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”
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
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.
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
“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”
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"
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-
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.
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
@@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.
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
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 😂
@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...
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
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
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.
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
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
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
@@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.
@@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
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?
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. 😅
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.
@@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.
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.”
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
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.
@@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
@@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
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
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!”
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.
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 :)
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?
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
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
When a non-musician is trying to test how good you are, just show them basic thing and they will amazed af, and then thinking it is just sort of magic rather than hardwork.
This is literally unartistic people who are easily amazed with realistic portraits when that's just one of the first/basic skills that you need to acquire if you wanna thrive in the art world because the real world is literally/obviously the very foundation of art. And without it, you're fucked so thank your art teacher for forbidding you to draw manga or anime style first or else you'll never grow, amateur.
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 😅
The interviewer strikes me as a guy that is committed 110% to getting a paycheck and clocking out. Like he puts in loads of effort but in reality doesn't care for the job, just the benefits.
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!
I studied music in college, and I just had a thought: how does perfect pitch work in non-Western cultures where music is not divided so evenly into isolated tones? Certain cultures don’t base their musical scales on the same intervals that Western music is based off of. I think it would be interesting to compare how someone like Charlie Puth would respond to non-Western music that may sound highly atonal to him, and vice versa for someone with perfect pitch who was raised hearing those scales responding to our Western scales.
Cassidy Riegel I’ve asked this to someone with perfect pitch and she just said that it’s slightly lower/higher than the closest note in the western scale, or somewhere between two notes.
i live in Tunisia and our music here is based on the "middle eastern" scales but a little bit wider... and i can tell you that it wouldn't be so hard for someone with perfect pitch to recognize some mid-eastern scales all he needs is to know how these scales are constructed and he can compare them to the western scales and modes and just have to remember the different notes which are mostly "semi-sharp" or "semi-flat"... in western music you got C then C# (or Db) and then D... in "arabic" music we have C... then a note that come in between C and C# ... then comes the C#... then a note between Db (or C#) and D... and finally comes the D... so the conclusion : western music got whole steps and half steps only... arabic music got whole steps... half steps... and quarter steps... (and more)...
@@noharu1044 yeah exactly... and it even goes farther in turkish music... they even use some scales that are just some Hrz lower or higher than the known notes (including the arabic "microtones")... and it's difficult even for us arabs to distinguish that difference cause it's so small that it requires well trained ears to be noticed...
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
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.
Ive been playing piano for almost 8 years. I DO NOT HAVE PERFECT PITCH. But when it came to the part when he was talking about the minor triad from C and the guy was like wOw tAlenT I cringed the hardest ive ever done at a youtube video in my entire life.
My sister has perfect pitch and she gets annoyed a lot by always being asked “what pitch is this” “what pitch is that” hell I get annoyed by people asking her all the time.
i mean no offence, but if u tell people u have perfect pitch, dont be mad when people ask u. They don't magically know she has perfect pitch, at some point she probably bragged about/mentioned it and sooooooo...
@@cuteDRAGO or maybe it came up in natural conversation? mentioning a trait doesn't mean you bragged about it. and i'm sure she offered some sort of disclaimer that was like "please don't ask me what pitch something is all the time, you know i'll get it right."
@@TheArcherPlaysMc "always being asked" yes, because being pitch perfect is the first thing a person would ask u and is the most likely thing to come up in natural conversations. And who the hell disclaims these things? Somebody: wow u seen how cute baby yoda is? QuinnD's sister: btw im pitch perfect, but just a disclaimer don't ever ask me to prove it, cuz i'll be right every time and it gets annoying. Haha. But yea, baby yoda is cute. If u want attention, u're gonna have to put up with it. I did music as a subject in 6th form and played an instrument all my life and trust me, never has this come up in NaTurAl CoNVErsation. The only time it comes up is if someone wants to brag about it, which then follows up with the prove it conversation.
@@cuteDRAGO YAYAYA everything you just said made no sense. maybe other people aren't you and Natural conversation between musicians is probably sometimes about music. making random assumptions and then defining natural conversation based solely off of the 3 conversation you've experienced as if a musician talking music is so far from reality is sad and i hope you become a better person.
So in languange learning perfect pitch is basically 'fluent'. Is like when u speak another language and then u learn english and u see the number 5 (five), if you're not fluent you'll translate it in ur own language first or for some people they have to count from 1 first to get the 5 right. But if you're fluent in english you just associate the number (5) with the word (five) without thinking.
That’s probably the best way to learn a language, too. Know the vocabulary well enough to the point where you don’t need to think of the meaning of each word in the sentence. In fact, if you’re a native/ fluent speaker of English, then you didn’t even have to think at all about what I just wrote.
