Are There Different Levels of Perfect Pitch?

[@parse4866]

Rick: *cries* Dylan: your crying is between the range of C sharp, and Ab

[@rhodigian]

this is the next step i expect. minus, i wish rick to cry just the strict necessary in his life, nothing more

[@fishcakes9146]

I literally do this too

[@shadowjuan2]

MOBILE Wrong, Dylan: Your speech is resonating at 256HZ.

[@parse4866]

Candid Falcon ? 😂

[@Louisvanlill86]

hahhahahahahahhah

[@vivienleigh4640]

I'll never forget one of those early morning TV-shows here in Sweden. The host was a former opera singer and the guest of the day was a young boy with a perfect pitch. She sang a long note and then asked him what note it was -"Well, it was right between F and F-sharp" 😂

[@mariasoderberg4931]

Oooo, vem?!

[@naomiperez7482]

is this true?

[@teageamusic2033]

Did.... The​ boy​ just​ roasted​ her​ or​ something?

[@baekhyunschopsticks6763]

Boom roasted

[@tube.brasil]

My kid does that too. With car horns.

[@stephenbell-booth2648]

Dylan is a genius. I have perfect pitch, started playing piano as a 3 year old. 66 years later, the most frustrating thing is trying to hold a serious conversation with the radio playing in the background. I’m trying to keep focused on the conversation while working out every note going on in the background. Can’t turn it off. Very best wishes to Dylan for what could be a promising career in music should he choose it.

[@albertweedsteinthethuggeni7797]

Same. I started playing piano as a 3 year old. I think that gave me perfect pitch

[@milim3135]

I wish I had perfect pitch

[@stephenbell-booth2648]

@@albertweedsteinthethuggeni7797 nice to hear from you Albert. Maybe three years of age has a lot to do with the uncovering, comprehension and understanding. Stevie Wonder began playing as a 3 year old. Say no more

[@stephenbell-booth2648]

@@milim3135 thank you for your response Hector. I think it’s something that may not be able to be learned. You either have it, or don’t. Quite a few musicians have relative pitch and that talent is an asset. Perfect just enables you to do it. Takes the hard work and guess work out of the equation

[@Euro.Patriot]

I can't tell the difference between any notes. I can tell you roughly how distant they are but I'm bad at it.

[@electricwassabi]

Im sure Ling Ling is proud of Dylan. Twoset should react to Dylans perfect pitch!!

[@flippinmachine]

Ling Ling names the notes before they are played. But yes Dylan would get the nod of approval from Ling Ling.

[@j.z.143]

@TwoSetViolin Eddy should try this!

[@ivyssauro123]

@@j.z.143 I'm willing to bet Eddy can name isolated notes o treble range and most basic triads with 7ths and 9ths at best I don't think he comes in contact with double polichords all that often, or ever haha

[@thatviollerette474]

@@j.z.143 didn't he already do something similar?

[@lana_rupnik]

@Jeffrey Zhang yeah😂

[@lynnsyang]

rick: *plays a chord with sustain pedal so it just sounds like a mess of notes* dylan: that's actually C diminished major 7th over D minor me: ... WHAT??

[@ploopybear]

Basically AP Music Theory in a nutshell

[@authenticmusic4815]

@@ploopybear basically jazz in a nutshell

[@tested211]

Yeah for me it's also interesting that Dylan can also discern all the individual notes. Some of those chords I don't think I could even tell you how many notes there are, let alone what pitch each one is. (Rick knows some beautiful sounding chords though!)

[@Subholik3]

Xddd❤️

[@wyattstevens8574]

@@tested211 Example (one of the 12-tone triad formulas in his book) is a pair of major chords a whole step apart and a pair of minor chords with roots a full major third lower (example given is Cm, Dm, E, F# in any order) What's great about these triads is that they have no notes in common, making a string of their arpeggios (I would say there's no more than 350 ways to do that unless you don't count reversals as different) a perfect 12-tone serialist row!

[@strazza555]

He’s gonna write some weird ass music in his 20s, can’t wait

[@normanperkel139]

Me too!

[@bachlamtung5131]

lol

[@rohannagarkar608]

He's gonna be our next joji. Soup With Earwax by Dylan Beato

[@StanislovasRiska]

wait... HE GON' DO A JACOB COLLIER

[@max-tf3vo]

You have perfekt pitch doesnt mean you make good music 🤦‍♂️

[@jylekones1250]

Rick has secretly been using Dylan to break down and learn songs this whole time

[@ajsessions6269]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@fatsuperfly]

He tabbed out periphery, just come out n be honest ric

[@lopezb]

At some point Steve Vai paid Dylan to transcribe some of his solos, so at least then he made use of it. But how much he really loves the music he hears is anybody's guess, even more whether he will ever be a great player or composer....real passion for something is not the same as ability or talent.

[@lazzy2day]

I just had a "Stir of echoes" flashback.

[@pasfaishalhaniq]

Lol

[@MsJeffreyF]

yeah, but can he distinguish between major and minor chords?

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

@Franco Thank you for clarifying. 😅 I thought their trolling was over 9000... or that they really didn't understand theory. 💀

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

Idk, maybe I associate emojis with the joke and that's why I was so confused.

[@mobeus84]

Ummm? Yep

[@joekabacolac1865]

Lol🤣😂

[@FiveStarHobo]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@TheAmbigramArtist]

This video made me emotional. Dylan's RIDICULOUS ability paired with Rick's pride as a father and his little chuckles when Dylan gets it right is beautiful and perfect.

[@or9481]

Love seeing good dads being good dads.

[@droidus]

A beautiful and very talented little boy you've got there. Great work Dylan.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Yes very talented

[@PorcelainLeigh]

Nice ^ :(

[@DETERMINOLOGY]

He has the most perfect pitch ive seen on youtube..VERY on point with notes / chords and doesnt have to think to long...One day i hope to get there

[@wishusknight3009]

@@mateusrezenderibeiro3475 dipshit

[@nitsukoson]

Mateus Rezende Ribeiro dude, complementing a kids talent isn’t the same as calling the child attractive. We’re all beautiful human beings, he means it in the way that he’s amazing and unique. A beautiful kid. I’m not at all condoning pedophilia, and it is disgusting when adults think us children and teens are attractive.

