Actually truth be told you don't need to read music to hear sounds. I am a self taught pianist who can't read music to save my live but I can hear the differences with sound. By looking where your fingers press the keys and you remembering the sounds you can develop your "ear" for music. I do not have perfect pitch but I have developed my ear to a point where it is almost indistinguishable within specific octaves. I couldn't recognize easily the keys on the very low & high octaves but the central octaves I recognized instantly. Recognizing pitch requires you to control your mind to listen to a specific sound. I like to use the music studio imagery to convey to you that is what my mind looks like when it is trying to recognise the structure of music and the pitches. Summary you can mentally develop your brain to be a music studio for as long as you have imagination, listen to a lot of music and try to control your mind to look for other elements besides the obvious sounds.
I swear people say you’re born with it but if I never played music, then how was I supposed to even know the note names to “use” that gene? Same with how I can determine the note names, but I’m not good with chord names because I literally don’t know chord names to begin with, but I could tell you the notes in it
@@smellybonk Even if that person with perfect pitch does not play music they would still hold the ability to differentiate between different frequencies of sound. Being able to name a note by itself does not mean that you have perfect pitch what it is saying is that you subjectively can "sense" the subtle difference between different qualities of sound. Here is an example: I can tell you any note on the keyboard between the middle C octave because I am familiar with those sounds. Someone with perfect pitch can also tell you the name and whether if it is sharp or flat by an even finer detail.
I don’t exactly have perfect pitch, but I definitely created a state for myself where I can figure it out in under a second usually. I know all the notes by heart and I kind of match them super fast. It’s not like an on the fly thing, but more like a on the thought.
I don’t think a lot of you understand perfect/absolute pitch. Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, is the idea that one can identify any given note without having another note to reference. In other words, they have a long-term memory of notes. Relative pitch is the ability to identify notes when given an identified note to reference. E.g., if I play you a C# and tell you it’s C#, and then play you an E, you can identify E by mentally climbing up the scale. Absolute pitch is rare. But if you can, you can. Some people are really good at it and can hear and identify notes from stomping your foot or hitting a wall. But not everyone.
You can have perfect pitch and not know the notes to identify but you'd have to learn the notes eventually so that you can put a label to what you're doing
Is it possible to have “partial” absolute/perfect pitch? I barely have musical training (none since childhood) but have had hints in life that make me wonder. I can sing and identify C D and E from memory 100% accurately with no other context. On tests like this, I can figure out what the note is based on that memory. Though sharps/flats throw me off a bit…
That’s the only one I missed, I thought it was an A too! But then the actual A1 played and I was like shit, _this_ is obviously the A1. Very weird experience. Must be something to do with the frequencies OR! Theory that just occurred to me - did y’all grow up on the piano like I did? A1 is the lowest note on the piano; maybe that’s the lowest pitch we have memorized, and anything below it just sounds like a weird A1 to us? (Edit: they’re actually G0/A0 but I’m calling it what the video calls it)
I was off by one semi-tone for nearly every single one. I don't have perfect pitch, but I am normally pretty good at identifying notes due to pretty advanced relative pitch, so this experience was definitely really weird to me.
Here’s my list for references that help with identifying each note (as someone who thinks they have absolute pitch to some extent): D - first chord of Killing In The Name / Everlong / any song in Drop D tuning D# - first chord of Basket Case E - first chord of Take Me Out / Where Is My Mind? / Seven Nation Army F - first chord of Smells Like Teen Spirit (3rd chord of In Bloom also helps as a back up) F# - first chord of I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor G - first chord of Ziggy Stardust / You Shook Me All Night Long G# - 3rd chord of Where Is My Mind? A - first chord of Highway To Hell / 4th chord of Where Is My Mind A# - first chord of In Bloom B - the pedal note of the Thunderstruck riff (think the bass note playing beneath it) C - first chord of Space Oddity (yes there’s a lot of Bowie songs here) C# - 2nd chord of Where Is My Mind? Hope that helps anyone trying to train this skill
@@k1l_o372only if you played the chords and guessed from there. Even absolute pitch has to have a reference. As a singer I've had people suspect I may have perfect pitch, but I can't verify it because I don't know where any of the notes lie on the scale. I just sing them as I hear them.
if you're going to test a note in the first octave, you should aim to minimize harmonics and use a sine wave or similarly smooth waveform because a string instrument has too many harmonics at that frequency and the note becomes fogged
So it wasn't just my hearing ability? I WAS able to hear the A1 but I struggled with G1 because it was so low that I was hearing a bunch of different notes from different frequencies. I kind of just assumed that people with even greater level of absolute pitch might still be able to hear them or something.
@@MyNipplesArePointyI would be unsurprised if there were people capable of finding the root note, but even if that is the case, you should be proud of your skill!
I’ve been training my ear to identify notes by memorizing C as a relative pitch. I was curious how well I can do without it… not too well, apparently 😂 Thanks for the test!
0:43 This instantly reminds me of Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. I actually came here to test my natural notes pitch, but for this one I immediately say G#
I nailed the first one and thought i had the 2nd, but was off by a semi-tone. From there it was all downhill for me except the last one. I immediately recognized that note as the first note of November Rain! It prompted me to play/hear in my mind the next high chord and the subsequent chord progression.
I'm actually curious about people who remember notes and recognize sounds that way.. how did you remember them? Here's how I picked them up _I also have developed some other ways to associate with them_: C - from Fly me to the moon, tends to go to B and vice versa C# - It was one of the basslines from Zutomayo's Study Me D - Papers please theme Eb - Take five or sometimes the C blues scale E - No reference here, tends to want to go to F F - I remember it from Flight of the Bamboo Cutter, has a light blue-ish color, fine texture F# - Boondocks opening, has a metallic punchy texture G - (low octaves) Violet Evergarden - The Voice in my Heart, (high octave) Le Cygne, has a deep orange color and grainy feel Ab - Tea for two jazz arrangement - Timothy Gondola.. light and feathery, white-ish color A - Just recently learned it from the Stairway to Heaven riff - it has a heavy feel Bb - Also take five, brown B - either that song that starts off with a piano and goes down and up an octave a few times or fly me to the moon, light yellow - tends to C Tell me yours!
I have no idea exactly about how I did it, but I just started hearing notes through voices and background music, then learned all the concert pitches, and finally learned all of them by ear. After that I started matching the notes to songs so that I could sing them more accurately and now here I am. One song I matched is Spongebob’s “Gary Come Home”, which starts on a flat Eb or sharp C#
A - La Grange B - it’s kinda like ‘A’ but a bit more lmao Bm - My favourite chord C - Twinkle Twinkle little star D - Fluff - Black Sabbath E - Seven nation Army Em - Obvious chord F - we don’t talk about Bruno F# - no reference G - Mole from the ministry
For me it’s C- i don’t really have one lol I just kinda get it sometimes. C#- it’s the first note I’m never gonna give you up by Rick astley D - part of a song I used to play in middle school band called reindeer rag D#- the second note of the Rick astley song E - the first note in the halo theme song, I can usually recognize that one pretty fast. F - hail to the president of the United States F# is the one I can name the best, I think of crazy train, but the main on is the first note in allstar by smash mouth. G - is the one I have the most trouble with, but I think the jeopardy theme song. G# is the other one I struggle with, but I think of part of the main chorus in Africa. A- i think of the beginning of the main chorus in Africa or crazy train A# i sometimes know because that’s the scale I used to practice most in band B - that one part from bring me to life when I used to listen to that song.
