You have done so much for your children. Their life paths are very different than what would have been had you not done all these wonderful things. I hope more parents and future parents watch this video and learn how to equip their children's brain for growth. Fantastic!
Great video about a very significant topic. Something that can affect the next generations in so many ways. I love the clip near the end with Dylan - he's such a cool kid!
Nahre Sol I couldn't agree more! Amazingly positive potential here. I want to devote my Neuroscience career to better understanding the mechanisms within this :)
absolutely. and ricks got the wisdom to forsee the problems that most kids get exploited and wrecked with. smarts doesn't always get wisdom. guess rick and now dylan are getting enough pressure testing from yt trolls to refine and build that wisdom. we owe them both more than we can ever repay.
@Nahre Sol I coincidentally encountered one of your great comments again Nahre! I think music is a big part of being human. And as in language acquisition, music is some sort of language as well in which your cultural exposure and environmental richness indicate your development. As great Oliver Sacks emphasized in “Musicophilia”: “One does not need to have any formal knowledge of music -- nor, indeed, to be particularly "musical" -- to enjoy music and to respond to it at the deepest levels. Music is part of being human, and there is no human culture in which it is not highly developed and esteemed. Its very ubiquity may cause it to be trivialized in daily life; we switch on a radio, switch it off, hum a tune, tap our feet, find the words of an old song going through our minds, and think nothing of it. But to those who are born in dementia, the situation is different. Music is no luxury to them, but a necessity, and can have power beyond anything else to restore them to themselves, and to others, at least for a while.” And as Darwin said in The Descent of Man: “As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man…they must be ranked among the most mysterious with which he is endowed.” Language and music seem to be the main factors that make us quintessentially human. Greetings from Turkey! - Batı
This is one of the reasons why I decided years ago not to become a teacher. After working in my local school for a number of years (as a sub. teacher) I noticed the disparity between the haves & have nots, the gifted & those who had to work harder to learn & the curriculum beginning taught to students. I came to the conclusion that our system just wasn't giving students enough to succeed & our society & educational system was not committed to making improvements. Unfortunately our society needs more examples like this to show society the promise & the importance of fine tuning our educational system. Society needs to understand, a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Our educational system should be focused on giving each child the best possible chance to learn as much as possible & ultimately succeed. Great video Rick, keep up the good work.
Wait...so you seen a system that was unfair and broken and your solution was to just give up? Or were you hoping to change the world with TH-cam comments?
The parents need to be educated or at least motivated to prime their children for education.....many parents are not prepared for this, for a variety of reasons. Schools and teachers can only do so much....what the students come to school with matters a lot. But hey, if they watch a few Beato videos, they are well on their way to giving their kids good prep for success in life.
My education for my kids began long before school. All it cost was a stereo, music and me interacting with them. Kids can thrive given proper early music intervention.
@@RickBeato I think it is a shame a lot of parents seem to have kids just for the sake of it, instead of being hands on and engaged with their children right from the start. Your kids are lucky to have an awesome dad. Although us old guys can't develop perfect pitch we sure can learn and be inspired from your content
Rick, seeing you just grinning ear to ear while Dylan goes off, reciting back those notes to you is priceless. The look on your face is so warming to see you so proud of that little stinker!
@@RickBeato I believe you'll be nominated soon. Are there any links to download the improvisation pieces you played for Dylan? Would be very interested to listen to them.
This would be fantastic information to share through Ted. And I think Rick is the coolest guy for the job. Doesn’t Ted work through universities and other institutions? Who do I have to call? Haha. Would you accept if Ted asked you, Rick?
Rick Beato and his TH-cam channel are a treasure trove of knowledge. Videos like this are more thought provoking than your average college class. We are so fortunate to be exposed to this. I just wish there were more Rick Beato’s in this world.
This is awesome -- my wife and I did this as well, but with other music. Saw the ted talk -- and we were hooked. Now he's literally running around replicating every sound he hears... it's awesome.
Wow! Thanks Rick! I am in my third career, teaching HS math (first two were IT and Finance). What happens when a school district comes under financial difficulties?...they cut music and art. I have always noticed that students involved in music are better at extended periods of concentration than those that are not involved. This speaks volumes to the importance and long term benefits of having a well rounded education! I thoroughly enjoy your channel!