[@champ10ns08]

All these tuners I've bought over the years. When all I needed was a Dylan 🤷‍♂️ 🤘👌😍

[@micheleparker8123]

😃

[@nickklok4955]

Slave labour, sounds right xD

[@champ10ns08]

@@nickklok4955 Whats!? 😨 😂😂

[@tannertuner]

I am a piano tuner-technician of 35 years and a lifelong musician. I have worked with musicians of all levels from beginner to touring concert artist and everything in between. I was on staff at U of Georgia and U of South Carolina music departments for many years. Perfect pitch is a subject I’ve paid a lot of attention to over the years and I’ve heard some urban legends that were absolutely laughable while experiencing some pretty amazing feats performed by individuals with the “gift” like your son is doing in the video. In college choir, I sat next to a music major who said he had perfect pitch. But it was typically flat of whatever we were singing. He could not sing in tune because it conflicted with whatever standard he learned perfect pitch at. I’ve had clients who claimed they had perfect pitch who said that rather than keeping their pianos in tune regularly, they would call when they got out of tune. By the time I got that call, the pitch was often 20 or more cents off, which required extra work just for tuning and then the tension change destabilized it, so it couldn’t have remained in tune long. Then I’ve heard stories of rare individuals who could distinguish to the tenths of a cent. But the question begs, a cent of what standard? What kind of temperament? Equal? Well? Just? Or one of the many unequal temperaments employed throughout our music history? Does the inherent inharmonicity in piano tuning which can result in the top C88 being as sharp as 1/4 step bother someone with perfect pitch? What happens when we change the standard of pitch to something historical or non-standard? (pitch was all over the place - there was no standard prior to 1920 - and orchestras all over the world are now beginning to deviate from A440 again) I have what I consider to be a form of it in that if I hear a song in my head, I usually hear it in the key of the recording I’m familiar with. And if I blurt out singing a line, if I’m not in the same key as the artist in my head, it’s a rare thing. But I’m hearing timbres of the voice and instruments on the recording playing back in my head. I can change keys singing with no problem, although I can’t stand it when the key change alters the timbre of the voice or instrumentation. Because I’ve seen struggles, though, when a choir director changes the key, and I’ve experienced witnessing the difficulty individuals with perfect pitch have with transposing what they see on paper to what we need to hear, I would think it could be as much a curse as a gift at times. It certainly could be a hindrance for a piano tuner. Piano tuning is a process of constantly compromising because piano scales are all modern wonders of compromises of physics.

[@kenlee5015]

Rick, we're the same age and I still want you as my father. Unbelievable!

[@micheleparker8123]

Me too!😀

[@Cambodia69]

@@micheleparker8123 Me three!

[@WikiMulya]

Me Four !

[@selimgure]

me5

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

@@selimgure me6b7

[@EmdrGreg]

It fades with age! First time I've ever heard that. Fascinating.

[@JRandallS]

Like many things that fade with age..

[@EmdrGreg]

@@JRandallS So true. But this feels a little different. You wouldn't normally think that a person would forget color names, for example, as long as the neurology is relatively intact. I wonder what's actually happening in the brain that causes this ability to diminish? 40 or 50 seems too young for any serious neurological degradation to be happening. Very curious.

[@arambrown9116]

​@@EmdrGreg everything I looked up says brains can start structural and functional degradation as early as 30. If accurate, that might have something to do with the eventual loss of unique skills such as perfect pitch since it would likely require really good hearing too. Or it could be that as we age, we tend to do things less. Use it or lose it. What good is being 80 with perfect pitch? lol

[@kassemir]

@@EmdrGreg Well, since it's something that needs to develop in early childhood, I believe they say 7 yrs old is about where developing perfect pitch becomes an impossibility. That might have something to do with it, like the plasticity of the brain has to be very strong to learn it, and thus, as the brain looses plasticity later on, perhaps the ability fades because of that. Who knows, really...? Also.... Beethoven was 56 when he died. So whether or not he actually still had his perfect pitch when he went deaf.... Well, we'll never know for sure. Though, of course his relative pitch and audiation could've guided him as well.

[@duckie3863]

@@kassemir I developed perfect pitch at 9yo, and now at 21 I already feel like I have to use more brain power to hear pitches, especially when there are a lot of instruments. I also stopped practicing solfege and clusters, so that probably wouldn't help, but I never tought you could lose it! It's interesting.

[@EsdrasJRios]

As someone who also had perfect pitch this leaves me dead. This is a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL of perfect pitch. I want to be as good as this kid

[@on_my_own_two_feet]

It’s just perfect pitch paired with music theory. His dad is Rick Beato 😅

[@johndecicco]

I have perfect pitch, and notice sometimes, as you say, I'll be low by a half step. I'm 62. :( My instrument is the piano, and pitch is harder to identify on stringed instruments. I can identify notes and simple chords, but I'm just learning the theory. It takes me longer to sort out stacked chords. Great piece, Rick! Regards to Dylan.

[@b.quinchana]

I don't have perfect pitch but when a note is needed, I can sometimes pull my brain to come up with the note. I'm part of a chour and my teacher misses the girl with perfect pitch that left. It's actually beacuse of her I learned to pull my brain to make the notes.

[@santishorts]

Sounds like you have relative pitch, not perfect pitch. Even if you don't know the names of the chords or notes, you should be able to sing each note individually. When you have perfect pitch, there is no harder or easier, you just know. That's what perfect pitch is.

[@Techridr]

​@@santishorts Did you not read the part where he said he's 62? He can very well have had perfect pitch all his life even if note identification may slide a half step or so after a certain age.

