@DrFreerun Are you sure he's not just being matter of fact? God forbid someone have something we don't have mentally. People don't mind the rich, or the athletic for whatever reason. But if someone's smarter or more talented than us? They must be just assholes if they don't fall over themselves in apology for it. I think what you're offended by is your own shortcomings with pitch. Everybody brings so much baggage into this issue...
I can't help but question the attitude of this video. I first recognised my perfect pitch at the age of 10, and can recognise pitches instantaneously. I'd best compare perfect pitch to listening to someone talk and seeing the letters that form their words in your mind. As much as it is a very useful ability, it does not directly correlate to any sort of divine musical talent or sensitivity. Moreover, I have no problem in 'turning off' this sense, unlike the guys in the video. Just my two pence.
@addcb I heard it more as an A major, but I can easily see where you got F# minor from. F# minor uses the same pitch scale as A major. That music sequence was a bit ambiguous regarding whether it was in a major key or a minor key; it was too short to really tell
What about smaller intervals different from the twelve-tone equal temperament people with perfect pitch already know and on which they base their “absolutes". Like these two notes, one of of them is slightly flattened, can you tell the difference?
Has anyone with perfect pitch ever written anything good? I don't know of anybody, which means it's probably a tiny minority of songwriters. So, if you have perfect pitch you will spend many hours a day for a big chunk of your life being a musical loser. Ha! Ha!
Well, he's not really a winner now is he? He's more of a music geek. I wouldn't call him a winner exactly. How many music geeks have perfect pitch? A disproportionately large number would be my guess. Ha! Ha! Ha!
His music is alright, but are you sure he wasn't a loser? Didn't they make a movie about him? Wasn't it about a guy who never had any money, did stupid shit all the time and died young? I think that would be more of a draw than an actual win...
@jonhdoehe1 WOW. Are you seriously calling a movie based on a play fact on the man!?! Mozart died in debt, not poor - he employed a maid, a cook, a valet, a hairdresser, owned a private carriage, and send his son to a very exclusive private boarding school.
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Okay, okay, I'll go to Wikipedia. It says here that he had 6 kids and only two survived infancy. He was such a total loser as a father that 4 of his kids died. It says during a brief period of prosperity, he blew all his money as quickly as he got it on servants and other expensive crap--these days,he would be called nigger-rich. What a loser! It also says he started to suffer from depression. The cause of depression is usually when one realizes they are a loser. I win! Ha! Ha!
@milesdavidsmith Does anybody else get the feeling that people without perfect pitch always bring a their mental defense mechanisms into the discussion of perfect pitch? Anything to avoid being faced with our own shortcomings.
@DanMcCaffrey However you should check out some of Jay Vincent's "compositions", he's got a real knack for bland shit crap. He's got a website full of pretentious garbage that you and him should spend hours getting of to. Paul Dateh, on the other hand, is modest and realistic, and not a complete snob.
Just because someone has perfect pitch doesn't make them a great person, and it most DEFINITELY doesn't make them some musical prodigy. It just means they have perfect pitch, which is very common.
Guys without perfect pitch don't give up. Relative pitch is enough and the only thing you really need. Perfect pitch is useful but there are tools to do the job. Relating notes is much more important and it's not that hard to learn given enough time and dedication.
A theory I have about perfect pitch is that maybe most of us are "sound deficient" like there is colour deficiency, you can tell colours but can't tell certain shades.
I can really relate to this - I never realised I had a remarkable ability until I asked why my singing teacher had to check notes by playing it on a piano when I could sing a song with any key without any starting note, and she mentioned to me that I had perfect pitch.
@kristreyes He had to learn them like everyone else, and he had to learn what the notes sound like before he could possibly be able to identify them like that.
I have a 5 yr old little boy who has perfect pitch, which we discovered when he was 3. I love this video and laughed a little when you said it was had to listen to bad bands because he is this way too. He doesn't like most kids music and honestly by 4 he was asking me not to sing to him. I might have gotten my feelings hurt but I realized why so I obliged. Do you all practice this ability to stay sharp or is this just something you are born with and it won't ever go away?
I have a 5 yr old little boy who has perfect pitch, which we discovered when he was 3. I love this video and laughed a little when you said it was had to listen to bad bands because he is this way too. He doesn't like most kids music and honestly by 4 he was asking me not to sing to him. I might have gotten my feelings hurt but I realized why so I obliged. Do you all practice this ability to stay sharp or is this just something you are born with and it won't ever go away?
iv had perfect pitch since i was 4 years old, im now 15, i can pick out 8 random notes on the piano and can say all the notes that every instrument plays in an orchestra, im not surer if other people who have it say this but when someone is very out of tune i get a ringing noise in my ear and it hurts..
Perfect pitch is all about the training. I have it because I started violin at age five. It's a sensitivity built on familiarity, not paranormal acuity. I can assure you that no western-trained musician can discern micro tones... they will insist the note is wrong.
I agree with Vincent and Paul when they talked about the out-of-tune stuff..Haha..I CAN'T STAND hearing lower orchestras in my school everytime xD Or just anything out of tune xP
@EpicViolinGuy I wouldn't either. It's a mixed blessing, more like. It sucks being in high school choir. Also, I get really annoyed if something is played in a different key than what I first heard it in.
