Lol, no. Rick believes you can’t learn perfect pitch. This video isn’t about that, it’s relative pitch. Rick believes in that with good ear training. That’s what this guy is doing.

Rick Beato believes myths about AP and doesn’t understand how it works. And most don’t understand it.

solid idea tbh :D i have actual perfect pitch tho but this is a good reference point lol

I use the B- from the intro to Kryptonite by 3 Door Down.

Amazing advise

YES ME TOO

I also received a similar sensation in my brain when the particular sound waves from the Bb at 3:21were played

On the Bb at 3:21 my brain started instantly playing the star spangled banner in the key of Eb On the Eb at 3:43 my brain started playing the intro to Once Again by Tristam LOL the note and the tone are the exact same

yes bro straight away being played back in my head

Blend this with the ear training exercises on musictheory.net and you’re good

@@RyanOConnorDrums I trained there other exercises about theory and is useful, thanks :D

Well, being a neuroscience PhD, I would say that at least we know that perfect pitch don't need an reference, but we don't know that much about internal references :)

@@nunezkant THANK YOU!! YALL ARE ALL MISSING THE FACT THAT THIS PROCESS HAPPENS SILENTLY WITHIN THE BRAIN!!!

@@RyanOConnorDrums Relative can still be performed non verbally. Sorry to poke holes in your theory...it's actually a really cool method but it's not developing perfect pitch since someone with perfect pitch doesn't need a reference point, but with your system you need a reference point. Good video though man

you know who really has a perfect pitch? nolan ryan.

@@aaronservice86 I think everyone is missing the fact that I’m very aware this ain’t real perfect pitch. For a while my friends and I called it “diet perfect pitch” and again, the result is the same regardless of whether or not you have “real perfect pitch.” I’m plagiarizing another comment here, but this is quite literally a pissing contest. The fact is that this method works for quite a few people and though it isn’t perfect, the greater understanding of music as a whole is well worth the work imo. Y’all are free to disagree, but close mindedness will forever hold you back as a musician and person.

@@adamp108 I was wondering the same thing - how consistent I would be, whether I can still hear the correct star wars pitch while other music is playing, etc. I just tried again now, and I was off by a half step (A instead of Bb). Might have to mess around with other song selections in the mix...

I think grass is what inspired this video

Why is it wrong to point out the clickbait?

Ok, so how do you think of those songs in the correct key to begin with? That's an absolute judgement. There's no way to reference to any other pitches. You have to just _know_ what that first note is. So no, it's not relative pitch. Relative pitch is what you do to get the other pitches _after_ you get the first one with perfect pitch.

OH MY GOD THE TINNITUS THING IS SO FUNNY

If someone has one note memorized and they don't need to reference any other note to recall and identify it, what is that? It's not relative pitch because you're not referencing other pitches to remember it. So for all intents and purposes, you have "Perfect pitch" for that one note. This obsession with what is _real_ "perfect pitch" is ridiculous. If you can internalize all 12 pitches in the same way you internalized that first pitch such that you don't need to reference any of them to each other, then you use pitch ID apps to drill identification to the point that it's automatic...at that point, does it matter whether it's "real" perfect pitch or not? You're still recalling and identifying the pitches _absolutely_ . As in you don't need a reference for any of the 12 pitches. Until you can take such a person and subject their brain to MRIs and PET scans, you have no way of knowing whether what's going on in their brain when they recall and identify pitches is any different from someone who you would claim has "real" perfect pitch. So the whole distinction is functionally meaningless. It's a pissing contest. "Bro, that's not _real_ perfect pitch. You just have good pitch memory!" like it matters. If it works it works.