For people her trying to train you ears, I trained my ears with these songs (they are kind of weird so be prepared) I hope these will help! C (first note of the pvz 2 demonstration mini game) C# (the third note before the really low part of wet hands) D (first note of megalovania) Eb (to me it sounded a lot like E which was my first note so I don't really have a song for this one) E (start of tetris) F (the second part of megalovania) F# (this was my hardest note but thanks to someone in the comments jojo's theme is this one now) G (first note of motzarts eine kleine nachtmusik) Ab (first note of wet hands) A (This will be hard to explain but it's the second part of the second part of megalovania, it just sounds like the start of the second part but higher) Bb (This one probably won't be too helpful but we played the Bb major scale like every day at the end of 6th grade and like all of 7th grade band so it's kind of just engraved into my head) And finally b (the spaming note at the start of somethingunreal's song with only windows sounds)
F sharp crazy train and a lot of rage against the machine, play an f sharp and let it sustain, as the decays you can here the oscillations, f sharps are easiest to hear, they are the fastest, this is why riffs in this key kick arse, I love that note! Lol. E flat is the slowest wave.. it gives an almost major or minor feel to one single note, f sharp being brighter e flat being slower wave or sadder, confusing to use that language in that context though probably.
@@cinna_cappu yeah, but the note's spectrum on the piano makes the pitch inaudible in it's true nature. Some harmonics sound stronger than the fundamental (Bb).
I used a video to mp3 converter, then used pitch shifter online to shift one octave higher. All the notes were correct, including the sixth one. The sixth note was clearly G1 using those converters. Given that the notes were shifted one octave higher, it's clear that the sixth note here is actually G0. The fundamental frequency of the sixth note (G0) is lower than the one of the eighth note (A0) though.
As someone who has never looked at a piece of sheet music or played an instrument in my life, I feel like I did pretty good for 100% random guessing based on vibe: D, G, E, A, D, G, B, E, B, F
Question I have is - if you have not seen sheet music or played an instrument, then how do you know the notes by their names? 😀 You are a singer most likely in that case
A year ago i couldn’t even try to guess one note. I did this test again and got all of them correct. You might ask what made me develop perfect pitch: I started studying at a music conservatory where we have solfège 3 one hour classes in a week. If you can and have the possibility, seek professional teachers for solfège and ear training and music theory. And also since last year i’ve been wandering through classical pieces (any period and style and form) alot and I rarely listen to pop which I always used to. And I also went to our local orchestras concerts and performances. The most important thing is to have passion for music.
While it is possible to develop perfect pitch, it is EXTREMELY difficult. My guess is that you have true pitch, which is very similar and can easily be mistaken for perfect/absolute pitch. They have very few differences and work mostly the same. I’m not an expert on this stuff so if you want to learn more you should do some research. That’s very cool though and I’m very happy for you! Congrats
Solfege is a real bummer for me. I gripe about it because, for starters, I have perfect pitch, so then I have to learn the solfege AND the tune/part. I think the major advantage of solfege is learning intervals between notes, not the actual pitches, but then again, I've never had a need to learn solfege.
@@snickpickle yes solfège is great for learning intervals, what our teachers did were teach us to sing tonal intervals and after learning the intervals they taught us to sing atonal intervals that helped us with pitch recognition.
I got all of them except G#- I’m someone who doesn’t have absolute pitch, but has memorised enough notes (Bb, B, C, D, Eb, E, F, G and A) that I can figure it out from there if I need.
All of the pitch classes were correct except possibly number 6 which I couldn't tell. However all of your octave labeling is too high by 1 octave, so the B2 in number 4 is actually a B1 and the A1 in number 8 is actually an A0 (bottom note of a full piano) as well as all the rest, so just subtract 1 from each octave number. So number 6 was in the 0 octave as well, but I'm not entirely sure it was a G. If so it was a G0 and not a G1.
I tried to do this off of the vibes of the note alone and I got close but not correct with most of them 😅 safe to say that while I can sometimes notice the differences between notes, I don't have perfect! I feel confident that I can train my brain to have a certain "trained perfect pitch" through enough effort though. Thank you!
Absolute pitch is one of very few behaviorial traits that can be tested with total precision. It can be documented numerically.Thus it is very important to behavioral research. When I was in China in 1993 I observed young people being given group piano lessons. This would give them AP because all of them already met the prior condition of speaking a tone language: Mandarin Chinese.
@@spyderwanted8642 Most people are born with it, but also had to develop their skill somewhat. From what I've read, it's impossible to develop REAL perfect pitch after the age of seven. However, you can develop something called "true pitch" at any age with enough practice, which can provide a similar effect.
@@spyderwanted8642 you can learn it but people with certain types of synesthesia can see different notes as colored circles so you can have been born with it or you learned it
7 out of 10. I have something known as Chromesthesia so it kinda makes the notes appear a little weird, but easier to pinpoint. I struggle when I can't "colorize" the sound.
I can relate these pitches to songs that I know the first note of. Like I use a cheat sheet: A: Drinkee by Sofi Tukker B: Disturbia C: Heart and soul D: Megalovania E: Fur elise F: Crossing Field By LiSA G: Wellerman, The longest Johns.
That's basically how you develop perfect pitch. Just reference the first notes of songs until it becomes muscle memory and you don't need the references anymore.
Yeah same here are some C: Home Sweet Home by Mötley Crüe or most of the time it's instantly recognizable for me D: Lights by Journey E: Nothing Else Matters/Enter Sandman by Metallica F: Wheel in the Sky by Journey G: Paranoid by Black Sabbath A: Instantly recognizable because I tune my violin B: Iron Man by Black Sabbath or About a Girl by Nirvana
Here my list for every note for you guys if you wanna get perfect pitch: C: Blue Danube by Strauss/Haydn Surprise Symphony C#: HR2 (Hungarian Rhapsody No.2) by Liszt D: Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 Eb: La Campanella by Liszt E: Chopin Etude “Winter Wind” F: ??? F#: Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie G: Sibelius Violin Concerto G#: Chopin Fantasie Impromptu A: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Bb: ??? B: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto: 1st Movement Feel free to listen to these if you havent and give some suggestions!
Real perfect pitch means you're able to tell what key a song is in without knowing, being able to hum pitches, and knowing what chords are when played.
I feel the ones with insanely low notes are unfair, the overtones produced on the piano are confusing so even though I do have perfect pitch I still got them wrong.
The octaves are wrong, or at least displayed in a strange way that makes it confusing to interpret which octave you mean. Also for notes as low as that G0 (not a G1), you should minimize the other tones. I was hearing D ringing more prominently than the G itself
The last time I did this test was 2 days ago and I got 3 out of 10, today I did it again after only half an hour of practice and I got 8 out of 10 so don't give up guys. STAY STRONG!