I can imagine, if I was born with perfect pitch, I would be so aware of when things aren't perfectly in tune, especially with each other. I would be more critical of my singing and instrumentation than I already am! I have trouble singing in unison with people because it's so hard to get it perfectly match, it's always slightly dissonant, so I pick a harmony so if it's not perfectly in key down to the slightest frequency, I can't perceive it as well.
@Thehwchampionotw i kind of know how that feels, like everyone wanting to test you? my mom tells everyone and its wierd :/ and she always wants to test me on it...but i havent told my choir teacher yet and i dont know if i should or not
I have perfect pitch and I hate when a song is in a different key than what i first heard it in, or not in its original key. I didnt know i had it until my dad was playing notes on the piano and i told him what they were. i just thought everyone had it when i was a kid, i thought it was normal haha :p but hardly no one knows i have it because i hate bragging or making myself look better.
He sounds like me, except I didn't know what perfect pitch was or that I had it until I was 17 years old when my music teacher told me. I always thought it was something everyone (eps. musicians) had. And he is sooo right, it's a gift and a curse. I get really irritated and nauseous when something is played or song off key, eps. when the radio plays a song and it's not in the original key. GRRR. lol
And how is perfect pitch a problem??? It's like being born with 20-20 vision. Yeah sure, everything that's dirty might look clearly more dirty, but I'd much rather have perfect pitch that not.
@vetiarvind It can be a problem when trying to do music in groups or messing with music. They think in absoluttes, a C is a C, and if you try and move the key to E, it doesn't sound natural or normal compared to what it should be. They hear music differently. For the average Joe, no big deal. For someone in the career of making music and performing, it's both blessing and curse. There's no improv or fluid transitions, only the correct note. It takes it from an art to a science.
@fanadfilms The voice is totally an instrument, no argument there. My question is how does someone who wasn't taught to distinguish pitch articulate the difference in pitch? Yes, I can distinguish red from blue but I cannot recognize or label the subtleties and variances that someone with a trained eye, like a painter or illustrator, would gain from daily practice. This is what I'm not understanding.
I have perfect pitch, but sometimes it's annoying knowing all the notes. I want to not have perfect pitch for one day so I can enjoy music in a different way!
@bagnalldr09 well it's hard to explain, but as soon as I hear a note, I immediately know what the note is. Then I just picture it on the piano and see me playing that note (because I playing piano).
perfect pitch indeed seems very handy when composing music, cos you'll just be able to compose anything that pops in your mind without needing a piano, so you can compose anywhere you are if you want to. Also I think perfect pitch is perfectly learnable, though it might vary greatly in difficulty with different people.
i heard it too, a g# and and e, its easy. but if you think of it in terms of color (which is just another spectrum of physics with different wavelengths for different colors just like in sound), you dont need a reference color to call red red, you can just name the colors, so i dont see why it would be different in sound, that you would need a reference tone to name the other tone. (correct me if im wrong here)
@jonrellim You are wrong. Some people will never have perfect pitch, but with ear training we can develop relative pitch. If I hear a note, I can not name it with much accuracy, though I'm not really shooting in the dark. But if you give me another note, I can identify the interval based on things that I've learned. Like a perfect 5th is Star Wars to me. Any time I hear a perfect fit, I think Star Wars. Or Amazing Grace for a perfect 4th. And then I can actually name the notes played.
@phoskins That's not true. When I was in college and a music comp major, I spent so much time playing and writing that it got to the point where I could recognize the notes. Even though I don't play that much now, if I don't think about a note, I can hear which it is. Keys are easier. For some reason, when I hear a song, I can hear what key it's in. So, you are wrong.
@AnonHateMachine When I was in college, I worked so much in music, composing, playing, conducting, that after a while, you could play a note, any note, and I'd know it. I could sing ANY note. Since then, nearly two decades hence, I've lost some of that. There are times when I know and some when I don't. When I play more, the pitch recognition comes back. If I don't think about it, it often does. You can say I don't, or didn't, but you would be wrong. My ear training teachers agree with me.
@fanadfilms you had acquired relative pitch. perfect pitch is something you are born with and you don't forget. it's always with you, and you don't have to learn it.
@AnonHateMachine Let me explain this to you. My ear training teacher at BCC, after two years, said she noticed that I was was able to recognize tones (individual), where before I could not. She couldn't explain it. She saw that I was able to reproduce a tone without an instrument. She said I had acquired perfect pitch. It was stronger at UCLA.
Now, even people with natural perfect pitch use relative pitch too. They compliment each other. You would know that if you were a musician.
@fanadfilms i have perfect pitch. my experience is nowhere close to yours. it was something natural to me that i never had to learn and that i could never forget. i grew up playing the the piano and guitar, though. even though i am a board certified internist and hematologist, my thoughts are music-oriented when i am relaxed and not concentrating.
@AnonHateMachine I have had many friends who were born with it. It was easy for them. My ear adjusted to it over time. To me, the more I'm around music, the more my ear tunes, for lack of a better word. First, the keys come, then the notes. Even ear training teachers say it's quite possible to develop pitch recognition. AnonHateMachine cracks me up. He presumes to know what happened to me. I'm not the only one in the music program developed pitch recognition.