@@spacevspitch4028 Get this man a MEDAL I couldn’t have said it better myself🤌🏼

@@spacevspitch4028 Yes it works too, but to be accurate, the two are different phenomenon. The difference is with pitch memory, you recall the note from memory to produce it's sound. In perfect pitch, you don't have it memorize, you just subconsciously know it, it's like there's a trigger when you hear each notes to the point that you can also get annoyed by it. People with really good pitch memory can produce/identify the right notes but they don't have that" trigger" that's why when you let the two hear the same music, the person with perfect pitch will almost always be faster because the one with pitch memory need to process first the information. I don't have perfect pitch, but i have some level of pitch memory (like I couldn't forget G anymore because my favorite piece starts on G). What's interesting is while watching the video and he played the notes Bb and Eb, I heard a specific piece for each (quite vivid in my head, like a trigger) and when I checked, each started with those two notes. So maybe perfect pitch is just a very advanced pitch memory (needs more studies), to the point that you don't need to associate it to an old piece you heard but to the actual sound of the note itself. Also another theory from me is, maybe having relative pitch is a hindrance in learning perfect pitch because your brain focuses on the structure of the music instead of each notes themselves (so maybe one needs to listen "unrelatively"). Because imagine if you need to be young to learn it, maybe your relative pitch is not good yet. Like there's some studies that says infants can learn perfect pitch and I'm sure infanta have no relative pitch yet.

@@ehrenromblon5392 Everything you said I'm very aware of and have worked on myself. It's like any other skill you develop. You work on _until_ it becomes automatic and you don't have to analyze or think about it. You're brain just tells you the note without any effort. I went through this process over many years and I experience it myself on a daily basis. While listening to music or just hearing sounds with definite pitch in nature and things like that. With music It's most pronounced with keys. I can usually tell what key pieces of music are in without effort. I just feel it. And I can follow chord movements and such. There's a difference between relative pitch and absolute pitch hearing and you can tell when you are hearing the absoluteness of a pitch and the relationship of a pitch to the tonal center or the pitches around it. Again, with the right kind of attention and study, the identification and recall of pitches _becomes_ subconscious. Just like driving or identifying colors or reading. It's no different than any other skill. It takes practice.

I developed "true pitch" consciously. I demonstrate it on the first video I ever posted. Simply identifying single notes. True pitch is just learning to identify the notes on one's own instrument by the subtle differences in timbre from note to note. I usually call it "micro-timbre". I feel like with something like what this guy outlines, it's a little more nebulous, like just reaching with more of a relative pitch sense. With true pitch, each pitch has a very distinct formal uniqueness and there's no need whatsoever to reference any pitches at all. It's Iike each pitch has a unique 3-dimensional physical shape that stands on its own with no need for a reference pitch. Over time, those sounds go beyond the timbre of your own instrument and you begin to hear those unique shapes in any timbre. And particularly with tonalities. Still...I've been doing all kinds of ear training for 20 years and along the way, I also developed something like what he describes here as well. Where I have reference points and melodies that connect the notes to eachother. But that is a different sense than true pitch and its deeper levels. It's like there are 2 dimensions you could call "pitch-location" and "micro-timbre" that together can give one a pretty decent sense of absolute pitch.

@@spacevspitch4028 your description of notes having shapes is SO accurate! When focused enough it’s almost as if you’re able to hear the waveform itself

bro it’s clickbait🤓

@@RyanOConnorDrums is it?

@@MrCrompz yes lmao perfect pitch is genetic I literally say this in the video

@@MrCrompz I think the issue is that because you have perfect this skill just doesn’t compute since it’s meant for people without it lol

@@RyanOConnorDrums perfect pitch is not genetic

The entire purpose of this video is honestly getting the view to begin thinking about and navigating their internal ear. If the concept isn't coming together quite yet, just focus on 1 note and see if you can pick it out in songs you hear. For me, my guitar playing became SO much more musical after developing a better ear, and even if it feels like no progress is being made, keep trying at it. This skill is SUPER advanced and takes a very high amount of persistence!

@@RyanOConnorDrums thank you!

thats just being able to tell if pitches go up and down

Synesthesia. Look it up.

That’s a LOT harder. If I know the intervals and the starting note, yes. But realistically it’d take me a minute or so to come up with a definitive answer. But at that point, it makes more sense to fixate on the first note and then just use relative to navigate from there.

If you have time, could you consider making a video demonstrating the detailed thought process in you brian on how to identify a note. Describe what goes through you mind in real-time. It would be a very valuable video to understand the method more clearly. I am very curious to know more.