Konst24.12 I believe in destiny and hard work, if you’re really willing to work, you can get it, dont let anyone tell you otherwise, I didnt have it but now I can guess every note correctly, I’m no mozart who can guess correctly in a second but give me 5 seconds and I’ll ace this shi
@@rohankapoor773 its scientifically proven that you can get this ability in the first 2 - 3 years of your life, after that you can just improve it. If your quite talented you could do it without actually trying to, but because you and me aren't that talented, we got to do something to have that skill. But in no way anyone could just get it.
@@KoHaGames_ okay, so I’ve been kinda confused, I know that I don’t have perfect pitch, but for some reason I just know the pitches right Away, it’s like a weird mix of knowing it and not knowing it, I can automatically know a note without a reference in my head, I just hear it and I know it, but sometimes I get notes wrong every once in a while, so do I just have very strong relative pitch where I need less of a reference?
If you a guitarist or saxophone player you will hear: Not #6 as G# + C Not #8 as Bb + D I assume the piano is out of tune, because no way it sounds like 2 not at the same time ? As a guitarist im confused
@@jackson.6282 I’m not quite sure but I think there’s a difference between not being able to identify frequencies that you are able to hear and being physically unable to hear extremities of sound
@@joebamabiden1325 I'm the same in this regard. I think I don't actually have perfect pitch, but just really well trained ears as I played the violin from a very young age. So everything in the violin range I hear immediately and everything else I will have to move up octaves in my mind. It also goes for the instrument. Violin and piano, no problem, but play a timpani and I will really have to think about it
@@jackson.6282 the piano has too many overtones at low frequencies making it harder to tell the note, if it was a pure sound like a sine wave then we would be a lot more objective
I can't identify low range sounds -_- not a lot of people can, actually, so those were definitely more tricky than the others. It would take a lot of practice, but I bet you it's not impossible!
Btw "perfect pitch" is something that you get by training its not necessarilly being born with it. Me, however having chromosthesia or whatever basically wiring different sounds to colours helps a lot. I have a clear image of the a minor triad (A-C-E) and i move up or down the scale to find the note that's played. Edit: The whole thing is actually called pitch memory/relative pitch my bad
@@mr_sandman1082 true lol but there are a few cases where it's done without any weird shit on the ears or brain. If you want to do it you can but it will be hard af, it's just that most people won't even bother.
@@8curred72 i've discussed this with a friend yesterday he told me its not possible to "just" learn it as an adult but i think it is possible somehow. But we are both clueless so if you yould tell me on od those cases? would be very nice :) thank you
@@agent_artifical well you need to make yourself fluent with music in general. If you're not into music and then suddenly in your teens you're like ok I'm gonna learn pitch memory you can't. You need to train your ear from a young age just by listening to a lot of music
It’s really subjective and depends on the person. A lot of people are born with it, and some, depending on the strength of their memory and familiarity/experience with music, can develop it.
Absoloute pitch is different from perfect pitch. It means that you can relate notes to a certain comination of colours, and whenever the note is played you can visualize it in your mind.
Number 6 is G0. That's why I say it makes sense that the piano only goes down to A0, since it's the lowest easily distinguishable note. The lowest note that's audiable is E0.
It's actually really easy for me, I didn't know it was some special skill that few people have. It's like each note is a different color. If you play the note C, the pitch will be the same every single time, as with all the other notes. Same with colors, looking at red, you'll see red every single time. With some people, I'll play them a G and tell them that it's a G, then I'll play another note and ask them if it's a G or not, to my surprise more people couldn't hear the pitches and guessed that it was still a G. But for other people, they can learn the notes and then learn to differentiate them. There such an interesting science behind all of this.
Note number one was D3, not D4. And note number two was A♭ (or G♯) 2, not 3. Where are you getting your octaves from? 2:03 And for the record, G0, which is what this apparently is, is so close to the bottom of the human hearing range that it's almost impossible to identify pitch. Standard pianos don't even go that low.
I can learn lead guitar parts by ear very quickly yet I got every one of these wrong. With an instrument in front of me I can find the notes immediately, just can't name them in my head with no instrument for reference.
i got none of them right but for some I guessed it the right at first but then doubted myself so I changed my answer and the rest I guessed so close to the correct answer
Well I got all of them right, and I’ve always been told that I had perfect pitch, so I wasn’t too surprised. It’s one of the gifts I greatly treasure, despite not being heavily into music yet. (I only play basic piano).
You can't just play notes without establishing which is which first. It's like giving someone a math test before you've shown them the numbers and operators.
I developed relative pitch as soon as I started playing the guitar. I compare notes I hear in reference to the first open string which is E. I'm usually within 50 cents of the actual notes.
That is exactly what I do, when I try to guess a note, I first start with an E in my head, then work my way up the scale. For some reason, E is a very powerful and out standing strong note for me.
This test was disturbing for me, because back in the day, my accuracy was around 96% (F# and Ab were usually my most troublesome notes). I am now in my early 60s, and have noticed that my perfect pitch ability has started falling off, almost to the point where I would say "dramatically." In this test, I only got two of them right! ARGH! But I was never off by more than a full step (which is also alarming to me). In some fairness, I have a talk radio station on in the background, it is 4:15AM and I'm tired from my evening/nighttime job, and I'm listening through my laptop speakers, instead of better headphones or my stereo. But the fact is, many, many other people like myself, as we get older, do oftentimes start losing our perfect pitch. The great vibraphonist, Gary Burton, found out the hard way that he had lost some of his perfect pitch as well, so I know I'm not alone in this. Along the way, over the last several years, I have also noticed that my sight-reading abilities have fallen off dramatically. I now get frustrated when I miss notes as I sight-read music in our church choir, and I think that in large part, it is due to the fact that I relied extensively on my perfect pitch to nail the notes without even having to listen to the accompaniment or to the other voices in the choir. Over the last decade, I find myself doing extensive writing in my parts, circling notes I miss more than once, writing in intervals that I miss, and so on. While others remark at my abilities to this day, it is embarrassing and frustrating to me that I am making "so many" mistakes in my sight-reading, especially since I oftentimes carry the section, at least in the early goings. On a related note: I can't remember the guy's name, or what talk show I saw, but he described having perfect pitch like this (paraphrased): "It's like saying, 'This desk is brown,' or 'This grass is green' [at which point the host interrupts him about his analogy before letting the guest finish; so the guest continues]... So this is a G [he sings it, then the band's keyboardist plays the G], and this is an E [sung in pitch, repeated by keyboardist]." I've known that for almost all of my life, except that some of that ability has fallen off, now that I'm in my early 60s. Tinnitus may not be helping, either, but my tinnitus isn't nearly as bad as what I hear about others who have tinnitus.
I’m someone who can quickly figure out the melody of a song on the piano quite quickly. I may not quite get it but I know when I have the wrong notes and I can usually figure it out somewhat easily. I can’t name the notes on a piano even though I can read music, but if someone were to play something and then had me figure it out, I’d get the melody right quite fast as long as it’s just single notes.
