Can a classical musician learn perfect pitch in 24 hours?

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[Yoo_itz_cj]

Perfect pitch gang -Eddy

[maxwellabelson]

Can't say I'm proud of this, but I learned what a G sounds like after listening to Welcome to the Black Parade.

[twoweeksout]

You can't actually learn perfect pitch, only really really good relative pitch. Perfect pitch is a genetic blessing

[EthanSnyderYT]

It's weird, after being in band for four years (I started in 5th grade and i just finished 8th grade) I have unintentionally developed perfect pitch. Just exposing yourself to music and remembering the notes helps alot.

[JuliaJacobsen]

For some dramatic irony, listen to this video with your tuner on.

[jasonisreal]

y’all the link is still active, go click it before you regret it!

[IxI]

The only real use for perfect pitch is to deprecate other people's self esteem.

[harrisonreed]

1:15
I can, without a doubt, identify the notes on a keyboard, even without a reference. 🤣

[nicholasryan]

This is so cool would love to see more stuff like this

[garrettshaikh]

Octaves feel weird for me too, I play tuba and some of those higher notes sounded completely foreign to me but as soon as you played that low G I was like “that’s a G” and then you were like “that’s a G” and I was pleasantly surprised. I think it’s really dependent on what you’re used to, I bet someone who’s used to higher notes would see the same thing with the higher octaves, really interesting stuff. Also, love your videos (and music)!

[MoonlitDragon]

You make it look easy ^^ but now I know we can do it!

[taxy]

Our school district said we’ll have options of both inperson and online school. And they said marching band will happen. I don’t really know how online band class will work. TMEA posted the etudes for all-state. Also, how do you think Charlie Puth got perfect pitch? I learned a lot from your videos! Thank you!

[thomascollins]

Chris,
Have you actually been tested for perfect pitch? I noted that at the end of your video you mentioned that you definitely did not have perfect pitch.

An improved version of this experiment would be to have someone else, the experimenter, play notes on the keyboard while the subject (listener) is blindfolded. The experimenter would have a randomized list of notes prepared in advance that is unknown to the subject. The subject then states what he thinks each note is while the player writes down the subject's guess. This can be repeated with different randomized note lists over a span of days or weeks. Doing this should minimize the musician's tendency to remember musical patterns.

It seemed to me that trying to sing the note in advance is not entirely reliable since voice is not your primary instrument. I noticed that you were successively approximating what you thought the note was and occasionally getting it right but sometimes being off by half a step. An interesting take on a fascinating subject.

I'm assuming the keyboard is in tune. 😊

[aaronwitzel]

I have perfect pitch myself but it's more of a party trick than anything else. I can tune my trombone but that's about it.

[gerhardhofer]

One thing that I would do when I was trying to develop a sense of rough perfect pitch is just guess at any pitch that I would hear. I haven't really practiced it a ton lately so it's kind of gone away, but when I was practicing it, I would be able to name pitches pretty quickly.

[jncrook]

I have trained my brain to recognize each pitch by something like that sonata you played. I am a senior in high school and I can recognize every note very well and sometimes chords. 2 years of training.

[LandonWellsMusic]

One thing that I’ve done that helps is to think of any song that I don’t know the key of. Then I try to sing in in the correct key from memory, then check to see if I’m right. After I know the key, I associate that feeling with said key. For example I’ll try to sing “Say So” by Doja Cat. I know that it’s a ii-V-I progression and I know from intervals the first line in solfegé is “la sol la sol la sol.” So I sing it, and if I’m right, I learn the key. I think it’s in Db. I just checked I was wrong, it’s in D, but I sang it correctly. Maybe experimenting with that would be promising

[ryanrogers]

Holy moly I did that half step up for the Eb like you did and got the same result XD

[brantl]

As someone with perfect pitch, I found you talking about relating it to the sensation of playing very interesting! It’s hard for me to imagine what it’s like. P.S. - I am also a member of the Blue Devils and briefly spotted you at the Allentown show last year. I’d love to say hello next season!

[aidanyelsma]

For me, my trick for finding perfect pitch is to think of certain notes from specific songs that I know are one specific note.
If I want to find middle C, what I do is I think of the movie The Dark Knight. During the first scene of the film, the Joker pulls off a plastic clown mask to reveal himself, and the music switches from a D note to a C note. Batman is a DC Comics character.
Then from there, I go up and down the scale in half steps to find the right note.