Difference is that you cannot develop perfect pitch by practicing, like it happens with languages when you achieve fluency. Perfect pitch is just like an instinct, it’s something you have or not have, and only develop as a child. Everything else is just memorizing notes with relative pitch
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.
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.
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."
Unless one is dyscalculic, where we aren't able to process numbers in that abstract way. We're blessed with a trade off in that often we display superior concentration when performing a single task and slip into a flow state far more easily than others. For example, when people say things like "now you're thinking of purple elephants" I do not. However, what you're describing by attributing it to study is rote memorisation. That falls apart if you are asked to actually use it in a complex way and haven't practiced that part. Like having perfect pitch but not being able to make or play music. Rote memorisation gives you the answers, but doesn't teach you how you got the answer nor what to do with it.
Back in my dad's day there was a school for children with perfect pitch (for whatever reason). At the end of the commercial, instead of saying their phone number, they played notes, so only people with perfect pitch would be able to call in. He still thinks it's neat and talks about it from time to time.
Idk, if you held the notes in your head or kept singing/humming them to yourself and walked over to a piano or guitar or something you don't have to have perfect pitch to call in, you could just figure out what they were
@@krk064 perfect pitch is not quite about approximation. You would need to listen to it over and over, before being able to approach the proper values. A perfect pitch person will never doubt it, and will need no instrument. Even if you gave them an out of tune instrument, they would get it right: you would play a C4 and think it is right, and they would play a C4 as well, knowing it was a G, in example. :)
@@purplewitch1907 I'm aware of what perfect pitch is. I'm just saying it's possible to hear a note/tone/melody just once and hold it in your head, or even sing it out loud, to remember it. You don't need perfect pitch to do that. In the specific case of this commercial, singing the melody to yourself and walking over to, yes, a properly tuned instrument (I didn't think I had to make that distinction) would do the trick. You say someone would "need to listen to it over and over before being able to approach the proper values." I don't think that's true at all. Again, all someone with even a shred of musicality has to do is hear a note once to recreate it.
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
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 😂
Puth: so I'm really passionate ab- Interviewer: vERY GOOD DID I MENTION YOU HAD PERFECT PITCH Puth: I did this really neat trick to make a specific sound and I- Interviewer: ONTO THE YELLOW GLASS Does he realize that this man is not a circus act..? Also who taught this man how to interview, you shouldn't interrupt the interviewee unless something is going wrong..? Like the whole point of an interview is to get information from someone. I understand that if they're getting rambly then you need to get them back on track, but talking about one's musical career shouldn't be considered rambly in this case..?
Lmao Im just imagining John Lennon in an interview being like "...so anyway, that was right around the time Paul died and we had to replace him with a double-" Interviewer: "- let me stop you there john, Ive written a long division problem on this chalk board, lets see if you can figure it out"
I have Perfect Pitch and I want 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 Pitch... sorry"_ You get what I mean? It's just... that, and Perfect Pitch people have to learn exactly every tone of "Colour" to prove that we have it.
I understand Charlie Puth. After practicing like Ling Ling on the piano since age 5, I’ve had perfect pitch. I most likely got it from practicing and wasn’t naturally born with it because perfect pitch is really rare to be born with. People are like “omg I’m gonna play this note and u gotta tell me what it is” “oh did u see me play it” but it’s not honestly too bad. I just keep my mouth shut. Perfect pitch isn’t that amazing because you can develop relative pitch which is like perfect pitch. Most non-musicians think “one in ten thousand people have perfect pitch? wow aMazinG geniuses are born not created and a Charlie Puth is an example of that.” Literally so not true go watch some Twoset and you can tell that Brett with relative pitch can play as well or even better than Eddy with perfect pitch.
i have perfect pitch by practice too, i don’t tend to tell people cause i know they’re going to ask questions and “test me” when it’s something that comes naturally to me, in no way it is challenging it just feels like i’m their entertainer.
@Good guy here Man on a mission Not that easy. There are always label obligations involved in what interviews you do as a musician. I'm sure it was in some contract somewhere.
@ 5:09 SEIZURE WARNING IMPORTANT TO NOTE: you should definitely put a strobe warning with those giant color transitions, it could trigger some seizures in some.
@@rujet14 Everyone's pissed. Jacob Collier is livid. Ling Ling is furious. Ling Ling will sue. Ling Ling will bring eternal punishment to those who mock a 24h practice/study
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
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.
This really shows that people don’t realize that music isn’t just “born with it” talent. It’s an art form with a specific science and history backing it that people work extremely hard to master.
I think the reason Charlie said a different note than was played, was to test the interviewer(s) actual knowledge. Sorta throwing them a curve ball so he'd know if they were wasting his time.
