Developing Perfect Pitch

Can you develop perfect pitch? Can relative pitch be taught? These are big questions, and I have a little answer for you. I hope it's fun and helpful! Let me know what your #PerfectPitchJam is in the comments and on Twitter!
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Aimee Nolte

[@Eichro]

Shoutout to guitar players who recognize an E anywhere

[@Santiino]

Thats me lol

[@arpitdas4263]

Me. Also I'm an ex emo so I recognize G anywhere

[@Eichro]

@@arpitdas4263 I need context

[@ottodregni1902]

Me bruh❗

[@gamingguitarist6927]

@@Eichro The top and bottom guitar strings are usually tuned to E

[@jetdeleon]

In my old college vocal jazz group, we would sing the intro to “I Remember You” a cappella. To this day, I can still hear and accurately sing that starting note “C” out of thin air, but other notes I have to really think about and sometimes get wrong.

[@sas-lt4qv]

Thanks Aimee - yes it works for me - my perfect pitch song is the first note of “Laura” by Charlie Parker with strings album -first note of the melody is my C# (I play clarinet) - for some reason that note does it for me because it is so distinctive ! Thanks for the great videos👍👍👍👍

[@idaraunkjaer]

Hello Aimee. Thank You for your musical videos - always very passionate and honest - you are a true musician! Now - about perfect pitch: You do have perfect pitch! What you describe is quite normal for people with perfect pitch including myself. I've been teaching eartraining for many years and met different kinds of perfect pitch. And different strength - some people have a very strong p.p. and are almost infallible. Others are more fragile. The common thing is, that you are most secure on your own instrument - as you experience with the piano. If you listen to instruments, you are not so familiar with, you need longer time to determine the pitch. Singers, for whom their voice is their instrument, knows there voice so well, that they know e.g. what a b flat feels like physically. If I tranpose a song, they can feel it at once! That's not p.p., I know, but exactly what you describe - knowing where a special song goes, can do the trick :-) Secondly: You can talk about passive and active p.p. The passive is "the easy one" - somebody plays a note on the piano, and you tell what it is. The active is, when somebody asks you to sing a g sharp (or whatever) and you simply give them the note just like that. This requires a stronger p.p. - you have to hear the precise note inside your head. But it can be trained! You might have the p.p. as a birth gift, but like all work with music, you improve through training/practising. After 3 weeks of holyday, my technique as well as my ear is a bit rusty - after af few days with hours at the instrument and listening to music, writing music, reading music, having music in my head (not that it is not in my head all the time while on vacation :-)) the rust goes away and things are running (more) smoothly :-) Just a little funny thing in the end: If your p.p is a bit rusty, and you are giving the start notes to your choir with your active p.p., then you can experience that you in stead of singing e.g. a D-major, are a little too low and give them something nearer to a D-flat major - you hear that, because you registrate it with your passive p.p. as you sing the notes out loud - then your passive p.p. helps correcting, what you first produced inside your head - you sing, and you listen and say - oh no, thats wrong, and then correct it :-) Your (passive) perfect pitch calibrates your (active) perfect pitch :-) Greetings from Erik (Denmark)

[@erikhn9331]

Sorry - this comment is not from Ida, but from me, Erik - didn't see, that she was logged in on youtube on my computer :-) Now I write from my own account :-)

[@luishem]

That's a cool trick. Sometimes I sing an F# and work my way from there because it's the first note in Giant Steps. Some how it stuck. Maybe because the tonal centers change so fast, I kinda had to remember it.

[@AimeeNolte]

Atavachron nice!

[@wayofwaves]

I always remember the high E string from the guitar or C and A frim confirmation or hank mobley's remember Ab and F great trick!!

[@AimeeNolte]

Gal Daniel Cohen nice!

[@gtable]

I can Alawys hit C3 G3 D#4 A4 C5 but That's it! And if I hear C G Am F play in a piano or guitar I can tell right away or Bm G D A but it's weird that if the same chords are play with distortion or for example a Synth I Can't tell any of them appart

[@Jdogdrums7]

I learned that I had perfect pitch when I listened to "Sade - Hang on to your love" on KZbin. I noticed that I could tell that the VEVO KZbin version (/watch?v=kxNJV83EMJw) was in a different key than the original (/watch?v=76VlJrizlMQ). I believe that they just sped up the video which raised the key a half step, but when I heard it on KZbin, i said to myself "that sounds higher than usual"...then i thought "wait, how did I know what was usual??"

[@AimeeNolte]

+Jordan Brock so many things are sped up and slowed down on youtube. That's crazy. Lol

[@TheLucidDreamer12]

I can tell how sharp or flat a note is, and it killed my ear training tests because sometimes the piano used was horribly out of tune, and you would have notes that were exactly halfway in between

[@midwest_mkv]

Why is my "perfect pitch" song Love Yourself by Justin Bieber

[@sukitta2]

I guess people confuse having good pitch memory with perfect pitch too often. People with perfect pitch recognize the frequencies with the ease nromal people recognize letters, or colors. Having a good pitch memory and good relative pitch makes it practicaly indistinguishable from perfect pitch anyways, pretty much, but having it is a nice extra tool, i guess.

[@uroko2993]

It's weird although I don't have a perfect pitch, but I can remember C. Everytime before playing, I'll sing C and play the key to check the condition of my hearing.

[@hermanschryer2910]

Hi Amiee. I've had tinnitus most of my adult life (I'm 65 now). After watching this video it occurred to me to see if I could identify the note in my head and it turns out, by happy accident, to be G6 - 1,568 Hz. It is like having a tuning fork in my head, which I can use it to build intervals to find other notes (all in my head). I'll sing the new note that I find, then go to the keyboard, and bingo! I kid you not.

[@AimeeNolte]

Herman Schryer oh my gosh. Well, way to turn something awful into something useful, I suppose. I guess there are worse notes that could be in your head. G is a pretty nice note. :)

[@hermanschryer2910]

I love G. It's my favourite key on guitar and harmonica; maybe because of the tinnitus, unknowingly. I've put it to good use in applying your top secret. I can now work out tunes in my head, in the right key, and sing them to myself while I play the tune on the piano. All combined, this is a breakthrough for me, but I still have a LOT to learn. By the way, the tinnitus disappears when I play, probably because it blends in with all the overtones coming off the piano.

[@AimeeNolte]

Herman Schryer sounds like you need to be playing all the time! :-)

[@TheDonFabio]

BAHAHAHA PURE GENIUS!!!

[@robertf4209]

Brilliant !! I've had tinnitus for 20+ years, but not sure how to identify if it has a single pure tone. How did you approach finding the frequency ?

[@JariSatta]

I know one person who has perfect pitch and does not play or sing anything. He just likes to build gadgets. That's his thing.

