Perfect Pitch: The World's Greatest Ear Part 3

I'm still trying to stump Dylan. I think I need to try a little harder! Watch what happens when I play a double polychord at 0:51.
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[@SephBentos]

Absolutely outstanding. I'm so excited to see where his musical life goes.

[@RickBeato]

Thanks Seph!

[@NaveenArun]

the true Fast Fourier Transform

[@matte_vcc]

Naveen Arun your comment is so good

[@pixsaoul1494]

You sir made my day.

[@FeRnAnDo939393]

People are so clueless and don't realize how inhumanly amazing this is. This kid is a freak in the best sense of the word.

[@brettoberry3586]

It's wonderful seeing how much joy your son brings to you through these videos.

[@roblauzon3582]

So.. I have color/tone synesthesia which gives me, pretty much, perfect pitch.. However, this kids speed and ability to pick apart discordant polychords is SCARY! He will be a God among men in music, if he chooses. Bravo!

[@frustratedidealist]

I listen to sound in black and white... this kid can listen in 3d 4k

[@ericwilhelm2941]

Rick , your beautiful smile at the end when your son just 'killed' it again. What great and proud Papa you are.

[@TubeTootle]

very impressive, the physical ability to recognize exact pitches even when they are combined in extremely complex chords. something many non-so-endowed musicians struggle all their lives to hone. since he can do this at such a young age, I greatly look forward to the added skills he will have when his current talent is infused with musical knowledge. BEST TO YOU!

[@Resiliencebalado]

WOW I'm freaking impressed! He is an absolute musical genious!

[@RicoJazz]

Amazing! And please don't forget to teach him how to swing, with rhythm and soul, and how to keep it simple and tasty. Let's remember Ray Charles, Count Basie, Wynton Kelly, Hank Jones, Teddy Wilson, Jimmy Smith, and so many others who with simplicity and rhythm have managed to touch our souls deeply. Thank you for your work!

[@RickBeato]

Thanks Flakey!

[@travelingman9763]

Rick knows who the best are who have those qualities! he just is open to all great musics! Most with great ears don't become Innovators...Not enough life experiences especially as Black folks in Amerikkka who were already talented!

[@reallyreallyryan]

Heheheh. No matter where I get to musically, I'll always have you and your son to put the fear of god into me musically. Ludicrous!

[@RickBeato]

Haha!! Awesome:)

[@skan8]

I remember having pitch training with my parrents.A lot of single notes , major minor chords and intervals ,but i never trained with advanced chords like in the videos,so today I have exelent single note and interval recognition,but having trouble picking out the notes from chrords that have more than 3 tones .

[@MAGNETO-i1i]

holy shit.

[@iamjimgroth]

Shruk Now there's the comment that captured my reaction perfectly.

[@DavidFilskov]

Unbelievable! - I hope this boy enjoys music immensely. With his talent he can have a terrific life if he loves music :)

[@judenihal]

I am also born with this perfect pitch gift. I am going to use this special ability to recreate music and make them my own. Everyone with perfect pitch should.

[@DaviBeliche]

1:07 That laugh when your boy is an amazing child

[@citlanstudioandacademyadba3863]

Found this post on FB. Wow!!! I also want to note, I met a blind girl, named Barbie, who was very adept to this as well. She could tell you what pitch your fridge was humming. I sang with Barbie in a vocal group called Traces out of Salt Lake City back in the early 90s. I wonder where she is these days.

[@mariaromeropavia3560]

OMG in spanish we say B R U T A L !!!!! which is more than extraordinary, amazing, exceptional, fantastic, incredible, marvelous altogether.

[@TheDucatiDads]

Absolutely mind blowing, great job.

[@jetblackkinks]

JESUS CHRIST...a musical genius

[@DD-ls9sr]

any negative comments on here is pure ignorance... jealousy...envy....people who don't even have the guts to show their face on their channel, have negative comments..... lol...at least show your face. This is an incredible family.

[@RickBeato]

Thanks David!

[@jamesm.3967]

The poor child will never get away with not remembering to do his homework.

[@Welcome-to-your-life]

what is this unearthly magic!

[@OysterWallace]

... I should probably just give up on my theory studies, this kid is lightyears ahead of anyone out right now.

[@js2749]

Rick Beato You are a wonderful father.