Me neither, but I have a "10 Years not tuned piano" at home that I sometimes play with, but just funwise and not with finger training or the "I wanne learn that instrument" stuff
you should consider the first octave as 0(zero) because is that how we call the notes. the only note i didn't get was this 2:11 G, i suspect that the sound 1:59 was lower than the lowest piano note
So I know I have perfect pitch, but boy, the G0 I missed because I wasnt able to hear enough harmonics to identify it perfectly. A0 was perfectly fine though I was also wondering why the octave notation was 1 number higher than it is (i.e. B1 written as B2, etc.)
Mine's kinda weird (pd: i love pop music lol) C: Save your tears (The Weeknd) first sung note or the first note on All Too Well by Taylor Swift C#: First note on Shape of you D: First note on Minuet in G Eb: First note on traitor by Olivia Rodrigo E: First note on Fur Elise or Jingle Bells F: First note on the instrumental part of Happier by Marshmello F#: First note on Faded by Alan Walker G: First note on Havana by Camila Cabello G#: First note on the piano ending of Chiquitita by Abba A: The first bass note on The breakup song by Greg Kihn Band Bb: First piano note on Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo B: First note of Hedwig's theme (Harry Potter main theme) Hope it helps :D
I think now, going through the video, I'm probably 3 for 12, but I did get *some* right, so for any guitarists who are scared, you may never have perfect pitch, but you can learn, and I hope we can all take reassurance in that. I'd like to see them test Keith for perfect pitch 🧐
Is it possible to have perfect pitch and not know about it? I’m getting a scary amount of these right. I’ve played music for a long time but I didn’t think I had it. The ones I get wrong im only a half step off. I don’t think it’s relative but really don’t know. I’m legitimately slightly spooked.
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Me guesses one note: I think I have perfect pitch
I’m pretty sure i have close to perfect pitch because i got 9 right and the one I missed I chose c instead of c#
@@CampbellJTuba If you have perfect pitch, guest what note is it:
*Touches A#* 🧐
@@CampbellJTuba I also got c instead of c#
And other 9 wrong
@@defalt3260 umm... Sounds like a G
You may not have perfect pitch, but you do have vengence ❄🗡
I feel like I need to understand how to read music before I can determine if I have perfect pitch
Same lol
yeah we won't know if we have it unless we know how to read music first lol
Actually truth be told you don't need to read music to hear sounds. I am a self taught pianist who can't read music to save my live but I can hear the differences with sound. By looking where your fingers press the keys and you remembering the sounds you can develop your "ear" for music. I do not have perfect pitch but I have developed my ear to a point where it is almost indistinguishable within specific octaves. I couldn't recognize easily the keys on the very low & high octaves but the central octaves I recognized instantly.
Recognizing pitch requires you to control your mind to listen to a specific sound. I like to use the music studio imagery to convey to you that is what my mind looks like when it is trying to recognise the structure of music and the pitches.
Summary you can mentally develop your brain to be a music studio for as long as you have imagination, listen to a lot of music and try to control your mind to look for other elements besides the obvious sounds.
I swear people say you’re born with it but if I never played music, then how was I supposed to even know the note names to “use” that gene? Same with how I can determine the note names, but I’m not good with chord names because I literally don’t know chord names to begin with, but I could tell you the notes in it
@@smellybonk Even if that person with perfect pitch does not play music they would still hold the ability to differentiate between different frequencies of sound. Being able to name a note by itself does not mean that you have perfect pitch what it is saying is that you subjectively can "sense" the subtle difference between different qualities of sound.
Here is an example: I can tell you any note on the keyboard between the middle C octave because I am familiar with those sounds. Someone with perfect pitch can also tell you the name and whether if it is sharp or flat by an even finer detail.
"This audio attempts to remove any relative pitch references from your memory"
*R2-D2 droidspeaking sounds*
I don’t exactly have perfect pitch, but I definitely created a state for myself where I can figure it out in under a second usually. I know all the notes by heart and I kind of match them super fast. It’s not like an on the fly thing, but more like a on the thought.
It's new to me and yes, it's bizarre, a combination of things maybe.
Thinking of a song in a particular key helps, like associate each key with a tune, good way to get started on it, was for me at least.
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That’s relative pitch
I experience the same with 4 notes that I have memorized (but did not get a perfect score on this test)- I have been told that this is relative pitch!
Heard g# and started playing fantaisie impromptu
Exactly
Me too
Same
Lol same
that's how you remember note names.
Me for every note: C
Haha same 😩
Lol, I guessed different notes each time but got them all wrong. Should have guessed C each time and increased my chances
lol same!
Same!
I don’t think a lot of you understand perfect/absolute pitch. Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, is the idea that one can identify any given note without having another note to reference. In other words, they have a long-term memory of notes.
Relative pitch is the ability to identify notes when given an identified note to reference. E.g., if I play you a C# and tell you it’s C#, and then play you an E, you can identify E by mentally climbing up the scale.
Absolute pitch is rare. But if you can, you can. Some people are really good at it and can hear and identify notes from stomping your foot or hitting a wall. But not everyone.
Can you train to HAVE perfect pitch, rather than absolute pitch?
You can have perfect pitch and not know the notes to identify but you'd have to learn the notes eventually so that you can put a label to what you're doing
Is it possible to have “partial” absolute/perfect pitch? I barely have musical training (none since childhood) but have had hints in life that make me wonder. I can sing and identify C D and E from memory 100% accurately with no other context. On tests like this, I can figure out what the note is based on that memory. Though sharps/flats throw me off a bit…
Aka its about training, like muscle memory but way harder
@@blursedvark4973 I'm pretty sure you can train your ears to recognize a specific pitch
"Do you have perfect pitch?"
Me: yes
Me:
Me: lemme watch this video just to make sure
hahahahha Same here!!!
samee
same lol
Same!! Haha
you guys all have perfect pitch?
I got 9/10 notes. That first octave g was the one that got me
same
the low octave G was not a G, it was A so you're good lol
@@kingsk0133 that’s what I’m saying that shit sounded like A not G
Yea no way
That’s the only one I missed, I thought it was an A too! But then the actual A1 played and I was like shit, _this_ is obviously the A1. Very weird experience. Must be something to do with the frequencies
OR! Theory that just occurred to me - did y’all grow up on the piano like I did? A1 is the lowest note on the piano; maybe that’s the lowest pitch we have memorized, and anything below it just sounds like a weird A1 to us?
(Edit: they’re actually G0/A0 but I’m calling it what the video calls it)
"This audio attempts to remove any relative pitch references from your memory" and succeeds at being a funky little lick in Ab
I was off by one semi-tone for nearly every single one. I don't have perfect pitch, but I am normally pretty good at identifying notes due to pretty advanced relative pitch, so this experience was definitely really weird to me.
I was exactly the same
But for some reason I can always, without fail, identify E
@@ethanfrancis4527 omg same
@@ethanfrancis4527 guitar player?
@@PirateXandarrr Yes, I am. I think playing seven nation army a million times just drilled that E into me
Same here!
