxing low end resonance in the audio. If possible, I’d recommend EQ-ing that out or using a dynamic compressor to make it more neutral. That’s all!

I have one of those bizarre situations as I am a classically trained musician of ten years in woodwind instruments and in this have developed pretty decent relative pitch and pitch memorization. However when I started learning guitar recently Ive started to understand how it feels to be a more natural musician. Where I can understand what sounds good and how things fit together, but not quite have that extra understanding that someone who has had guitar lessons. Gave me a new perspective

I have watched many youtube videos on d topic, and only now understand clearly d difference between perfect and relative pitch. Thanks, very much.

I've got pitch memory for G, Bb, A, F, and C but G is strongest. Years of choir have trained my ear. I can tell pretty quickly what key something is in if i have a moment to pick out a reference pitch.

Because he told me to comment, I will comment my thoughts. Perfect pitch is just pitch memorization but you know all the 12 tones. This is exactly how I learned perfect pitch. I made a video about my story and how I learned it, but basically you have to practice and memorize each tone. As with anything, the more you practice, the better / faster you become. I've been trying to get the ball rolling that you can learn perfect pitch for years and it still hasn't caught on. Anyway, this was a great video explaining the concepts and I liked the pranks with the notes on the staffs. Great work!

Amazing video and perfect explaining, even with english not being my first language, I was able to understand every single thing said here! Congrats and thanks for the video!

as an orchestra AND choir kid, the talk about relative pitch was on point!!

I just experienced pitch memorisation recently. I have been playing recorder for a year and had easier time recognising pitch than on my ocarina !

What an incredibly well done video, thank you!

i was telling myself i could learn pitches by it’s identifying it through music that i know the key in and then you immediately taught me that’s pitch memorization. thank you!

i never understand how someone doesn’t like having perfect pitch lol i love it sm

Gift in Norway is a doubled word, depending on the context it means either "Poison" or "Married". Same goes for many other

Proud member of Perfect Pitch Gang here, and this guy had a great video. For all of you here trying to develop perfect pitch, start with pitch memory and go for it! It worked for me, and I have never gotten tired of showing my musical power!

The elaboration is so clear and to the point that I actually feel better about my day

I'm a UNM, I hate reading theory and I'm veery very bad at reading sheets. I had some piano lessons by my aunt as a kid, but I was already playing by myself years before that, I would just listen to a song and play it. My parents wouldn't let me continue having lessons so I dropped it. I was unhappy for years. As an adult I decided to try again, it was so hard at first and I was only playing some easy songs for a few years. Exactly 1 year ago I decided to go for it, payed a music app and started. Today I'm playing Chopin and Rachmaninoff. I want to tell everyone, whether you're a natural or not, if you want it just go for it, Try. You have no idea what you might be able to do, if you love it you're gonna make it. Thanks for this beautiful video!

I'm a bassist and while I may not have perfect pitch, my partner does. I'm always amazed when she mutters under her breath the pitch of someone's footsteps or of someone clapping, but I think because of he tendency to do this, it's helped me memorise pitches. Often I'll try and guess along with her and usually I come within a tone of the correct pitch. I find it much easier to identify pitches on a bass too, as I'm used to its timbre and sound. I don't think that perfect pitch is necessary in order to be a good musician, but I think it can help in some situations, but also be a bit of a nuisance. What is more important is relative pitch and being able to hear the relationships between notes. It's like if you speak several languages, it's easier to translate a phrase than all the individual words, knowing how the sounds interact is much more useful than just knowing what the sounds are.

This was an awesome video. I moved to subscribe but found I already did. These visuals were entertaining and informational! Kudos! It's a goal of mine to get better at relative pitch by learning more music theory, but it's a slow process despite my playing a few instruments for years.

Very well researched 👌🏾 Beautiful delivery...

Very interesting video. I actually have a perfect pitch that I trained. At some point I became obsessed on identifying pitches I would hear every day using the pitch memorisation (I could sing an A). After some years I realized I could identify the pitches without having to sing the A. However, and since I am a tenor sax player, I hear everything in Bb.

"And figure out if you have any notes burned into your memory to use as a reference" Me, humming a G note: when I was, a young boy~

Very useful. I learn the Indian bamboo flute and am struggling to develop some relative pitch abilities even after hundreds of hours of structured listening. Pitch memorisation is a useful concept I've picked up from your video. Didn' t realise that a concept like this existed. It's given me an idea that if I can memorise specific phrases, it will help in identifying at least some notes. Thank you

I loved every single example in here. I know making such a general statement kind of makes the statement have less value to each specific example, but just imagine that I listed each example, from linguistics and art and music, and said I loved it.