[@chloemillar9560]

i cant wait for him to grow up and see what this musical genius will come up with in the future :)

[@jamesgriffin4474]

I wish I was able to learn so young like him. This is incredible. I've got so much work to do.

[@tunes4toons]

Absolutely incredible. I know just enough about music to be amazed by this. But not much more than that. Is he applying music theory to answer your questions?

[@tunes4toons]

Ha! I just watched HTDPP-Part 2 and know now what a fundamentally silly question this is. But I'm impressed I know enough about music to even ask it. I never cease to be amazed at the complexity of the human brain. Your son's ability and YOUR ability to develop it AND explain it with the degree of detail using biology and research blows my mind. Thanks for sharing your gifts and hard work.

[@RickBeato]

Thanks Sheila! You're very welcome :)

[@GehrimiahThrrapIII]

and the father of the century award goes to.... Rick Beatooooo!!! 👋

[@smuffjules]

I want to see him play some music!! He obviously has what it takes! Outstanding ear.

[@RickBeato]

There are some other videos on this channel of him playing.

[@BzzzZzzZTt]

Amazing! Quite the prodigy you are developing there.

[@recoil669]

what a god.

[@ThreeNineLine]

Wonderful...simply wonderful!

[@BANHMIZON]

When I was younger I could do this really easily. Then I woke up.

[@EdwardVincent-c5w]

Me, sitting here in my home office, all by myself, in tears. My wife coming down the stairs is going to wonder if I'm ok.

[@UkuleleAversion]

How does Dylan feel about his abilities?

[@RickBeato]

He couldn't care less :) True

[@BerlinerinToni]

@@RickBeato He will when he's a teenager! 😁

[@camblokland]

This is getting ridiculous! Go Dylan.

[@bekacynthia]

I'm in love with this boy! I subscribed!

[@controlledburst]

Holy smokes this is amazing.

[@jaycayuca9866]

This little boy is a genius!

[@andrewolivetreemixing]

Love that kid!!! You're a great dad!

[@martinaraujo7648]

Hi! Amazing! Rick, I was wondering if Dylan has the ability to say when a sound is in a frecuency that match a note, por example if he hears a oscilator going up gradually from 440Hz (A) to 493Hz (B), he know when it is in 466Hz (A#)?

[@BITCOIlN]

The thing is that kid's rich dad let him have access to all those musical instruments when average kid's can't and taught him all of this, not many children have such opportunities because their parents are poor and stupid.

[@RickBeato]

Haha! Rich dad I'm not. All I needed to teach Dylan was a small stereo and music to play him.I just interacted with him. You don't need to be rich to do that. You just need patience and dedication. He doesn't play anything but piano so what difference do instruments make?

[@bezetuba]

you can't train an ear like that you have to be born with it. Also with music talent, it's not always about opportunities. Read about great musicians from the past. If "rich dad" would be enough to create such talend we would have Mozarts and Bethovens all over the place.

[@RickBeato]

+bezetuba You can absolutely train it kzbin.info/www/bejne/faCsoJmEiMyYftU. You can only do it in the first 2 years of life when kids are acquiring language.

[@bezetuba]

Didnt know that, my bad, thanks for interesting info! Kid is great anyways :)

[@som3thingelse217]

surely after that point u can still train it, the learning process is just less efficient?

[@gustavomacanhao2074]

Amazing!! Does he like to hear simple stuff too? Like Black Sabbath, or even Ramones? I wonder if his superperception alone has an influence over that. Go Dylan!!!

[@RickBeato]

ACDC, Led Zeppelin, The Stones, Beatles, he likes a lot of rock music.

[@kimosabi860]

What was that I just witnessed? Amazing!!!

[@elizabethnjoki4912]

Mind blowing!🤯

[@tyson666999]

truely amazing

[@tforsell]

Phenomenal! You both rock!

[@slugerama]

I think I worked out what is going on. So a note is one finger striking one key, a chord is several fingers striking several keys at the same time? Is that correct or should I just give up trying to even understand music and just appreciate the music itself ? :)

[@AP-fo5cf]

Yes, that's basically what it is.

[@vedik101]

Well done! Brian. I think you might be ready for lesson 2 in our class of "The long and windy road to musical appreciation. Ch.2 What are instruments?

