Do You Have Relative Pitch? Let’s Find Out.

[derisory]

I'm borderline tone deaf. During a lesson in college, my bass teacher told me my note was wrong and played the correct note. I wasn't looking at his hands and said "... Isn't that the same note?". He looked at me like I was crazy.

I've been playing something in some performance prettymuch weekly for about twenty years, and I still have a ridiculously hard time telling intervals apart. It's annoying.

But for whatever reason, my musicality and musical intuition has always been excellent, and my ear is good enough to set off the "something is wrong" alarm in my brain, at which point I ask my wife what's wrong, so it works out.

[alexissaldana]

I just hummed chromatically up until I got to Eb 🤣

[devinm.]

I can hear the difference, I just don't know the names.

[Allen]

E flat or D#, because it's E flat, and D would've been too easy for his crowd.

[stephaniemathiasmusic]

“Relative pitch is what we would expect every music student to have”

Hey don’t be telling my secrets I like to act like it’s a superpower 🦸🏻‍♀️😂😂😂

All joking aside it’s a great explanation.

And if you have relative pitch you can train to get a sort of version of “perfect pitch” if you work hard enough to remember 1 note you can figure out the rest ;) Unfortunately I’m not quite there sometimes I get it right but not enough to fully trust myself 😅

[MusicMannRy]

Just by hearing that transition from G to Eb i realized that it was the G was the third of Eb

[bigtonithegreatjamboni]

It always annoyed me when people would pick up my instrument and say it's out of tune and start tuning it for me like no man, I just use a different pitch

[hadademian]

The most "depressed" sound is for me the minor 6th of a random root. Giving names to random picked degrees of a root makes them quite easy to recall...

[ILiterallyFeltThat]

What if you've never seen music notes before or heard each individual note having nothing to compare songs/sounds with?

[natanmiller]

Can you show us the second violin from the right on the top (the boxy looking one)?

[FutureAbe]

My first guess was E, but it didn’t sound right. I never would have expected an Eb. Relative pitch is relatively hard.

[flarethefox]

The fact that I knew it was an Eb but couldn’t figure out how far that was from G 😂

[violinfiolin]

People who have perfect pitch knowing that was d# without thinking intervalls

[jereschat]

You tricky trickster😆 It sounded like a sixty but not quite right. Had to whip out my keyboard for that.

[DonnyTGOALAP]

Ive been playing an instrument for 4 months and i only got a half step off :D

[mor-ud]

The note is D#.

I’ve got perfect pitch lol.

[JJ_TheGreat]

I have no idea what that note is… I am tone deaf.

[lees]

The problem is, he thinks that intelligence automatically makes a creature either good, perfectable or capable of being good. It does not...

[macleadg]

Hmm.. Love your videos, Matt, but I’ll push back just a teeny bit here. You’ve described the ability hear intervals — table stakes for any musician. But, to me, relative pitch is when someone w/o perfect pitch still has one reference pitch in their head, and can use that to figure out any note w/o being told a note & its name. At least, that’s what I always thought. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Relative pitch also when you play baseball with your uncle. (See what I did there? Ok, I’ll stick to music).

[esther_]

i play violin so i can tell by the tone what note it is lol