Stop Making Charlie Puth Demonstrate Perfect Pitch

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Charlie Puth has to go through so many interviews where people just want him to use his perfect pitch like it's a magic trick and it's honestly got to be super annoying for him. How this interview should have gone: 7:36
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[@ichigo8153]

the interviewer going 'wow!....wow!...' without even letting charlie finish his sentence.... this man checked out years ago and hasnt come back since

[@Succer]

Lmao

[@MusixPro4u]

"this man checked out years ago" LOL

[@tattletalestrangler7815]

13:15 Dude, when he’s cutting him off with the “wow...wow...” Charlie puth let out a pretty disheartened “yeah..” :/

[@1classikai]

Charlie’s actually trying to teach something he’s passionate about and the interviewer is just... not willing to learn anything. He’s just like “Look I didn’t come here for you to teach me aight now let’s bang some glass”

[@1classikai]

Tattletale Strangler I know exactly how Charlie feels. I’ve been in that situation before. The interviewer clearly feels like he’s being made to look like an idiot but that’s literally not what’s happening, and he doesn’t have to just interrupt Charlie like that just to save his own pride

[@meller7303]

Interviewer: Shows blue Me: blue. Interviewer *pikachu face*

[@onceupxn]

👏

[@hamiltonatthedisco8823]

That's NUTS!

[@Mrs.Munchiana]

MAJOR TALENT PEOPLE!

[@foodweirdo9118]

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[@c_jade]

Holy crap 😲

[@kingsolitair657]

Charlie is being so polite but like the guy is being kinda rude with some of the responses

[@realitities2]

The problem is the interviewer is just a guy with a good on screen presence (he is enthusiastic, brings energy, is very personable etc) but hes not an interviewer. As soon as the person hes talking to says anything unexpected, all he knows how to do is ramp up the energy, which is how you get these brainless responses where hes like "YOURE BLOWING MY MIND, THIS IS MY GUY RIGHT HERE" Like hed be great at hosting a show where he does an intro and gets the audience engaged before someone else does the actual interview. He just wasnt prepared at all to have anything close to a conversation, or even just to listen

[@WarXie]

I agree Charlie is cool

[@entertain7us148]

the way the interviewer turns to the camera to look 'amazed' while charlie's talking is honestly kinda rude, even objectifying. even if he is very talented, no one wants to be treated as a dancing monkey. just have a conversation with him about music.

[@Kinobambino]

@@realitities2 he couldn't even listen

[@abhishekperi7399]

Interviewer : How many sides does a triangle have Normal Person : 3 Interviewer : TALENTT !!!!!

[@jasonsnusberry3654]

Interviewer: I DIDN'T KNOW A TRIAD WAS THREE NOTES?!?!?!? GENIUS!!

[@LordOblivion2007]

Ryan George: people have different opinions on that, I'm not going to sit here and debate, what I DO know is that rectangles have proven time and time again-

[@GabriTell]

I guess that for people who don't have a Perfect Pitch, this is so impressive... I discovered I have Perfect Pitch so recently, but I've never taken Music classes, and I started to learn the name of the notes a week ago. Anyway, I can already hit every note, but I take more time to think, and I don't feel as Power-Full as Charlie yet (but well, time to time). But to be fair, most people aren't that accurate naming Colours (divide the chromatic wheel by 12, and you won't know exactly the name of all of them)... Just think about this: -X: _"So, what Colour is this?"_ -Y: _"This is _*_«Purple»"_* -X: _"This is not _*_«Purple»,_*_ this is _*_«Magenta-Violet»,_*_ so I guess you don't have Perfect Colour... sorry"_ You get what I mean? It's just... that, and we Perfect Pitch people have to learn exactly every tone of "Colour" to prove that we have it.

[@Clark98]

Charlie: "JUST STUDY." Yes babe. THIS.

[@Bubdiddly]

Ew don’t call him babe like that ew

[@draevonmay7704]

Bubdiddly Ok babe, whatever you say

[@sci_pain3409]

Bubdiddly sure babe

[@catiosis]

You can’t get perfect pitch from studying it you need to gain it before ur like 7

[@poojasoman2205]

LMAO, You learn the c major triad in Grade 1 piano.

[@pantrymonster]

That dude was just a bad interviewer. Like, at least try to engage with the person you're interviewing

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

I honestly wonder if part of it was just the fact that they were super crunched for time and he was nervous

[@eric1393]

Agreed! The best interviewers are the best at listening to the people they're talking to, and are able to know when to toss the script.

[@guileteemgowitevryteeng1711]

Or he knew his audience had a very short attention span and weren’t watching for any “education” or depth

[@sonata7204]

I feel like the people behind the camera were telling him what to do

[@wamsly2334]

Thank you for pointing out that a lot of people don’t understand music and they literally treat it like a magic trick.

[@randomguy4781]

charlie puth: "E G C which is first inversion of a C major triad" interviewer: TALENT I cringed so hard. it's just basic music theory.