I’m a UNM. I attribute it to having a musical family; my mom being a music teacher and pianist, and my dad singing in barbershop most of his life. My sisters and I are musically talented, but I have the most natural affinity to music and have used my skills towards composing and transcribing (hearing music and being able to write it out). I’ve always been able to learn by ear and can quickly play pieces with minimal effort, but over the years I have spent time in music theory and developed great relative pitch. Plus with my mom teaching Kodaly, the way of using the “Do, Re, Mi” association with pitch, it is solidified in my head, sometimes even better than her, and she has her Master’s in it. My memorized pitch is a B from the top note of the E minor chord that starts John Williams’ Duel of the Fates, and, honestly, I was able to correctly sing “Never gonna give you up” before it played. I feel I was able to do this because I can feel the quality of the chords and so whenever I hear something in a different key, it sounds “off”. Now, there are studies on what is the saddest key and things like that, and that’s as close as I can relate my sense of a different key being “off” is; it doesn’t have the same properties or sound that the key it originally was in has, which is why the E minor chord in Duel of the Fates is so easily identifiable to me. That E minor chord sounds a certain way so much so that a D minor chord, for instance, would change the sound and feel of the piece. Plus, I can also tell you if I am listening to the original recording because I listen for the Baritones / Tenors to belt the Eb in the C minor chord at the end of the choral intro. Perfect Pitch is a great ability for sure, but if you have watched Adam Neely’s video on perfect pitch and why you don’t want it, he also describes that you can lose your natural ability of perfect pitch, but having relative pitch, because you taught yourself that ability, will stick around longer. So, it’s never too late to start your musical journey and gain this kind of ability too! You’d be amazed at what you can accomplish!

I actually took a bit of time before realizing I had perfect pitch, bc one of my friends has it, and so we mostly asked him to sing specific notes, so I didn't really had any occasions to do that myself. I realized it bc I knew that I would always do an A correctly on demand, kinda like a tuning fork, and that was it, and I was ok with that, but then it developed into a thing where I can do any notes, and recognize any notes, except for sharp or flat notes for now, and I know I can train myself a bit on that apparently.

This was informative and entertaining. Thank you. Really well done.

Great video: extremely informative, funny, great graphics and well-researched! I've tried to teach a woman to dance who was literally incapable of hearing the most solid of beats and couldn't walk or clap in time to the beat. It was incredibly frustrating especially since I have a reputation of being able to teach the most un-coordinated people how to dance! But it's nigh impossible to teach someone without rhythm to dance - at least not in time to music (movement is different to dance). I was blown away by your observation that different temperature water sounds different!!! Astounding.

Interesting video! I thought I had _almost_ perfect pitch my whole life, which was frustrating since I didn’t know there was a name for pitch memorization.

I have pretty good pitch memory. But „perfect pitch“ got a completely relative meaning for me when I ventured into nerdy Baroque territory with A=415 Hz i.o. 440 or 442 as current fashion is. Or go for high Renaissance 466 Hz pitch and meantone i.o. well-tempered tuning.

i was born with pretty good pitch, i got a keyboard for christmas when i was 9 and i would just remember songs in my head and find the note that matched it and i would teach myself any song i remembered in an hour, now i can usually identify chords as well

As a whole-step lapsed possessor of perfect pitch, I found this educational and entertaining. Well done!

Though I am not a teacher, I have tried explaining how to easily acquire the skills of relative pitch and even pitch memory to groups of musicians both in person and online. Mostly I get shrugs or crickets in response (like, who cares, I just wanna play, etc.). But with the help of this video, I may now have a better "script" with precise (and humorous) terminology to pique interest in these very practical musical skills.

I was in a music school for 8 years and I had 1 or maybe 2 kids with perfect pitch. Luckily, the school taught us how to develop relative pitch. Pitch memorization came naturally, because of the choir class or playing in the orchestra, so I can confirm the information given in this video is right.

When I was younger, I always had problems listening to music because sometimes I couldn't tell if the note was going up or down, but I found myself in choir, and doing exercises helped get over that. I can listen to almost any song now without a problem. Even hearing complex basslines.

Great video. I grew up "tone deaf" because of a procedure done to my ear when I was 2. I could not differentiate any note above the D string on the guitar. I could tell that it made a noise but I could not tell the difference between the G string or the high E string. I started playing bass because I could hear those low tones and it was better than watching TV. I am 60 now and about 10 years ago, I lost my hearing completely due to a neurological disorder. 😭 I was lucky enough to get cochlear implants and I can hear better than I could as a kid. I have picked up the guitar again and am working on pitch memorization now. I can hear all those high notes but now I can't hear those low tones like I used to. Fair trade in my book.

Perfect pitch can be twarted by inconsistent recording and playback speeds if there is no point of reference. If your PC interprets A440 in the range of one or more half or whole steps higher or lower than the original master, it is left to the listener to rely upon memory in order to exact the correct pitch. The letter H will be either permanently omitted or judiciously applied subject to public demand.

great video! you have such a nice voice and your explanations are really good. I have a high level of musical experience as well as "perfect pitch" and you're spot on! keep up the good work

These videos are awesome. I'm hooked

This video is a golden nugget, thanks

My perfect pitch came quite naturally, and I learned how to tap into it by relating chords, pitches, and scales with colors. For instance, I always thought F major was green, A major was orange, and C minor was purple.

