This video should be called, “watch this to gain instant depression”.

I can name any note in western music within 12 tries...always...without fail. I must have perfect pitch!

"how to develop perfect pitch" informs you that you can't

Can adults learn perfect pitch? "No." Putting my smile away and getting on with the day...

well in just under 15 minutes my whole idea of practice has been destroyed

my cousin recently had a baby. i'm ready to bombard her with high information music now

Video just confirms that I nor my kids will ever be a Ling Ling...

Eminem: I’m the fastest rapper in the world Little kid: hold my periodic table

Rick (smashes his finger with the hammer): Fuuuuuuuuck! Dylan: Thats an F sharp ... and a flat finger

Now I feel dumb. Your kids are awesome. Keep up the good child rearing.

you can get "pretty good pitch" with practice though. I can tune my guitar within a semitone without a tuner. There are songs that I've listened to so much that they appear in my head pretty close to their right pitch. From that, I can fake my way to "pretty good pitch" by actually using relative pitch. I bet most musicians can do something similar. Of course not to diminish the wonderful skill that would be to have perfect pitch.

People always tell me I'm a big baby. Can I develop perfect pitch?

there are 2 ways to analyze music. first, is to analyze the melody by mentioning every tone (perfect pitch). second, is to analyze the melody by comprehending the emotion resulted by specific intervals of tones in a song (solfeggio/solmization)

Damn, I wish I had watched this 24 years ago before becoming a parent.

This is like pure gold. I just clicked an interesting compression theory video and I discovered one of the best channels I have ever seen. Thanks so much for your videos like this, and thanks for show your son learning in a very nice way to understand the learning process of music in a several ways.

I am a retired musician, I was always proud of my good relative pitch. I learned to be thankful for it when I observed one of my colleagues, a pianist who happened to have perfect pitch, struggle whenever he had to perform a recital on a piano that could not be tuned properly.

Lol I kept replaying the first 15 seconds because I kept hearing the note as an A, not Ab. I was really confused until I watched him name it as an A😂

that note is a glass of water!

From my own experience, I believe there are degrees of ability in pitch recognition, and that it is something that can be developed. As a child, I took piano lessons but had no concept of absolute pitch. But as an adult I began to notice that sometimes when I heard a note, some song would suddenly pop into my head for no apparent reason. I felt totally sure that the note I heard was the exact note from the song, and upon playing the song, found that I was almost invariably correct. I have been developing this method for re-producing a "B" at will, by imagining the first note of the song "Surf City" by Jan and Dean (for some reason this song is easy to imagine in the right key). I have not mastered this but have definitely improved and probably hit it right about 4 out of 5 times, even in the morning when I haven't heard any music for over 8 hours. And of course if I hum a B correctly , I can quickly figure out any other note I hear since my relative pitch is good. My point is that there are degrees of this ability, ranging from someone who can instantly and effortlessly identify any note, to some one like me who, with great concentration and mental effort, can identify any note a fairly high percentage of the time. I do have an uncle who has 100% perfect pitch, so perhaps I have the gene.

Amazing. Some of my students have developed perfect pitch, and in my old age I am getting better at it. Wish I had it - I have a constant 'G' in my ears from tuning the bass for so long, and I can compare other pitches to it, but you kids' abilities are just astonishing. Good work, dad.

Hey Rick, I'm a 17 year old male, and i've just recently discovered I have perfect pitch. (After being in band and playing guitar aswell for 5 years). The reason I never knew I had it is because I never put any names to the sounds i was hearing, just thought I didn't have perfect pitch and didn't even try, because I could name a note right away, but its because I never actually named the Note in the first place. It is very weird, It is very easy for my to identify all the White notes of the piano no matter how low or how high, and chords, I am not as good with the chromatics as I don't think I've been exposed enough, but with my daily testing I am improving on them. Yes, I do actually have perfect pitch, I hear notes around the house and all sorts, can tell what key things are in and sing a note on command wether you wake me up in the middle of the night or not. Has there been any similiar cases of this you know of? (My Brother also has perfect pitch I just thought I never had it).