[@alphax101-gaming2]

OMFG same

[@ohmmishra4551]

Charlie is like just study 😂 (if u listened carefully)

[@AnimalLover-yy1ml]

dude its like grade 3 stuff

[@rashmiperceval3471]

Like I knew that since I started piano and I definitely don’t have perfect pitch

[@GameyGaming]

Literally that unenthusiastic “I jUst sTudiEd” is golden

[@beng2617]

God I thought I was the only one who felt this way about that stupid interview

[@Colbyyt]

Ben G same dude

[@Theoneandonlyenelie]

I have perfect pitch and it gets really annoying sometimes

[@Misthallow]

@@Theoneandonlyenelie yeah I cant imagine getting asked to "name this pitch" or whatever constantly

[@nickducos3164]

Theoneandonlyenelie dude it gets SO OLD after like a single test bc at that point I just feel like a guinea pig that people poke and prod

[@YRTEverything]

@@nickducos3164 now you know how retractable pens feel.

[@mikanchan322]

Charlie: just study and you can know a lot about mu- Interviewer: GENIUSES ARE BORN NOT CREATED

[@jkimmyloser]

Oni Giri YES. We need Brett and Eddy to watch this. Poor Charlie.

[@ayana9490]

Jess KL eddy has perfect pitch right ?

[@ricericebaby6881]

@@ayana9490 yup

[@yorkvonsydow3428]

I see you, twoset subscriber

[@Matti0503]

Twoset are everywhere

[@sydhamelin1265]

For my show, we will have Einstein identify squares from circles. Then, he's going to look at shapes, and say whether or not they are numbers!

[@StefaanHimpe]

Here's an idea: make it really hard on him and throw in a random triangle.

[@ana7icia]

Stefaan Himpe no, no way. that would be too difficult

[@Kinobambino]

@@StefaanHimpe really making it a challenge

[@benceszasz967]

In what metric?

[@n0xx42]

Oh, that's so accurate!

[@beegeesromero3476]

He triggered me when Charlie was talking about the different inversions of the C chord and CALLED IT A TALENT BRUHH. ITS CALLED MUSIC THEORY 😭

[@vigilancebrandon3888]

Charlie is desperately trying to add actual interesting information and he is just getting steamrolled by this interviewer

[@rafaelavalentini4686]

The interviewer is making Charlie look like someone who calls salt "sodium chloride" when he's just trying add something valuable in the video, but the guy keeps going like "OK NERD LOL"

[@karimdrissi3892]

Jimmy neutron fan I see

[@rafaelavalentini4686]

@@karimdrissi3892 I see you are a person of culture as well

[@vahlah5205]

It's like he's being testing on how to walk

[@vigilancebrandon3888]

ERICK BALTAZAR RUIZ yeah I commented this before I reached that part - sorry for the inconvenience

[@DrewGulliver]

The combination of Charlie Puth’s faces and your commentary about how stupid the interviewer was made this hilariously educational

[@rewindoffical5280]

Drew Gulliver why are you everywhere?

[@DrewGulliver]

Good guy here Man on a mission I mean yeah. If I walked into NASA and pretended like I knew about rocket science and treated the astronauts and scientists like that then I would be pretty freaking stupid 😂

[@DrewGulliver]

Mr. Rewind 2 honestly just because I just really love music and KZbin haha sorry 🤗 especially Charles tbh

[@thiagomoreno3364]

@Good guy here Man on a mission Yes, but it's not the case, the interviewer got to make a 10 min video with one of the biggest artists nowadays, and decided to make it about his perfect pitch, the only thing he needed to do was google it, he didn't even bother.. As a result you get this kind of interviews, with no meaning at all, wasted potential...

[@Jellysfrickingstuff]

Interviewer wasn’t stupid, just didn’t know anything about music. Doesn’t make somebody stupid

[@celumbral9334]

"most of us don't hear pitch in perfect color" *laughs in synesthesia*

[@spicynoodles1111]

I dont know anyone who has synesthesia but I find it fascinating. Y'all see sound? I love it. I absolutely love it.

[@celumbral9334]

@@spicynoodles1111 for me it's like i hear colors, which is why i can tell if something is out of tune. for example, the note B flat is indigo but if it's too blue then it's flat and if it's too purple then it's sharp. very helpful as a trumpet player.

[@CraigaliciouslyCraig]

@@celumbral9334 that's actually very interesting

[@natestach7650]

I love that Charlie got so bored that he just started playing with his mouth halfway through

[@mrleaf6055]

and the interviewer just said "WOW!"

[@jonahmays]

T A L E N T

[@emmabnormal2582]

When they say they're 'testing' his perfect pitch, it's like they don't believe perfect pitch actually exists and think he's faking it.

[@TheUKNutter]

A lot of people don’t. They think it’s just excessive, obsessive memorisation of notes and chords.

[@batcarpet1225]

@@TheUKNutter it seemed like charlie was saying a lot of his skill comes from that type of studying, and his insane talent only added to that.

[@TheUKNutter]

batcarpet12 Or he doesn’t understand what *not* having perfect pitch is like. After all, music is a complete different world with it - like a transformation. I should know, I have it also. I tend to keep that quiet though unless someone asks.

[@jackorion7157]

I can understand why you wouldn't believe someone who says they have perfect pitch. Everyone in the comments says they have perfect pitch I don't believe any of them. They want him to demonstrate it because it's very impressive

[@mariokarter13]

I just keep imagining my high school music teacher laughing the interviewer out of the room.

[@evahirsch7363]

Charlie: * explains a very, very basic C major triad in first inversion * Interviewer: OMG TALENT Charlie: ...just study

[@jblue1622]

Eva Hirsch wow this should actually be something we study in elementary school like colors so then we’d all just be walking around with understanding pitch like it’s nothing

[@__jan]

@@jblue1622 you're right, i think there are more people with perfect pitch than we know of, because you still need training to know what pitch is being played. If nobody told you that the color red is called red, if somebody shows you that color, you can't tell them what it is, but you can tell them it isn't the same as blue.