[@AimeeNolte]

Jari Satta you should sing "Inspector Gadget" to him, really out of tune all the time. 😁

[@Zfbridges]

I think a common mistake people make is that having perfect pitch and being a prodigy musician are one and the same. Sometimes, as in this case the two do not correlate. Just like there are some really great musicians that do not at all have perfect pitch. People also make this mistake when it comes to synesthesia.

[@MrPyroguru]

Allan Holdsworth didn't have perfect pitch and he was the absolute best!

[@jamsejr750]

Hilarious! Can't stop laughing!

[@Ana_crusis]

so what? there's nothing strange about that. many people can paint and draw well but don't want to be artists. etc

[@TheLonesometoad]

I much prefer the terms "Pitch Memory" , or "Pitch Recall"

[@matthewdubovik7350]

TheLonesometoad it’s just undeveloped perfect pitch. Kids also hear music in their head first before know the names of the notes

[@VideonMedia]

@@matthewdubovik7350 Instead of hearing music in their head (which they probably do), the development of perfect pitch has something to do with being exposed by a ginormous amount of unexpected pitches or something else, more like how they learned language. I learned this from kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmKZh3-Hg8mDg68 by the way.

[@matthewdubovik7350]

iMadScience I can tell you from my personal experience that it’s not true. I discovered my perfect pitch at the age of 20, had no prior musical experience. I trained myself by associating the keys of my favorite songs with note names. I could always pull them out of thin air before that as I could always sing in tune but I simply added the process of naming this pitches. I got quicker at naming as I practiced. And I assure you it is definitely perfect pitch. I can name the pitch of ANY noise and pull any of them out of thin air. My point is, maybe I just always had it in my genes, nobody helped me develop it, but I didn’t lose it after time either, it’s always there. Also I should note that I have no relative pitch, I bought Rick Beato’s ear training program, hopefully it can expand my harmonic identification ability.

[@saxombie8614]

@Matthew Dubovik I think the same as you: I think tonal memory IS perfect pitch, and lots of us have it but very undeveloped. I can always recall the 'A' note in my mind, learned from a pitchfork. But I can sing the notes of the songs that I remember too, just I didnt give em' the proper note names too.

[@VideonMedia]

@@saxombie8614 They are two completely different things.

[@peterolsen161]

when you're emo and have G5 permanently embedded in your head

[@Eichro]

what is the context to that

[@bbchernobyl]

@@Eichro welcome to the black parade - my chemical romance

[@marco-xe9je]

@@Eichro the emo songs usually uses E5, G5 and A5 a LOT

[@gustavolacerda96]

I have very strong relative pitch. My guess is that this came from being obsessed with solfege ever since I was 6... but maybe there's a better explanation.

[@AimeeNolte]

Gustavo Lacerda you're probably right!

[@aravindmadhavan123]

Solfege is the surest and most consistent method to develop relative pitch. We use it all the time in Indian classical music.

[@stephenowesney5173]

I have strong relative pitch though it seems to be due to a over connection between auditory and spatial processing

[@daniellu8282]

@@ethanswimmer1287 Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells. That would be child abuse.

[@tecnica-de-voz]

Interesting video, especially how you can detect the notes if played on the piano but not reproduce them otherwise. I've always wondered what is the point of spending hours trying to achieve perfect pitch. Audiences are not aware of it and they really don't care. The point of music is to deliver it to an audience. Even if we were to sing acapella, people wouldn't know if we sing two cents "off", they just follow the reference root note we give them and as long as we stay coherent to that note with the rest of the melody ( like you did with some of your examples ) it sounds Ok for the listener.

[@DekkMassen]

Why is she so lovely? It's perfect

[@travisrollemusic]

It's nice that you shared this. In my college choir, our choir director asked to think of how a "D" sounds (he has perfect pitch). There's a guitar arrangement by Chet Atkins of the song Mr. Bojangles, but it's in C Major (I also know how to play the arrangement, so I'm familiar with how it sounds). So I thought of the song, and once I got the "C" that I thought of, I went up a whole step in my head, and sang the note that I thought was "D". And it turned out to be correct! I tried it multiple times and tested it on piano, and I got it correct probably 9/10 times. Yet, I don't have perfect pitch. It's great to have those songs that you're very familiar with, and it develops this pitch "memory". Although it's not really perfect pitch, it's definitely a step closer to it for those who wish to develop it.

[@MaRiOoOomEn]

Cliffs of Dover, every time I imagine that master piece in my head I never mistake the E on the 6th string 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

[@kuznetsov_denis_alexandrovich]

You made me realise mine is Giant Steps. It used to be Serj Tankian's something, he's got like six songs starting on a C. But now, I perfectly imagine F#, and therefore a D, B, G and Bb. What a useful tune to learn pitches!

[@AimeeNolte]

John Gult nice!

[@tonypeebles7249]

That's mine too I think! Another point for the GOAT, John Coltrane!

[@chriskartub]

Luckily mine is in the simple key of C. Elvis Presley's You ain't nothing but a hound dog. The King himself gives me the blues note e flat then c. And the base player plays me c e and g. Then On the chord change the bass gives me f and a. 6 notes. Thanks for your video.

[@binoclard24]

My perfect pitch song is Frère Jacques, lol. It always starts with C in my head

[@meadish]

Heh - that just worked for me too... :D I wonder if it was just a fluke. Will have to try it tomorrow as well.

[@Photologistic]

Could it be from your first lesson as a child?

[@wyattstevens8574]

@@Photologistic That does make sense. :)

[@mitchellopitz9127]

Hi, Aimee! I actually saw you talk about this on another video a while back. At the time, I was incredibly skeptical. But I had to give it a try. The song I found was "Somebody to Love" by Queen. It starts on a big 'Ab' with only Freddie's voice ( "Caaaaan..."). Plus the opening melody outlines the 'Ab' triad with a 'Bb' passing tone. Having that is sort of an added perk. (Bonus, it's in the sweet spot of my singing range!) I've made a little 15 second clip of the intro that I play a few times a day to check myself. Sure enough, it works. Hopefully this suggestion helps someone else. Thanks, Aimee!

[@wyattstevens8574]

Works for me too- I was surprised! It's on my high end, but not so much so that it strains my voice.

[@Magnet12]

Maybe the technical term u were looking for was "pseudo perfect pitch")

[@llkk9900]

@@Noah-wv4td It's not the same at all. People with perfect pitch can spell out notes and chords in seconds

[@14jemima]

10:56 "I imagined the keyboard keys in my head". That's another trick isn't it? That's what I do when asked to sing any particular pitch out of thin air. Visualising the corresponding key on the piano and hearing it sound in my head.