@AnonHateMachine No shit, Sherlock. Any decent musician has it. That does not mean I do not have pitch recognition, which is entirely different. Perfect and Relative Pitch compliment each other.
@Q2IN2Y Not trying to be an ass I'm honestly just curious. MJ didn't play an instrument so how could he have had perfect pitch? The reason I say this is because if you have no reference then you have no basis for which pitch is which. In overly simple terms, if you have never been told the color red was named "red" then how would you know that it's called "red"? Granted you would know that it look different from blue but with out learning how to communicate (names) what they were.
@johntguitar You consider the voice not an instrument? You would be incorrect. There are some people with perfect pitch who never study music or play an instrument. Do you have perfect color perception? Yes? Do you paint?
i think i got a form of perfect pitch because everything they're describing i have
except for being able to actually NAME each note i can hear color in diff tones, i can ehar each tone independently in a chord I just cant put the note letter to it.
@DLee594 heres a way to describe it... i dunno if this will make sense but...think of it in terms of shapes... i can tell look at the square and see that four equal sides makes it a shape, but i cant name the shape.. and a rectangle has two even sides on both sides but i jsut dont kno the label.
i hear the tone independently.. like if i hear a motor of a car driving by i hear a tone in it, i just cant label it.
@Hakan625, I know! it means you have to do that when you run out of characters when posting comments, its called an extension, I know, its like writing an essay, some poeple would just use 3 heck 2 letters, well I like to elaborate, thanks ; )
BTW if you read it you'll see that its relative and helpful advice, I do not SPAM, I dislike SPAM!
Hello perfect pitchers: First, I don't have perfect pitch. I am wondering if someone could tell me why I adore certain singers and can't bear listening to others. For instance, I love Celine Dion, Hayley Westenra and little Connie Talbot but can't bear listening to Charlotte Church and the new little sensation Jackie Evancho. What do you think about what my ears are picking up?
PLEASE let no one tell you that perfect pitch is a problem as was stated in this video, I discovered I had it using the Ear training course by David Burge, I discovered it around lesson 9 (i.e. recognize any note from any instrument, this is perculia, as the lesson that follow, David is speaking as if one should still be in the process of aquiring it let alone 'UNIVERSAL COLOR DISCREMINATION' and Aural recall. BTW still going through it, must finish it might learn something new.
even though I could, I had a prob, if I ramdomly play notes to test myself on the piano using only the white keys, then press a black key, everything goes out of whack, i.e. it throws me off even after I come back to press a white key (ones that I learnt 1st and was completely familiar with) after only playing 1 black note.
@OCUBOX Not a problem anymore though, so if you are learning just be patient and make it fun. I might put some stuff on my channel as to how I went about aquiring this GREAT ability. thanks.
By the way, I agree with other people that having PP doesn't necessarily make you any more or less of a good musician - I have it, but I can't compose for crap. O.o
I didn't know I had perfect pitch until my violin teacher told me so last year. I didn't do "ear training" or anything to achieve this, it just sorta... happened. However, I can only tell notes in chords that I'm more familiar with, or when I hear notes individually - so I believe that you can be born with it, but it takes experience to bring it out. And I still have to get familiar with many other chords. Anyway, PP is a neat skill to have! :D
There's no such thing as perfect pitch. Its called ear-training. These people are calling quarter tones "unlistenable." I bet they'd have a fit if they heard just intonation. Their ears are simply trained to identify pitches in the frame of 12 tone equal temperament.
This is absolutely absurd. If these people actually had perfect pitch, they would know that all the major thirds on a piano are sharp.
Great to find people alike me!!!! I don't want to be cocky but I react about 5 times faster than guy at 3:55 testing!! This has to be explored more. Great video. Greets, JG
I wake up at 6 to an alarm that goes of in B. The microwave beeps in F. My school bell goes off in C. My homeroom teacher is monotone. I go to church and want to hurl when I hear the music. My music theory teacher's piano is flat and out of tune. I just heard a car horn go off in F.. yeah. Welcome to my world!!
jealous... not gonna lie
hershism 1 day ago
That jay Vincent is the sleeziest looking guy ever. His hair!! My god. He's smug too
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@DrFreerun Are you sure he's not just being matter of fact? God forbid someone have something we don't have mentally. People don't mind the rich, or the athletic for whatever reason. But if someone's smarter or more talented than us? They must be just assholes if they don't fall over themselves in apology for it. I think what you're offended by is your own shortcomings with pitch. Everybody brings so much baggage into this issue...
DanMcCaffrey 3 days ago
I want a perfect bitch too
Finky27 3 weeks ago
I can't help but question the attitude of this video. I first recognised my perfect pitch at the age of 10, and can recognise pitches instantaneously. I'd best compare perfect pitch to listening to someone talk and seeing the letters that form their words in your mind. As much as it is a very useful ability, it does not directly correlate to any sort of divine musical talent or sensitivity. Moreover, I have no problem in 'turning off' this sense, unlike the guys in the video. Just my two pence.