Here’s my list for references that help with identifying each note (as someone who thinks they have absolute pitch to some extent):
D - first chord of Killing In The Name / Everlong / any song in Drop D tuning
D# - first chord of Basket Case
E - first chord of Take Me Out / Where Is My Mind? / Seven Nation Army
F - first chord of Smells Like Teen Spirit (3rd chord of In Bloom also helps as a back up)
F# - first chord of I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
G - first chord of Ziggy Stardust / You Shook Me All Night Long
G# - 3rd chord of Where Is My Mind?
A - first chord of Highway To Hell / 4th chord of Where Is My Mind
A# - first chord of In Bloom
B - the pedal note of the Thunderstruck riff (think the bass note playing beneath it)
C - first chord of Space Oddity (yes there’s a lot of Bowie songs here)
C# - 2nd chord of Where Is My Mind?
Hope that helps anyone trying to train this skill
This would be relative pitch not absolute
Lol that’s basically what I do too, but the songs are different.
You can learn note A by listening while my guitar gently weeps by the beatles
rush E just helps me with E (obviously, what else could it be), and I know C really well
@@k1l_o372only if you played the chords and guessed from there. Even absolute pitch has to have a reference. As a singer I've had people suspect I may have perfect pitch, but I can't verify it because I don't know where any of the notes lie on the scale. I just sing them as I hear them.
Me taking this test anyway even though I know damn well I don't have perfect pitch
if you're going to test a note in the first octave, you should aim to minimize harmonics and use a sine wave or similarly smooth waveform because a string instrument has too many harmonics at that frequency and the note becomes fogged
Thank youuu
So it wasn't just my hearing ability? I WAS able to hear the A1 but I struggled with G1 because it was so low that I was hearing a bunch of different notes from different frequencies. I kind of just assumed that people with even greater level of absolute pitch might still be able to hear them or something.
@@MyNipplesArePointyI would be unsurprised if there were people capable of finding the root note, but even if that is the case, you should be proud of your skill!
I’ve been training my ear to identify notes by memorizing C as a relative pitch. I was curious how well I can do without it… not too well, apparently 😂 Thanks for the test!
Your audio to "remove relative pitch from your memory" was useless 100% of the time lol
placebo effect
especially you can relatively recognize the notes in the audio lol
@@stevenmejiamusic3495 Yeah hahaha
😂
It just hurt my ears
E is the only one I can get instantly cos it's the first note of this random song that my piano that my keyboard plays
Same because of tetris
Fur elise
Halo theme
E
"C" is the bell on "The Price Is Right"...That should be drilled into your brain forever... :)
Yeah this thing has wrong notes. I thought I was losing perfect pitch but I think you labeled some wrong.
Nope. I checked this with my keyboard. Everything is right besides number 6 is a not g. That’s it
@@basketballclips7778 yes exactly. I thought some were off but I was just hearing overtones
I thought note 8 was B, but the video said it was A.
@@noahb9916 but it is B, we hear a F# overtone and if it were an A it wouldn't be so clear
you can lose perfect pitch?
0:43 This instantly reminds me of Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. I actually came here to test my natural notes pitch, but for this one I immediately say G#
same
I nailed the first one and thought i had the 2nd, but was off by a semi-tone. From there it was all downhill for me except the last one. I immediately recognized that note as the first note of November Rain! It prompted me to play/hear in my mind the next high chord and the subsequent chord progression.
I'm actually curious about people who remember notes and recognize sounds that way.. how did you remember them? Here's how I picked them up
_I also have developed some other ways to associate with them_:
C - from Fly me to the moon, tends to go to B and vice versa
C# - It was one of the basslines from Zutomayo's Study Me
D - Papers please theme
Eb - Take five or sometimes the C blues scale
E - No reference here, tends to want to go to F
F - I remember it from Flight of the Bamboo Cutter, has a light blue-ish color, fine texture
F# - Boondocks opening, has a metallic punchy texture
G - (low octaves) Violet Evergarden - The Voice in my Heart, (high octave) Le Cygne, has a deep orange color and grainy feel
Ab - Tea for two jazz arrangement - Timothy Gondola.. light and feathery, white-ish color
A - Just recently learned it from the Stairway to Heaven riff - it has a heavy feel
Bb - Also take five, brown
B - either that song that starts off with a piano and goes down and up an octave a few times or fly me to the moon, light yellow - tends to C
Tell me yours!
this is pretty funny i use fly me to the moon as C reference as well
its just that sometimes its out of tune thats the problem
For E and D sharp i use the beginning of Für Elise
I have no idea exactly about how I did it, but I just started hearing notes through voices and background music, then learned all the concert pitches, and finally learned all of them by ear. After that I started matching the notes to songs so that I could sing them more accurately and now here I am. One song I matched is Spongebob’s “Gary Come Home”, which starts on a flat Eb or sharp C#
A - La Grange
B - it’s kinda like ‘A’ but a bit more lmao
Bm - My favourite chord
C - Twinkle Twinkle little star
D - Fluff - Black Sabbath
E - Seven nation Army
Em - Obvious chord
F - we don’t talk about Bruno
F# - no reference
G - Mole from the ministry
For me it’s
C- i don’t really have one lol I just kinda get it sometimes.
C#- it’s the first note I’m never gonna give you up by Rick astley
D - part of a song I used to play in middle school band called reindeer rag
D#- the second note of the Rick astley song
E - the first note in the halo theme song, I can usually recognize that one pretty fast.
F - hail to the president of the United States
F# is the one I can name the best, I think of crazy train, but the main on is the first note in allstar by smash mouth.
G - is the one I have the most trouble with, but I think the jeopardy theme song.
G# is the other one I struggle with, but I think of part of the main chorus in Africa.
A- i think of the beginning of the main chorus in Africa or crazy train
A# i sometimes know because that’s the scale I used to practice most in band
B - that one part from bring me to life when I used to listen to that song.
For people her trying to train you ears, I trained my ears with these songs (they are kind of weird so be prepared) I hope these will help!
C (first note of the pvz 2 demonstration mini game)
C# (the third note before the really low part of wet hands)
D (first note of megalovania)
Eb (to me it sounded a lot like E which was my first note so I don't really have a song for this one)
E (start of tetris)
F (the second part of megalovania)
F# (this was my hardest note but thanks to someone in the comments jojo's theme is this one now)
G (first note of motzarts eine kleine nachtmusik)
Ab (first note of wet hands)
A (This will be hard to explain but it's the second part of the second part of megalovania, it just sounds like the start of the second part but higher)
Bb (This one probably won't be too helpful but we played the Bb major scale like every day at the end of 6th grade and like all of 7th grade band so it's kind of just engraved into my head)
And finally b (the spaming note at the start of somethingunreal's song with only windows sounds)
smells like teen spirits first chord is f
F sharp crazy train and a lot of rage against the machine, play an f sharp and let it sustain, as the decays you can here the oscillations, f sharps are easiest to hear, they are the fastest, this is why riffs in this key kick arse, I love that note! Lol. E flat is the slowest wave.. it gives an almost major or minor feel to one single note, f sharp being brighter e flat being slower wave or sadder, confusing to use that language in that context though probably.