Great video, and spot on. It's sad however, the amount of people in the comments who are associating perfect pitch with talent, and that not having it means your chances with music are doomed. These people have clearly never studied, practiced music, or been around talented musicians that have shown you what a well practiced relative pitch and creativity can achieve.. Perfect pitch certainly is a powerful tool, but it doesn't make you a great musician on its own. Exaggerated analogies here, but you're not a great chef because your taste buds work and you're not a great painter because you can identify colors, although it will help! Like the man said, a whole lot of people graduated from music conservatories without it (most of them) and guess what, a lot of them are accomplished musicians

Dude, Rick, you are exceptional man. And as your own father did for you with music etc. your children will grow and also benefit from having you. Thank you for sharing!

This makes me emotional, I'm happy to see you share the gift and work with your family to fine tune the natural skill.

Where there is a will there is a way...its all familiarity...if you have a good nervous system and are able to hear you can do it.... It may take ten or 15 years of dedication, but if you really want it, you can get it...Perfect Pitchhhhh, I'm coming for YOUUUU

Dylan, Layla, and Lennon? A nice tribute to Musical genius...

Such beautiful children 💓 You're a great dad Rick & your wife must be amazing too. Committed & engaged. Blessings!

This is thoroughly engaging! I have read about perfect pitch in the past but there was a lot of new information for me in this video. Your kids are amazing and it's awesome that you have been able to provide such a strong start for them in music and education!

12:20 That's why you came here.

Rick, thanks for your no-nonsense summary of the AP ability. I would just note that there are documented cases (in online forums since 2000s) of people who apparently had their AP almost ripe but still latent, and they did not exhibit it until they got a final "push" from some ear training exercises in their late teens/early 20s. Their cases therefore appear as non-children developing AP from ear training exercises way outside the "pliable brain" window. And I'm talking about the resulting ability to name all the notes in complex chords just like in-born AP'ers and otherwise being "one of them," not just pitch imagery. Thanks. )

Hi Rick. I've watched quite a few of your videos now, and I really love your content, it's entertaining, informative and is a fantastic tool for outlining the quality and appreciation of music. I learn something new with every video I watch. Fantastic.

Absolutely agree. There are scientific articles on this topic - it is called "Window of Opportunity for Learning Language", but, obviously, it is applied to Perfect Pitch development. Basically, it is very important to spread the word regarding the importance of the importance of very early infants development.

Rick, I thank you for making great videos for me to watch whilst stoned.

Super interesting video Rick, thanks. It'll be interesting to see a few years down the road how reliably Neuryl is able to result in kids with perfect pitch.

Again, you are a musical (and in general) genius. Thank You!

Your very thoughtful videos completely blow my mind. Kudos, and God Bless! Thanks for sharing this.

Imagine being the piano teacher for Rick's kids. Like going to see your girlfriend's parents for the first time and finding out that The Rock is her father.

Wow! This is SO fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing this - makes me believe even more about the wonder and beauty of the world and what magic humans are capable of, if channeled the right way.

A whole new idea to my understanding of music is born. Heard what I have never heard before. Appreciate this teaching. A big thumbs up

I watched this video a few years ago and adopted all of your suggestions in a guitar context. My main goal is creativity on the guitar, rather than strict virtuosity in any sense, so I've been trying to take your ideas and apply them by inventing my own idiosyncratic patterns and exercises, so that I can build my own guitar vocabulary that's not bound by what I've heard in the guitar music that I already know I like. It's really interesting to rewatch now, and discover what you suggested that I didn't focus on as much the first time around. I'm really excited about the idea of doing more ear training and sight reading, to expand my musical brain and get into some new things.