GenialHiver 4 weeks ago
Worlds best Karaoke Singer!
XDAVXD 1 month ago
what he has a perfect bitch!?
XDAVXD 1 month ago
he has a problem wtf bitch its a gift.
Eysc 2 months ago 10
I wanna find some more liek me who has the Absolute pitch. :(
chiliman93 2 months ago
Ummm, I've never been nautious from hearing instruments that are out of tune. i think that white guy is just being an asshat
BoboVicus 2 months ago
2:49 I just learned today that I have perfect pitch and I'm sure that is actually F# minor, based on the surrounding harmonies I recognized
addcb 3 months ago
@addcb I heard it more as an A major, but I can easily see where you got F# minor from. F# minor uses the same pitch scale as A major. That music sequence was a bit ambiguous regarding whether it was in a major key or a minor key; it was too short to really tell
Teraforce88 2 months ago
I have perfect pitch, because I can speak tonal language, like Mandarin
SicheZhang 3 months ago
@SicheZhang I have perfect pitch too, but I don't know how to speak in any tonal languages... all I know is English, which isn't tonal. Odd.
Teraforce88 2 months ago
Luciano Pavarotti had perfect pitch and he was the MASTER
cccorsetti 3 months ago
I don't have perfect pitch, but the audio from this video really pisses me off...
stever199 3 months ago
I have perfect pitch, but I didn't go into a music field. Can't switch it off, so I recognize any sound instantly as a note.
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benmat92 3 months ago
Some people think I have perfect pitch.
shelbielynnVEVO 4 months ago
my 12 year old brother has perfect pitch =0
redhedbedhed 4 months ago
3:22 he was wrong, it was a D major 1st inversion not G
FluffersTheFirst 5 months ago
@FluffersTheFirst He said D Major numnuts
TheCunningSnail 4 months ago
HOW DO YOU TURN IT OFF!!!??????
Anybody?
BJtheBassist 5 months ago
@BJtheBassist you cant
jondough7777777 4 months ago
@jondough7777777
Damnit. lol
BJtheBassist 4 months ago
@BJtheBassist wow, you are the guy that have it and hate it
xViVaVerDe 4 months ago
@BJtheBassist Its a mind thing you have to make yourself ignore it in a sense
xTJProduction1000x 2 weeks ago
They start by calling absolute pitch a problemin the beginning wich is wrong imo.
Don't want to sound like an infomercial but the perfec pitch course by D.L.Burge will clear all those myths and incorrect ideas up.
He proved that it can be developed.
I think even these guys could benefit from his audio course.
guitar1050 5 months ago
What about smaller intervals different from the twelve-tone equal temperament people with perfect pitch already know and on which they base their “absolutes". Like these two notes, one of of them is slightly flattened, can you tell the difference?
yuvalnov(dot)org/temperament/E_Eql_and_E_Just.mp3
TheNuncFluens 5 months ago
@TheNuncFluens
Exactly why E natural was so frikin' hard to hear for me! It's that one note that just isn't centered, ever..
BJtheBassist 4 months ago
Personally I think this is bullshit. It's really easy to fake this
goatencopyrighted 5 months ago
@goatencopyrighted it's not... both my sister and I have it, better than that white guy but not as good as the asian guy.
ayuan227 4 months ago
the white guy looks like the bad guy from karate kid
batmayn123 6 months ago
Has anyone with perfect pitch ever written anything good? I don't know of anybody, which means it's probably a tiny minority of songwriters. So, if you have perfect pitch you will spend many hours a day for a big chunk of your life being a musical loser. Ha! Ha!
jonhdoehe1 7 months ago
@jonhdoehe1 oh dear....
AlfieInLondon 7 months ago
@jonhdoehe1
Jeff Martin. 'Nuff said.
LeoXmayhem2 7 months ago
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Well, he's not really a winner now is he? He's more of a music geek. I wouldn't call him a winner exactly. How many music geeks have perfect pitch? A disproportionately large number would be my guess. Ha! Ha! Ha!
jonhdoehe1 7 months ago
@jonhdoehe1 bach, mozart, beethoven, frank sinatra.. need more?
sebaba001 6 months ago
@jonhdoehe1 Mozart. I win the debate.
phoenicks 6 months ago
@phoenicks
His music is alright, but are you sure he wasn't a loser? Didn't they make a movie about him? Wasn't it about a guy who never had any money, did stupid shit all the time and died young? I think that would be more of a draw than an actual win...
jonhdoehe1 6 months ago
@jonhdoehe1 WOW. Are you seriously calling a movie based on a play fact on the man!?! Mozart died in debt, not poor - he employed a maid, a cook, a valet, a hairdresser, owned a private carriage, and send his son to a very exclusive private boarding school.
Please stop typing before you pollute the internet with more troll spam.
phoenicks 6 months ago
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Okay, okay, I'll go to Wikipedia. It says here that he had 6 kids and only two survived infancy. He was such a total loser as a father that 4 of his kids died. It says during a brief period of prosperity, he blew all his money as quickly as he got it on servants and other expensive crap--these days,he would be called nigger-rich. What a loser! It also says he started to suffer from depression. The cause of depression is usually when one realizes they are a loser. I win! Ha! Ha!