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.
the interviewer going 'wow!....wow!...' without even letting charlie finish his sentence.... this man checked out years ago and hasnt come back since
Lmao
"this man checked out years ago" LOL
13:15 Dude, when he’s cutting him off with the “wow...wow...” Charlie puth let out a pretty disheartened “yeah..” :/
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”
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
Honestly the most impressive thing about Charlie is his patience in dealing with so much bullshit
Is that pie i see?
@@jchung5066 indeed it is!
@@Papayaaa27 oog-
Maya I don’t think much can really bother him since he’s making millions. He can’t really complain
@@unknownsoldier75 eh, things like unwanted attention aren't fun for anyone
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.
A lot of people don’t. They think it’s just excessive, obsessive memorisation of notes and chords.
@@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.
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.
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
I just keep imagining my high school music teacher laughing the interviewer out of the room.
Thank you for pointing out that a lot of people don’t understand music and they literally treat it like a magic trick.
“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”
Yes ikr that's like grade 4/5 theory XD
@@query5498 what is "ikr"/
@@Uanbit Ikr = I know right
Charlie is desperately trying to add actual interesting information and he is just getting steamrolled by this interviewer
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"
Jimmy neutron fan I see
@@karimdrissi3892 I see you are a person of culture as well
It's like he's being testing on how to walk
ERICK BALTAZAR RUIZ yeah I commented this before I reached that part - sorry for the inconvenience
That dude was just a bad interviewer. Like, at least try to engage with the person you're interviewing
I honestly wonder if part of it was just the fact that they were super crunched for time and he was nervous
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.
I feel like the people behind the camera were telling him what to do
That interviewer was probably isn’t a good interviewer but also not a bad interviewer!
Not every interviewer is a great interviewer!
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!
Here's an idea: make it really hard on him and throw in a random triangle.
Stefaan Himpe no, no way. that would be too difficult
@@StefaanHimpe really making it a challenge
In what metric?
Oh, that's so accurate!
God I thought I was the only one who felt this way about that stupid interview
Ben G same dude
I have perfect pitch and it gets really annoying sometimes
@@Theoneandonlyenelie yeah I cant imagine getting asked to "name this pitch" or whatever constantly
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
@@nickducos3164 now you know how retractable pens feel.
On what pitch is Charlie's internal pain and suffering during this interview?
Fb
@@CharlesCornellStudios E# even?
@@CharlesCornellStudios c augmented
i call it the blackberry notification sound
Bdim
this is like picking a blind person to interview a painter
ProjectGabe facts lmao
Boom, roasted.
More like a colorblind person, but yeah, true
its like asking what color is apple to normal people
Oof I named the color as notes 😂😂
Interviewer : How many sides does a triangle have
Normal Person : 3
Interviewer : TALENTT !!!!!
Interviewer: I DIDN'T KNOW A TRIAD WAS THREE NOTES?!?!?!? GENIUS!!
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-
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.
charlie: looks at the camera like he’s on the office
M. Yeeeees
His soul looking for help
lol
Which Charlie.
Jim
Charlie: * explains a very, very basic C major triad in first inversion *
Interviewer: OMG TALENT
Charlie: ...just study
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
@@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.
I don’t have perfect pitch and I know that’s just basic theory 😆
40hours
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
I feel like the interviewer was trying to be the personality, instead of an interviewer displaying the interviewee's personality.
Guagadu true, probably because the interviewer did not find Charlie’s actual talent and knowledge interesting enough on its own 🙃😂😂
So true
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 😭
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
Wow I feel called out
Oddly specific
Wanna say something?
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
I've seen him awkwardly bring up his perfect pitch so i don't think he feels the pain of sinning by having pride
I can name farm animals without thinking.
T A L E N T
holy shit.
What is it
Harvard:
*Yo, you want a muthafuqqin scholarship?????*
HOW
The combination of Charlie Puth’s faces and your commentary about how stupid the interviewer was made this hilariously educational
Drew Gulliver why are you everywhere?
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 😂
Mr. Rewind 2 honestly just because I just really love music and TH-cam haha sorry 🤗 especially Charles tbh
@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...
Interviewer wasn’t stupid, just didn’t know anything about music. Doesn’t make somebody stupid
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.
OMFG same
Charlie is like just study 😂 (if u listened carefully)
dude its like grade 3 stuff
Like I knew that since I started piano and I definitely don’t have perfect pitch
Literally that unenthusiastic “I jUst sTudiEd” is golden
Charlie looks so tired of everything
He was smiling but his eyes were just dead 💀
Mood
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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
Funny Funny must be hard being a millionaire
Interviewer: “I’m here with my buddy, Charlie”
Charlie... *You’re not my buddy*
Interviewer: *WOW*
Interviewer: TALENT
I got the South Park reference there.