[@adamgosztolai1502]

This actually works! Isn't she lovely by Stevie wonder is my song

[@Justus8]

When tou mentioned ‘money for nothing’, I was like:”I might be able to recall that aswell”. So I sand a bit, opened spotify and noticed that the song was already there. So that’s was a nice coinsidence. Also, I was off by like 30 cents, but I’m happy with that.

[@mbmillermo]

For years I wondered about this -- I'm like you, I'd say, but with less training, so I get a lot right and also am not always right. It's different from perfect pitch, which is like color vision -- you don't mistake blue for orange, ever. A few days ago I saw a Rick Beato video (your friend, I think) that I felt gave me the answer I had long sought. His explanation is in terms of pitch memory, which is different from perfect pitch. It makes a lot of sense. We can train ourselves to remember certain pitches, like you did with the song you wrote that begins with G♯ A. Rick also shares a system for pitch-memory training in the video, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5C9gnuFnt51fJY I wouldn't want to direct people to a competitor's site, but I think of you and RIck as collaborative - he definitely talks about your videos and vice versa. I've learned a lot from both of you. Thanks!

[@jub8891]

people mistake white for blue dresses :)

[@wyattstevens8574]

@@jub8891 What does that have to do with anything?

[@nikanm17]

OMG I'm like that too haha and I thought I was the only one and it's confusing RIGHT? because people usually say with confidence that they do have perfect pitch or they don't but I'm kind of in the middle since it's always so obvious to me what note I'm hearing and people around me consider that Perfect Pitch but at the same time there are some kids on KZbin that do some magical stuff with their perfect pitch that I can't so I never know if I truly have perfect pitch or not

[@VideonMedia]

Wow this is pretty interesting, perfect pitch but not perfect pitch. First time seeing this phenomenon. I'm not sure for most perfect pitchers but, we including me should be able to sing a note on pitch effortlessly. But in your case, no. That's so fascinating!

[@wyattstevens8574]

It's just *very* strong relative pitch plus an "anchor" to switch from pitch memory to pitch labeling.

[@randycreasi]

My "jam" is the little ding that's sounded right before the final Jeopardy! clue is revealed. It's an F natural.

[@allyyardleypiano]

WE ARE LITERALLY THE SAME PERSON THIS HELPED SO MUCH THANK YOU!!

[@skemsen]

I get your point and it's a good one, but I'm really struggling coming up with a useful example of my own. When I think I've got it the doubt always sets in and mess it up. Must work harder on this. I really thought I had it with the Rick Astley song "When ever you need somebody" - but that song is impressively all over the place chord wise. They don't make songs with more than 4 chords any more, said the cranky old dude. Thank yous from Denmark :-) P.S. Your idea could actually make for a fun party game! :-)

[@billfromchamblee]

I also have tinitus because I took flying lessons in a loud small plane. It's note is a C when it isn't a G. It has several notes and sometimes one is louder than another. (Although right now they are about 10 cents short of Bb and F. I use Garageband's tuner). I have never had the finger dexterity to play an instrument. I watched your videos because I thought I could learn to hear intervals better and learn how to sight sing. Just before I retired, I started taking voice lessons. Learning to sing on pitch is like peeling an onion.. Five years ago my voice was consistently 1/8 tone flat. After a month I would go back and listen to a recording I thought was right on pitch - Flatter than a pancake. Now I'm singing right on pitch right? After another month I would go back and listen to a recording I thought was right on pitch - Flatter than a pancake. Now I'm singing right on pitch right? After another month I would go back and listen to a recording I thought was right on pitch - Flatter than a pancake. Now I'm singing right on pitch right? Get the picture? INow my notes are usually withing 15 cents of the pitch. It's taken a long time to unlearn my perception of pitch. and I will keep improving one layer at a time. In college I learned that my Grandmother's piano had always been a whole tone flat. Bummer. Next is learning how to sing and smile at the same time. How do you carve a piece of wood? Whittle by whittle.

[@willsketchesmusic]

Enter Sandman, by Metallica seems to work for me, LOL

[@AimeeNolte]

Niiiiice

[@july5107]

I have the exact same kind of pitch!

[@rafarvr]

I want my own tv works for me... thank you!!! I nail it... I think I got my own b flat...

[@jonathanpluto4362]

I used to do the same thing with the beginning of Wind of Change, by Scorpions. Sometimes I'd whistle it. :))

[@mattlandonmusic]

Interesting!! I kind of have the inverse of your “perfect pitch.” I can always produce notes, arpeggios, intervals with no reference and I can always sing songs in the right key with no reference. However, when someone goes to the piano and plunks out random notes and chords, I can be stumped pretty easily, and even when I’m correct, it takes me a lot longer pick out the notes than if someone were to say “sing an Ab major7 arpeggio.”

[@JaccoScholten]

Wow, so it's possible by remembering a note in your head to reproduce it at (nearly) the exact frequency, great to see that!

[@wyattstevens8574]

And you don't even need to know what note it is!

[@patriciodasilva7902]

If you had perfect pitch, you could recognize pitch without regard to the instrument, voice, etc. so, I'd say you have outstanding relative pitch. Sometimes I can remember songs and the key I heard them in. that's not an uncommon ability by the way. Perfect pitch does not require a "trick'. Alas, at 9:55 you stated it. There is no trick.

[@bluwng]

I play guitar on occasion and never took it to seriously. This Chanel got me interested in music and has been the most helpful in learning to play my guitar.

[@gomezfriesen]

Omg, I don't have perfect pitch, but when you said about your husband to sing, "I want my MTV", from memory, I did as well, before you did, and I was bang on! What an awesome trick! Totally my jam! Thank you Aimee! So, I just tried a few other songs from memory in different keys. Turns out, "I'd like to visit the moon" from Ernie on sesame street, can give me the G note, in the key of C. Childhood memories. Wow.

[@DanSitar0]

My tinnitus is the pure soundwave of the international ‘A’ = 440 Hz tuning fork. You see, when I practice my guitar, I tune it between each song/exercise with that sound. I recall its pure soundwave in my head first, then I verify my memory with my ‘A’ tuning fork. I do that also as a game during other activities like during a TV commercial or when I'm near one, which I have in every room, including in the shower. That makes you in tune with any good musician and closes the argument of who have to retune their instruments higher or lower. BTW, the grand concerts usually raise the tuning fork by 5 Hz. That complies the audience to be more focused on the actual music from the stage, instead of what they are used to hear that lets the mind more inclined to be distracted. Thanks Aimee Nolte for your instructive and easy to understand videos.