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MaxDecembre 3 months ago
@jonhdoehe1 Like Mozart and Beethoven? Total musical losers, amiright?
CarFox6 3 months ago
Is anyone getting the feeling that the white guy is a total asshole?
milesdavidsmith 7 months ago 51
@milesdavidsmith no, he's not, i can totally relate to him, as i have perfect pitch too..
luishomeroremohsiul 3 weeks ago
@milesdavidsmith Does anybody else get the feeling that people without perfect pitch always bring a their mental defense mechanisms into the discussion of perfect pitch? Anything to avoid being faced with our own shortcomings.
DanMcCaffrey 3 days ago
@DanMcCaffrey I love it how your entire point invalidates itself.
milesdavidsmith 3 days ago
@DanMcCaffrey However you should check out some of Jay Vincent's "compositions", he's got a real knack for bland shit crap. He's got a website full of pretentious garbage that you and him should spend hours getting of to. Paul Dateh, on the other hand, is modest and realistic, and not a complete snob.
Just because someone has perfect pitch doesn't make them a great person, and it most DEFINITELY doesn't make them some musical prodigy. It just means they have perfect pitch, which is very common.
milesdavidsmith 3 days ago
@DanMcCaffrey LOL by the way I actually do have perfect pitch.
milesdavidsmith 3 days ago
Guys without perfect pitch don't give up. Relative pitch is enough and the only thing you really need. Perfect pitch is useful but there are tools to do the job. Relating notes is much more important and it's not that hard to learn given enough time and dedication.
A theory I have about perfect pitch is that maybe most of us are "sound deficient" like there is colour deficiency, you can tell colours but can't tell certain shades.
CiliaDarren 7 months ago
I can really relate to this - I never realised I had a remarkable ability until I asked why my singing teacher had to check notes by playing it on a piano when I could sing a song with any key without any starting note, and she mentioned to me that I had perfect pitch.
Kibouo 7 months ago
how did he knew what the notes were called?
kristreyes 7 months ago
@kristreyes He had to learn them like everyone else, and he had to learn what the notes sound like before he could possibly be able to identify them like that.
CarFox6 3 months ago
it'd be nice if his violin was in tune
Tladds 7 months ago 2
haha just searched perfect pitch and come across paul dateh: win
chronoisworking 7 months ago
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I have a 5 yr old little boy who has perfect pitch, which we discovered when he was 3. I love this video and laughed a little when you said it was had to listen to bad bands because he is this way too. He doesn't like most kids music and honestly by 4 he was asking me not to sing to him. I might have gotten my feelings hurt but I realized why so I obliged. Do you all practice this ability to stay sharp or is this just something you are born with and it won't ever go away?
bpsrsbeej 8 months ago
I have a 5 yr old little boy who has perfect pitch, which we discovered when he was 3. I love this video and laughed a little when you said it was had to listen to bad bands because he is this way too. He doesn't like most kids music and honestly by 4 he was asking me not to sing to him. I might have gotten my feelings hurt but I realized why so I obliged. Do you all practice this ability to stay sharp or is this just something you are born with and it won't ever go away?
bpsrsbeej 8 months ago
I bet he's even better at math than he is at music.
RdSoxFan618 8 months ago
iv had perfect pitch since i was 4 years old, im now 15, i can pick out 8 random notes on the piano and can say all the notes that every instrument plays in an orchestra, im not surer if other people who have it say this but when someone is very out of tune i get a ringing noise in my ear and it hurts..
sam4cello126 8 months ago
@sam4cello126 happens to me too.. a lot. i'm also 15 XD
temari796 7 months ago
think about 432hz the great and right frequency
its not possible to feel disgrace when you hear music at that frequency
axeandraxe 8 months ago
whats the song at 2:47 ???
striuncekf 8 months ago
The only reason I have perfect pitch is because I can hear colors in music which is called synesthesia.
spikedude55 8 months ago
Perfect pitch is all about the training. I have it because I started violin at age five. It's a sensitivity built on familiarity, not paranormal acuity. I can assure you that no western-trained musician can discern micro tones... they will insist the note is wrong.
dennisjiewenliu 8 months ago 3
@dennisjiewenliu good point
ReminiscenceS2 8 months ago
I have perfect pitch and I have no idea why.
lukerosstheboss1 9 months ago
i also have perfect pitch but i have the ability to turn it off whenever i go crazy over a piece of music that is out of tune!
UltimateProMelody 9 months ago
I agree with Vincent and Paul when they talked about the out-of-tune stuff..Haha..I CAN'T STAND hearing lower orchestras in my school everytime xD Or just anything out of tune xP
iToucheverything 9 months ago
MORTEN LAURIDSEN CHORDS FTW!!!!
immelio 9 months ago
Ths is such a useless ability for composition...
IssmeSouSou 9 months ago
@IssmeSouSou You won't be able to understand until you experienced perfect pitch, as different pitches can 'reveal' different types of emotions...
asdf1231997 8 months ago
I wouldn't call our gift a problem...