[@sc1ss0r1ng]

Brian McGovern Well yeah, but chords usually has to have 3 notes or more in them to be considered a real chord. Otherwise it is half chords or power chords using only 2 notes like the root and the perfect 5th or the the root and the major/minor 3rd. Chords are mainly built by having a root (starting) note, then you will add a major or minor 3rd and then a perfect 5th and voila, you have either a major or minor chord (depending on which 3rd you used). Some chords add extra notes from the scale and so can have many more notes in them like for example: root, major 3rd, perfect 5th, major 7th, perfect 11th (actually the 4th but an octave higher than the root note), and we can keep adding notes until we think it becomes too thick/chaotic. This kid does seem to have an amazing ability to seperate the notes from each other in a chord, even extended chords, which is outright insane (in a good way). I can pretty much only identify some intervals in a song, like if they go from the major 7th to the octave, from the root to the 5th, from the root to the major 7th, from the 2nd to the root and of course, the octave jump.

[@ConnorArchibald]

I like to think of it as 2 notes played at the same time make a harmonic interval (some people call that a dyad). 3 harmonic notes make a triad, or chord. more than 3 notes make a specific chord. 6, 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords are more than 3 notes so they are not a triad.

[@KianKun]

I'm astonished with his skill! I've been trying to work on my ear training for so long but I've gotten no where near this!

[@hero303-gameplayindonesia8]

You're probably not gonna read this and if you are, you probably already knew that perfect pitch is mostly something you're born with.

[@rmzzz76]

Hi Rick, I've watched some of the videos on Dylan's amazing abilities. Was his perfect pitch a natural born gift or did you take specific steps during his early years to help him develop this? If the later is true you MUST create a program to enable parents to give their children this gift. Seriously, not only could you make bank but you would giving a wonderful gift to a world who largely believes perfect pitch must be an inherent ability.

[@seppomuppit]

Skynet has arrived.

[@ablestmage]

Keep your channel going -- you're sure to break it big soon I imagine :-3

[@JordanBartholme]

That fucking smile tho at 0:57 like, yeah, my boy done good!!!

[@JordanBartholme]

Actually, try 0:55

[@Iusebandages]

I need to know the exact process for how Dylan became the god of listening

[@betheguy8888]

You should get him into brass instruments, he'd be a prodigy for sure. Takes a lot of ear to play.

[@ShirleyDeeDesigns]

Mind blown! 😮

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Now it's time for whole tones. Let's see if he can get 134 megahertz.

[@faizfadhilr7419]

woah! very nice👍👍, btw indomusikgram brought me here😁

[@vidtaminc5049]

An indo detected 😄

[@x1PMac1x]

If this is real, hopefully he will use this to create some great orchestral or ensemble music when he grows up. Who knows? He might not even want to do music later in life, but he has an amazing start to easily make it a career.

[@tiagofusco]

Awesome.

[@AdrianDurning]

Amazing

[@0192-w9x]

Genius

[@dlucasgalt]

You guy's are awesome!

[@hionthemountain]

A GENIUS

[@BlizzardSatan]

That was amazing.

[@AtomicsaOMG]

wow awesome!

[@currysteph]

amazing ear

[@sk8rdad]

I love him

[@Kiproll26]

I can't believe a House episode came to life and was better than the show. if somebody missed the reference, it's from the episode called Half-Wit, I think.

[@chasetherightenergy]

damn, that kid is talented!

[@Ndo01]

Just insane.

[@dogdream5414]

Un-febucking-lievable. ❤

[@rognondidju2526]

D A C ⚜️

[@HarryS77]

Have you introduced him to the music of Ben Johnston or Harry Partch? It'd be interesting to see what he could do with a more complex system. He can already do everything in 12tet.

[@ElectricToast2099]

very cool

[@ericwilhelm2941]

aaaaahhhhhh Debussy..........................Die Schwere 🙂 the Double Poly Chord

[@mikerotch4946]

Wow! You should really be proud of your children if he can do this. How did you train him or he was born with this ability? Ps. sorry about my bad english, is it not my native language.