Nice move.
Charlie: "JUST STUDY."
Yes babe. THIS.
Ew don’t call him babe like that ew
Bubdiddly sure babe
You can’t get perfect pitch from studying it you need to gain it before ur like 7
LMAO, You learn the c major triad in Grade 1 piano.
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
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
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
@@TameyTaming Sure, if it's too fast, but still if you already have it it's possible to improve this skill by training :)
@@n0xx42 oh yeah forgot about p r a c t i c e
@@TameyTaming practice makes perfect :)
Charlie: just study and you can know a lot about mu-
Interviewer: GENIUSES ARE BORN NOT CREATED
Oni Giri YES. We need Brett and Eddy to watch this. Poor Charlie.
Jess KL eddy has perfect pitch right ?
@@ayana9490 yup
I see you, twoset subscriber
Twoset are everywhere
They could've at least shown him some weird chords
@dylan foley WOW! You can press THREE KEYS?!?! A true virtuoso. The next Sebastian Mozart!
iored Sebastian Mozart?
iored ah yes. Sebastian Mozart.
@@paddylong3 he probably did it on purpose as a joke lol
dylan foley an interviewer for iHeart radio doesn't know what chords are....?? that's a problem in it self....lolol
This is why you need a musician, or at least someone who has a little background in music, to interview musicians.
Specially when you're going to be talking about music with someone who knows a lot about music
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.
Albeit cringeworthy I also didn't know thats how perfect pitch works. Good thing there's this video to explain that interview though
omG a C mAjOR tRiAd: TalEnT
This interviewer should not be working for a music streaming company
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
omg rightttttttt
Charlie: C major triad
Absolutely no one:
*Interviewer* : TALENT
Charlie: “Just study”
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
Charlie: well actually here’s a really interesting fact about this note or chord
Interviewer: tHaT’s ThE fAcEbOoK sOuNd On mY bLaCkBeRrY
Charlie: :/
LMAAAAO
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
@@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.
@@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
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?
I love that Charlie got so bored that he just started playing with his mouth halfway through
and the interviewer just said "WOW!"
T A L E N T
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. 😅
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.
Did you felt the cringe too?? 🥶😅
oh yeah? what note is this? dinnnnnnnn
@@ramonhppacheco defiently an E flat
Dashiel Cockrill I don’t know I’m hearing more e
Charlie: * knows music theory *
interviewer: THAT IS TALENT
charlie: I mean nah I just kinda studied
That part killed me inside a bit. That is one of the first things you ever come across when you start studying music theory.
But then British got talent would say you just studied as a music student but not talent
9:15
Puth: knows basic music theory
Interviewer: TALENT!
Well in that business it's not very common
I hate the halo-effect
@@stormdancer1910 he went to berklee
I literally barely know music theory (I’m actually so bad) and I still understood what he was saying
"most of us don't hear pitch in perfect color" *laughs in synesthesia*
I dont know anyone who has synesthesia but I find it fascinating. Y'all see sound? I love it. I absolutely love it.
@@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.
@@celumbral9334 that's actually very interesting
"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...
"the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"
"Talent, ladies and gentlemen!"
"Just study"
Lyu-Shan
“Slope Intercept Form is y=mx+b”
“Talent, ladies and gentlemen”
“just study”
Lyu-Shan 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s all I learned from science class this year I swear
Cologram I just learned about that in math... tho I still don’t rlly understand it bc I was absent that day...
Eໄerກaໃ ຟhiຮperຮ ວໂ ໄhe ຟiກປ I can help if you want :)
Robloxian highschool...
I want to see a parody of that video where it's guessing colors and they switch between different shapes for each round…
This is an excellent parallel
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.”
it's funny because I did this exact activity with my preschool class today lmao
Yes, but the interviewer needs to be colour-blind, lmao
9:48 “oh no” in a tritone
Interviewer: Shows blue
Me: blue.
Interviewer *pikachu face*
👏
That's NUTS!
MAJOR TALENT PEOPLE!
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
Holy crap 😲
the C major triad part was hard to watch
holy frik my thoughts exactly
It was painful
😂😂
'haha just study'
I want Charlie Puth to teach me music theory. He seems like he would be an awesome teacher.