EpicViolinGuy 9 months ago 2
@EpicViolinGuy I wouldn't either. It's a mixed blessing, more like. It sucks being in high school choir. Also, I get really annoyed if something is played in a different key than what I first heard it in.
immelio 9 months ago
@EpicViolinGuy It is when the bus driver insists on playing bad pop music every day.
CarFox6 3 months ago
Am I the only one who sees Asian Brad Pitt?
talk2me311 10 months ago 61
@talk2me311
Hahaha he's just identical, but in asian
dieselvisel 9 months ago
@talk2me311 omg yea that was the first thing I noticed when I clicked on this vid
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@talk2me311 I can see it
AdmiringObserverR 4 months ago
I can imagine, if I was born with perfect pitch, I would be so aware of when things aren't perfectly in tune, especially with each other. I would be more critical of my singing and instrumentation than I already am! I have trouble singing in unison with people because it's so hard to get it perfectly match, it's always slightly dissonant, so I pick a harmony so if it's not perfectly in key down to the slightest frequency, I can't perceive it as well.
AdmiringObserverR 4 months ago
@Thehwchampionotw i kind of know how that feels, like everyone wanting to test you? my mom tells everyone and its wierd :/ and she always wants to test me on it...but i havent told my choir teacher yet and i dont know if i should or not
LifeOfAubrey 10 months ago
For the Perfect Pitchers like me: Do you all get darned confused when you play on a digital piano that is transposed? lol.
AbiMaster95 10 months ago 2
@AbiMaster95 yes! :p
millashake 10 months ago
@AbiMaster95 YES. that's just demonic!
MaxDecembre 3 months ago
I have perfect pitch and I hate when a song is in a different key than what i first heard it in, or not in its original key. I didnt know i had it until my dad was playing notes on the piano and i told him what they were. i just thought everyone had it when i was a kid, i thought it was normal haha :p but hardly no one knows i have it because i hate bragging or making myself look better.
LifeOfAubrey 10 months ago
Don't forget Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix.
KatarraParson 11 months ago
He sounds like me, except I didn't know what perfect pitch was or that I had it until I was 17 years old when my music teacher told me. I always thought it was something everyone (eps. musicians) had. And he is sooo right, it's a gift and a curse. I get really irritated and nauseous when something is played or song off key, eps. when the radio plays a song and it's not in the original key. GRRR. lol
KatarraParson 11 months ago
Psst.. Its because hes fuckin Asian!
fyourcouchnigga 11 months ago
fuck dude i want perfect pitch
withaspoon94 11 months ago
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He has a problem?...a PROBLEM? Wtf is she talking about? That's a gift
Guitargasm17 11 months ago
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Guitargasm17 11 months ago
And how is perfect pitch a problem??? It's like being born with 20-20 vision. Yeah sure, everything that's dirty might look clearly more dirty, but I'd much rather have perfect pitch that not.
vetiarvind 1 year ago
@vetiarvind It can be a problem when trying to do music in groups or messing with music. They think in absoluttes, a C is a C, and if you try and move the key to E, it doesn't sound natural or normal compared to what it should be. They hear music differently. For the average Joe, no big deal. For someone in the career of making music and performing, it's both blessing and curse. There's no improv or fluid transitions, only the correct note. It takes it from an art to a science.
souprcheff 11 months ago
@fanadfilms The voice is totally an instrument, no argument there. My question is how does someone who wasn't taught to distinguish pitch articulate the difference in pitch? Yes, I can distinguish red from blue but I cannot recognize or label the subtleties and variances that someone with a trained eye, like a painter or illustrator, would gain from daily practice. This is what I'm not understanding.
johntguitar 1 year ago
I would kill for perfect pitch.
Wuhhhht 1 year ago
The song at 8:32 is in the key of a minor
Dan08444 1 year ago 3
Jimi Hendrix isn't in the list?!
How could you?! :O
noamchoco 1 year ago
how exactly does this guy have a 'problem'?
seriously what a retarded thing to say.
gorgolyt 1 year ago
what is the song at 2:20?
natalienpn 1 year ago
@natalienpn sweet child o mine
filedump1 1 year ago
I have perfect pitch, but sometimes it's annoying knowing all the notes. I want to not have perfect pitch for one day so I can enjoy music in a different way!
strawberrydream813 1 year ago
@strawberrydream813 How can it possibly be annoying knowing all the notes?
bagnalldr09 1 year ago
@bagnalldr09 well it's hard to explain, but as soon as I hear a note, I immediately know what the note is. Then I just picture it on the piano and see me playing that note (because I playing piano).
strawberrydream813 1 year ago
i have perfect pitch :)
ivanakatarina 1 year ago
I WISH I had perfect pitch :(
LucyLAL100 1 year ago
Jay Vincent is a prick
TheNylonStrings 1 year ago
perfect pitch indeed seems very handy when composing music, cos you'll just be able to compose anything that pops in your mind without needing a piano, so you can compose anywhere you are if you want to. Also I think perfect pitch is perfectly learnable, though it might vary greatly in difficulty with different people.