[@NogorianChant]

a little of both from what I've gathered. Natural talent cultivated to full potential with dad's help

[@LudwigvanBeethoven2]

Is there any way to make him lose? Your son is a legend

[@sc1ss0r1ng]

Hello Rick. Amazing display of your son's ability to identify and "re-play" the notes, I am stunned. I know this might sound stupid, but would he be able to identify an Augmented Chord with a Diminished Chord added an octave higher? (B D# G B D F) And is he able to listen to songs and replicate them after a few times? (In case he is, I was wondering how hard a song such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Chromatic Fugue & Fantasy in D Minor would be to replicate?) All the best to you guys, have a good day and keep it up!

[@RickBeato]

Patrick Skovgaard He can identify any type of chords. Here are the for your training videos that we put out in the past year kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKq5iXaHo7ySqrc

[@RickBeato]

Patrick Skovgaard this video is probably the easiest one that he did. Thanks! Rick

[@sc1ss0r1ng]

Awesome, thanks for answering and have a good day.

[@davest.pierre]

awesome

[@SonnySurreal]

Very impressive. Can he detect small changes in pitch, like let's say 10 cents off, or if you changed the A to 442 instead if you didn't tell him? Just curious to what degree his hearing is at.. awesome skills!

[@RickBeato]

Yes but he doesn't think that way. It's difficult to explain but when something is out of tune to A=440 he just assumes that it was meant to be that way. I said him the other day, "do you notice that the pitch is a bit sharp in this recording" and he said "how would I know, I've never heard it before" that's pretty profound and shows you that he's not working off the grid. That's my music that is not in A=440 doesn't bother him at all.

[@SonnySurreal]

When you say 'meant to be that way,' does that mean he knows that the notes are off standard tuning, but does not perceive it as dissonant (out of tune)? So for instance, you could play 24 notes on the piano at the same time, and have 3 keys slightly off standard tuning, and he could identify exactly which 3 notes are off standard tuning? That would be an incredible feat if so..

[@RickBeato]

+Sonny Trinh When Dylan was a baby we listen to music from all different eras much of which was tuned above A=440 or below A=440. For example, a lot of European classical and jazz music is tuned to 442-445. Glenn Gould's Recording of Bach's two and three part inventions for example are about six cents sharp from standard tuning. So if you ask him to sing that recording he will sing it slightly sharp because that's the way he heard it on the recording. He's not locked to a grid where it bothers him if something is above or below it. That's why he said "we'll maybe it was meant to be that way".

[@jurgenwesser2894]

so intelligent, so cute OMG

[@amundtotland6872]

absolutely crazy! So cool! are you ever actually able to stump him?

[@RickBeato]

Thanks Amund- If he doesn't do this for a couple months, he will occasionally miss a note by a 5th. It's only when part of a chord. The day after he does that, it's back to flawless. We never actually work on this "ear training" very much but I am trying to work on his sight reading on the piano and this is helping it a bit.

[@biorythmicshifter]

This kid scares me.

[@Megatronpt]

Me crying rn... :D

[@jazzsax8Vlad]

so adorable kid )

[@rasalas91]

Can Dylan recognize all colors? just trying to find something so that I don't feel like this awesome little boy is way better than me in like everything :P

[@thakill100]

Life being unfair as fuck as usual

[@LAHegarty]

The perent lotto.

[@dhm_btz6504]

and i thought i had a good ear

[@UniversumPL]

Jezus....

[@robersniper]

My god...

[@brucet9799]

Next time give Dylan a microphone, The piano is too loud. I know he's right, but if he went a bit slower, you could add closed captions when uploading, and that would be luxury!

[@OdindeSa]

Jacob collier vs Dylan . Which meta human wins The worlds greatest ear challenge?

[@RickBeato]

+Odin de Sa Jacob is 23 Dylan is 10.

[@TheRealJerseyJoe]

Bloody Hell ! (I quit....)

[@jfo3000]

Rick, is Dylan's mom also a musician? A super-intelligent musician?

[@CWetmore1349]

Can someone tell me what kind of chord that first one is? It haunts my dreams and I want use that sort of chord in my own compositions. Thanks!

[@RickBeato]

F# Aeolian. Watch some of my model videos and you’ll learn about these kind of sounds. Thanks!

[@Velimattiranta]

Can i buy you ba istrument+bWhat is amy would you do? Barbara steisand songs?

[@Jefferson-ly5qe]

I kinda feel sorry for the kid. I hope he spends some time playing outside away from the piano!

[@therocksolide]

Wow ❤❤🔥🔥