[@santishorts]

@@Techridr I did read it, which is what made me all the more suspicious. To claim to have perfect pitch at 62 is not quite understanding what perfect pitch is. Especially when at 62 he is just now still learning music theory. All red flags of typical confusing relative pitch for perfect pitch.

[@johndecicco]

@@santishorts To help clarify what I mean, when I was 9 the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music told me I have it, and accepted me immediately. A red flag for me is criticizing not having learned theory by age 62.

[@juampinxsunplugged5168]

Hahah, He seems like an app. Dylan which note is this? Em 7 Bm#. Wrong is smoke on the water

[@juampinxsunplugged5168]

@Alina 3 6 8

[@hanswurst9120]

@@_S._S._ propably not. 035 30

[@NicanorVillanueva8]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@everyonesaidmynamewasstupi3713]

2 3 4 5 3 1 2

[@Toefuy]

Juan Torre loved ready the comments, very informative. Haha on a deep note... maybe having us comply in the A440 frequency is some sort of soul cage.

[@mirandacar7668]

Nothing better than a dad who is proud of his son talent! Never stop holding Dylan, he is such a talented child.

[@DeccaRecords]

Pressing Dylan's right ear resets his internal reference to A = 440. Pressing and holding both ears does a full reset! It's all right here in the instruction manual retrieved from area 51

[@palusguitar]

You are a great father, Rick. Dylan, you are a talented, handsome young man. Enjoy and cherish every day! More cowbell.

[@alexgrooms9746]

Is no one going to acknowledge that amazing "more cow bell" shirt?

[@jameskey4633]

I was just going to comment on that- good call

[@MarcHaineLive]

Well done. You looked so proud - the only critique I have is... MORE COW BELL!

[@6stringstorulethemall967]

Has perfect pitch, likes videogames instead. Lol good on him

[@tylerhackner9731]

Being a normal kid who happens to have perfect pitch

[@6stringstorulethemall967]

@@tylerhackner9731 yeah that's what's so wonderful about it. He's not being forced to do something he doesn't want to and as a result is living a healthy life. Though he may have a lot of potential as a musician in the end it's up to himand if it is something he wants later than you'll know we'll be getting the best results out of it

[@SerjBassist]

He's also a preteen. At that age, everything your dad makes (even if he has one of the greatest jobs in the world) is lame to you. So it's not weird for him to steer away from that.

[@piteusx8440]

Dylan is so METAL! Awesome.

[@Duane_Blake]

Enjoy this time Rick. Dylan says he finds it annoying and grins. At about 16 you won't be able to pay him to make an appearance! You are blessed. Thank you for sharing.

[@good13794]

For some reason, the clip at 1:02 (where Dylan is naming notes at 3 and a half years old!) brought some tears to my eyes. I don’t know what it was, seeing such incredible and unbelievable talent made me emotional for some strange reason haha, also all the other clips were incredible Congratulations, seriously, both to Dylan for being so talented, and to Rick for being such a great dad in making his son’s talent develop.

[@_SliK_]

There are a bunch of Dylans in Area 51

[@alethephobe7586]

Let's storm it then

[@conneroneill8506]

Stop with this dumb joke please.

[@meat.]

Conner O'Neill stop being a normie please

[@SimonChristensen]

A bunch of Dylan's what?

[@thatsEforEveryone]

@@conneroneill8506 this is no longer a joke, this is an actual event. Wait for September 😂

[@johnablett6633]

Could you do a video on relative pitch?

[@Daniel-kz3df]

Agreed.

[@Subparanon]

Solfege techniques are a good starting point

[@tomacosta85]

Great question. I hear the overall all tone must be from listening to Skynyrd. 3 guitars with one les Paul and a marshal

[@deransadventures]

He has. Try searching.

[@johnablett6633]

@@deransadventures Oh, I see. I didn't realise. Well, that's that then, haha.

[@TheTrock121]

Your interaction w/ Dylan is priceless. He will do well at whatever he fancies. Way to go Dad!

[@50pence59]

Lucky to have the talent and a father who could harness it. Nice. 👍

[@frq9293]

My future son better have perfect pitch or I'm getting a refund

[@bob-uj4vn]

You can train him as baby. Let him listen to very complicated jazz piano pieces your chances of your son having perfect pitch will increase

[@hermask815]

Although I wish you all the luck with your son, I’d really like to know how that refund would be processed.

[@Garlane]

Alchemy of course!

[@bigcheesee19]

GarlaneMD Nina?

[@nicksurfs1]

Lol. I have it but my mom doesn’t and she is way more musical than I am. It’s more of a curse than a blessing actually. If someone is off by a slight amount it literally hurts my ears. I wish I could give it to my mom lol.

[@geraldosborn6365]

How could I have just discovered this? Amazing child!!! I was always amazed at my 1st girlfriend, that our elementary school music teacher would ask her to sing a middle C or F# or any other note & she would nail it every time when checked on the piano. Our music teacher would show her off to the rest of the class. Dillon is the best I have ever encountered!!!! This is not a trick, it is a gift that can be further developed. Thank You!!!

[@dreamdrgn6803]

What type of music does Dylan listen to? I wonder how he identifies detuned layered synth sounds lol.. By the way im excited about the pitch lessons, you dont know how thankful some of us are to you Rick.

[@chayanka_kaushik]

"that's not incredibly rare, 1/10k people have it" Ok😐

[@peepee4420]

sure, one in ten thousand is rare, but incredibly rare is something crazy like once in a generation or 1 in a few million or even billions, like those diseases that only a couple known people in the whole world have

[@firstnamelastname061]

the world has 7.7 Billion people. So yeah, it's actually not that rare.

[@butterypoptart4923]

Its unfortunate that a number of people have it who never even knew it like dylan says he never thinks about it or uses it imagine the people who just straight up never knew.

[@Benkkuful]

Well if it's 1/10k, then there's nearly a million people in the world who have perfect pitch.