[@patriciasmall6037]

DanSitar0 Now I think I understand why people feel they have to have multiple TVs in their home - just to drown out that constant tinnitus ringing in the ears. Ginkgo biloba may help your tinnitus symptoms. It is an herbal remedy (60 mg per day x 2) which is sometimes used for this, but it takes about 4 months for its positive effect to kick in. I do admire your ingenious way of combating a disease of the ears that can drive its victims mad.

[@wyattstevens8574]

How about that? BTW, I think at least some US concerts actually leave concert A alone.

[@TimothyOBrien1958]

Before college, I didn't have PP. I was playing, but not to the degree I did in college. I was a Musical Comp Major. I was writing all the time. I didn't have time to always check with an instrument, so I had to use my brain. I walked into Aural Perception class. I had been listening to a piece that was in G# Melodic Minor. The prof played a piece in that key and asked us if it was in Major, Minor, if it was modal. I asked her if it was in G# Melodic Minor. Her neck nearly broke snapping around to me. She asked if I had PP. I told her I did not, but I was listening to this piece on the way in. I practiced a lot listening in-depth to the actual colors of the notes. I don't play as much, and I rarely compose. Sometimes my ear is there. Most times, it's not. BTW, when I hold my guitar, my pitch is so much better.

[@LlamaOutOfTheSheep]

really interesting! i'm a violinist and if I hear a note on the violin I can tell what it is, but I can't pull notes of thin air. The only note I can pull out of the air is an A, I guess because I hear an A every time I tune.

[@jean-lucbersou758]

A perfect pitch is both passive and active .You can recognise and you can vocalese .It is not related to a specific instrument ( tone -timber ) .It can be disturbing compared to a good relative ear .It is a must for analyse and sight reading , compo and direction .It is first a quality of memorization and perception .

[@manskiptruck]

jonny I can pick out the exact same note haha.

[@wyattstevens8574]

"A" makes sense! It is the second string, after all.

[@BenificiallMusic]

Awesome thanks for sharing , well said

[@krisschobert4484]

im a '91 baby and would jam out to Michael Jackson when i was a toddler, so i just tried to sing the piercing Bb of "BEEEAT IIITTT" and it worked! also same note as 'Doooo' from Green Day's Basket Case. Hacking this perfect pitch thing! Thanks for the tip 👍

[@wyattstevens8574]

Well, how about that? It works for me too- but as a barbershop singer, I actually associate it with the "keep" in "Keep the Whole World Singing" from "A Little Close Harmony," (just an octave down) the traditional way to close out every rehearsal.

[@MrDomestos98]

"He is a pirate" and D at the beginning...i hope it's D

[@davsac6175]

That's amazing! I just found something interesting: I have kind of "perfect non perfect pitch" with the first note of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. That is: I always sing it in G, while the original is G sharp. So now I know that I can easily find the G in my mind!

[@barathrk905]

It is actually in c sharp minor

[@wyattstevens8574]

@@barathrk905 This mention of G# vs. G is that the former is the real starting note.

[@barathrk905]

@@wyattstevens8574 ohh yes I forgot, it goes G sharp C sharp E at the start, right

[@wyattstevens8574]

​@@barathrk905 It's just (to use enharmonics) Db/Ab.

[@DekkMassen]

Hello Sensei 先生🕴️

[@tremeloco]

The song that I use is Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots. It starts on a C#. I don't always get it but I just tried it and was dead on. I'm nowhere near your level though. From what I've heard, perfect pitch is instantaneous, like you did on the piano.

[@hearpalhere]

This is fascinating stuff Aimee! I just listened to a podcast you did with Brent from Learn Jazz Standards where you told the story about your husband singing the Dire Straits. I will definitely be trying to find my own perfect pitch jam and will let you know if I succeed.

[@shubhamthakur4053]

I’ve always been so confused about whether I have perfect pitch or maybe just really good relative pitch because I’ve always been able to recall the original key and the correct pitch of the first notes of all the songs that I’ve listened to. I realised this when I used to sing along with my friends and they would sing it in a different key than the original song is written in and something in my head would go off like hey that’s not how the original sounds, I just thought everyone could do it. But then I’ve never been trained classically so I cannot name the notes by ear. I wonder if it would be different if I did receive some training!

[@KevinSanscartier]

Pitch memory 😊

[@wyattstevens8574]

​@@KevinSanscartier Right- Dr. Daniel Levitin said that that (this) could exist alone, without putting a name to the right note.

[@otony10]

I sure wish we had KZbin when I was in college (music major) - I sure could have used some of these tricks in sight singing class - that was the hardest, especially at exam time... Thanks for all the great info - I think you are amazing!!!

[@fabio2579]

ok, I have perfect pitch and, I mean, no person needs that, I mean yes, cool I hear an A and I know that's an A, but there isn't an effective utility, the only advise I can give is focus on your relative pitch, 'cause it worth it. We (people with absolute pitch) cannot do it simply because we haven't got it, and I know that's weird but sometimes I'd give my perfect pitch to know how is to have the relative one.

[@tmac8892]

If you're a musician it must help.

[@MrBertramLevaughn]

I'm pretty sure the ability to write a score with no reference knowing what key it is in etc etc is pretty useful!!! But again like you hint perfect pitch doesn't determine if you are going to be a great musician or not, but I wouldn't say it's not useful

[@JXter_]

A trick I picked up was to figure out what the highest note I can whistle is; G8. From there, I bring it down a few octaves and compare it with the pitch I'm attempting to figure out, and figure out the interval between them (a G to Eb, for example, would be a minor 6th) and then name the note. A different trick I've tried, but with less success, is just feeling the way the string is hit on a piano when you press it; an A3 feels kind of dark, with a hint of what feels like a "timpani" in the background, the string has audible highs and lows (you can start to hear the wave at this point) spaced very closely together, but nonetheless audible if carefully listened to.

[@AimeeNolte]

+Tom wonderful ideas, Tom. Thank you.

[@genekelly413]

I love your videos by the way.

[@ben6321]

You my friend have true pitch

[@robertolopez5186]

you have perfect pitch and I believe you born with that tool, and a lot of people can develop... in my case I'm still working, but i have a cousin who play the piano and at the first time he start learning how to play he recognize every note... for my that's a gift from God! .. oh! and about those "trick's" to sing notes i think it's normal to have a reference note to find other notes ... now I'm part of your online students hehehe.. I'm just find your channel a few days ago and I already see 20 videos and I repeated for few times to learn more, really helpful all your stuff! thanks a lot... btw... one more question.. you say you play what's on your heart and your head so you can sing your solos, but working on scales and theory stuff, can you show some triads advance exercises for improvising??

[@AimeeNolte]

Roberto Lopez yes, I will do that. I'm kind of working my way toward more advanced concepts as I go. Thanks so much for watching!

