How To Supercharge Your Relative Pitch | Like Perfect Pitch!

In this video I will show you how to supercharge your RELATIVE PITCH to make it like PERFECT PITCH! I will show you have to use chord structures to TRAIN YOUR EAR to hear the most difficult chord and interval structures and quickly name and sing the notes of a chord. This techniques is on of the ones in my upcoming 14 part video series called The Beato Ear Training Method that will be available later this year. Disclaimer: I'm not a great singer so excuse my wavering voice :) There are no edits in the video.

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[manmanynotes]

This is really cool. All these youtubers promise you they can teach you to “play what you hear” but developing relative pitch is glossed over. This is the key to that and no one talks about it in detail like this video

[tinktwiceman]

Rick could you make a complete Music Theory course or Book? I would so pay for that. That would be amazing. I've learned so much from you. Thank you so much for all the great content!

[Linkreincarnation]

This seems like a much more complex yet thorough way to train your ear. I'm taking an aural training class in college at the moment and all the prof has done for the past month was give us a list of songs with various intervals and spent every class jumping around the list on the piano. It's helped me learn intervals a bit, but I feel like your approach is way more helpful and in depth. And you're giving out this info for free!! My prof could learn from you lol

[gkniffen]

Best music tutorials available. Great stuff.

[petragaffney]

Done! I'm supercharged. I didn't need the notes above. It took about three minutes to complete. Thanks, it was fun!

[jackdud]

Obviously I will never get perfect pitch, but I don’t know why, every time you sing the pitches out loud, It seems to help me remember what pitch it is, and then I can recall how you sang it as a reference note to others, idk but this seems to help me the most (currently trying to learn relative pitch) P.S I’m a beginner at piano

[nickbobaymusic]

Thanks Rick! Keep the ear training coming, this is excellent and your book is great!

[idiotsandwich]

This was so helpful! My music teacher told me I actually have a perfect pitch, but I couldn't believe her. Now I'm trying to actually learn reading notes lol I hope I'll get better at playing piano :')

[kiwi]

Would you be able to make a video talking about Perfect Pitch in comparison to Pitch Memory and how it relates to Relative Pitch? It seems like it would be incredibly useful if you could just have a memorized b-flat, because you could find any note from there (chromatically or interval jumps or whatever).

[cincinnatipedalsteel]

Multitasking while ear training.... great stuff.

[jbcraipeau]

Great exercices ! Will share it to my page, as a lot of people ask me how to be better at transcription !
Thanks for sharing :)

[RobCarrollMusic]

this is fantastic. I love your videos you're a great teacher

[marisjeanmusic]

The ones, who actually have perfect pitch will realise (and I actually do not know if people without it would be able to perceive it - please do let me know) that Rick actually did not sing "F-C-A" at around 1:08.

He sang F-Db-Ab (the Ab went a little up at the end, nearly reaching "A"), went ahead and actually played F-C-A on the piano (assumingly not realising that what he sang was not what he wanted to sing and therefore not the same pitch he then played). xD

Not sure if this has been mentioned here in the comment section yet, if so I'm very sorry .


I recently discovered that I might have perfect pitch and I say might, because it is highly unlikely that I (or anybody else around me) had not realised in the past 25 years.
So I'm basically sufering suffering from imposter syndrome, because nobody never told me "you have it" and I know that it cannot be acquired at adolescent age, that would be relative pitch, as I understand it. However I do experience that I hear things most people around me (academically trained musicians) do not hear...

[metalkreationbiatch]

awesome ! thank you Im practicing my ear training very soon. great lesson

[philipbrown]

I like that you sing the letter names as that gives you the correct relationships for the chords unlike fixed do which is easier to sing but doesn't give all the correct relationships. I have noticed some people sing numbers but for your chord exercise that seems pretty un useful. I find fixed do easiest for me when I sing melodies but if I try to sing a melody just on la and think of the letter names or solfa names it is much harder for me. However I focus on singing just on la. A voice teacher told me about straw singing so when I practice singing I make a small circle with my mouth. This give me a greater range and keeps the volume down for my neighbors when I am hitting the high notes and not straining and I can sing for much longer times a day without going hoarse or losing my voice . Its not possible for me to sing letter names or solfa with this singing technique. Love your channel

[xtarssgi]

I wish it'll be any kind of lessons like this one in spanish because is hard to me to understand everything you say and translate it to the system we use here but...well anything I can do.
Anyway I'm glad you upload this video, thanks man

[walrus]

Your and your sons singing is so alike. I mean the voices. ))

[jakemf]

Perhaps a simpler start to this concept? I have a lot of theory knowledge but this is very advanced not a knock just perhaps start form step one then move up? Oe perhaps I missed those? THanks for the videos

[yoyothasme]

Rick. Thank you. I don't see the relationship between these chords.

[srikanthnarayanan]

Hi Rick, strong video! In one of your other videos from many months back, you talked about musical imagery / audiation and how using songs, you are able to recall the 12 notes from memory and sing them correctly on pitch. So using that, could you not have thought of a song (i.e.. Cinderella Man theme), conjure up your Db and then do this exercise without a reference note in the beginning?. And then could you have spot checked yourself in the middle by recalling other reference notes, all without the piano?