[@abbye6082]

I don’t have perfect pitch and I know that’s just basic theory 😆

[@SlayPlenty]

40hours

[@mandyone2263]

It's like just let the man speak, he's actually making your show vaguely interesting but instead you keep cutting him off for no reason

[@glenndiddy]

Eddy from 2setviolin has perfect pitch as well, his demonstration of it was really impressive to me. He could recognize a random cluster of notes

[@n0xx42]

Yeah, those are made of individual sounds that are not hard to identify. Like when you see a rainbow or can name all the colors on your shirt

[@TameyTaming]

I got P.P. too, it’s difficult to name notes going by fast or clustered together. Again with the color comparison, it’s like either flashing epileptic lights or showing a big mushy blob of different colors, then asking you to name all them

[@n0xx42]

@@TameyTaming Sure, if it's too fast, but still if you already have it it's possible to improve this skill by training :)

[@TameyTaming]

@@n0xx42 oh yeah forgot about p r a c t i c e

[@n0xx42]

@@TameyTaming practice makes perfect :)

[@forgettable8365]

9:48 “oh no” in a tritone

[@l.e.clights2757]

Charlie looks so tired of everything

[@renthehag]

He was smiling but his eyes were just dead 💀

[@interestingboyo790]

Mood

[@julianleil7847]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2OTd5WhrryBidk

[@EricGomesOficial]

Charlie has perfect pitch, it's a huge fan of jazz piano and those kind of things, he plays piano very well, but... he made pop music, and you see that he don't like too much his songs

[@pauldavidson2415]

Funny Funny must be hard being a millionaire

[@andrademarianna]

charlie: looks at the camera like he’s on the office

[@helenefjrgard452]

M. Yeeeees

[@94Ninsound94]

His soul looking for help

[@harryxiro]

lol

[@drsusig]

Which Charlie.

[@rudolphdandelion6840]

Jim

[@wamsly2334]

Why does musical knowledge only equal “talent” while literally anything else would be knowledge. You don’t go to a mechanic and be like wow, you know so much about engines and ur ability to do math is just talent! People, stop trying to relate to music when u don’t know what ur talking about. It’s annoyying

[@mamathaahemanth6276]

omg rightttttttt

[@theevermind]

"You're able to see the colors, and recognize them in an instant." Blue/white dress: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!"

[@GDWhiting]

this is like picking a blind person to interview a painter

[@GavinTaylorMusic]

ProjectGabe facts lmao

[@AmericanMose]

Boom, roasted.

[@Joey.S]

More like a colorblind person, but yeah, true

[@adintyaannasaidhiakharisma5202]

its like asking what color is apple to normal people

[@Officialseancaballero]

Oof I named the color as notes 😂😂

[@itsCronch]

*plays sound* Charlie: *gives answer* Presenter: o_0 Charlie: *starts to educate listeners* Presenter: ahah anyway next sound (edit: hot smokes 7k likes. Tysm!!! )

[@jimmyneutron4632]

And it makes me sad EVERY TIME

[@srinblmlmlke]

OllyTheCrosslop I want him to make a youtube channel and share his knowledge

[@tropic6159]

o_O

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Lmao

[@leonlefox5174]

Das alte ungespielt bild 😍

[@meable3763]

Charlie: oh Charles: *dies of laughter*

[@julialavernoich7224]

Watching this is like "Saoirse Ronan being asked about her hard-to-pronounce name for 5 minutes straight" levels of irritation

[@JasondePlater]

Interviewer: “I’m here with my buddy, Charlie” Charlie... *You’re not my buddy*

[@user-cw2rp2zk6x]

Interviewer: *WOW*

[@sxnxqa2335]

Interviewer: TALENT

[@ciaindeed8657]

I got the South Park reference there. Nice move.

[@JoachiBukay]

I can name farm animals without thinking.

[@gryphka]

T A L E N T

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

holy shit.

[@Joshua-pp2bf]

What is it

[@interestingboyo790]

Harvard: *Yo, you want a muthafuqqin scholarship?????*

[@TiagoNugentComposer]

HOW

[@antoniedekoning9436]

When he called him a genius and talented for knowing what a first inversion is of a triad... I can't with these Hype Queens

[@riccsan1884]

I wish charlie starts a youtube channel that teaches music production

[@aprilfarence4679]

He does some basic quick stuff like that on Tiktok

[@Papayaaa27]

Honestly the most impressive thing about Charlie is his patience in dealing with so much bullshit

[@jchung5066]

Is that pie i see?

[@Papayaaa27]

@@jchung5066 indeed it is!

[@eemansuhail]

@@Papayaaa27 oog-

[@unknownsoldier75]

Maya I don’t think much can really bother him since he’s making millions. He can’t really complain

[@Papayaaa27]

@@unknownsoldier75 eh, things like unwanted attention aren't fun for anyone

[@Xaelium]

“just study” LMAO dude charlie was trying so hard to tell us the importance of theory and this man was like “wow awesome cool perfect pitch lmao first inversion super cool”

[@query5498]

Yes ikr that's like grade 4/5 theory XD

[@Uanbit]

@@query5498 what is "ikr"/

[@randomman3]

@@Uanbit Ikr = I know right

[@CarlosParra_ofc]

Charles: *plays C* Me, looking at the keyboard: That's a C! I guess I have perfect pitch too.