That’s the exact same way I do it, with different songs of course
i use hopes and dreams for F but i like megalovania
f# for the first note of jojo
The sixth one is actually G0, and it's out of range lol. 😀
G0 is 24.5Hz, so you can still hear it
thougth that was an A
@@cinna_cappu yeah, but the note's spectrum on the piano makes the pitch inaudible in it's true nature. Some harmonics sound stronger than the fundamental (Bb).
it's an A0 over my speakers.
I used a video to mp3 converter, then used pitch shifter online to shift one octave higher. All the notes were correct, including the sixth one. The sixth note was clearly G1 using those converters.
Given that the notes were shifted one octave higher, it's clear that the sixth note here is actually G0. The fundamental frequency of the sixth note (G0) is lower than the one of the eighth note (A0) though.
#6 it's out of piano range, only bossedorfer imperial 290 has that note (G0)
same. i never use those notes bc imo it sounds ugly
The sound in between sounds like it’s laughing at my wrong answers 😭🤣
I got 8/10 I can’t really determine the really low notes I can barley hear them but when it’s high I can
I'm pretty sure your octaves are 1 higher than they should be. C4 (Middle C) is where you have C listed in the 5th octave.
Yeah, literally all the octaves were off by one lmao, all one higher than normal
As someone who has never looked at a piece of sheet music or played an instrument in my life, I feel like I did pretty good for 100% random guessing based on vibe:
D, G, E, A, D, G, B, E, B, F
Question I have is - if you have not seen sheet music or played an instrument, then how do you know the notes by their names? 😀 You are a singer most likely in that case
A year ago i couldn’t even try to guess one note. I did this test again and got all of them correct. You might ask what made me develop perfect pitch:
I started studying at a music conservatory where we have solfège 3 one hour classes in a week. If you can and have the possibility, seek professional teachers for solfège and ear training and music theory. And also since last year i’ve been wandering through classical pieces (any period and style and form) alot and I rarely listen to pop which I always used to. And I also went to our local orchestras concerts and performances.
The most important thing is to have passion for music.
While it is possible to develop perfect pitch, it is EXTREMELY difficult. My guess is that you have true pitch, which is very similar and can easily be mistaken for perfect/absolute pitch. They have very few differences and work mostly the same. I’m not an expert on this stuff so if you want to learn more you should do some research. That’s very cool though and I’m very happy for you! Congrats
Solfege is a real bummer for me. I gripe about it because, for starters, I have perfect pitch, so then I have to learn the solfege AND the tune/part. I think the major advantage of solfege is learning intervals between notes, not the actual pitches, but then again, I've never had a need to learn solfege.
@@snickpickle yes solfège is great for learning intervals, what our teachers did were teach us to sing tonal intervals and after learning the intervals they taught us to sing atonal intervals that helped us with pitch recognition.
I got all of them except G#- I’m someone who doesn’t have absolute pitch, but has memorised enough notes (Bb, B, C, D, Eb, E, F, G and A) that I can figure it out from there if I need.
All of the pitch classes were correct except possibly number 6 which I couldn't tell. However all of your octave labeling is too high by 1 octave, so the B2 in number 4 is actually a B1 and the A1 in number 8 is actually an A0 (bottom note of a full piano) as well as all the rest, so just subtract 1 from each octave number. So number 6 was in the 0 octave as well, but I'm not entirely sure it was a G. If so it was a G0 and not a G1.
I heard a D1 on number 6 HBU?
@@shmoeg I honestly can't tell the pitch class, but it's definitely in the 0 octave and not the 1st. It's too low to be in the 1st octave...
@@JasmynePorter there is definitely a little bit of B in there
@@shmoeg i heard e1
@@shmoeg A,B,G Mixed in my opinion, it was out of tune i think.
I got all right
The 1st octave notes were a bit of a challenge tho because in my composing, I don't/have never used them before
I tried to do this off of the vibes of the note alone and I got close but not correct with most of them 😅 safe to say that while I can sometimes notice the differences between notes, I don't have perfect! I feel confident that I can train my brain to have a certain "trained perfect pitch" through enough effort though. Thank you!
1:02 THE WAY I HEARD THIS AND INSTANTLY THOUGHT OF THE CHATTERING LACK OF COMMON SENSE BY GHOST AND PALS
Absolute pitch is one of very few behaviorial traits that can be tested with total precision. It can be documented numerically.Thus it is very important to behavioral research.
When I was in China in 1993 I observed young people being given group piano lessons. This would give them AP because all of them already met the prior condition of speaking a tone language: Mandarin Chinese.
note number 3
" when i was, a young boy"
I just guessed F on all of them.
I can recreate them instantly on my saxophone, but I can't name them
the superpower we wish we all had
the superpower i have
Can you learn it or are you born with it
@@spyderwanted8642 Most people are born with it, but also had to develop their skill somewhat. From what I've read, it's impossible to develop REAL perfect pitch after the age of seven. However, you can develop something called "true pitch" at any age with enough practice, which can provide a similar effect.
@@hatsunemikusleftnostril yes most people (1 in 10k)
@@spyderwanted8642 you can learn it but people with certain types of synesthesia can see different notes as colored circles so you can have been born with it or you learned it
The notes are correct but wrong in some octaves. It's D3 not D4
7 out of 10. I have something known as Chromesthesia so it kinda makes the notes appear a little weird, but easier to pinpoint. I struggle when I can't "colorize" the sound.
Perfect pitch is more so the ability to actually sing the notes.
I can relate these pitches to songs that I know the first note of.
Like I use a cheat sheet:
A: Drinkee by Sofi Tukker
B: Disturbia
C: Heart and soul
D: Megalovania
E: Fur elise
F: Crossing Field By LiSA
G: Wellerman, The longest Johns.
That's basically how you develop perfect pitch. Just reference the first notes of songs until it becomes muscle memory and you don't need the references anymore.
I get G with Happy Birthday (G,G,A,G is the start)
I’ve heard megolovania so many times I can hear a D from anywhere,
@@Thatguy-md5ve same I memorized D from Megalovania lol
Yeah same here are some
C: Home Sweet Home by Mötley Crüe or most of the time it's instantly recognizable for me
D: Lights by Journey
E: Nothing Else Matters/Enter Sandman by Metallica
F: Wheel in the Sky by Journey
G: Paranoid by Black Sabbath
A: Instantly recognizable because I tune my violin
B: Iron Man by Black Sabbath or About a Girl by Nirvana
Legendary work has been done here.
I got a 9/10 since the G1 sounds more like a D#2 harmonized with F1
Perfect pitch kid: get all of them correct.
Me: get 2 correct.
Also me: MOM! OMG I HAVE PERFECT PITCH!
Here my list for every note for you guys if you wanna get perfect pitch:
C: Blue Danube by Strauss/Haydn Surprise Symphony
C#: HR2 (Hungarian Rhapsody No.2) by Liszt
D: Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4
Eb: La Campanella by Liszt
E: Chopin Etude “Winter Wind”
F: ???