[@TiagoRDrummer]

I'm terrible at recognizing notes. But i identified F#3 in my first try thinking in a lick that i played a lot, felt amazing. I'm feeling like a child who's just discorevered something awesome. Thank you!!! Haha

[@elanfrenkel8058]

Hmm this seems like a different phenomenon that I have seen some musicians call "absolute pitch". Its when a musician has played her instrument so long that they have that acoustic archetype in their permanent memory and can recognize notes on her instrument. I think perfect pitch people are slightly different in that it doesn't matter what instrument, they just always can tell a note based on its frequency. As opposed to absolute pitch, which can develop in some adults, perfect pitch is always developed as a kid. In any case you have some serious talent !

[@AimeeNolte]

Elan Frenkel you are probably right about that. Thanks for writing. And for watching! :-)

[@AimeeNolte]

Elan Frenkel David that part is true to me. Nobody is ever going to convince me that a D is anything other than green. LOL

[@sasha42196]

I never associate sounds with color. KNOWING what the note is without a frame of reference when I hear it is normal for me. If I started seeing color, I'd be scared...

[@elanfrenkel8058]

I think the 'color' thing is a metaphor for most perfect pitch people. They hear the 'color' of a g sharp for instance. But there are people who associate sounds with actual colors. I know such people who do this even if they don't have perfect pitch. I think in this case they are associating all of the other senses with the color ( seeing the note G, playing it, and then imagining the color blue for instance.)

[@rachelsmename]

I learned about this recently. People who associate notes as color have something called "Synesthesia".

[@nil2k]

Over two years after the first time I saw this video, I realized as a "lapsed" trombone player, I can always nail a low b flat in my head... Maybe the secret is to just imagine yourself playing an instrument you know well.

[@danh5150]

Absolutely love this video! First off; I would definitely say you have absolute (perfect) pitch. It's not uncommon for musicians to have it on their own instruments, but not when listening to other instruments (including voice), as the different timbres can trick the brain. Also, I think the name "perfect" is a bit of a misnomer. From what I've gleaned from different people who have it or study it (I do not), there can be different levels of aptitude, but the crux of it comes down to being able to recognize the chroma in the sound, which is an absolute property (thus the name 'absolute' pitch). From that perspective, being able to sing a song correctly in key without a reference is definitely an 'absolute' skill. In a different key, the space between the notes stays the same (relatively), but the 'color' of the melody line is distinctly different. Kind of analogous to the same desert scene painted in yellows and reds (day) or blues and purples (night). Same shapes and distances; different chroma. I've read/heard other teachers touch on this topic. I think being able to tell when a song is in a different key is lower on the "skillset" of AP, but it definitely uses the same mechanisms in the brain. Maybe the collective group of notes gives the brain more to 'grab' on to? Just a thought. Anyhoo, glad I stumbled across you channel (and subscribed). My jam is Thin Lizzy's 'The Boys Are Back In Town'. Whenever I hear an Ab5, I instantly hear that song in my mind. ;o)

[@AimeeNolte]

+danh5150 that jam works for me too! Who knew?!

[@si_vis_amari_ama]

Hello, I sing acapella and can easily hear when we sing flat,(drives me nuts) and can hear the starting note of each song we sing. I can hear when the pitch pipe is blown flat on some notes (replacement required). I get an accurate note from a song in my mind or tuning guitar, or certain chords. Anyway my point is that I am reliably informed that I have good relative pitch, not perfect pitch.

[@spacevspitch4028]

I could follow you just fine when you played the notes on the piano and I developed it from scratch starting when I was 18. But it took years of daily concentrated practice.

[@lucariololxdrofl]

@Thomas Wilmott he is legit, i learnt it as well to some degree

[@mjay8488]

Thomas Wilmott yes he is legit check his video

[@spacevspitch4028]

@Thomas Wilmott Nah, this isn't a "one weird trick" kinda deal. I'm not selling anything (yet :p ). But anyway, I described my approach on my channel through a number of videos. But I really wasn't happy with the audio. There's so much more to go through and explain but I want it all to sound good. I just keep holding out hope that I'll get around to it!

[@lilymissmae]

I play the viola, and I have perfect pitch, I am about ten, and my music teacher diagnosed me with perfect pitch, is that normal to have perfect pitch at such a young age?

[@AnonyoZarifAkand]

Yes, it's completely normal to have it at 10. I'm a 12-year-old, and I'm a western and Indian classical music practitioner. My parents diagnosed me with relative pitch at 5, and later with perfect pitch at 7. So don't worry about it! Keep doing ear exercises and don't lose the ability (yes, you can lose it if you don't practice enough)!

[@silencedphill2252]

When I was in college (circa 1999 or so) Jamey Abersold came to my school and gave a presentation. He was so knowledgeable. I remember him pulling out a pitch pipe and talking about using it in the car to test himself on pitch. I still have the red Jazz Handbook he handed out, and use some of his tips and exercises to this day when working on a tune. Anyway, I just looked on his website, and you can download that handbook for free. There's good material in there for anyone looking to improve soloing, or just learn tunes, or about jazz in general. Anyway, when you mentioned going to one of his clinics it made me think of that. I'm really enjoying your videos. Thanks and keep up the great work.

[@AimeeNolte]

Silenced Phill that's really cool! Actually, when his clinic was over, I was so impressed with the way that he used his pitch pipe, I asked him if he would sell me one and he told me the only one he had was the one in his pocket and that if I didn't mind his germs, I could have it. So, I swapped spit with Jamey. LOL

[@troyburzawa8947]

Aimee Nolte Music , I've been playing guitar for 39yrs. I have relative pitch. My go to song is stranglehold by Ted Nugent. This was 2 years before I started playing guitar. I had a friend who played that song to death. One day my friend that started playing guitar with me asked me if I could guess any notes out of thin air. And did what you did and picked that song and hit that A note. I still use it to tune my guitar to pitch to this day. That same friend taught his daughter all 12 notes when she was a baby and ever since she's had perfect pitch. I mean the kind where she can tell pitchs coming from anything. airplane, lawnmower any instrument. We're jealous. It's nice that you can hear any note on the piano, that must help. Good video, Thanks

[@davidcoughlin5897]

How did he teach his daughter the notes? Is there a method?

[@troyburzawa8947]

David Coughlin He has a music degree in jazz performance. Has soon as she was able to understand words he would play a note then tell her the note name. Doing a few at a time she could recite them back pretty quick. Eventually all twelve notes. I first saw her do it at the age of six. She could tell you any note from any instrument. The next time I saw her she was 23 yrs. old. I asked how she did it, and said it was like images came to mind. Like when we hear a song, we remember a place or event. So if you have a baby, that's the time to start introducing music to them. Let them hear good piano stuff. Simple at first, than more jazz oriented stuff.