[@jeffryhabib975]

Chayanka Kaushik but not all of them use it properly

[@diegoguitarrista]

A gifted family! Impressive! The boy came to this world with a perfect pitch and his father has enough knowledge and instruments to support the kid's great talent. Just a perfect match! :D Great video, Rick! Thanks!

[@tested211]

I think the coolest thing about the whole story is that Rick doesn't push Dylan into pursuing music but lets him follow his own path.

[@gelsol]

Had a friend in high school who had perfect pitch. He no longer plays music, which kills me. Your son's skill is insane!

[@kensteckelberg7013]

I have to ask. Have you ever been learning a song and said “Son, what are the notes in this chord?” I mean what a gift. He must see or feel notes in order to process such complex sounds. He makes it look so easy. I love how Rick just laughs because I’m sure he’s still blown away by and proud of Dylan’s talent.

[@FlorianMeyer1983]

I don't have perfect pitch, but I heard one explanation that makes it very...graspable for normal human beings: It's about perception. You learn to perceive colors from the very first week you are born. You are teached their names and relations as one of the very first lessions as a young child. If you do the same with sound, you perceive sound the same way. It is natural for all of us to distinguish between blue and yellow, because we did learn this from the very beginning of our brain development. It works the same way with sound: If you start learning it early enough, you perceive it the same way you do with color: It becomes natural that a C major chord (i.e. blue) is different from a e flat minor (i.e. yellow).

[@scottwheeler2494]

@@FlorianMeyer1983 all of our senses act this way. Not all of us see the same. Color is different and only a few can accurately describe what they see. Part of it is their vision, and like in Dylan’s case, part is training too. You have to have training. Same is true of smell. Those with perfect smell and training can make a great living because of it. Dylan is one in a million because he haddwho started teaching music theory as a very young child when you can learn things so fast.

[@nancy9478]

@@FlorianMeyer1983 unless you are born color blind, like my son. Can't tell green from red from orange, blue from purple.

[@FlorianMeyer1983]

@@nancy9478 Interesting input! But actually the metapher holds true also in the case of your son. In his case the eyes cannot perceive the whole spectrum of colors. If you cannot hear the whole spectrum of sound (e.g. when you are deaf/old/etc.) this would be the same thing. Your son can tell apart all the colors he is able to see. A child with "damaged hearing" would still be able to get perfect pitch for all the frequencies it CAN hear.

[@RS54321]

I was wondering about synesthesia as well. Incredible gift.

[@granticus7338]

Oh, we could talk...my AP was recognized at age 3, 58 years ago. I have theories about age-related slippage, and self-calibrate using the vocal timbre of an on-pitch "reference" song in my head. I use AP for way more than music - couldn't imagine life without it. Love your work and your genuine enthusiasm! Cheers!

[@maxwell_edison]

"Music isn't a talent! You can learn how to be good! Nobody is born-" *Three year old perfectly naming random ass notes*

[@maccreswick18]

Maxwell_ Edison the first statement still stands, it's how much practice one has had... of course with singers, your tone is dependent on your face and body & perfect pitch is something people are born with, both examples of ways someone can be better off... but you will never meet an opera singer without hours and hours of practice on their belt

[@rleften5788]

While you might be right, perfect pitch doesn't speak for proficiency in actually playing an instrument.

[@kassemir]

@@maccreswick18 I actually think people are born with the potential to develop perfect pitch. It's related to language skills, meaning you have to get enough meaningful input at a certain age to develop it. If you don't get the input, you don't develop perfect pitch, despite maybe having the right genetics. This is actually why tonal languages, where pitch carries linguistic important information, like for instance, Chineese, have a higher rate of perfect pitch.

[@bubuchahchah]

Talent is born from hard work and passion. It takes practise to master something. Talented people usually love what they do and do it a lot, with discipline and tenacity. The right resources like having equipment and guidance is also important, but you need to put in the work. Anyone willing to play piano 5 hours a day, will be talented too.

[@joshdarragh492]

Just because someone else starts off with an advantage doesn’t mean you can’t be as good as them if not better. I have perfect pitch and there are people my age and younger who can play flute and piccolo better than I ever could. It’s 100% a skill

[@marcscordato4385]

Such a talented likable kid. My friend has perfect pitch but lost it by 50 . I have relative pitch that’s works very well for harmony .

[@andreasw4304]

Your son is amazing! I love seeing people with real, natural gifts.

[@JusticeConstantine]

Dylan is growing up so fast. I can't wait for the Ear Training App. Thank you for this video Rick.

[@orangenoise8350]

Dylan’s : Perfect pitch < perfect hair

[@danbrown9502]

It's all in the hair... It's all in the hair

[@EB-bl6cc]

young brandon boyd there or maybe cornell

[@beyondbirthday5760]

@@EB-bl6cc or Greg Lake

[@jr6yancey]

Get a haircut hippie ;-)

[@gargaduk]

@@danbrown9502 The Samson of music

[@bobbiejames7568]

I'm so glad this video showed up on Facebook! My perfect pitch disappeared and I always attributed it to being away from the piano for too long, and for losing a little hearing in my left ear. But you answered it when you said that by our 50's we lose the perfect pitch. That's about right and I'm now 63 so it's long gone - I'm glad to know why. My piano teacher turned me around one day when I was young and played a note and I told him what it was. He took great delight in playing notes all over the piano and also chords. He only tried chords with one hand with me, and I sure wasn't as fast as Dylan is, nor as talented. It's great to see this - makes me smile!

[@frankstidham1439]

Rick your musical talent is impressive & love for music is contagious & inspires so many people. You must be so proud of your son & I think your influence helped with this gift he has. Thanks for sharing.

[@BV_Beve]

Just fabulous ! Every time Dylan is on demonstrating perfect pitch it makes me just smile ! it is so great to see just how developed his P/Pitch is after all the work you did with Dylan, Rick, and it is also great that having P/Pitch doesn't trouble or phase him in his everyday life one iota.