[@mariaa_cj]

A sound is played Charlie: That's a G Interviewer: tAlEnT *Charlie trying not too laugh*

[@beng2617]

People who know nothing about music need to stop trying to decide who has musical talent lmfao

[@mariosuena]

I get where you’re coming from but i have to disagree, I don’t have to have any formal knowledge in the culinary arts to say that a chef ramsay restaurant is better than olive garden

[@amihere383]

@@mariosuena I work at olive garden. Can confirm.

[@TailRunnerOPSpec]

@@mariosuena There's a difference between Food and Music. You can disagree but you are wrong.

[@forsaken696]

Mario I agree

[@bishhsasspusi2904]

@@TailRunnerOPSpec You missed the point, but we can let it slide.

[@kkeennddaall]

charlie looks like a kid whos being majorly talked up by his parents to other parents while hes there but is SEVERELY uncomfortable with it bc hes been taught to always be humble and that pride is a sin

[@Fluff_Noodles]

Wow I feel called out

[@bolucky564]

Oddly specific

[@salemmuhammad3536]

Wanna say something?

[@byront2115]

the difference is Charlie is forced to just stand there naming notes and chords as if he was some kind of clown entertaining the audience

[@jpm199]

I've seen him awkwardly bring up his perfect pitch so i don't think he feels the pain of sinning by having pride

[@seriouschuckles5015]

Hot Take: Good relative pitch can get you just as far as perfect pitch. It just takes longer to train.

[@somone124]

Definetivly. I hate the concept that if you're not born with a perfect pitch, you can never be a good musican, that's bullshit. I feel like it's main use for musicans anyways is just being a cheat code for never having to train relative pitch

[@eeurr1306]

No it cant. Relative pitch will never be as fast as perfect pitch no matter how much you practice intervals. Its like trying to guess red and blue by going from red to magenta and then to blue or from red to magenta to purple and then to blue.

[@bareakon]

I feel like if you wanna test someone's perfect pitch, you'd use microtonal notes. Like testing the amazing colour-identifier by giving a more complex colour and asking them for the exact hex code.

[@Capero10]

On what pitch is Charlie's internal pain and suffering during this interview?

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

Fb

[@TheOriginalMaudlin]

@@CharlesCornellStudios E# even?

[@xsuspect_legendx2370]

@@CharlesCornellStudios c augmented

[@matzesfun]

i call it the blackberry notification sound

[@addinator6535]

Bdim

[@laBoogy]

Charlie: well actually here’s a really interesting fact about this note or chord Interviewer: tHaT’s ThE fAcEbOoK sOuNd On mY bLaCkBeRrY Charlie: :/

[@scottredman6255]

LMAAAAO

[@worldof2ndfluteclarinet353]

He does that to himself, people have got to understand that all of that explanation that he's trying to give to a person with absolutely no musical experience is irrelevant, (this coming from a Music Major). It looks like you're trying to show off to people

[@lnuma92]

@@worldof2ndfluteclarinet353 This, THIS a thousand times. Everytime I've mentioned this with people who HAPPEN to be Charlie Puth fan would call me a hater when I'd say this. Watching his interviews from when he was younger until now, he always kept making his Perfect Pitch his very identity. Now all of a sudden he doesn't want to be identified as that now. Take away his Perfect Pitch and he's no different from any other producer that's in the industry now. As much as sure, it's an exceptional gift to have, but now it makes me less and less empathetic of him. Like, even as a Music Production student I *wouldn't* even want to intern for him because of how obnoxious he'd be.

[@worldof2ndfluteclarinet353]

@@lnuma92 OMG FInally, someone who agrees with me, and I'm not trying to come for Charlie or his music but, you can't get mad at someone who asks you to demonstrate something when you constantly bring it up and mention it

[@sonofagun4125]

Isn't he just trying to do his part to make the interview interesting? He's a musician, being asked to demonstrate something musical, and you're asking him to...NOT talk about music?

[@SuperJoker115]

"2+2=4" "Holy shit you should work at nasa" "Jus study"

[@mochidomo]

"You're able to see the entire spectrum of colors and recognize what it is." I raise you the dress of 2015.

[@noonethatyouknow5555]

Charlie: * knows music theory * interviewer: THAT IS TALENT charlie: I mean nah I just kinda studied

[@MarsWien]

That part killed me inside a bit. That is one of the first things you ever come across when you start studying music theory.

[@hunhunhaha]

But then British got talent would say you just studied as a music student but not talent

[@roset2810]

kid under 18: charlie: “that’s a minor”

[@breezy589]

ros e ahhhh i get it 💀

[@Ella-px1xw]

I laughed and I'm ashamed

[@roowithapencil]

this is underrated man 💀😂

[@hunterchall]

😂😂😂😂

[@exosproudmamabear558]

The interviewer: That's exactly what a perfect pitch is

[@TovaHolmberger]

Charlie Puth: demonstrates basic music theory knowledge Interviewer: TALENT, ladies and gentlemen!!!!! Imagine your music theory professor being like that interviewer, what an easy ride

[@TechnicianX]

That note Charlie said was between a C and a C#, closer to C#, was totally correct. I have good ears and awesome relative pitch, but I didn’t know it was flat until you played it on your keyboard. It’s just like tuning a guitar. The note from the video was definitely a few cents short of a C#, Charlie called that. Tbh, I was a lil sad you said it was their production team cause it was actually the most impressive feat in the entire interview. Just like you said, after they gave him the first note, everything else can be done with just relative pitch, not perfect pitch. But the ‘C#’? To be able to call that it was a few cents flat WITHOUT hearing a C# at the same time, or a C or D for close reference, that is most impressive. Likely unknown to their production team, possibly not even knowing the pitch was a few cents flat, they gave him a real perfect pitch test that he probably hasn’t been given (intentionally) before.