[@bepkororoti8019]

So many thanks, the PDF is a treasure trove

[@rogeliogomez8626]

Your Fucking the Best

[@AlexaMorales]

Very cool video -- impressive to see you having developed perfect pitch for piano (AKA PPP haha). I have always had great relative pitch. Only work with 1 musician (a singer and bass player) out of the hundreds of accomplished pros I know who has perfect pitch. He has it in a cool way in that he can accommodate the pitch sliding in an a cappella situation, whereas sometimes someone with perfect pitch can almost stand out like a sore thumb if they don't also listen to the group. But he'll tell us if we've slipped too far! Haven't found my #PerfectPitchJam yet tho *sometimes* I'll just picture middle C on the piano, sing it and test it and be right. Did it just now and got Db haha.

[@AimeeNolte]

Alexa Weber Morales nice!

[@AimeeNolte]

Alexa Weber Morales also very interesting about hearing yourself and muscle memory. I fell like that is totally true.

[@yomega69]

I have some iteration of perfect pitch, very similar to Aimee. I found it so interesting you mentioned "pitch sliding in an a cappella situation" I literally go nuts when that happens and have a very hard time accommodating the harmonics in a group when I know what the notes should be.

[@renaissongsmann8889]

+1 on this ... my "relative pitch" is pretty super-duper ... a tad more on point that what Aimee is describing, I think. But I know a gal (professor of piano) who knows all the notes the clocks and computers at her house beep on, and how many cents sharp or flat they are. And Dylan Beato would beat me in an ear competition almost any time I think. THAT is "perfect" pitch.

[@larrygk1257]

Kid Charlemagne Steely Dan (vocal entry). Regardless....awesome tune! Nice vid Aimee as usual!

[@sama5]

Aimee! You are so right. This is such a fascinating topic. My good friend who was my theory and aural training prof (and my son's) have long drawn out discussions. He has incredible relative pitch. I can impress if tested on Functional Ear Trainer, basically a scale degree trainer. But in the context of an actual song I am useless. I am still trying to develop a good ear and failing miserably. My mom, who grew up in China, can solfege sing any song she knows. She said everyone could do it in China. They all learned it in school from an early age. Anyway, I'm going on way too long...like I said we have long drawn out discussions about this fascinating topic. BTW, my prof friend calls what you have piano perfect pitch. He said through his many years of teaching, he's run across more than a few people with and without perfect pitch...just like you. Thanks for the post.

[@AimeeNolte]

Sam A piano perfect pitch. I like it! Once in awhile, notes will jump out to me when I hear them on other instruments and I know exactly what they are playing, but it doesn't happen all the time. I think your solfege idea from your friend is marvelous. I do that with my kids all the time.

[@km4hr]

I can't remember where I saw it, but there was presentation by a lady who studied perfect pitch for her doctoral thesis (or something). One of her observations was that a high percentage of oriental people have PP. She had a theory for this. It had to do with language. She said Chinese words have different meaning depending on their pitch, or some variation of pitch. This is true of Chinese much more so than other languages. So from a very early age Chinese kid's ears become highly attuned to very subtle pitch changes. She tested the theory extensively and made a pretty convincing argument.

[@AimeeNolte]

Sam A that's really cool. I know my husband studied Vietnamese for awhile and was blown away by how tonal that language was. Pretty cool!

[@aravindmadhavan123]

Sam A, anybody can learn to solfeggi a song. It is a natural extension of what you do with Functional ear trainer. I went through a lot of frustration to do it and eventually learnt to do solfege by ear. Solfege is the next stage of evolution of ear training after learning to do scale degrees. To do that you need to be able to recognize the root note of a song. Once you can do so, you can solfege logically. You just have to keep at it for a few months. This develops over time and therefore you must keep at it. One day all of a sudden, the knots will tie themselves for you. And no, it need not be learnt early. I started after 35 years of age to learn music. I taught myself solfege sing songs over a 6 month period. It is not easy, but it is certainly a skill that can be learnt.

[@cyomara89]

Hey there, I noticed your comments on solfege, and I was just wondering if you might be able to tell me your methods/training habits. I've done a little bit, but not in a while. But I'm truly interested in how you broke through- no detail would be too small!! Best, Jeff

[@Theosis78]

Your perfect pitch has long since reached the stage from which all you have to do is get used to the timbres of other instruments. You don't need more than a keyboard or a digital instrument database for a DAW and practice. 😄

[@BrentTallent]

I think you're too young to know about Jamey Aebersold. Fun video. I've always wondered if there is a tangible value to perfect pitch. Since I'm a big fan of struggle, perfect pitch has shortcutted the process for several musicians that I've known and, in their cases, it seemed to show up with a lack of depth in their playing. Maybe I just knew them too early in life. All the same, I'm sure I'll be practicing your instructions :)

[@AimeeNolte]

Brent Tallent i'm definitely not young enough for that, but thank you for thinking so! Let me know how it goes. I have gotten a lot of use out of my "perfect pitch "and and I am glad I have what I have. I don't think that it has hindered me. I can't really see myself from the outside though, so I can't be sure!

[@BrentTallent]

Maybe Aelbersold is younger than I think. I had a vinyl play along record of his in 1979. I assumed for him to be making a record that he was quite a bit older than I. AND, of course PP hasn't hindered you, you're fantastic. It's hard for me to anticipate what the uses are, though. I'm sure they're plentiful if they aided in your journey. -- Best, BT

[@SUPERTECHGAMESS]

😃

[@odiajulius2349]

Sir Brent I dont think Aimee was too young ! Some people expose their children earlier than you suspect ( I remember writing a Grade 7 Trinity Theory exam with an 11 year old girl) and she was giving well articulated revision lessons to us folks who were at least 16 years older than her before we entered the hall - NB*This happened in Nigeria / Africa some years back ( despite the music system) .........Besides Ive been exposed to Jameys stuff since 1999 (long before taking a music grade or taking music seriously) . In a nutshell, nothing is impossible - When it comes to music , I ve decided to keep an open mind and not assume ! We all have our musical journeys ! Thanks to you Sir Brent and Aimee too for your comments ! I really appreciate your openness!

[@chrisgiordano6793]

Hi Aimee, Nice that you share this technique. I don't have perfect pitch as you've shown at the piano so, at some point during my sporadic musical pursuits, I've discovered this for myself, too. My perfect pitch tune? The famous NBC chimes, of course!

[@wyattstevens8574]

That works for me too! But instead of NBC, I think of when you're at Lowe's and hear, "Special assistance needed.. " the third time. If the version I'm thinking of starts on G like the NBC chimes do, they're identical, but I know they're at least intervallically so.