F#: Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie
G: Sibelius Violin Concerto
G#: Chopin Fantasie Impromptu
A: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Bb: ???
B: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto: 1st Movement
Feel free to listen to these if you havent and give some suggestions!
I remember B from Mendelssohn Violin Concerto if you know that one
@@Wendy31019 Oh yeah.
Kinda forgot about that one-
"F#: Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie" its G but thanks a lot for the liszt.
B♭: Grand Valse Brillante Frédéric Chopin
Bb - Sound of Music… I know it’s cheesy but it should work
Real perfect pitch means you're able to tell what key a song is in without knowing, being able to hum pitches, and knowing what chords are when played.
I feel the ones with insanely low notes are unfair, the overtones produced on the piano are confusing so even though I do have perfect pitch I still got them wrong.
Agreed 😅
The octaves are wrong, or at least displayed in a strange way that makes it confusing to interpret which octave you mean. Also for notes as low as that G0 (not a G1), you should minimize the other tones. I was hearing D ringing more prominently than the G itself
The last time I did this test was 2 days ago and I got 3 out of 10, today I did it again after only half an hour of practice and I got 8 out of 10 so don't give up guys. STAY STRONG!
It is possible to strengthen the ability if you have it, but if you dont, you cant get it...
Konst24.12 I believe in destiny and hard work, if you’re really willing to work, you can get it, dont let anyone tell you otherwise, I didnt have it but now I can guess every note correctly, I’m no mozart who can guess correctly in a second but give me 5 seconds and I’ll ace this shi
@@rohankapoor773 its scientifically proven that you can get this ability in the first 2 - 3 years of your life, after that you can just improve it. If your quite talented you could do it without actually trying to, but because you and me aren't that talented, we got to do something to have that skill. But in no way anyone could just get it.
@@KoHaGames_ okay, so I’ve been kinda confused, I know that I don’t have perfect pitch, but for some reason I just know the pitches right Away, it’s like a weird mix of knowing it and not knowing it, I can automatically know a note without a reference in my head, I just hear it and I know it, but sometimes I get notes wrong every once in a while, so do I just have very strong relative pitch where I need less of a reference?
I've got 3 today lets see
If you a guitarist or saxophone player you will hear:
Not #6 as G# + C
Not #8 as Bb + D
I assume the piano is out of tune, because no way it sounds like 2 not at the same time ? As a guitarist im confused
If you have a tuner app in your phone you can check it yourself, not #6 and not #8, theres no way it would show up a G and A
2:11, That wrong ❌
Dude, there's no way this is a *"G"* (just check it out in any piano, it's an *"A"* :P).
Really? I guessed as G and got it right.
@@thomaspoon1That’s because the video said you were right, but you were wrong In actuality
That shits 100% A. The videos on something
its super hard for me to tell the extremely low notes and extremely high notes on piano but other than that I think im pitch perfect
Then you don’t have perfect pitch, called perfect for a reason, if you can’t identify lows and highs then it’s not perfect
Same except I get the high ones easy and I absolutely cannot hear the low ones
@@jackson.6282 I’m not quite sure but I think there’s a difference between not being able to identify frequencies that you are able to hear and being physically unable to hear extremities of sound
@@joebamabiden1325 I'm the same in this regard. I think I don't actually have perfect pitch, but just really well trained ears as I played the violin from a very young age. So everything in the violin range I hear immediately and everything else I will have to move up octaves in my mind. It also goes for the instrument. Violin and piano, no problem, but play a timpani and I will really have to think about it
@@jackson.6282 the piano has too many overtones at low frequencies making it harder to tell the note, if it was a pure sound like a sine wave then we would be a lot more objective
7/10. Missed all of the ones in the low bass register.
same, everything above second octave is easy. This test definitely oversampled lower registers.
Same, I’m a soprano voice
I can't identify low range sounds -_- not a lot of people can, actually, so those were definitely more tricky than the others. It would take a lot of practice, but I bet you it's not impossible!
I missed the g in the low octave
Same…
2:00 no one:
Me: Mount Everest ain’t got shit on me
Btw "perfect pitch" is something that you get by training its not necessarilly being born with it. Me, however having chromosthesia or whatever basically wiring different sounds to colours helps a lot. I have a clear image of the a minor triad (A-C-E) and i move up or down the scale to find the note that's played.
Edit: The whole thing is actually called pitch memory/relative pitch my bad
Nah you cant just practice to get it, you do have to be born with the potential, and then practice it
@@mr_sandman1082 true lol but there are a few cases where it's done without any weird shit on the ears or brain. If you want to do it you can but it will be hard af, it's just that most people won't even bother.
@@8curred72 i've discussed this with a friend yesterday he told me its not possible to "just" learn it as an adult but i think it is possible somehow. But we are both clueless so if you yould tell me on od those cases? would be very nice :) thank you
@@agent_artifical well you need to make yourself fluent with music in general. If you're not into music and then suddenly in your teens you're like ok I'm gonna learn pitch memory you can't. You need to train your ear from a young age just by listening to a lot of music
It’s really subjective and depends on the person. A lot of people are born with it, and some, depending on the strength of their memory and familiarity/experience with music, can develop it.
I have been one of the lucky ones to be blessed with the rare gift of perfect/absolute pitch. I got 10/10!
@@curfewsurf Same and all my friends ask me to teach them. they always but on a song and ask me what chords they play/what key the song is in etc!
Absoloute pitch is different from perfect pitch. It means that you can relate notes to a certain comination of colours, and whenever the note is played you can visualize it in your mind.
@@solanaceous Thanks for letting me know man! I guess it turns out that I have both😎
@@j.dsimpson8142 DAMN. Two people both with absolute pitch. That is really rare.
@@solanaceous WOW! Pretty amazing! did you get 10/10 as well?
Bruh I keep getting everything a half step wrong
haha same here :)
same haha
That happens with age apparently
You've been playing on an out of tune piano like me
@@SNI3PER956 no thats most likely not the case
I discovered I had this in middle school, my band teacher was shocked I had it but I thought it was normal for everyone to have. Interesting stuff.
I got all of them right except the 6th one. I keep hearing an A
I feel like it is an A
dude me too. it’s a
Number 6 is G0. That's why I say it makes sense that the piano only goes down to A0, since it's the lowest easily distinguishable note. The lowest note that's audiable is E0.
Got it all . except that Lowest G. I heard the D overtone very loud and went with it
I only got one right 😩 I think I have perfect pitch besties
What a legend ugh I aspire to be you 😩
It's actually really easy for me, I didn't know it was some special skill that few people have. It's like each note is a different color. If you play the note C, the pitch will be the same every single time, as with all the other notes. Same with colors, looking at red, you'll see red every single time. With some people, I'll play them a G and tell them that it's a G, then I'll
play another note and ask them if it's a G or not, to my surprise more people couldn't hear the pitches and guessed that it was still a G. But for other people, they can learn the notes and then learn to differentiate them. There such an interesting science behind all of this.
am i the only one form kyle's video
I’m here as well💀
Aye you Kyle this shit crazy
Note number one was D3, not D4. And note number two was A♭ (or G♯) 2, not 3. Where are you getting your octaves from?