Having been present at the birth of, and shepherded the development of three humans - I'm convinced that nature and nurture work hand in hand. From the first few seconds of life outside the womb, each of my children presented themselves as individuals. Their personalities were different and evident literally from the first moments. As a scientist/engineer, this completely distorted my view of humans as being blank slates at birth - and that nurture held precedence over DNA programming. But as a father, I found that not to be completely true - only partly. Now as my children are all past college and into adult life I am privileged to see the arc of development of complete people - and I can say for a fact that nature played a huge component in who they became. Much more than I would have liked to admit. This leads me to believe that in order to develop these "interesting advanced" skills - there has to be a fertile ground with which to work. I think you are either born with the ability to develop perfect pitch - or not. People without the genetic capability can try all they want - and fail. Just like most of us would fail at becoming a Lebron James-quality NBA player no matter how hard we try (height, for example, plays a role in that), if you don't have the right-stuff for perfect pitch - you're not going to develop it. But if you do have the capacity, and your parents work to develop it in you from a young age - then you'll always have it. My parents worked with me on my math capabilities from the time I could walk, and thus, I did extremely well in math and reading (and science) as a young person - and thus I was always at the top of my classes. But my brothers and sisters - with whom they also put in the time - did not. Same nurturing environment, utterly different outcome.

I think I should just give up on life at this point

Hey Rick, thank you for this kind of thoughts and wisdom! I really appreciate all of your videos that I already watched. :)

Thanks, Rick. You are brilliant. I’m a former NYC session trumpet player (‘68 to ‘72) with a few degrees in music. I was only OK, so I regretfully gave up music as a career. Now, retired, I listen all day, favoring session trumpet players such as Wayne Bergeron. I only wish I had the talent to be one. I want to get back playing again. Thinking of taking a lesson. Anyway, I’m fortunate that my musical brain works like yours. Again, Bravo!

Me: stares at screen 5 secs later Me: THIS KID IS A TOTAL GENIUS

What about perfect tempo?

You are absolutely right, Sir. It's a developed trait when we still have that window. I think my own case is extremely interesting. I have been recovering my perfect pitch on the 2nd 3rd and 4th octave since about 1 year ago when i started my vocal training since age 36. I still wonder till yesterday why I can acquire these ability while others cannot. and i saw your video. Yes I remembered I listened to classical pieces even before i could speak, because of my father, and i learned piano when i was a kid, very briefly, but still it gave me some deep memory about music pitches. now after more than 30 years the pitches still rings in my head, i am picking them up one by one. Thank you again for the brilliant explanation. Wish you and your family well and happy. Now it's time to call my father and say "I love you", i suppose. :D

It is admirable the work and talent that you put into these videos. Congratulations and Thank you

Rick, I am living in Vietnam and it is usual to sing karaoke here with friends in front of your house. They turn the volume up so high that all the neighbors 100s of meters around can hear it - no kidding. I've never heard anybody singing well and in tune 😂

I’m pregnant and just found out about this 🙌🏼😁✨✨✨ I’m already picturing my mini musical genius 😂💖💖

lovely content Rick!! I'm instantly a fan!! look forward to more.

This is Fascinating!!! Your children are all adorable too, and absolutely amazing in their abilities.

Eddy from twoset violin got perfect pitch when he was in high school, so HAHA

Me: hears a note Me: calls it a b sharp

This inspires me to make my daughter to have perfect pitch too. Thank you for this video , 😊😊 we are learning and we're blessed here in the Philippines 😊.. GOD bless you Sir and your family.. !

Just found Rick Beato's channel yesterday and I was astounded at his high level of knowledge on various music topics, but now I'm even more impressed and surprised by his scientific knowledge. He even busted out a pub med study on his one perfect pitch video lol. I'm a pharmacy student and a musician so I have love for both

I am 57 and about a year and a half ago I started to develop the ability to sing E, G, and A without aid. There is the odd occasian where I will be off by about a 1/2 step, but most of the time I hit it right on, and it seems to have improved. These notes are used at the beginning of the news broadcast on CBC Radio 1, which I listen to while driving long distances. I did not practice to get it, I just realized I could nail the notes just about every time. I have never been able to do that in the past. Just thought I would mention it.