[@michaelinglis8516]

Maybe not the best abbreviation ever....

[@alezanders]

I’m seeing this video more than two years after it came out so I doubt anyone will see this but I’m having my mind blown a little right now. Down by the Riverside was sent to me over a year ago by a close friend who told me she found an obscure band that she loved and this song had quickly become one of her favorite songs. It immediately became one of mine, and I’ve been listening to it often for at almost two years now and it’s incredibly important to both of us. Knowing Rick was involved in this song is a full circle moment for me like none other because I’ve been watching his videos for years now. I have chills and I have this video and that incredible song to thank for it.

[@HotelPapa100]

1:30 love how Dylan does not actually correct himself about the keys he's playing, but goes by ear.

[@gordonpenny1842]

I’m so glad you mentioned the 50+ age thing. I had perfect pitch now have relative. My 16yo daughter sings songs in their original keys without any accompaniment. She just goes straight in on key every time. Do you ever wonder if Dylan would have the ear he has if you hadn’t nurtured it? I was very matter of fact about intervals and chords. Keys having color and stuff like that. My kids just accepted it all because it was no big deal, it is what it is. I played Beethoven’s moonlight sonata in C minor instead of C#. They pulled faces and were annoyed that something was wrong! Awesome Dylan is way more advanced than any other person I have ever known. Congratulations. What a gift. I think it’s a gift he inherited 👍😀 Can’t wait for the app. Love your channel

[@ultraphobic69]

Love this. I particularly loved the interaction. Between you and Dylan...a proud dad with his son. What an amazing gift

[@buddybup]

I can empathize with your son as I was diganosed with being "afflicted" (as I call it) with having perfect pitch at the age of six also. However, I soon learned that I also had relative pitch, and hearing instruments out of tune within themselves is hard enough, but hearing band or orchestra members who are out of pitch with their fellow musicians is like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. I've been known to walk out of symphony performances because the second chair cellist can't hear that his/her d-string is out of tune. Up until my early 50's, I could also hear the wave cycles of a single note, but that has since gone with age. Trust me, perfect pitch/relative pitch is nothing to aspire to (unless you want to be the best piano tuner in your region!)

[@sign543]

Peter Jansson - I think Dylan not being annoyed by out of tune notes is much more appealing a trait in a person, otherwise it comes across as pretentious “Oh, that is out of tune. I cannot listen...[nose raised in the air walking out]” That would look pretentious and snobbish. The average person would just enjoy the performance. We tolerate all sorts of things that might be annoying, but for social reasons, we keep it to ourselves. Nobody should ever want to be “that guy”. 😂

[@enchamade8]

sign543, 😆 I agree with you; however, I was at a performance of Les Misérables, and the lead tenor was about 1/16 of a step sharp to the orchestra. At first, I tried to tune it out (pun intended), but by intermission I had a splitting headache from the undulations that I was hearing. I stuck out the rest if the show because I didn't want to be the pretentious whiner. When I got to my car, I took two Advils to alleviate the pain. Perfect pitch has helped me be a better pianist and organist, but it can be a curse.

[@firstnamelastname061]

yeah yeah One time I had to kill myself because the violinist was 1 cent off tune.

[@sign543]

enchamade8 - I can understand if it’s something that just gets under your skin so badly that you get anxiety or just can’t enjoy it. I’ve turned away from performances on television or videos where this was the case. If you can’t tolerate it, you just can’t 😂 And sometimes it can be so bad that it’s painful!

[@tube.brasil]

Its fantastic if you want to play the violin

[@s1dest3p]

I actually get emotional watching him call the notes/chords out. What an incredible God given gift that was nourished by his dad. Does Dylan have any musical aspirations? I feel like knowing so much theory and having perfect pitch could give him quite the advantage to making some great music.

[@ronbuckner8179]

Rick you sell yourself short. Rick what you’re doing now is creating your legacy. I don’t catch everything you show us. But I catch enough to have great respect for what you want to show us. Your amazing

[@Bokkie100k]

Music, sports, science, chess, history, outdoors,.... whatever you nurture will grow! Great to see a father having such a positive relation with his son. 👍🏻

[@bap175]

*pushy parent

[@compucocina5567]

Meanwhile, i have trouble to find the right chords to a basic pop song... oh boy... For real this boy astounds me, i hope there are more things to be seen from him. He needs to develop his own music still, let's see how that turns out.

[@sciencewithericandandy8588]

Both you and your son are amazing. Talent, knowledge and humility - what a wonderful combination, especially for an educator.

[@Annieggie]

People who have absolute pitch are within a spectrum (the skill is different with everyone who has AP)! It’s so strange to hear Dylan not use his absolute pitch when he listens to things, because I also have it and am always using it (subconsciously and consciously)! I think part of developing the skill is developing your music theory and also just your general passion for music :)! Love your content

[@CalebMaSmith]

I'm a person with perfect pitch, and i'm currently working on 6note chords right now. My band teacher always finds opportunity to train this and I hope to get as good as dylan is.

[@billymaus6287]

How can anyone ever give this a thumbs down ? 🤷‍♂️ Absolutely incredible God given gift. Wow!

[@terrydeschainhodges6873]

Dylan is amazing! I've had perfect pitch all my life as far back as I can remember, the notes and chords being different colors or shades. I'm also visually impaired. My ability was close to Dylan's, but even at my best I could not measure up to what he can do! What I would like to know is why I am losing it now. It's always come so natural to me, yet now that I am in my 50s I am noticing that my accuracy is decreasing and it seems to get worse each year. Why does this happen? Is there anything I can do to get it back? I named a lot of the notes along with Dylan but some of them I got wrong, and there is no way I could pick out all the notes in those double chords!

[@pjbpiano]

Rick said people eventually lose it after 50.