@@michael6813 I get a crazy dopamine rush and that chemical reaction allows me to know that I’m correct. I got good at checking with a tuner and I spent about a week checking every single guess. That led me to start getting stuff right and I just kinda subconsciously started to know what certain notes sound like.

Then that makes it relative pitch. Absolute/perfect pitch means being able to associate the name of the note to the pitch without inferring it by comparison with a reference pitch. Still congrats on your feat! Very imoressive ;)

What he's outlined is a great intro to developing perfect pitch. The next step is to use drones to learn to identify the notes regardless of tonal context. It's difficult to identify single pitches in actual music because almost all Western music has tonal context. So if you can recall and identify C but only as the tonic, then you will get confused when it's the 7th or the b2 of the key the music is in. It'll throw you off. So you have to learn to hear all 12 notes against all 12 key centers each.

Used a tuner every day for a week to check and rewarded myself when I got it right haha

@@RyanOConnorDrums Man that's smart... almost building a Pavlovian response to a certain pitch. Will give it a shot, thanks.

@@insight827 no dude literally I used my high school psych tricks and that shit worked like magic. All these old ass naysayers are too impatient and unaware of techniques like this to truly grasp it but I feel like the younger generation will adapt these skills as a result of the information we were handed from birth

The same. I did that and from zero pitch I reached partially perfect. I can also run through different tunings like baroque or byzantine or asian music with different tunings and it feels the same. I don't feel that I have to "tune" it to get it, but I feel the notes correctly pitched in this new environment.

my bad bro I didn’t know the CEO of music was gonna be watching this

@@RyanOConnorDrums though I agree you don't need the clickbait title, love your answer, LoL.

Omg you’re right this is why you check before you post your 16 minute ramble😭 that reinforces the half step issue tho so I gotta hammer it out

@@RyanOConnorDrums @Ryan O'Connor lol no worries. I think it's actually interesting, because after that part it modulates into B major from C major. C F# G are the same scale degrees in C as B F F# is in B major, so that may explain why your method confuses them, since it is based heavily on tonicized notes, and you may not have noticed that it modulates down to B major after a few measures (18 seconds in to be exact), and so that shifted your entire perception of the notes down a half step, since you though the C was a B. In fact, the entire theme switches between C major and B major constantly, very abruptly, almost sneakily lmao

The Simpsons, but it's in C, and not B. He made a mistake.

you totally can! if I were you i'd try and sing a C each morning when you wake up, then check as soon as you can. You should have it pretty internalized within a few days. If you know any songs in C (somewhere over the rainbow lol) you can just use that as a reference too!

@@RyanOConnorDrums I'm back after 3 months and this has changed me for the better. I've gotten to a level where I don't need a reference for any note. I can recognize any pitch or series of pitches in Leeds than five secs. I can call out the chords from any songs and play back melodies on my guitar and piano in the correct key. It's feels almost instantaneous. I used this so called pitch perfect or to practice everyday and noww I function as if I have absolute pitch. Ty for the tips.

@@countrystore5264 dude I literally have the same thing now!! I did a church service as a drummer yesterday and when I called out an A before the vocalist did I had to explain to everyone that I don’t have perfect lmao. Really solid to hear that everyone I’ve shown this to who’s actually implemented it has successfully learned it - who knows, maybe we can actually standardize this skill within some sort of advanced musical curriculum so it remains reliable and accessible. Super pumped to hear how it’s improved your life!

The Simpsons lmao

@@RyanOConnorDrums thanks

@@RyanOConnorDrums I don't think you'll get a copyright strike for saying "The Simpsons"

@@attainableaudio4533 valid but i was just tryna future-proof the video haha

By tuning your guitar regularly.

You can use the first note of Nothing Else Matters to memorize the low E.

I would try and sing a B every morning when I woke up and immediately check it. It locks into your muscle memory and internal memory after a while

Twelve contacts, each programmed as a note on your phone's ring tone settings. Once you can identify without hesitation, change the octave.