2:03 And for the record, G0, which is what this apparently is, is so close to the bottom of the human hearing range that it's almost impossible to identify pitch. Standard pianos don't even go that low.
I can learn lead guitar parts by ear very quickly yet I got every one of these wrong. With an instrument in front of me I can find the notes immediately, just can't name them in my head with no instrument for reference.
I guessed them all but they were all 1 semitone off >:( so close
I absolutely have no absolute pitch.
i got none of them right but for some I guessed it the right at first but then doubted myself so I changed my answer and the rest I guessed so close to the correct answer
Well I got all of them right, and I’ve always been told that I had perfect pitch, so I wasn’t too surprised. It’s one of the gifts I greatly treasure, despite not being heavily into music yet. (I only play basic piano).
I got half of them right, and the other half i got wrong i missed by a half tone and maybe 1 by a whole tone. Pretty proud of myself
Omg do i have perfect pitch? I guessed this all correct.
I didn’t even need a reference note.
You must! Congrats btw! ^•^
You can't just play notes without establishing which is which first. It's like giving someone a math test before you've shown them the numbers and operators.
I developed relative pitch as soon as I started playing the guitar. I compare notes I hear in reference to the first open string which is E. I'm usually within 50 cents of the actual notes.
That is exactly what I do, when I try to guess a note, I first start with an E in my head, then work my way up the scale.
For some reason, E is a very powerful and out standing strong note for me.
Glad to know that my perfect pitch is still working.
This test was disturbing for me, because back in the day, my accuracy was around 96% (F# and Ab were usually my most troublesome notes). I am now in my early 60s, and have noticed that my perfect pitch ability has started falling off, almost to the point where I would say "dramatically." In this test, I only got two of them right! ARGH! But I was never off by more than a full step (which is also alarming to me). In some fairness, I have a talk radio station on in the background, it is 4:15AM and I'm tired from my evening/nighttime job, and I'm listening through my laptop speakers, instead of better headphones or my stereo. But the fact is, many, many other people like myself, as we get older, do oftentimes start losing our perfect pitch. The great vibraphonist, Gary Burton, found out the hard way that he had lost some of his perfect pitch as well, so I know I'm not alone in this.
Along the way, over the last several years, I have also noticed that my sight-reading abilities have fallen off dramatically. I now get frustrated when I miss notes as I sight-read music in our church choir, and I think that in large part, it is due to the fact that I relied extensively on my perfect pitch to nail the notes without even having to listen to the accompaniment or to the other voices in the choir. Over the last decade, I find myself doing extensive writing in my parts, circling notes I miss more than once, writing in intervals that I miss, and so on. While others remark at my abilities to this day, it is embarrassing and frustrating to me that I am making "so many" mistakes in my sight-reading, especially since I oftentimes carry the section, at least in the early goings.
On a related note: I can't remember the guy's name, or what talk show I saw, but he described having perfect pitch like this (paraphrased): "It's like saying, 'This desk is brown,' or 'This grass is green' [at which point the host interrupts him about his analogy before letting the guest finish; so the guest continues]... So this is a G [he sings it, then the band's keyboardist plays the G], and this is an E [sung in pitch, repeated by keyboardist]." I've known that for almost all of my life, except that some of that ability has fallen off, now that I'm in my early 60s. Tinnitus may not be helping, either, but my tinnitus isn't nearly as bad as what I hear about others who have tinnitus.
I’m someone who can quickly figure out the melody of a song on the piano quite quickly. I may not quite get it but I know when I have the wrong notes and I can usually figure it out somewhat easily. I can’t name the notes on a piano even though I can read music, but if someone were to play something and then had me figure it out, I’d get the melody right quite fast as long as it’s just single notes.
8/10! Missed the low ones
same haha
i miss most of them by 1 note :((
Me too
Bruh I don’t know the notes I’m not a pianist I just wanted to see what perfect pitch was lol
This is perfect pitch lool
XD
I literally only know these notes right away because my mind creates a mental image of a piano
this is my first time doing this and i was surprised by how many i got right. i dont even play an instrument
anika is that you
Me neither, but I have a "10 Years not tuned piano" at home that I sometimes play with, but just funwise and not with finger training or the "I wanne learn that instrument" stuff
The furthest i was off was a whole step… is this learnable
The notes from 1st octave were very hard,the rest was easy though.
you should consider the first octave as 0(zero) because is that how we call the notes.
the only note i didn't get was this 2:11 G, i suspect that the sound 1:59 was lower than the lowest piano note
1:02 i wanna take a pic with cardi b
A month late but I was thinking the exact same thing 😭😭😭
“For wherever we go”
I said E for all 10 question and finally two E are there🤣
I guessed all of the notes correctly but mixed up the octaves
That's not bad!
I only got 2 out of 10 right. For a few of them I was just a semitone off but the lowest notes that were played I couldn't decipher.
So I know I have perfect pitch, but boy, the G0 I missed because I wasnt able to hear enough harmonics to identify it perfectly. A0 was perfectly fine though
I was also wondering why the octave notation was 1 number higher than it is (i.e. B1 written as B2, etc.)
Same, can’t even believe it was a G. Sounded more like an A flat to me.
hey, checked alongside a virtual 88 key piano, it was Ab
@@aleksandramiasma9047I pitched it up an octave and heard G1.
all i've learned from this is i have very good relative pitch, thanks for the upload!
I have relative or true pitch but I'm able to recognize those notes. Some of them are labeled incorrectly
only one of them
Mine's kinda weird (pd: i love pop music lol)
C: Save your tears (The Weeknd) first sung note or the first note on All Too Well by Taylor Swift
C#: First note on Shape of you
D: First note on Minuet in G
Eb: First note on traitor by Olivia Rodrigo
E: First note on Fur Elise or Jingle Bells
F: First note on the instrumental part of Happier by Marshmello
F#: First note on Faded by Alan Walker
G: First note on Havana by Camila Cabello
G#: First note on the piano ending of Chiquitita by Abba
A: The first bass note on The breakup song by Greg Kihn Band
Bb: First piano note on Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo
B: First note of Hedwig's theme (Harry Potter main theme)
Hope it helps :D
I think now, going through the video, I'm probably 3 for 12, but I did get *some* right, so for any guitarists who are scared, you may never have perfect pitch, but you can learn, and I hope we can all take reassurance in that. I'd like to see them test Keith for perfect pitch 🧐
i want the audio that attempts to remove any relative pitch references from my memory
it feels like asmr
I'm really sorry but the interval audio is creepy and unnerving
It's supposed to be all over the place so you're "reset". It being all over the place is weird for our ears because it's so chaotic and not rhythmic.
It worked for me! 😅
My ears are exactly 1 halfstep flat 😂
Is it possible to have perfect pitch and not know about it? I’m getting a scary amount of these right. I’ve played music for a long time but I didn’t think I had it. The ones I get wrong im only a half step off. I don’t think it’s relative but really don’t know. I’m legitimately slightly spooked.
Perfect means perfect. You may have good relative pitch
i kept guessing e and was relieved when i finally got it