[@kaapporaivio]

Dude just embarrassed himself without anyone's help

[@landedeagle69]

I checked the note I heard on the piano and it was C#.

[@Kevin-gh9fm]

Charlie: C major triad Absolutely no one: *Interviewer* : TALENT

[@caitlynford3001]

Charlie: “Just study”

[@G0hrx]

"the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" "Talent, ladies and gentlemen!" "Just study"

[@Cologram]

Lyu-Shan “Slope Intercept Form is y=mx+b” “Talent, ladies and gentlemen” “just study”

[@eternalwhispersofthewind5714]

Lyu-Shan 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s all I learned from science class this year I swear

[@eternalwhispersofthewind5714]

Cologram I just learned about that in math... tho I still don’t rlly understand it bc I was absent that day...

[@krystalb661]

Eໄerກaໃ ຟhiຮperຮ ວໂ ໄhe ຟiກປ I can help if you want :)

Robloxian highschool...

[@petertrotman7708]

The interviewer reactions is the reason Pop music sounds the way it does today. Everybody wants to do music but nobody wants to learn it. Puth is wasted in Pop music. I've just subscribed, keep up the good work.

[@ichbrauchmehrkaffee5785]

9:06 I literally let out a very intense sigh of internal suffering, when he said "tALeNT"

[@louisbrodkin]

The host be like: oH lOrDy JeSuS iT’s A gOd GiVeN tAlEnT Charlie be like: I just study

[@simont390]

I mean you can't actually study for perfect pitch...

[@xRezNikoraptor]

I think Charlie meant the inversion

[@jmsolano0516]

@@simont390 he wasnt referring to the perfect pitch

[@davidchango8910]

He was born with it he says so

[@watchingmars]

yee, you can only learn relative pitch, but you can only be born with perfect pitch. cAnT rELaTE.

[@JimbyVibes]

Conclusion: There’s no such thing as Perfect Pitch, just everyone else is colorblind in the ears

[@stahppls2293]

To be fair most people don't have perfect sight. In Pantone they have to take a yearly color eye test to check their color accuracy and they fluctuate from year to year but the "entrance exam" is difficult for most people

[@jaredvecchio]

Oh my god. Hilarious

[@gouzacastro7293]

Blind by the ears

[@fuckthis1969]

@@stahppls2293 I'm slightly colorblind without wearing my glasses for some reason.

[@fuckthis1969]

Then again, I'm slightly blind too.

[@fluffigverbimmelt]

"Talent!11!1" "Just study..." Holy shit, that burn is insane

[@isaiahbishop8999]

The analogy you give to perfect pitch with the colors is the most simple explanation i have come across ever. Whenever someone asks about how my perfect pitch works, I now always give them the colors analogy and then compare that to perfect pitch. Thank you for making my life easier!

[@gumbygames4396]

This is why you need a musician, or at least someone who has a little background in music, to interview musicians.

[@erikan.n8409]

Specially when you're going to be talking about music with someone who knows a lot about music

[@beccaw74]

Or at least someone who is interested in the topic at hand. The host seemed to not even care about half of what Charlie was saying. But if they got someone who viewed this as a learning experience rather than some one who was just trying to "demonstrate" talent, than I think it would have gone over better. Good interviewers are engaged and interested even when they dont understand.

[@bielsabas4407]

Albeit cringeworthy I also didn't know thats how perfect pitch works. Good thing there's this video to explain that interview though

[@vincentj2587]

omG a C mAjOR tRiAd: TalEnT This interviewer should not be working for a music streaming company

[@xenontesla122]

I want to see a parody of that video where it's guessing colors and they switch between different shapes for each round…

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

This is an excellent parallel

[@renthehag]

The next level should be guessing colors in different art styles. “What color is the sunflower in this painting?” “Yellow.” “What color is this sculpture of this balloon dog?” “Blue.” “omG.”

[@poteightocakes]

it's funny because I did this exact activity with my preschool class today lmao

[@k_airo]

Yes, but the interviewer needs to be colour-blind, lmao

[@lindstenvfx]

9:06 "Talent!" No, just basic music theory my guy.

[@nobleradical2158]

The moment when u have perfect pitch and accidentally mention it in band class and the entire class starts going like *"W H A T N O T E I S T H I S?"*

[@EvoluteCreator]

They could've at least shown him some weird chords

[@iored]

@dylan foley WOW! You can press THREE KEYS?!?! A true virtuoso. The next Sebastian Mozart!

[@paddylong3]

iored Sebastian Mozart?

[@KnzoVortex]

iored ah yes. Sebastian Mozart.