jonrellim 1 year ago
i heard it too, a g# and and e, its easy. but if you think of it in terms of color (which is just another spectrum of physics with different wavelengths for different colors just like in sound), you dont need a reference color to call red red, you can just name the colors, so i dont see why it would be different in sound, that you would need a reference tone to name the other tone. (correct me if im wrong here)
jonrellim 1 year ago
@jonrellim i totally agree with you man cause my reference is that i think as if i was playing my sax to determined some pitches out of the air.
gdzsax 1 year ago
@jonrellim You are wrong. Some people will never have perfect pitch, but with ear training we can develop relative pitch. If I hear a note, I can not name it with much accuracy, though I'm not really shooting in the dark. But if you give me another note, I can identify the interval based on things that I've learned. Like a perfect 5th is Star Wars to me. Any time I hear a perfect fit, I think Star Wars. Or Amazing Grace for a perfect 4th. And then I can actually name the notes played.
phoskins 1 year ago
@phoskins That's not true. When I was in college and a music comp major, I spent so much time playing and writing that it got to the point where I could recognize the notes. Even though I don't play that much now, if I don't think about a note, I can hear which it is. Keys are easier. For some reason, when I hear a song, I can hear what key it's in. So, you are wrong.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms you don't have perfect pitch. it's not perfect.
AnonHateMachine 1 year ago
@AnonHateMachine When I was in college, I worked so much in music, composing, playing, conducting, that after a while, you could play a note, any note, and I'd know it. I could sing ANY note. Since then, nearly two decades hence, I've lost some of that. There are times when I know and some when I don't. When I play more, the pitch recognition comes back. If I don't think about it, it often does. You can say I don't, or didn't, but you would be wrong. My ear training teachers agree with me.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms you had acquired relative pitch. perfect pitch is something you are born with and you don't forget. it's always with you, and you don't have to learn it.
AnonHateMachine 1 year ago
@AnonHateMachine Let me explain this to you. My ear training teacher at BCC, after two years, said she noticed that I was was able to recognize tones (individual), where before I could not. She couldn't explain it. She saw that I was able to reproduce a tone without an instrument. She said I had acquired perfect pitch. It was stronger at UCLA.
Now, even people with natural perfect pitch use relative pitch too. They compliment each other. You would know that if you were a musician.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms i have perfect pitch. my experience is nowhere close to yours. it was something natural to me that i never had to learn and that i could never forget. i grew up playing the the piano and guitar, though. even though i am a board certified internist and hematologist, my thoughts are music-oriented when i am relaxed and not concentrating.
AnonHateMachine 1 year ago
@AnonHateMachine I have had many friends who were born with it. It was easy for them. My ear adjusted to it over time. To me, the more I'm around music, the more my ear tunes, for lack of a better word. First, the keys come, then the notes. Even ear training teachers say it's quite possible to develop pitch recognition. AnonHateMachine cracks me up. He presumes to know what happened to me. I'm not the only one in the music program developed pitch recognition.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@AnonHateMachine And dude, I learned relative pitch when I was 12.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms yes, you have relative pitch.
AnonHateMachine 1 year ago
@AnonHateMachine No shit, Sherlock. Any decent musician has it. That does not mean I do not have pitch recognition, which is entirely different. Perfect and Relative Pitch compliment each other.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
The song wasn't in A but in Bb! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I call bull shit.
scottydscottd 1 year ago
great,,,,but i have my own style,,,check on my channel....pei1403
pei1403 1 year ago
michael jackson also has perfect pitch..
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y Not trying to be an ass I'm honestly just curious. MJ didn't play an instrument so how could he have had perfect pitch? The reason I say this is because if you have no reference then you have no basis for which pitch is which. In overly simple terms, if you have never been told the color red was named "red" then how would you know that it's called "red"? Granted you would know that it look different from blue but with out learning how to communicate (names) what they were.
johntguitar 1 year ago
@johntguitar You consider the voice not an instrument? You would be incorrect. There are some people with perfect pitch who never study music or play an instrument. Do you have perfect color perception? Yes? Do you paint?
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y The Dead can't have perfect pitch. He may have HAD it, but he has nothing now.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms You sound like a 4 year old right now.
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y You sound like an uneducated moron. I win.
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms Of course you win... in a four year old's world.
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y OMG, that hurt so much. Ouch!
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms I don't hurt 4 year olds, I scold them.
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y OMG, wow, I hurt so bad. Are you always this stupid and condescending?
fanadfilms 1 year ago
@fanadfilms And like a 4 year old, you need the last word. So.. go ahead, have it.
Bye ;-)
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
i think i got a form of perfect pitch because everything they're describing i have
except for being able to actually NAME each note i can hear color in diff tones, i can ehar each tone independently in a chord I just cant put the note letter to it.
ah well
good skill tho
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y that almost sounds like you have synesthesia... which is actually really cool.. I wish I had it. lol
johntguitar 1 year ago
@Q2IN2Y That's called relative pitch. I have it.