[@DietrichMegaDNelsonJr]

i do that too with gospel songs that i have heard or played a gazillion times.

[@AimeeNolte]

Dietrich Nelson that's great

[@kousthubkulkarni77]

Some great musician said , that being in tune with your instrument ,like u , is called true pitch,

[@Flat-Five]

First piano note from life on mars is a great one for A

[@AimeeNolte]

sahsplishsplash awesome 🙌🏼

[@mahavishnustravinskij]

Yeah, thanks!!

[@Suoyung]

I've got the same kind of pitch like you do! But I think I developed it from exercises, I don't know what actually worked for me, it' s just one day I listened to piano note and knew what it was. But here is one thing, If you can imagine a song and find the note, I think with your type of pitch you could just imagine in your mind a piano playing the note you want and singing it. I often use this trick, it is much faster. I think in time if I try it more, maybe I will be able to intuitively sing the notes without imagining them in my mind. Also after the time that I found out about my perfect pitch, now I recognize the more notes (at the beginning it was hard for me to recognize notes in high, or low octaves), and sometimes I even recognize notes that are played with other instruments. By the way, harp and guitar notes are easier for me to recognize, than the others. I think that is because their sounds are similar to piano's.

[@itzelheruiz9139]

video starts at 8:33, keep the intro short.

[@xandypunk7350]

8minutes of flexing

[@purvisood17]

thank youuuu

[@DekkMassen]

I'm in a pitch could you help me out?

[@DorianC]

Thank you

[@yudipitre5720]

I want to learn so bad.

[@aarongrooves]

Hi Amiee, great video! I love how honest and real you are about your abilities, how you discovered them, your limitations, and some activities to try. After several years of working on perfect pitch on and off, last August I finally decided to commit myself fully, with no slacking. My plan was to keep ear training until I either hit a ceiling or developed full absolute pitch + aural recall. So far on that journey, I've made tremendous strides, and I've yet to hit a ceiling. In fact, when you were playing the pitches at the beginning of this video, I was right there with you, and I would not have been there AT ALL a year ago. I mean, not unless I used relative pitch and started with a reference point. I have great relative pitch, which is both a blessing and a curse when I'm doing my ear training. First, the ability to recall the key/pitches of a certain song actually is a form of absolute pitch. What has happened is that the brain has stored so much information about the way this song sounds that it might successfully recall the pitch colors when thinking of the song, even though you're not aware of the pitch colors. They are still there, after all -- even for those who do not have any awareness of them. So what is pitch color? It's that unique effect that a frequency has on your sensory perception, the character that is different from all other frequencies. It works exactly the same as visual colors. Red looks red, and I don't know why. It's just a human perception, and it's universal (for the most part). Yellow, blue, green, orange, pink, etc. each have a different character, and this character is not brightness, and it does not rely on comparison. You do not have to compare red to orange to be able to tell that it's red. You just know! And on piano, you do not have to compare 440 hertz to 261 hertz to tell that it's A. You just know! You're one of the rare ones. (I'm getting close to this point myself; it's so exciting!) However, there are some differences between our visual perception and our pitch perception. We only see less than one octave of visual frequencies, but we hear several octaves of pitch frequencies. I imagine that if we could see multiple octaves in the visual spectrum, the rainbow would be wider. After violet, we would see the colors morph into a more vibrant red than the one we normally see, and so on and so on. I bet ultraviolet frequencies would be similar to what we currently see, but more vibrant and radiant. Sort of how C4 is the same as C3, but more vibrant, brighter... Difficult to explain, but I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about, since you're much more tuned in than I am at this point. HOWEVER, if we could see multiple octaves, would the need for color recognition be diminished in favor of frequency comparisons? Imagine if someone went through their entire life ignoring the colors and only focusing on relationships between the infrared, visual, and ultraviolet frequencies. Would they only notice comparisons and see the world in shades of bright to dark? A black and white world? Perhaps in such a world, the rare individual who still noticed the visual colors would seem like a superhuman! Another difference is timbre. With visual colors, we don't get confused by the texture of the material or the patterns of colors. But with pitch, the timbre can easily obscure the color. This is why you recognize the colors easily on piano but not on other instruments. Your ear is accustomed to piano, and it can easily hear through the timbre and pick up the color. But other timbres confuse the ear and cause it to resurface. I bet that with the right ear training, you could develop universal pitch color discrimination. Going a step further, once you've achieved universal pitch discrimination, you'll be so familiar with the pitch color that you can just think of whatever color you want and sing the desired pitch on demand. In fact, even at this stage of my journey, I've noticed that I can think of a C almost on demand, when I have a moment to concentrate and listen to my mental piano. But it's nothing like true aural recall, which I hope to attain some day. Okay, I have tons more to say, but this is getting ridiculously long 😆. If you'd like to see any of my "Perfect Pitch Journal," where I keep notes about my absolute pitch progress, just let me know. I love talking about this stuff, and I'd be happy to share it with you.

[@chamindadissanayake332]

Can you give me your vedio lesson link about this ?

[@aarongrooves]

@@chamindadissanayake332 Hi! Wow, I can't believe I wrote so much!! I was seriously committed at that point. I hardly practice anymore, sadly. But my ears are still better than when I wrote that novel lol. My "perfect pitch Journal" wasn't a video, just a word doc of thoughts and tracking my progress. If you'd like to see it, I'm happy to share. Feel free to shoot me an email: aarongrooves @ gmail . com

[@chamindadissanayake332]

@@aarongrooves my emai is [e-mail] Pls kindly try to any lesson .thank you very much Sir

[@Littleton3513]

@@aarongrooves I really liked your marimba playing

[@aarongrooves]

@@Littleton3513 Thanks!

[@michaelvarney.]

I found out that I had perfect pitch not because I could name notes (imagine being able to recognize red, blue, green etc. but not knowing the names) but because I could sing a song in key without a reference pitch first. When I was little my parents would say “sing the first bit of country roads by John Denver.” And I would do so, and then they would play the record and it would be exactly a match. It was a party trick for their friends. Any song that I like I could song the notes of (Within my vocal range) without a reference. Also I could tell when someone would play a song out of the key I was familiar with. Or worse yet they would play with an instrument that was out of tune. I held this ability until about 35… then It started going away. Now that I am interested in theory and music, I laugh because I’ve lost my perfect pitch. I’m still spot on with relative pitch, and have no trouble with intervals… and I can retain note memory for about an hour after listening to a reference pitch… but then it slips and I lose it. Oh well… at least now I can play an instrument!