[@murdo_mck]

You may improve it with plenty of regular practice. Read about neuroplasticity. Oliver Sacks "Musicophilia" mentions a musician whose perfect pitch deteriorated and then recovered in later life. Our brains (I'm also in my 50s) are "use it or lose it" in later life. Fortunately it's not that specific - any mental exercise has wider benefits. Combine it with the other miracle treatment: exercise and a healthy diet.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

same reason that testosterone goes down. Traditional Chinese Medicine links the ears to the kidney energy - it's via the right side vagus nerve. Ionized neurohormone levels aka jing energy.

[@virglibrsaglove]

I was told throughout my life that I have perfect pitch. Every professional who ever listened to me. I could tune the other kids' instruments in band better than an electric tuner. And I hear every detail in performances when notes are slightly off. But I can't do this. My grandma could identify the notes she heard and she could pick them out of the air and sing them. She could "hear" music by looking at it written. But I couldn't do any of that. I was told that it was because I wasn't trained to. But now I wonder if I don't have perfect pitch after all. And to me that is sad. It is something that I valued about myself. Hopefully no one says anything mean. Just sharing my story.

[@vincev4660]

I experienced a similar situation. From a young age I could play almost any song just by listening and I could tune instruments without any tuners or piano references. And like u, I was told I could have perfect pitch. But, I was never trained so there was no way to know. I can tell sum notes if they are played. But no where near this kid. So I don’t know

[@virglibrsaglove]

@@vincev4660 I hear you on that. I also played most anything by ear. Plus the other stuff we both did. I suspect we both could have done a lot more if trained when we were young. I don't know if we would be considered to have perfect pitch now or not. But it does seem like we were at least close.

[@EirikAven]

Perfect pitch is like seeing color. You can train to play by ear. Look up people like Marcus Veltri. He can listen to a song once then play it first try. That does not mean you have a perfect pitch. Charlie Puth said in an interview it was sometimes difficult and annoying. He couldn't hear normal ambulance sirens, but notes....

[@virglibrsaglove]

@@EirikAven I didn't train to play by ear. I did it automatically from the age of about 4. I didn't have a piano. But I had a little toy flute. (Fortunately tuned properly) I played what I heard on that. And then later with a real flute. But I wasn't trained to play by ear. I was trained to read music. But playing by ear was automatic. I know that's not perfect pitch. And, yes, it can be annoying sometimes to hear everything. I hear every note that is slightly off in any performance. All in all, I'm still glad to be me, though. Whether I have perfect pitch or not.

[@moraakinyi]

💚

[@christopherpeters3922]

Maybe im damaged but seeing you spend time with him makes me emotional....you are a great dad

[@gabrielladias420]

"So, Dylan, tell people how much you use your perfect pitch" "...barely" LOL. amazing

[@lelNoBro]

actually its really annoying in everyday life. almost all the things i hear are off tone, meaning more than like 1/32 off. since you live with it, you know how to suppress it at times, but its more like; you dont think of the color of your wall being white when youre sitting in your bed just scrolling through your phone, but when you start to look at it, its the first thing you notice. thats why he answered that way i believe, because i too use it very rarely, actually only when im improvising

[@JasonF19001]

@@lelNoBro Try listening to Lionel Ritchie or Whitney Houston. Constantly 1/4 step sharp. Drives me nuts.

[@scottcrawford3745]

@@JasonF19001 Or Neil Young....

[@guanghengxian9139]

Meh its not annoying to me, since i barely use it But so many things don't sound right buttttttt i am able to ignore many sounds so it's not so bad for me

[@RDR7891]

It annoys me sometimes cuz i sometimes cant listen to a song without knowing every single note so i cant listen to much music in peace lol

[@IN2music2]

This young man is gifted. I'm a musician but I have relative pitch only.

[@artie]

I wish I had a dad like you. Your son is a blessed child. I’ve always wanted to play piano but it was frowned upon. I now am a producer and am so happy doing this for 35 plus years. Knowing the piano is one of the things I had to learn on my own. Bless your sons every path. Love your videos. You hold nothing back. Keep it up. Thank you!

[@RickBeato]

Thanks!

[@Kris_jellybeard]

Would love to see Dylan analyzing Jacob collier harmonies...

[@wukjin]

Kris C. But we also have june lee so.. :)

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@wukjin Dylan couldn't give a toss, he likes playing video games. He's been prodded and cajoled to mess around with music all his life. Time to cut him some slack and let him do what he wants.

[@OscarGeronimo]

​@@PreservationEnthusiast Giving the classical advise of those kinds of parents/people? I see. Good luck letting kids do "what they want" as opposed to teaching them to be responsible with their opportunities and blessings (to properly develop them into sources of more blessings for themselves and their current and future families and friends). No matter how much of those chances or privileges you get in life, if you don't have something to show for at a certain point in life, they start running short and you start to suffer more than necessary for your insufficiencies or the classical "what would have been and wasn't". That last one can hurt deeply even the toughest of man. We need to be taught to be able to set aside our emotions so we can do what's proper for ourselves. So I wouldn't give him ANY slack if I was his dad. Sometimes we need to lear to do things we don't want so we can get to the things we wish to enjoy, otherwise nobody will get the habit of waking up early EVER, specially in times of difficulty in your life... exactly the times when those routines are what you need the most in order to keep you on course though the tough times. No slack, if you love them, none. Let them grow strong, true happiness is not something a parent can give you, specially not by letting you roam and linger if your own impulses more than necessary. Only once he starts guiding himself towards productive habits and tasks and starts to show the results, he can be said to not need that much push behind him.

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@OscarGeronimo Productive habits and tasks?? Its already been established that being able to name notes in polychords is of no use to Dylan other than be paraded on You Tube like some performing sea lion when dad tells him to. So let's cut him no slack. Let's FORCE him to consume his youth years further with more and more advanced perfect pitch tricks until he's 18 and we have no control over him. Hopefully by that time he'll be such an indoctrinated zombie he'll still do it on command.