DLee594 1 year ago
@DLee594 i know what relative pitch is. i have that
i have soemthing else tho... for example when i hear a bell ring i know its a particular note but i cant name it off hand
or if i hear a fan on low, i can hear the tonal quality of the fan, independant of any reference pitch i just can't differentiate the pitches.
i prolly got some freak version of pp
or.. maybe its jus an advanced relative pitch
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
@DLee594 heres a way to describe it... i dunno if this will make sense but...think of it in terms of shapes... i can tell look at the square and see that four equal sides makes it a shape, but i cant name the shape.. and a rectangle has two even sides on both sides but i jsut dont kno the label.
i hear the tone independently.. like if i hear a motor of a car driving by i hear a tone in it, i just cant label it.
prolly is RP. *shrug*
Q2IN2Y 1 year ago
3:46 the white dude is so happy that he got it
salrubz 1 year ago
"Paul has a problem: perfect pitch" WTF?!
OriginellerUserName 1 year ago
@Hakan625, I know! it means you have to do that when you run out of characters when posting comments, its called an extension, I know, its like writing an essay, some poeple would just use 3 heck 2 letters, well I like to elaborate, thanks ; )
BTW if you read it you'll see that its relative and helpful advice, I do not SPAM, I dislike SPAM!
OCUBOX 1 year ago
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ej1elliot 1 year ago
Hello perfect pitchers: First, I don't have perfect pitch. I am wondering if someone could tell me why I adore certain singers and can't bear listening to others. For instance, I love Celine Dion, Hayley Westenra and little Connie Talbot but can't bear listening to Charlotte Church and the new little sensation Jackie Evancho. What do you think about what my ears are picking up?
loisdamra 1 year ago
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appositiongh 1 year ago
I was shocked when my friend who is a pianist screamed "you have perfect pitch! HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" I thought everyone was like that too..
devotedViolet 1 year ago
Epiphone sheraton in the back win! :D
fattyJNL 1 year ago
I could definitely see the white guy hitting his wife for singing out of tune... "You bitch it's C not and C sharp!" slap
BigBossHawg09 1 year ago
PLEASE let no one tell you that perfect pitch is a problem as was stated in this video, I discovered I had it using the Ear training course by David Burge, I discovered it around lesson 9 (i.e. recognize any note from any instrument, this is perculia, as the lesson that follow, David is speaking as if one should still be in the process of aquiring it let alone 'UNIVERSAL COLOR DISCREMINATION' and Aural recall. BTW still going through it, must finish it might learn something new.
OCUBOX 1 year ago
@OCUBOX
even though I could, I had a prob, if I ramdomly play notes to test myself on the piano using only the white keys, then press a black key, everything goes out of whack, i.e. it throws me off even after I come back to press a white key (ones that I learnt 1st and was completely familiar with) after only playing 1 black note.
OCUBOX 1 year ago
@OCUBOX Not a problem anymore though, so if you are learning just be patient and make it fun. I might put some stuff on my channel as to how I went about aquiring this GREAT ability. thanks.
OCUBOX 1 year ago
LOL "that probably means nothing to any of you.. man my dick is huge"
joytoy322 1 year ago
By the way, I agree with other people that having PP doesn't necessarily make you any more or less of a good musician - I have it, but I can't compose for crap. O.o
MissCartoonist 1 year ago
I didn't know I had perfect pitch until my violin teacher told me so last year. I didn't do "ear training" or anything to achieve this, it just sorta... happened. However, I can only tell notes in chords that I'm more familiar with, or when I hear notes individually - so I believe that you can be born with it, but it takes experience to bring it out. And I still have to get familiar with many other chords. Anyway, PP is a neat skill to have! :D
MissCartoonist 1 year ago
I have perfect pitch =P
ryankam2 1 year ago
The guy with the ponytail wasn't really quick with his responses...
aididamusic12 1 year ago
my dad has perfect pitch. he's an amazing piano player
barngirlXx3 1 year ago
PAUL!!! I've should have known!!!! XD
I thought he was a diff. person... sorry Paul!!!
Prettyblueviolin 1 year ago
nice hair chode. (white dude)
sexibassplaya123456 1 year ago
Oh lord. I have perfect pitch in the key of A double flat minor, and this guy is hitting all his notes about fifty cents sharp.
philnoll 1 year ago
There's no such thing as perfect pitch. Its called ear-training. These people are calling quarter tones "unlistenable." I bet they'd have a fit if they heard just intonation. Their ears are simply trained to identify pitches in the frame of 12 tone equal temperament.
This is absolutely absurd. If these people actually had perfect pitch, they would know that all the major thirds on a piano are sharp.
philnoll 1 year ago
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philnoll 1 year ago
Vincent is a complete ass. Jesus Christ.
iWokeToday 1 year ago 3
Great to find people alike me!!!! I don't want to be cocky but I react about 5 times faster than guy at 3:55 testing!! This has to be explored more. Great video. Greets, JG
JureGorucan 1 year ago
unliustenable, lol
yeah, pitch is TONE
its not perfectly in tune...that sounds like this
this isnt in the right shade of orange, its not orange enough, there is too much red in that orange, I cant take it!!!
mdible 1 year ago
Yeah.. My life:
I wake up at 6 to an alarm that goes of in B. The microwave beeps in F. My school bell goes off in C. My homeroom teacher is monotone. I go to church and want to hurl when I hear the music. My music theory teacher's piano is flat and out of tune. I just heard a car horn go off in F.. yeah. Welcome to my world!!
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