LMAO THANK YOU SM

Lol

I have tried this for few years doesn't work. Its just still relative pitch

@@sourabh6900 The video ha not been up even for one year so what are you even talking about

@@lestath2345 i mean i already tackled this concept myself on my music journey

It would’t, believe me, I have perfect pitch and the world is beautiful

@@martinbelusic does it bug you playing a piano that’s slightly out of tune?

@@johncracker5217 No

@@martinbelusic I don’t believe you have perfect pitch. You probably have really good relative pitch like me😊

@@martinbelusic maybe if you weren’t such a know it all you’d have more friends

Don’t test me bro grow up😭

on god

No clue let’s change that LOL

With the traction this video is gaining I’m expecting to be annihilated by Adam Neely and/or Rick

@@RyanOConnorDrums 😂..haha...

For me, if I hear a note from a distance (Doppler effect) I’m usually able tell which two notes it’s between, but sometimes it’s difficult to decipher which note it actually is and what I’m hearing so I end up inferring and overcorrecting if that makes any sense

Yessir

It’s more meant to get the viewer to think about how they themselves can blend memorizing a bunch of reference notes and navigating those checkpoints. For me, B, F#, A, and Eb all stick out quite a bit, so I just use those as my navigation placeholders. A great way to memorize pitches is just associating it with another memory, such as a favorite song or melody that starts with that note, or is in that key. When you wake up each morning, try and sing your reference pitch without any help, then check with a tuner. Hope this helps!

Well surely theres some piece you’ve heard enough times to know the starting pitch, just use that

fr god forbid I enjoy becoming intelligent

How please

What's actually revolutionary about it is the efficiency of learning functional note naming. That chart isn't perfect, but it seems to be one of very few documents that currently allows the viewer to access their inner ear and truly understand and perceive how to use that new group of muscles in a relatively simple format. Learn it and see how you feel.

And more lies...

Absolute pitch is another name for perfect pitch ...

@@ZackBeca It is not. You are clearly incorrect. I am appalled that you have the audacity to not question the invalidity of your contrivance. *tsk, tsk*. I would advise picking up a textbook before becoming a secondary source. Your interpretation is flawed and frankly, embarassing.

@@shriveledfigsandplums3827 🤣i hope youre satire cuz if ur not 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 rawr!

@@banjobro7669 even if this was satire, it does not erase the fact that this is wrong information being shared.

@@shriveledfigsandplums3827 I have picked more textbooks my friend and even tho you sound funny you are wrong, like I said absolute pitch, or "perfect pitch' as some people call it, is the same thing but this is pretty basic knowledge so don't just try to argue with that by sounding intelligent because your whole comment doesn't make sense since you don't know what absolute pitch is. Don't talk about something if you don't know anything about the subject

Did you even read these comments😂 I’m pretty sure about 100 people have actually taught themselves via this method. I’ve watched a few of my friends do it with my own eyes too. Give it a shot lmao

@@RyanOConnorDrums relative pitch is NOT perfect pitch. btw....Knowing note 'names' does not give you a greater understanding of music. Guessing within a half step is NOT perfect pitch. What you call "subconscious" perfect pitch, is, in actuality pitch memory, which cannot be achieved by adults whose brains have already passed through that part of brain development. sorry. It is learned very early when the child is presented with a consistent pitch reference FROM AN EARLY AGE. In fact, I know of one very famous musician (personally) who developed perfect pitch from a piano that was flat. Throughout his ENTIRE life, he walked around with a slighty flat pitch memory matrix in his head. That did not stop him from rising to the top of his profession.

@@davidcottrell1308 not arguing w you on this bc I don’t need to, but that comment is relatively ignorant. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could hear a song you like in a grocery store and be able to understand what key it’s in so you can therefore write music that feels that way since it’s in that key? Perfect example of a practical use of this skill. Be more open minded bro

@@RyanOConnorDrums hmmm as a professional composer and classically trained musician, I am far from 'ignorant' on this matter.

You have to learn and train to get the perfect pitch, just like you have to learn to speak or the names of colors.

I'd advise you read some of the comments if you're struggling, some of my viewers are incredibly intelligent and have left their own expansions and what I'd consider PhD level information and education below. There is also a follow up video if it's not clicking!

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