There is no reason why he can't make a music theory masterclass
yesss he should make a music theory masterclass
You just want attention
Love your profile pic
UBC Young Adults don’t know if you were going for the song pun, but if you were, nice 👌🏽
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
I love the 9:23 “just studied...” he’s given up you can see it in his sad eyes
You right.. Me, a band nerd, trying to listen to what he was saying.. Then the interviewer..
oh shit a myday :D
okay brian
@@EliTasrev no, its not brian, its youngk😤
ABSolutely Sure brian
*plays sound*
Charlie: *gives answer*
Presenter: o_0
Charlie: *starts to educate listeners*
Presenter: ahah anyway next sound
(edit: hot smokes 7k likes. Tysm!!! )
And it makes me sad EVERY TIME
OllyTheCrosslop I want him to make a youtube channel and share his knowledge
o_O
Lmao
Das alte ungespielt bild 😍
Conclusion: There’s no such thing as Perfect Pitch, just everyone else is colorblind in the ears
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
Oh my god. Hilarious
Blind by the ears
@@stahppls2293 I'm slightly colorblind without wearing my glasses for some reason.
Then again, I'm slightly blind too.
I wish charlie starts a youtube channel that teaches music production
He does some basic quick stuff like that on Tiktok
Eddy from TwoSetViolin is waving at you.
I was thinking that too!!
Ling ling workout who
COLLAB OMGOSKFJD
Yeah we need a collab
Found the comment I was looking for!! Ling Ling!
Doctor: * recognises illness *
People: you're so talented
Doctor: just study
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.
@@vegeta1885 That’s very true, but I know OP was referencing more to all the times Charlie told the audience about music theory.
@@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
@@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
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
It’s really cute of Charlie to actually try and teach this guy musical theory
cute, as in futile
Idk why this guy is judging charlie. Charlie is better than you actually think tough guy!!
Charlie: oh
Charles: *dies of laughter*
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!”
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.
Oh my God this is so good🤣
Ikr I was so confused like it you have perfect pitch, then how can it get harder?
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.
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 :)
“Yeah, and I think you being able to distinguish colors as a painter really is what makes your paintings great.”
Painter: 0_0
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?
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
Captain Strangiato 😂
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
I actually laughed at this one
When a non-musician is trying to test how good you are, just show them basic thing and they will amazed af, and then thinking it is just sort of magic rather than hardwork.
This is literally unartistic people who are easily amazed with realistic portraits when that's just one of the first/basic skills that you need to acquire if you wanna thrive in the art world because the real world is literally/obviously the very foundation of art. And without it, you're fucked so thank your art teacher for forbidding you to draw manga or anime style first or else you'll never grow, amateur.
@@Arguing.With.Idiots. Your username perfectly matches this comment.
@@Arguing.With.Idiots. username checks out
That dude thinks knowing triads has anything to do with talent😂😂😂🤦♂️
"You're able to see the colors, and recognize them in an instant."
Blue/white dress: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!"
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 😅
Thanks. Yeah, it's not the interviewer himself, it's just the way he executed it that made it hilarious.
Bruh the interviewer acted like an asshole.
The interviewer strikes me as a guy that is committed 110% to getting a paycheck and clocking out. Like he puts in loads of effort but in reality doesn't care for the job, just the benefits.
Charlotte getting paid to be there too, though. Lol
And he wears that stupid fedora
I think its different. He cares a lot and he's trying too hard. I think he's depressed.
Dude didn't recognize that Charlie was actually try to make the "interview" interesting
So true!
@Hershey Official It's not though. Almost none of the current pop singers have perfect pitch
@@nenolaura2199 yeah but also pop music isn't all music
@@steelbase7803 Yeah but it's still uncommon even among professional musicians.
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!
we love it when non-musicians try to talk about music
Elizabeth even better explaining music to someone who doesn’t understand it 👌🏽
who are you talking about
When they discover you have perfect or even relative pitch they think you are an alien... It is funny but awkward
I agree, but id add that you don't have to be a musician to know something about music
@@amelijaceica9617 yea but it helps to be a musician so you can relate
It's like saoirse ronan always being asked about her name.
Don’t have to worry about that since I’m Irish :-)
I like her last name :)
Or like KJ Apa always being asked about his accent and hair 😂
I can imagine people trying to pronounce her name xd
she did make a song about it on SNL
I studied music in college, and I just had a thought: how does perfect pitch work in non-Western cultures where music is not divided so evenly into isolated tones? Certain cultures don’t base their musical scales on the same intervals that Western music is based off of. I think it would be interesting to compare how someone like Charlie Puth would respond to non-Western music that may sound highly atonal to him, and vice versa for someone with perfect pitch who was raised hearing those scales responding to our Western scales.
Cassidy Riegel I’ve asked this to someone with perfect pitch and she just said that it’s slightly lower/higher than the closest note in the western scale, or somewhere between two notes.
i live in Tunisia and our music here is based on the "middle eastern" scales but a little bit wider... and i can tell you that it wouldn't be so hard for someone with perfect pitch to recognize some mid-eastern scales all he needs is to know how these scales are constructed and he can compare them to the western scales and modes and just have to remember the different notes which are mostly "semi-sharp" or "semi-flat"... in western music you got C then C# (or Db) and then D... in "arabic" music we have C... then a note that come in between C and C# ... then comes the C#... then a note between Db (or C#) and D... and finally comes the D... so the conclusion : western music got whole steps and half steps only... arabic music got whole steps... half steps... and quarter steps... (and more)...