I gained perfect pitch by listening to lots of harmonic music and building up a catalogue of sounds of what different notes, chords and harmonies sounded like. This process took about three years before I could fluently know these from merely hearing them but it happened. Trust me, studying piano at university, having perfect pitch makes melodic dictation and chord recognition for theory soooo much easier.

Rick My very best of wishes for your children and hope maybe one day they get into the music business !! I see they're very talented !! God Bless them both !

This is the most fascinating clip I've watched all year. The comparison of sound with colour (it is all frequencies & amplitudes after all) makes total sense. I think we all have the language of music intuitively, given even the most complex orchestral piece can be reduced to amplitude & frequency ie it's all decoded by the brain. Most of us just can't transcode music into spoken language (like we all do with colour). Those with perfect pitch have the benefit of being able to translate music into the spoken & written linguistic code. It looks like a miraculous super-power until you start breaking it down.

Ahh!... It makes me sad my parents weren't musicians! And I discovered I LOOOVE music only I was 20-30! And now I'm a full time composer and often make a living composing music, but I feel I'm so much weaker than all the 12 year old musicians who studied it since they were 5 just because they had musical parents. It makes me so self-concious!

I grew up speaking a very tonal language (Cantonese, 9 tones), my mom had a very good ear (could sight-sing impeccably), and my uncle (her brother) has absolute pitch. Sometimes I wonder if I could have developed it myself if only I'd shown more aptitude for music at a younger age... After all, I seem to have the heriditary advantages! My parents tried to put me in piano lessons at age 4 but I had zero interest. I started again at age 6 and now I'm a pretty decent musician, but only with mediocre relative pitch.

Incredible young man! You must be so proud :) Thanks for the videos!

Thank you for all of this wonderful information and knowledge.

Funny intro, Dylan coming out of the swimmingpool.

Wow! Great video, I teach chemistry in high school, and I have a huge background in neurology. I have said there is a window for learning and we do our students a big disservice in trying to teach them language in the teen age years. That window for language has closed. It is sad we don't spent the money to teach them language in nursery school to 4 th grade, and boom they would be speaking another language. Instead we teach them too late and they feel like they can't succeed. Its nice to hear you say something similar.

Really amazing story, Rick. Please keep sharing!

I did a great course on bilingualism and part of the course included perfect pitch - and you're 100% correct - The course was run through the Houston Uni Neuroscience department - I beileve it was called the Bilingual Brain. Very informative course.

I have perfect pitch, which helps me learn and arrange my music by ear. I used to think I must’ve earned it through hard work and smarts, but after watching this video, I guess luck had a little to do with it too, haha. :)

I wished my parents had teached me each note when i was a baby :( ; i love playing music but when i want to play a song i recently heard on my piano i get the rhythm etc. right but i play it in a different key because i cant differientiate it :(

Kudos!!! Absolutely LOVE your material!!

I'm cracking up. You tinked that note in the beginning and said this is an Ab and I instantly said in my head, are you sure it's not an A? Lololol I'm laughing so hard then Dylan runs up and corrects you this is great humor

what happens when Dylan hears a microtonal Guitar.

At 11mins 30secs, are the background colours you attributed to each note relevant?

What a love for the world Nick Beato has! This stuff is brilliant. 2 men at there best!

You have been gifted with a miraculous son and I take my hat off to your excellent training regime. As regards teaching children in all facets of education, including music, there is still waaaaay too much guess work and slavish adherence to what educators think works best. The truth is that as you have discovered, there needs to be a strong understanding of neurological development and theory to develop learning systems that take the best advantage of each "learning window" as they present themselves. The plasticity of the brain at each level of development will not return unless some intensive "unlearning" of poor habits takes place at a later time. Unfortunately by then the damage is done. I used to be an elementary teacher and I'd love a dollar for every time I heard a parent ask (especially as regards boys) "How can I get my kid to read more?" Often times these were the same parents who let their kids watch tv as much as they wanted, never modelled reading or taking pleasure in reading and never had a "quiet time" during the evening in which everybody in the house took some time to read. For kids like this more often than not the horse had bolted and they would face some years of "reading recovery" to get back on track or some damn good teachers who could instil a love of reading into them when they were still in their pre-teen years. Teacher training should comprise mandatory study of neurological development and teachers in ongoing service should be provided periodic training in the latest neurological discoveries.