[@shreksthongg]

@@PreservationEnthusiast Preach

[@Josph4]

Dylan: I have perfect pitch Me: Oh, I see, tell be 'bout that *angrily smashes the piano*

[@pieisgood2372]

True 😂😂😂😂

[@deathbypotato5030]

he's still probably gonna know what frikin chord it is lmao

[@negativeonhand]

Man your son is amazing. I love watching your videos. What a gift.

[@bennemann]

Question: "are there different levels of perfect pitch?" **Jacob Collier laughs in G half sharp**

[@upplsuckimcool16]

61 cents past G xD

[@thewizard1847]

CODE GEASS MY FAVOURITE ANIME

[@gamesongssax3548]

@@thewizard1847 me too men, me too

[@david_spagarini]

I'm crying, best comment ever.

[@jvtrch]

omg dylan is growing fast 😂

[@almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440]

Paravel Just like most kids do. 🤔

[@BokkeBlue]

Glad you added the remark at the end that relative pitch is as important, it works well for me but boy was I impressed by your son! Thanks for the video.

[@ianking4909]

Knowing, as a musician, that I will never have this ability, makes me quite sad. Idk why I organized this sentence this way. I’m stickin with it.

[@samhpsn]

You just felt like writing lots of commas bro

[@stzu07rel]

there's no way this is grammatically correct, and I love it! xD

[@saintjabroni]

Make truly great songs. After the first one, you won’t be bummed about having imperfect pitch. You may even be happy. Get to work.

[@Nomellamodiego]

More bell cow

[@j0hnn13K]

Scrolling down the comments, i started to think i was the only one to notice, glad you and nearly 170 other people, did notice. more cowbell!

[@jameschristiansson3137]

More triangle too

[@garyjones6397]

“More bell cow” is a different voicing.

[@midgetworld228]

This is awesome to watch; think of the time you two have spent together and that is what Dylan will remember forever...

[@coreydeanwarner7338]

Team Beato mystifies, then demystifies all in one video. Pretty slick Dylan/Rick!

[@SirCommoner]

When Rick talks to him it sounds like he's talking to an AI

[@lucasmenszelf]

No no, there he is just a cool and very comfortable kid

[@michaelsanchez8457]

That kid rocks. You seem like a good dad. Many blessings. thank you for the content.

[@russellward4624]

Would have been funny if when you said “it’s been 3 years since we’ve done this” and Dylan pretended to have forgotten everything and became tone deaf.

[@Nan-59]

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 that would have rocked🐮🔔!!

[@kassemir]

Yeah... would've been a good joke. Ironically, only people with perfect pitch would get it though. As naming chords this complex, well, the avarege person wouldn't be able to tell if he was giving wrong answers or not :)

[@VOLAIRE]

Aww he’s so big now and still talented! Wish I had an ear like this sometimes Love this 🙏

[@louisajohnkrol345]

Superb pitch, smile and spirit. His visual tribute to 'More Cow Bell' underscores the precociousness. The Reaper is running!

[@paulsevenitz616]

But is his perfect pitch as usually bound to certain tuning? 440? Is he irritated when hearing a in 432?

[@sadorrangel9166]

I'm commenting because I want to know the answer to this.

[@renanterezan9922]

I want to know that

[@bengriffin8100]

Yup me too

[@MrJohanGuzman]

He was asked whether "out of tune" sounds irritated him and he answered "no" in this same video. If out of tune doesn't bother him, altering the frequency but preserving the intervals should not scathe him whatsoever.

[@LagMasterSam]

He's said in several videos that it doesn't bother him. Also, there's another video on this channel where Rick alters the tuning on a digital piano and it doesn't bother Dylan. He can still identity the nearest pitch and approximately how sharp or flat it is relative to 440 tuning.

[@majarimennamazerinth5753]

Has anyone ever heard the line: "I've got perfect pitch but only if you tell me a starting note"

[@courtneywitt1006]

that's called relative pitch lol, perfect pitch is where you can hear it in your head without any help

[@rajarshibarman334]

@@courtneywitt1006 that was a joke

[@everyonesaidmynamewasstupi3713]

i have a few notes i can hear in my head; concert E, Eb, F, G, and Bb. so i just count notes in a chromatic scale to find the name of a pitch lol

[@majarimennamazerinth5753]

@@everyonesaidmynamewasstupi3713 huh, intriguing. Are you a brass player?

[@everyonesaidmynamewasstupi3713]

Bluebee Majarimenna nope, saxophone

[@SamRizzeri]

Rick I used to dislike your channel but I have changed my mind on you. I like your work. You always seem very fair in your research. Im a fan

[@webjammer1]

Perfect pitch is when you throw an accordion into a dumpster and it lands on a banjo.

[@cobraofearth]

Webjammer1 Did you come up with that joke? Seriously, hilarious! Thanks for that one ♥️

[@joshuafreedman7703]

Webjammer1 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[@ivanblanc2880]

i don't get it, could you explain please? :)

[@bg357wg]

Bye Kush hint: it’s based on a double-meaning behind the word “pitch”

[@ivanblanc2880]

@@bg357wg thanks man! didn't notice it since I'm not a native English speaker, still learning :)

[@leohall125]

This kid has another level of perfect pitch - I can do the single notes as fast as him but I would need at least a minute for the chords

[@kyleleon85]

This is without a doubt one of the most incredible things I’ve ever encountered. Absolutely phenomenal. I’ve been watching your channel here and there and this video made me subscribe. Fascinating beyond belief!

[@cangjingjiao]

@TwoSetViolin Eddie! A Challenge for your Perfect Pitch!!😆

[@arcioko2142]

Plot twist: He actually has relative pitch and he is just humming C in his head and hearing the intervals

[@appo038]

You think he can only recognise c note?