FDML- Fedy Melliti Like microtones, right? For me, it sounds slightly sharp or flat (I guess by +/- 50 cents) like you said.
@@noharu1044 yeah exactly... and it even goes farther in turkish music... they even use some scales that are just some Hrz lower or higher than the known notes (including the arabic "microtones")... and it's difficult even for us arabs to distinguish that difference cause it's so small that it requires well trained ears to be noticed...
that doesn't matter. Since it is a sound, it has a pitch. Just in different system it has a different name, but they are the same thing.
Hot Take:
Good relative pitch can get you just as far as perfect pitch. It just takes longer to train.
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
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.
nO I love how Charlie is like, “I just studied” poor guy
Ive been playing piano for almost 8 years. I DO NOT HAVE PERFECT PITCH. But when it came to the part when he was talking about the minor triad from C and the guy was like wOw tAlenT I cringed the hardest ive ever done at a youtube video in my entire life.
that was def a major triad lol
Same
I haVe A AdoPt mE chAnnEl
Same. I was slightly cringing throughout but when Charlie had them play the boat horn sound to compare "octaves" with the glass I LOST IT
As a fellow pianist, that cringe was absolute god tier. I about died laughing
kid under 18:
charlie: “that’s a minor”
ros e ahhhh i get it 💀
I laughed and I'm ashamed
this is underrated man 💀😂
😂😂😂😂
The interviewer: That's exactly what a perfect pitch is
Watching this is like "Saoirse Ronan being asked about her hard-to-pronounce name for 5 minutes straight" levels of irritation
Charles: you should be able to see these colours easily
Me: cries in colourblind
Same...
Yo same
I felt that
Red Blue green yellow
Isn't it just wonderful...we see what's normal for us tho
My sister has perfect pitch and she gets annoyed a lot by always being asked “what pitch is this” “what pitch is that” hell I get annoyed by people asking her all the time.
i mean no offence, but if u tell people u have perfect pitch, dont be mad when people ask u. They don't magically know she has perfect pitch, at some point she probably bragged about/mentioned it and sooooooo...
@@cuteDRAGO or maybe it came up in natural conversation? mentioning a trait doesn't mean you bragged about it. and i'm sure she offered some sort of disclaimer that was like "please don't ask me what pitch something is all the time, you know i'll get it right."
@@TheArcherPlaysMc "always being asked" yes, because being pitch perfect is the first thing a person would ask u and is the most likely thing to come up in natural conversations. And who the hell disclaims these things?
Somebody: wow u seen how cute baby yoda is?
QuinnD's sister: btw im pitch perfect, but just a disclaimer don't ever ask me to prove it, cuz i'll be right every time and it gets annoying. Haha. But yea, baby yoda is cute.
If u want attention, u're gonna have to put up with it. I did music as a subject in 6th form and played an instrument all my life and trust me, never has this come up in NaTurAl CoNVErsation. The only time it comes up is if someone wants to brag about it, which then follows up with the prove it conversation.
@@cuteDRAGO YAYAYA everything you just said made no sense. maybe other people aren't you and Natural conversation between musicians is probably sometimes about music. making random assumptions and then defining natural conversation based solely off of the 3 conversation you've experienced as if a musician talking music is so far from reality is sad and i hope you become a better person.
@@Natalie-lw2cn don't have to be a bad person to better yourself, maybe its just a shitty trait of theirs that needs work.
So in languange learning perfect pitch is basically 'fluent'. Is like when u speak another language and then u learn english and u see the number 5 (five), if you're not fluent you'll translate it in ur own language first or for some people they have to count from 1 first to get the 5 right. But if you're fluent in english you just associate the number (5) with the word (five) without thinking.
this is a really good to explain it...
Okay, i already knew what perfect pitch was and stuff about it, but as a bilingual French human, I get it even more now, it makes much more sense
That’s probably the best way to learn a language, too. Know the vocabulary well enough to the point where you don’t need to think of the meaning of each word in the sentence. In fact, if you’re a native/ fluent speaker of English, then you didn’t even have to think at all about what I just wrote.
Smashed it
Difference is that you cannot develop perfect pitch by practicing, like it happens with languages when you achieve fluency. Perfect pitch is just like an instinct, it’s something you have or not have, and only develop as a child. Everything else is just memorizing notes with relative pitch
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.