I'm so thankful for your Nuryl program and for all these videos you've made. At 6 weeks old you've already changed my daughter's life. My baby is the most calm and attentive (might I even say thoughtful) 6 week old I could possibly imagine. We've been doing your Nuryl program with her religiously since since she was the size of a sesame seed. I'm excited to bring her down to ATL in a couple years so she can jam with your kids while they speak Chinese AND English together :) thank you Rick!
I'm looking forward to follow-up videos on this topic! Speculation: if complex and ordered information (like music) can shape the brain in beneficial ways, does this imply that simple chaotic information has a deleterious effect? Thinking social media, endless notifications on phones, etc. (Yes, I know that is a tired cliche, but....)
I’ve recently became a father, and this video is really inspirational! Thanks Rick for sharing this, I will definetly try some of this tips with my little daughter. Will wait for next videos, you are making the future of this world a little bit brighter and a little more musical!)
I wonder how many people are watching this channel and trying to emulate what you've done to give your kids a head start. It will be very interesting to see if more research in this area is done in the future and whether ear training will become common. You should try teaching some kids that aren't yours and see if you get similar results. Looking forward to the next video!
This is so pertinent to me right now. Like you, I played music for my daughter while my wife was pregnant. I do not have perfect pitch, but in school I had to learn my intervals, however I did have a professor with perfect pitch. Anyway, she's almost 2 now. I got a keyboard for her, and would call out notes I played. Thanks to this video, I've been much more informed, and will use the info you shared. Like I said, I do know some theory (what I remember from school), but this video was incredible. It also explains why children that have parents that are musicians tend to be musically inclined. I hope you continue with these kinds of videos. Great stuff
I love these vids because I am a music instructor with a child with perfect pitch. And training someone with perfect pitch is a different beast in and of itself. Thank you.
One of the most profound experiences of my youth was listening to recordings of Bernstein's lecture series: The Unanswered Question, where he attempted to use Chomsky's theories as an analogue to analyse music. You have taken this so much further and your remarkable children are hopefully just some of the first to benefit from your work.
Human potential is far, far, far beyond what we experience within the world we live in. The points touched on and considered in this video are only the ethers of the possibilities of the human spirit. Thanks Rick, fabulous work!
I'm In awe of such a gift you are as an educator. Not only are you an exceptionally gifted musician but also an equivalently gifted educator. Mr Beato, here, take all my money. Where were you when I was paying all that money for University cost. Bravo Maestro..
The results of Rick's totally beneficial experiment with his children is truly impressive. I wish I'd had the foreknowledge and tools to have provided this training to my own children as well. I think this begs the question about whether children are truly born with "gifts" vs. what Rick has provided his children unlocked a skill innate in all of us but largely remains untapped. Not everyone could even offer this to their children due to lack of resources or skills of their own to provide this out of the home, plus obviously Rick's and his wife's diligence and commitment to sustain this regiment for a long time is very unique - and not at all easy to do. Rick's children must get some of their ability genetically from Rick and their mother, but it's incredibly tantalizing to think of how much of what the kids can do can be taught to any infant. Kudos to you and your wife, Rick.
I just started trying to learn piano after 24 years of guitar playing. I can already hear a difference in how I write music. I can’t wait to hear the next part of this
OMG!!! Thanks for sharing. I am really amazed at what you did with Dylan. I am thankful for the research you have presented. This information should be propagated everywhere.
This video was one of the most uplifting ones I've ever seen on you tube. Lifted my spirits and then I went and read some comments that brought me back to reality. We can't fix stupid. Thank you, Rick, for helping this world out with good parenting. Stupid, or smart, begins at home.
As a psychiatrist I must say that Rick is very wise when he adresses neurobiologic topics, he’s not only well informed (seems to be, at the very least) but he also understands and exposes the information properly. Well done, man!
Rick your channel is even more brilliant every day. I truly believe I'm a better person everytime I learn something from you and your family. Thanks for sharing all of this!
Rick - this is absolutely amazing! You deserve an honorary PHd for that. I would like to have known that before my kids grown up (they are 9 and 14 now) but I'm leding them into music and they love it.
Not only am I always impressed by you, I am thoroughly impressed by your son. What a great dad for exposing your son to such things at such an early age. I want to do this with my son. Great job!