"How to develop perfect pitch", just shows off his kids instead?

I have a conjecture/hypothesis regarding this. Hear me out, Rick! If the reason why babies and infants assimilate this sense so easily can be attributed to the brain waves especially since they're mostly in Theta or Delta; will it be possible to acquire for us unfortunate adults to develop such a sense through any kind of programming that allows us to be in those level of brain waves, such as hypnosis,deep trance etc? Can it be possible for adults to acquire perfect pitch through hypnotic programming? Maybe Nuryl for adults becomes such a thing. Is it a legit inquiry or am I totally off?

Man would I love to sit and have a beer with you. Wow. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Amazing Information Rick!!!!! I had no idea this could be done, but just wow!!!!

This was super interesting thank you for making this. Outstanding work with your son BTW. What a gifted child. If you have time, I have a question: When I hear the note C on the piano I automatically start to hear the "do re me" vocal exercise over it and can name the tone. E, I hear the intro to Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover over it. G I hear REO Speedwagon's "take it on the run"...Ab is ain't talkin bout love intro and so on.. Is that relative pitch? or just some form of logic my brain automatically does to name and associate tones?

I feel like I'm listening to a college lecture that I don't understand at all

Thanks Rick. Doing good work. Keep teaching us stuff ;)

Great video! Your kid is amazing! And the "high information music" is a killer example here, Aydin it is!

I got a gig playing Hammond organ in a black gospel church for several years. The choir and congregation would sing the same song always in different keys. I never had anything close to pp. Next thing I knew my finger would go to the exact key all the time. It was uncanny. Rick, how did I develop this?

6:35 "BBC Documentary" *Says ITV 2 in the corner*

love the information brother!!!keep up the great effort

Usually super analyzing is pseudo intellect But this is benevolent research This is the most amazing and informative video i have ever seen

This video make me depressed

Came here to find out what the video title promises, how to develop perfect pitch, only to be told l can't in the end. Maybe the title should be 'how babies develop perfect pitch' and it would be less misleading. Only my constructive criticism as a viewer. That said, the info on the video is fantastic and revealing. Thank you for your effort. Looking forward to more of your videos.

Greetings Rick, thank you for your prompt response. I will be open to having you test me. I'm not at the point where I can distinguish sharps or flats aurally but will reach out to you within the next few weeks as I progress. Keep posting informative content, I find it useful and refreshing.

wonderful presentation... many thanks

Got scared by singing along the same notes while thinking on the chords

Wait so if you speak Vietnamese you have 30% higher chance to have perfect pitch? *me: cry in A sharp*

This is really good to get you thinking. One thing I have discovered is that I coiuld probably fine tune my listening to develop perfect pitch. Yes I know you've said it cant' be done unless you do it as a kid but I'm finding the more I listen and play the easier it becomes to put names to the frequencies I hear, Music melodies are the same. There is so much music I could hum or sing but have no idea what peice it is. Just listened to "The swan" and my first thought was "Ah that... Of course I know that" (I just didn't know it was the swan)

WOW!! Thank you so much for doing this video. As a musician that does not have perfect pitch I really wanted to teach my kids perfect pitch but did not know how to go about it. Now that we are expecting this video help me allot!!!

I always thought this people in my aural skills class with perfect pitch were cheating

Actually daddy, that is an Ab

Great video, super interesting, love the color comparison, makes sense!

Love your channel Rick. Our baby is due in November and I would like to expose him to music that may develop perfect pitch. I saw in another one of your videos that you talk about babies listening to jazz and Bach (music that has unpredictable modulations). Could you please expand upon this list of artist/composers and genres. Thanks!