I have a whole new found respect for Charlie as the man has the patience and restraint of a god for putting up with all that crap.
We're cringing too, Charles. We're together at this.
Who's Chris?
@@MiracleWinchester oh sorry hahaha I get confused with Charles and Chris Cornell lol
The host be like: oH lOrDy JeSuS iT’s A gOd GiVeN tAlEnT
Charlie be like: I just study
I mean you can't actually study for perfect pitch...
I think Charlie meant the inversion
@@simont390 he wasnt referring to the perfect pitch
He was born with it he says so
yee, you can only learn relative pitch, but you can only be born with perfect pitch. cAnT rELaTE.
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.
Dude just embarrassed himself without anyone's help
I checked the note I heard on the piano and it was C#.
charlie: *explains simple chord theory-* interviewer: THAT'S WHAT NORMAL PEOPLE CALL FACEBOOK
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."
*g U e S s i M n O t n O r M a l*
when he said that I thought "facebook makes a sound?????"....
I love jamming to ... Facebook... on my abacus.
it's literally the same reaction that people get when they see someone who can multiply big numbers in a small amount of time
"just study..."
In perfect pitch's case, it's less about studying and more about being born with it
@Things Things Oh yeah totally forgot to mention that lol. Extensive early age musical training.
Unless one is dyscalculic, where we aren't able to process numbers in that abstract way. We're blessed with a trade off in that often we display superior concentration when performing a single task and slip into a flow state far more easily than others. For example, when people say things like "now you're thinking of purple elephants" I do not.
However, what you're describing by attributing it to study is rote memorisation. That falls apart if you are asked to actually use it in a complex way and haven't practiced that part. Like having perfect pitch but not being able to make or play music.
Rote memorisation gives you the answers, but doesn't teach you how you got the answer nor what to do with it.
@@uniqhnd23 Didnt have that
The best thing about that scene is, that Charlie didn't even explain something complicated, but the interviewer hast no idea
Back in my dad's day there was a school for children with perfect pitch (for whatever reason). At the end of the commercial, instead of saying their phone number, they played notes, so only people with perfect pitch would be able to call in.
He still thinks it's neat and talks about it from time to time.
It IS neat
Idk, if you held the notes in your head or kept singing/humming them to yourself and walked over to a piano or guitar or something you don't have to have perfect pitch to call in, you could just figure out what they were
@@krk064 perfect pitch is not quite about approximation.
You would need to listen to it over and over, before being able to approach the proper values.
A perfect pitch person will never doubt it, and will need no instrument. Even if you gave them an out of tune instrument, they would get it right: you would play a C4 and think it is right, and they would play a C4 as well, knowing it was a G, in example. :)
@@purplewitch1907 I'm aware of what perfect pitch is. I'm just saying it's possible to hear a note/tone/melody just once and hold it in your head, or even sing it out loud, to remember it. You don't need perfect pitch to do that. In the specific case of this commercial, singing the melody to yourself and walking over to, yes, a properly tuned instrument (I didn't think I had to make that distinction) would do the trick. You say someone would "need to listen to it over and over before being able to approach the proper values." I don't think that's true at all. Again, all someone with even a shred of musicality has to do is hear a note once to recreate it.
That's the most neat thing I have ever heard in my life
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
Puth’s more uncomfortable than a child in the middle of listening to their parents talking about divorce...
Because he's listening to Maxwell divorce himself, go through therapy and get back together with himself all at once.
𝕍𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕀ℝ𝔼 no, he’s more uncomfortable than a child hearing about the birds and the bees for the first time.
𝕍𝕆𝕃𝔸𝕀ℝ𝔼 y r u commenting on every single video I watch...
@@joshualee2059 they have to be the most famous YT commenter, since 2017 Clorox Bleach.
Lmao
I’d love to see that dude’s reaction to Jacob Collier. He’d probably have a heart attack.
Don't. Maxwell is not ready.
@@CharlesCornellStudios I laughed so hard when I read your comment, Jacob Collier can vision full chords in his mind :O
Hahahahhhaha
jacob will start naming all the notes played in history
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 😂
Puth: so I'm really passionate ab-
Interviewer: vERY GOOD DID I MENTION YOU HAD PERFECT PITCH
Puth: I did this really neat trick to make a specific sound and I-
Interviewer: ONTO THE YELLOW GLASS
Does he realize that this man is not a circus act..? Also who taught this man how to interview, you shouldn't interrupt the interviewee unless something is going wrong..? Like the whole point of an interview is to get information from someone. I understand that if they're getting rambly then you need to get them back on track, but talking about one's musical career shouldn't be considered rambly in this case..?