[@Sileithel]

@@paddylong3 he probably did it on purpose as a joke lol

[@pip000hi17]

dylan foley an interviewer for iHeart radio doesn't know what chords are....?? that's a problem in it self....lolol

[@Elizabeth-il5ps]

we love it when non-musicians try to talk about music

[@rewindoffical5280]

Elizabeth even better explaining music to someone who doesn’t understand it 👌🏽

[@calebdempster224]

who are you talking about

[@leon_krk]

When they discover you have perfect or even relative pitch they think you are an alien... It is funny but awkward

[@amelijaceica9617]

I agree, but id add that you don't have to be a musician to know something about music

[@jester5106]

@@amelijaceica9617 yea but it helps to be a musician so you can relate

[@giacomocasartelli5503]

Charlie: Explains a cool creative use of a strange sound in one of his songs Interviewer: "Wow, wow. Let's see what the yellow one sounds like."

[@chrisknorr1326]

10:55 Puth sings exactly what he describes, a bend up to an exact C#. You can hear the difference b/w the low Eb played and the C# he sings.

[@beng2617]

the C major triad part was hard to watch

[@linakim1016]

holy frik my thoughts exactly

[@leon_krk]

It was painful

[@joangrimm7188]

😂😂

[@mills7079]

'haha just study'

[@renthehag]

I’d love to see that dude’s reaction to Jacob Collier. He’d probably have a heart attack.

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

Don't. Maxwell is not ready.

[@elinemay]

@@CharlesCornellStudios I laughed so hard when I read your comment, Jacob Collier can vision full chords in his mind :O

[@benjiingram2563]

Hahahahhhaha

[@markopolo2224]

jacob will start naming all the notes played in history

[@renthehag]

Charles Cornell I don’t know, I think iHeart Radio might be able to handle discussions of negative harmony, microtones, and Super Ultra Hyper Mega Meta Lydian and how we as composers can use it to brighten and darken our chord progressions when writing snazzy tunes 😂

[@4dimensions626]

Poor Charlie. As someone with perfect pitch, I know how annoying it is to have people treat it like a magic trick

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

Ever had anyone just smash random notes and have you try to name them all? I can only name like 3 at a time

[@NoRace]

The host seems to have practiced acting like a "cool dude" instead of just being genuinely interested and thus he's so painfully disingenuous that his interview ended up being completely cringe.

[@Calakapepe]

Charlie was trying to shift his thing of perfect pitch into something everyone could do, and make it into a theory lesson/ aural skills lesson lol Too bad that host was just blown away by anything anyways haha

[@bonkers7184]

Doctor: * recognises illness * People: you're so talented Doctor: just study

[@vegeta1885]

Perfect pitch is not learnable skill, well at least not in adulthood. All this "listen C note for 10 hours" things are just bullshit. Most of the time you won't need perfect pitch anyway to be a musician. Als perfect pitch is NOT equal with heaving a good ear for music a.k.a not being flat. Just because you are not flat while singing, doesn't mean you have perfect pitch.

[@bonbon_1729]

@@vegeta1885 That’s very true, but I know OP was referencing more to all the times Charlie told the audience about music theory.

[@BrewingWithBrandon]

@@vegeta1885 I wasn't born with perfect pitch and I certainly wasn't taught it at a young age but you can certainly learn pitch recognition from memory. Just practice every day

[@sebastiangudino9377]

@@BrewingWithBrandon You can't. There have been studies. You can get really really good relative pitch. And then you can listen to a reference and then relate every other note to your last reference to calculate what that note is. But you would requiere SOMETHING to reference at some point (He says that in the video. After the first A, everything else could be done by someone with relative pitch, but maybe not as fast) And in any case it does NOT matter. Having perfect pitch is not better that just relative pitch. You can transcribe music by ear just as well. In fact if you have relative pitch you are thinking more deeply, so you get an even better understanding of the thing you are hearing. Bringing the color analogies back, you not only seeing the color red and blue, but you are thinking about them. How they are almost oposite in the chromatic circle, and how have a lot more contrast than blue and green. These are the type of useful things that someone with relative pitch has to think about. What scale are the notes on, major? minor? Mixolydian? Where is the root? So is this the 4rth degree? Oh we are back at the root? Hey, we are modulating? Instresting. Hey the chord progression just changed! I - ii - V maybe? Those are some of the things someone with relative pitch might be thinking when hearing music, and in a sense that information is more valuable than just "These are the notes". Which is what someone with perfect pitch would answer

[@BrewingWithBrandon]

I'm interested to see these studies because I taught myself pitch recognition from memory. It is referred to as "true pitch " because some notes I can name instantaneously (a, c, e flat, b flat ... ) and a few notes I have to think about (mainly c sharp and g) I practice by flipping through songs on the radio and trying to name the key from memory and I keep a toy keyboard to verify. I'm twenty and I was able to teach myself although I've been playing music for 10 years so that probably helps

[@jacoblee6079]

Charlie: EGC, a C major triad Interviewer: TALENT Me: W H Y A R E W E S T I L L H E R E ?

[@Killerbee4712]

"AC#E, a typical minor chord in its root inversion" Juliard: boi you want a degree?

[@runa_wayra]

I hope one day you can interview him, that would be awsome!

[@guagadu7804]

I feel like the interviewer was trying to be the personality, instead of an interviewer displaying the interviewee's personality.