[@your.music.connection]

You're right on with your analysis! I learned in 2nd grade that I have perfect pitch 'with the piano' when my music teacher asked me to stay after class. He plunked out some notes, asked me what they were, and I answered correctly. Your idea for learning to have good relative pitch by having a 'touch tune' is a good one. I've done that too. I teach my students to perfect playing by ear if they show any interest and aptitude, and call it the 'Special Assignment'. They like that...Sharon Marie

[@nezkeys79]

i think you can learn to have good relative pitch but having true perfect pitch is rare and i think its something you are born with. i saw a video once of a guy being tested as soon as he awoke...so he couldnt possibly use anything to reference (relative pitch). i heard somewhere that everyone is born with true perfect pitch and over time we lose it. im not sure i agree with this though. that thing you did with the G# and A ... that has happened to me once or twice but clearly thats not enough to be perfect pitch. recently i heard a piece on the final fantasy 15 game called somnus and thought for some strange reason it was the exact same key as a piece in the game suikoden 4 called rune of punishment. i hadnt heard that piece in over 7 years. i checked the key on the piano and low and behold it was the same key - Cminor. im not sure why i instinctively made the distinction here tbh one thing...if youre using "perfect pitch jam" isnt this technically using relative pitch in a way?

[@AimeeNolte]

nezkeys79 yes. That's what I said. It's definitely relative pitch...but I think that what I can do with the piano is perfect pitch

[@nezkeys79]

Aimee Nolte perfect pitch, perfect voice, perfect pianist, perfect appearance, perfect teacher, perfect diction, perfect vibe ... #Perfectallthethings!

[@AimeeNolte]

nezkeys79 oh my word.😏

[@sasha42196]

What you said about being born with perfect pitch and losing it over time is absolutely true. I had perfectly perfect pitch as a kid, and now it's at about 75%. There are times when I just can't place the exact pitch (although I know enough tricks to get there in other ways, such as thinking a C and then working my way from there). It drives me crazy when I have those moments, though. Because when I do have it, there is no effort, it's just there.

[@grabbarnaeldorado]

Yeah I definitely agree. As cool as what Aime can do is, it still ain't true perfect pitch. Perfect pitch essentially having all pitches in your head at all times. No referencing at all for anything. They just have it all in their head.

[@mikedavino2400]

I just sang and heard the beginning to Billy Joel's "Piano Man" in my head. I then went over to my Piano and was spot on Key of C. I haven't heard the song nor played it with my harmonica in quite some time. I think I have found it. I'll try again in an hour. Greetings from S Florida It's down to 71 degrees. We're having a cold front. Have a happy thanksgiving! Mike

[@wyattstevens8574]

You mentioned Piano Man- I realized only a couple of months ago how similar it sounds to Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls!

[@Burnsomatic]

Aimee, I know a music theory professor/composer who has a sense of pitch that is exactly as you describe yours. He NEVER misses if the notes are played on the piano but cannot tell if the notes are played on other instruments. He holds that he does not have real perfect (absolute) pitch, but that he has timbre dependent pitch recognition - he can identify the pitch by the way it sounds on the piano. I am a pianist and I cannot do what you and my friend can do, but I do often think of music that is very close to me in the right key. And BTW, I love the feel of your piano playing.

[@AimeeNolte]

That’s so cool. Thanks, Marshall!

[@kajatanmusic5635]

You have true pitch im guessin. that's where you know your instrument so well that you can hear the different timbre of each note and hence you can identify which note it is

[@eboyeman8457]

just by the way your ears look I can tell u got perfect pitch

[@AimeeNolte]

Pretty mean...not much to do about it

[@eboyeman8457]

@@AimeeNolteik I was just cracking a joke

[@AimeeNolte]

Eboy Eman it was allllllmost funny. ;) don’t sweat it.

[@wattage2007]

My pal and I learned our perfect pitch from the first note of Misty. We worked in a music shop and an old jazz clarinetist would come in regularly and play Misty on the piano. For some reason the first Bb of the melody just seemed to absolutely resonate with us. Coincidentally that’s the same as I Want My MTV too 😃

[@sochalant8056]

Holy shit same, misty was the first standard I learned on keys so I used that as my gateway to perfect pitch

[@louismartin4446]

Amie, forget the pitch. You are PERFECT in my eyes!

[@DavidBadilloMusic]

I think Beato says something along the lines of "you cannot acquire perfect pitch past a certain age, but you can master your relative pitch so much that, when combining it with pitch recall through a favorite song, you can pretty much emulate perfect pitch". I think for me it's the Star Wars theme opening brilliant B flat major chord to recall 'a note to start jumping around from'.

[@wyattstevens8574]

Did you know Williams wrote that in Bb so it would blend with the Fox intro? Someone mentioned that in the comments to Beato's vid!

[@samircamillo]

I'm not nearly close to having perfect pitch (even my relative pitch is poor), but I have a good memory to the notes of the songs I heard a lot, even those which aren't my favorites. I could get money for nothing right (you got to install microwave ovens... love this one for sure) but then you mentioned a TV show, I thought I could guess Friends' theme, searched for it but found Bon Jovi's I'll be there for you and got it right... that ain't one of the tunes I like the most, but it was always on the radio back in the day...

[@DekkMassen]

That's true..

[@ArieAGinting]

my jam is spirit carries on by Dream Theater. the vocal first note is F#

[@aadityakiran_s]

Nice Earrings.

[@cbarlow3]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone else mention this sort of halfway point between relative pitch and perfect pitch before. I just discovered the same thing for myself about six months ago when I was practicing a song so much that happened to have a phrase like that where I had some kind of singing muscle memory that even when I would hear lots of other songs in other keys in between, I could get back to that one phrase right on the money in my head. Hmmm...I probably should have written down which song that was! :) Anyway, I really want to combine practicing this (I think the first phrase from "Moonlight in Vermont" in Eb will work for me), the point-and-sing, and your work on singing/hearing scales instead of just playing them. Sounds like a trifecta in freeing up my playing.

[@ThomasJDavis]

That's what I do too! I don't have perfect pitch "proper" but that method helps me sing a correct A-flat though an internalized reference and I just work relative to that. It's just a matter of remembering the note name. And I agree sort of with what you said that it needs to be maintained and re-referenced periodically. I'll also sometimes use the bottom of my range to find notes or make a close guess. The melody I use is the Warner Bros. logo with the solo piano at the beginning. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHPFZK1tj62gr7s

[@RodmonKhosravi]

Why do I love you so much just from watching this video?!? You’re awesome! Thank you for informative video

[@3linx]

I think my perfect pitch jam is the beginning a minor chord of Griegs Piano Concerto. (I hit this one right about 70% of the time). So I'm gonna practice that!

[@shapeshift6046]

No Role Modelz - J. Cole. Starts on a C.