Lmao Im just imagining John Lennon in an interview being like
"...so anyway, that was right around the time Paul died and we had to replace him with a double-"
Interviewer: "- let me stop you there john, Ive written a long division problem on this chalk board, lets see if you can figure it out"
@@realitities2 lmao
@@realitities2 🤣🤣🤣
I have Perfect Pitch and I want 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 Pitch... sorry"_
You get what I mean? It's just... that, and Perfect Pitch people have to learn exactly every tone of "Colour" to prove that we have it.
Also, I’m sure there are a lot of people that have “undiagnosed” perfect pitch because they aren’t fortunate enough to study music
well someones gotta die in the diamond mines
mackhomie6 fucking love this comment lmao
I understand Charlie Puth. After practicing like Ling Ling on the piano since age 5, I’ve had perfect pitch. I most likely got it from practicing and wasn’t naturally born with it because perfect pitch is really rare to be born with. People are like “omg I’m gonna play this note and u gotta tell me what it is” “oh did u see me play it” but it’s not honestly too bad. I just keep my mouth shut. Perfect pitch isn’t that amazing because you can develop relative pitch which is like perfect pitch. Most non-musicians think “one in ten thousand people have perfect pitch? wow aMazinG geniuses are born not created and a Charlie Puth is an example of that.” Literally so not true go watch some Twoset and you can tell that Brett with relative pitch can play as well or even better than Eddy with perfect pitch.
I liked for the Twoset reference
Ling ling laughs that you’ve only been practicing like ling ling since 5. Ling kings been at it since 3.
hahaha love this...the only question now: can you play every song at 325 bpm?
i have perfect pitch by practice too, i don’t tend to tell people cause i know they’re going to ask questions and “test me” when it’s something that comes naturally to me, in no way it is challenging it just feels like i’m their entertainer.
Me: *sees twoset reference
Me: *AAAHHHHH TWOSET YES *Likes**
But actually much agrees with you
We should get this vid to charlie so that he knows we know his pain.
Btw god damn 800+ likes xD
Totally agree!!
Wow 440 likes (wink wonk)
Likes are at 666 !
@@seahan1221 that's an A
@Good guy here Man on a mission Not that easy. There are always label obligations involved in what interviews you do as a musician. I'm sure it was in some contract somewhere.
"You're able to see the entire spectrum of colors and recognize what it is." I raise you the dress of 2015.
@ 5:09 SEIZURE WARNING
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: you should definitely put a strobe warning with those giant color transitions, it could trigger some seizures in some.
Oh shit, thanks for pointing that out, I didn't realize.
@@CharlesCornellStudios no worries! thanks for taking notice :)
A literal trigger warning
🙈
@@DjObit you were probably a hall monitor in elementary...
This is just like twosetviolin reacting to sacrilegious violins.
Yep ling ling is also pissed off with the interviewer...
Charlie: just stud-
Interviewer: WOW geniuses are born not created!
@@rujet14 Everyone's pissed. Jacob Collier is livid.
Ling Ling is furious. Ling Ling will sue. Ling Ling will bring eternal punishment to those who mock a 24h practice/study
Geniuses are born not created
@@ikec-pw5sb excuse me? you only practice 24 hours a day? lazy!!
Charlie is being so polite but like the guy is being kinda rude with some of the responses
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
I agree Charlie is cool
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.
@@realitities2 he couldn't even listen
A sound is played
Charlie: That's a G
Interviewer: tAlEnT
*Charlie trying not too laugh*
As someone with Perfect pitch, I was confused when they played an Eb and he answered with C#. He did sing a C# so he probably didn't mess up
how did their production team even fuck that up
Yeah I was confused too, production fucked up and I feel so bad for Charlie for being pestered like that
I thought i was the only one going insane with the Eb-Db thing
And I thought I was tripping
Me: Eb!
Charlie: Like, an in-between C and C#?
Me: My ears are broken no please help
This really shows that people don’t realize that music isn’t just “born with it” talent. It’s an art form with a specific science and history backing it that people work extremely hard to master.
This interviewer does not listen to anything Charlie is saying.
Charles: *plays C*
Me, looking at the keyboard: That's a C! I guess I have perfect pitch too.
As someone who just barely started to understand music theory, this still hurt like hell to watch
yes lol
I think the reason Charlie said a different note than was played, was to test the interviewer(s) actual knowledge. Sorta throwing them a curve ball so he'd know if they were wasting his time.
The Crøw this is a big brain theory but I wonder if he cares enough to do that
@@clearestapricotpencil4125 Honestly, who wouldn't use an opportunity to covertly call someone a dumbass over a broadcasted video?
Charles: "Red is not blue."
*VSauce has entered the chat*
....
Or is it
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@@realitities2 And the song plays.
War nightmares
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.