Yes, I did a little bit of trying to determine pitches many years ago. I don't have perfect pitch but took some studies and tapes in learning Relative Pitches. It seemed to go fairly well but I didn't keep going with it. Perfect pitch people can hear something that I don't have or born with. It was fun trying to get better at Relative Pitches and learned allot.

I don't have perfect pitch, but a lot of my friends think I do because I've memorized all the notes in the scale and can tell when a note isn't quite in tune (you could say it's the best of both worlds - effective perfect pitch without the difficulties imposed by key changes and transposition). This video will be super helpful to explain what I'm actually doing, and that they also could do the same with a lot of training.

12:30 Not sure if anyone has ever mentioned it yet before or if anyone can relate, but as someone who's ear is locked to 440Hz and can perfectly tune to that without any reference (or at least very close to that), having fevers can make everything sound flatter even though nothing changed and they are still at 440Hz. I've had a couple of moments where I was listening to music while I had fever and I thought my headphones were just broken because I was hearing everything at like 435Hz, but when I tried playing music on different devices and different headphones, speakers, earphones, they were all flatter than usual to my ears. It restores after a few days after getting cured so you don't have to manual adjust but It's kind of like losing your taste when you get COVID-19. Pretty disturbing.

I always taught my students to hear songs in their head to find pitch... like freebird in g, stairway to heaven in a minor, sweet home alakazama for d as examples. Even drummers can learn pitched keys that way.. simply walk up or down from a known key center in your head and you can determine any note without having so called perfect pitch. I believe classically they call this solfeggio, but i may be mistaken. All i know is its worked for me for 5 decades plus...peace

Member of the "Quasi-Perfect Pitch Squad" here! I routinely practice my pitch memorization. Here's just a handful of songs I use: I play ukulele, which tunes to G C E A (I've got C pretty well in there- both of the songs referenced hit C at some point) and have most of those notes memorized. One more, which might seem very random, is the Lowe's "special assistance" alert. For other people, that's probably just the NBC chimes (they are at least intervallically identical, but I don't know if the Lowe's alert starts on G like the NBC chimes do) I also have Halle Sonata 2-1 for E. Before the melody starts *moving* that's where it stays. One more thing: every time you hear the phrase "peaches" in the chorus of "Peaches" (from the Mario movie, although I've never seen it), it alternates first between Bb and Db (it's in Bbm just like "Never Gonna Give You Up" and even has basically the same chord progression) and then starting at the 6th time around, C and Eb.

so I knew I had relative pitch and pitch memorization but I didn't know they were called that. thank you so much!

i start playing music at age of 19 and understand notes properly at like 21/22 i for sure did not have perfect pitch. but now (27 y.o) I can confidently said i can identify the pitch of every sound i make vocally idk if this is relevant but you will see a lot of perfect pitch people like charlie puth for example, will do the sound vocally while guessing the pitch (like if the hit the table and ask him the key, or if people clap then ask the key) so the thing that i actually intrigued about is that maybe, its easier to understand and indentify your own pitch, thats why im able to learn it, like when i hear a song and want to figure out the key, i must hum/sing/anything vocally myself to know the note i do able to guess roughly if its from instrument or other people singing, but im 100% sure / perfect pitch only when it comes to my own voice

I don't have perfect pitch, but I was thinking just the other day that having perfect pitch also doesn't mean that you get everything for free, like you automatically understand music better than other people. That's just something that changes from person to person, regardless of perfect pitch. Of course the fact that you have perfect pitch CAN influence the way you see and approach music, but it does only (IMO) for the very reason you might have it, which is exposure to engaging or complex music from a small age, for example through a musical family that involved you in music since when you were little, or by playing with musical toys when you were a baby. All these things can have a general and big influence on your interest towards music, that can lead both to perfect pitch and a good musical intuition. So these two things are not one the consequence of the other, but rather both consequences of a much broader experience that shaped who you are when you were really young. You still have to spend years learning how to play an instrument and learning how to understand the musical language to be a good musician. Which is the only thing I find could have been discussed more, what you actually mean by "training". Some people can get there quicker then others, but say you have created a mental map of your friend's city, or you have straight up gps, if you don't know where the heck you're goin' and why you want to go there, it serves you no purpose.

Loved it! Every musician (guitarist, singer, etc) should go through ear training. It’s a good skill to have which is not widely discussed.

Thank you. That was so well explained. I have always wondered about perfect pitch, a bit envious of those born with it. However, I already get the heebie jeebies when a song or note is "off", so will be grateful for what I don't have.