[@roselittleaxe4652]

Guagadu true, probably because the interviewer did not find Charlie’s actual talent and knowledge interesting enough on its own 🙃😂😂

[@simonkuhlmannruuth7771]

So true

[@heroofpots4428]

I love the 9:23 “just studied...” he’s given up you can see it in his sad eyes

[@a-10warthog23]

You right.. Me, a band nerd, trying to listen to what he was saying.. Then the interviewer..

[@wdzilicious]

oh shit a myday :D

[@EliTasrev]

okay brian

[@wdzilicious]

@@EliTasrev no, its not brian, its youngk😤

[@EliTasrev]

ABSolutely Sure brian

[@user-yp3qc2qq7c]

I REALLY like your explanation of perfect pitch , I've never heard someone explanate it in that way. And also you are very funny , keep up the good work

[@squeekstah]

The more I see Charlie, the more I love him. Having nothing to do with music or talent but pure personality

[@ayeshak6822]

He has the worst choice in women tho. Bella thorne?

[@mrose8748]

9:15 Puth: knows basic music theory Interviewer: TALENT!

[@stormdancer1910]

Well in that business it's not very common

[@AndreasNilsson96]

I hate the halo-effect

[@dedompler]

@@stormdancer1910 he went to berklee

[@elinorrose344]

I literally barely know music theory (I’m actually so bad) and I still understood what he was saying

[@blazbohinc4964]

"Yo dude you just blew my mind. Perfect pitch!" He said that after Charlie spit a good chunk of music theory on him. Facepalmed hard on that one...

[@salvatorepappalardo4809]

10:46 there's a phenomenon when translating analogic signals (like the voice or sounds in general) to the digital world which is called aliasing. You record something which has its own frequency, but the samples (which is a fancy way to describe the sound inside a computer) might have a different frequency, thereby altering the original sound

[@realitities2]

Yea its like how the framerate of a video can make something like helicopter blades seem like theyre not moving if the rotation matches the framerate. Weird stuff happens with digital reproduction

[@GabriTell]

6:30, Here I want to mention that we Perfect Pitch people hear literary in the same way that everyone. Perfect Pitch doesn't have anything to do with Ear, it's a Cognitive Ability that endows the person with an extraordinary Tonal Memory (it's like if most people couldn't keep any colour in their mind unless they're seeing it, but "Perfect Colour" ones actually could).

[@whynot1880]

Charles: you should be able to see these colours easily Me: cries in colourblind

[@synthwave1827]

Same...

[@jamesdarling1959]

Yo same

[@IDarkkoI]

I felt that

[@kikic.6950]

Red Blue green yellow

[@stanislavpavlov6311]

Isn't it just wonderful...we see what's normal for us tho

[@dylanbroe5974]

You nailed this. Didn’t offend the interviewer whilst also highlighting the clear lack of interest he showed towards any of the really interesting comments that Charlie came out with. Even if he didn’t understand half of what Charlie was saying surely he should make an effort to look like he’s interested and not just swiftly move on every time 😅

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

Thanks. Yeah, it's not the interviewer himself, it's just the way he executed it that made it hilarious.

[@BelleFlower15]

Bruh the interviewer acted like an asshole.

[@TheVarietyProject]

I'd love to hear you talking to Charlie about this would make a great video! Love your channel

[@VOLAIRE]

Puth’s more uncomfortable than a child in the middle of listening to their parents talking about divorce...

[@CharlesCornellStudios]

Because he's listening to Maxwell divorce himself, go through therapy and get back together with himself all at once.

[@rewindoffical5280]

𝕍𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕀ℝ𝔼 no, he’s more uncomfortable than a child hearing about the birds and the bees for the first time.

[@joshualee2059]

𝕍𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕀ℝ𝔼 y r u commenting on every single video I watch...

[@bodyofhope]

@@joshualee2059 they have to be the most famous YT commenter, since 2017 Clorox Bleach.

[@steveempiremantra2120]

Lmao

[@captainstrangiato961]

“Yeah, and I think you being able to distinguish colors as a painter really is what makes your paintings great.” Painter: 0_0

[@fanfandom551]

Similar energy to this exchange that happened to me Me: yeah so I like to mix my own colors when I paint just so I can have more variety- plus it's a bonus that I only ever have to buy primary colors Person I'm talking to: wow yeah it's so amazing that you know how to make colors! Like how do you know how to make them Me: ... A color... Wheel?

[@Roozyj]

It would make more sense if you are someone who restores paintings than if you are the original artist xD Then again, as a restorer, you can compare the colors to one another. You don't have to look at a certain color of paint, think "That's 35% magenta, 5% cyan and 60% yellow" and then mix it... xD

[@sielsounds]

Captain Strangiato 😂

[@yvancluet8146]

Comparison doesn't hold that well, cause it would really be difficult for a painter to paint without distinguishing wolor wherehas not having perfect pitch would be at the very worst a very minor inconvenience for a musician. It's not even that useful

[@ameli5884]

I actually laughed at this one

[@Lexichi22]

I'm super glad you explained perfect pitch the way that you did. I can remember and sing back a song in the exact same key that I heard it in before, (it might be a half note or so off if I haven't heard it in years,) but I probably couldn't tell you what key it's in. Like if you go into a paint store, you can see that a paint chip is off-white, but you didn't read the back of the card, so you don't know that the paint company named the color "ecru."

[@AaronBailey]

That color analogy was eye opening for me and the part about an interviewer showing someone colors was funny af! hahah You just got a new sub!