[@BWater-yq3jx]

which would still be impressive af 😄

[@arcioko2142]

@@BWater-yq3jx yea

[@Isai314]

@@BWater-yq3jx yes

[@Isai314]

@@BWater-yq3jx yeah that’s true

[@tprovosts]

Tbh kids obviously gifted, but fathers obviously great too. It's the only thing I see and can comment on. Music's obviously Rick's passion/obsession/chosen lifetime personal and professional journey and the fact that Dylan loves music as well is a good show of how Rick didn't push him so hard that Dylan would reject the world of music, or at the very least, the very "boring" theoretical side of it. Great to see you share your passion with Dylan as a competent father who sees his son as a fellow music enthusiast by letting him grow at his pace and acting as a knowledge bible whenever the occasion comes around. Take care guys!

[@krimson_flux]

I swear he's gonna do some weird indie psychedelic funky synth something something music when he grows up

[@lorraineb682]

I'll bet you that he becomes a painter, or film director, instead of a musician.

[@albertweedsteinthethuggeni7797]

Or he is gonna make 64 Beato Variations based on the GOLDBERG variations

[@vivi-vd8ru]

Bet

[@beepers6091]

Bro he literally is trash at chorus

[@wallymcguire2033]

What an adorable kid. I can’t stop grinning watching him effortlessly use this skill. I feel like such a musical klutz. Great job dad, you must be proud.

[@davidau8455]

What an awesome little guy. Thanks buddy for allowing us to see how advanced your musical gift is.

[@moracomole8090]

those burning eyes full of pride Rick has during the whole testing process

[@Techridr]

Dylan escaped Area 51 and is being raised by Rick as his own.

[@RickBeato]

frogzlove haha!!!

[@SomewhereinBroward]

@@RickBeato rick laughs because youre right and will never know it

[@ds61821]

I had a music professor in college who was an ambidextrous keyboard professor, organ being his speciality. He had then amazing perfect pitch like your son. He would stand at the window looking out while 2 of us sitting at the piano would play fistfuls of notes. He would name them amazingly fast for as long as we made him. He also had the ability to play any piece orchestral music at the keyboard which I now understand is from his amazing music memory plus perfect pitch. One spring break our college choir returned from our tour and our traveling accompanist saw that this professor's name was listed as the accompanist for the final home concert at a large Lutheran Church with an excellent pipe organ. Well the traveling accompanist didn't show for the final concert and the audience was already in their seats when the conductor asked where the accompanist was. We said the concert program notes said Dr. Farley was our final accompanist. That was a mistake. Dr. Farley stepped in almost literally at the minute and accompanied the entire program sight-reading most of the pieces. Your videos have given me lots to think about from my experiences with many of the music professors I had in college who had perfect pitch. I was not a music major and didn't give much thought to this. My home church organist (U Michigan trained) also had perfect pitch. He once said having perfect pitch was not helpful with church pipe organs given they often are out of tune. But his pitch was amazingly useful for choir practices as he always sang the starting pitches (sang the opening chord) for all parts. I never knew people with perfect pitch typically lose it as they get older.

[@vap1dw817]

I have perfect pitch. I am a musician. I didn't actually develop relative pitch until college, where I took an ear training course. And you're 100% correct - relative pitch is way more useful - even for things like tuning an instrument by ear. Swear to God. Without relative pitch, I couldn't care less how many cents off a note was. I'd literally mess with a guitar for HOURS, going "I will hear when it is perfect." (smh) Also I couldn't transpose on the fly to save my life - my brain just locked onto whatever key I first heard a song in. From that moment, anything else was "wrong," and I couldn't stand it. Learning relative finally tamed my mind, and equipped it to do all sorts of things I couldn't before. To anyone wishing they had perfect pitch...I promise, you don't need it. It does help, but not as much as you think.

[@effortlessawareness8778]

vap1dw8 I have perfect pitch i hear music it hits my soul harder thsn it does anyone else. I get ASMR from Certain Mixtures of Tones like REAL ASMR

[@vap1dw817]

H Josh same here man. I appreciated it so much more after learning relative pitch, too. It’s like musical colors that had been invisible to me were then visible...if that makes any sense. But dude...good music just makes me cry because of how good it is. I care less every day what genre it is, how old it is, or what the mood/tone is. I just want it to be good. Cause that good stuff is SO damn good, it just runs me over like a train. I can’t believe how many people there are who don’t experience it. That is staggering to me.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Yes, Your Son Is Gifted . I Hope He Becomes The Next Super Great Musician . I Understand Perfect Pitch. I Don’t Know Why Some People Have It And Most People Do Not Have It . I Will Write A Book Called The Psychology Of Music and How It EffectsYour Mood .

[@lopezb]

Affects!

[@DJ-sn2wn]

You are an excellent father. You should be incredibly proud! Also great shirt, lol.

[@andreaskalogeras3547]

Perfect Pitcher here. I think that the levels of perfect pitch indeed relate somehow with music theory. For example, as a drummer, my music theory level is relatively poor, so I can't yet recognize for example a Dsus2 with its name, instead i will recognise the discrete notes of the chord. (Although, i can recognise a D7 or an A7 but not more complex ones). And naturally, as you train it, you tend to recognise them at no time.(I remember when i realised at age of 7 and comparing with then, i can recognise them much faster). Now that i am learning music theory, my perfect pitch becomes drastically more useful, and i can write sheet music at no time just by ear(except naming the more complex chords hehe).

[@coolbuzztastywaves4720]

Beato is the running for coolest dad! 😎

[@rdoetjes]

I love the videos with Dylan. That kid never stops to me amaze me.

[@kenshin6553]

Is it just me or does Dylan always sound like he’s tired of doing these lol

[@chiefalex9131]

literally what he said

[@kenshin6553]

@@chiefalex9131 yup lol

[@Paul-be7yg]

100 Alert.

[@lil_weasel219]

its not just you kinda circusey lol

[@The0nlyy]

@@lil_weasel219 It’s not circusy, it’s just literally simple and natural to the kid that there is no challenge. It seems impressive to you but it’s easy to him and that’s why he might seem like, “Oh great video, what’s the big deal?”