[@willgeezee5662]

Sad thing is I have perfect pitch, but I'm also colorblind, so when he compared recognizing notes to colors, it didn't exactly give me the right idea. 😅

[@mesmarazin]

Maybe it gives you the opposite right idea, it can help you understand about not having perfect pitch haha. When I hear two notes, I can't immediately identify the notes, while you could. But when I see two colours I can immediately identify both colours, while you can't.

[@victorhernandezserrano7865]

Did you felt the cringe too?? 🥶😅

[@ramonhppacheco]

oh yeah? what note is this? dinnnnnnnn

[@dashielcockrill998]

@@ramonhppacheco defiently an E flat

[@rishianandd]

Dashiel Cockrill I don’t know I’m hearing more e

[@Moo-fb2kb]

It's like saoirse ronan always being asked about her name.

[@lordloss4584]

Don’t have to worry about that since I’m Irish :-)

[@ronand8086]

I like her last name :)

[@vic_cresss]

Or like KJ Apa always being asked about his accent and hair 😂

[@ipettynote]

I can imagine people trying to pronounce her name xd

[@itsnotworthit7178]

she did make a song about it on SNL

[@atillaatescosar5947]

People can learn relative pitch so good to the point where it’s close to perfect pitch

[@Techridr]

100% incorrect

[@oznofow]

interviewer: “aight let’s see if you can sing notes”

[@TheMuserResolute]

Telling someone with perfect pitch “We’re gonna start easy then work all the way up” is like saying “we’re gonna show you 1 banana and then we’re gonna start mixing them amongst other fruit that you know - you have to identify all the fruit correctly!”

[@6squall9]

Considering your name, i'm guessing you know the following, but just in case you don't, there's many levels of "perfect pitch", because it's a more complicated calculation than most people think. For example there are people who can hear all instruments in same tuning. There are people (like me) who practiced on differently tuned instruments and their brain learned to automatically transpose the names by some timbre categories. (hearing trumpet in Bb and piano in C). Some people learned to divide a tone into 32+ parts and distinguish all of them with great accuracy (which for me seems like a crazy and impossible practice). TL;DR there are quite a few tests that could be actually useful to determine specific level of musicians hearing perception accuracy and speed of calculation. Like introducing complex cords at increasingly faster pace and adding some fluctuations to the tuning and timbre and seeing if musicians brain can still categorize correctly which note the false tunning is closest to, etc.

[@alannahdexter7532]

Oh my God this is so good🤣

[@unraisedfox6037]

Ikr I was so confused like it you have perfect pitch, then how can it get harder?

[@gaelsilveira8342]

OMG. LMAO!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! I wasn't expecting to see this comment. I laughing so hard and it's 2pm here. My neighbors are going to kill me.

[@glitched2797]

Not exactly, because when you start stacking notes they can blend and create overtones which will make it harder for people with perfect pitch to differentiate...which is to say, there actually is a way to make the test harder (not that the puth video went there at all). It's a bit tricky to give a simple synonym for pitch recognition :)

[@johnnydang5178]

*girl moans* Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Charlie Puth:that’s a B flat

[@JugsKise]

Huy Mai more like a B cup AMIRITE

[@shane6117]

@@JugsKise heyo!

[@MondeSerenaWilliams]

Don't B flat, B natural

[@Sagolel4797]

i n t e r e s t i n g

[@Star-vh4cs]

@@MondeSerenaWilliams Mmm music puns i hate em and i love em

[@Mr-Hansson]

You deserve more subs! love your stuff :)

[@The_BenD]

As a (very) amateur musician with a mom who has perfect pitch, it never ceased to surprised me I could be on the other side of the house practicing piano, play a wrong note (on a song my mom has never heard) and I'd hear coming from the kitchen "it's a D not a Db!" In a related story, I'd be playing guitar in the background when my mom would be on the phone with her dad, and I'd hear him saying "the g string is flat! Fix it"

[@aryansaxena4978]

What an absolutely interesting household 😂💖

[@psychedelikchameleon]

My dad used to yell at me from the other room when I was practising piano... "it's B flat you idiot!" and so on. Kinda off putting!

[@DoofenSpyroDragon16]

If I were her, I would totally do this 🤣 in fact i do 😆

[@cadauncie5063]

nO I love how Charlie is like, “I just studied” poor guy

[@miscvideos1709]

Eddy from TwoSetViolin is waving at you.

[@gryphka]

I was thinking that too!!

[@MrHappybunny19991]

Any Thing what does that mean lol

[@velez1378]

Ling ling workout who

[@loyalite4972]

COLLAB OMGOSKFJD

[@dylandecker_music]

Yeah we need a collab

[@jasonchester9109]

Man i love your work. The whole colour card thing killed me ahaha.

[@maddymcbrearty6657]

I want Charlie to see this so he knows that someone understands this interviewers twattery

[@joephrafael35]

charlie: *explains simple chord theory-* interviewer: THAT'S WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE CALL FACEBOOK

[@soozapalooza2563]

Their intended audience must be like: "Let's see what I learn from this video..." *Charlie starts explaining chord theory* "Be quiet, the interviewer is talking." *Interviewer tells you the sound is from Facebook* "Oh yes, that's what I came here for. You learn something new every day."

[@michellebalogun1421]

*g U e S s i M n O t n O r M a l*

[@wherehouseedm]

when he said that I thought "facebook makes a sound?????"....

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

I love jamming to ... Facebook... on my abacus.