Dylan shows how much a talented person can train his ear with proper training. Most first generation musicians start practicing this when it already is too late to get that perfectr pitch. He combines it with any combinaiton of tones. I hear when a piano note is false and I can tune a guitar by ear, I have the ability to recognize notes but this, I don't think it is possible to learn that at a later age. The brain just isn't sufficiently plastic any more.
Thanks, Rick! I'm a primary music teacher and I'm always trying to get my building colleagues to understand how important these early years are, musically...
In the 1970s, when I was a lead guitarist-vocalist playing six-nighters in bar bands and show-bands in Toronto, I would practice during the day with keyboard players who had synthesizers. We'd take turns playing notes, me with my heavy electronic effects, and the keyboardist with his synth sounds, trying to guess what it was. We had to do that so we could tell not only what key the song was in, if we were jamming out a request, but also be able to tell what chord was used, sometimes hard to tell the difference between major and minor. When you are playing with pitch-bending effects, you can develop a stronger sense of pitch yourself. Scientific tuning, using an oscilloscope to tune guitar intonation, is different from tempered tuning. It would be interesting to see if you can produce more videos with this information in mind. I recommend "This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin, a Montreal, Canada, professor who also records as a guitarist. His next book was also a best-seller.
Ive been singing and playing music for my little guy since he was born 3 month premature. He had a stroke and a brain bleed when he was born, he has cerebral palsy - but he is showing that he is over coming it and developing with minimal issues. He is very alert and aware and I think its because of the music and singing and face to face time we have given him. In hospital we would do 3-5 hours of kangaroo care - physical skin to skin touch and babies ear over parent's heart, we also printed out high contrast b&w photos of our faces so he could look at them when he woke up and we weren't there. Im going (because of this video) step up and organise a listening program for him - he is 9 month corrected age - so im sure it will help.
Amazing episode Rick !! I'm really happy and motivated to make more music with your teachings and your book (of course I bought it). I can't wait for the next videos about ear training for adults !! Keep it up !!
Thanks for the inspiring video! My wife and I just welcomed our firstborn to the world 5 weeks ago, and you have me thinking more about the music exposure I can already offer her. All parents have something to pass down, but music education is an exceptionally powerful gift with wide-ranging cognitive benefits. I am a secondary English teacher, and it thrills me to know I can give my little girl an advantage in the literary realm because I have gained knowledge and skills that some do not possess. For me, my blue-collar dad taught me about shooting a basketball at a young age. Guess I missed out on perfect pitch, but I can hit three pointers like nobody’s business! Props to all the parents enriching the lives of their progeny. Thanks again! And thanks to neuroplasticity, I can watch Mr. Beato’s videos and learn about a topic, music theory, I learned nothing about as a child. Let’s keep studying, everyone. Set in a context of love, our expanded minds can work wonders on this world.
Hey Rick, I really appreciate your last few comments. As a musician and dad, I often watch your videos and feel very put out that I wasn't able to give my kids similar experiences. Lately I have been working on my own ear training, and have recently made a commitment to my kids that I will provide them a better music education than I had.
Dylan rocks. Love his attitude. The one person in my life whom I know for sure had perfect pitch -- my mother, an orchestral musician and concert pianist -- was also not bothered by notes that were "out of tune." She used to laugh about that. In fact, she played in orchestras that had different concert "A"s (440 Hz is a somewhat recent standard), and in Baroque ensembles where in many cases, equal temperament was not used (and the concert "A" was considerably lower than what we use now, because of gut strings). She was also a deep student of the microtonal music of Harry Partch, which boggles my mind for many reasons. It took me many years of careful listening to begin to hear harmonies in that stuff, but she claimed it always made sense to her. She was never able to explain how she could, given some pitch framework, know what notes belonged and which did not, nor could she explain how she could identify or play/sing, with equal facility, a pitch "correct" in a given framework. Nor explain to why stretch-tuning a piano (no acoustic piano that sounds good is perfectly intonated in equal temperament across all octaves) didn't drive her crazy. What *did* make her grit her teeth was when musicians were not "in tune" (for a given framework) with each other. And blues music, and a lot of jazz, disgusted her, because of all the bent notes, deliberate not-quite-on-pitch tricks, and the fact that certain instrumental parings like clarinet and piano don't quite line up with each other due to various vagaries of the physics of (say) aerophones versus struck strings, and the jazz and blues folks didn't seem to care, or know how to make it better.
The first time I watched one of your videos, I thought "uhhh who is THIS guy..." Now you're my main source of music information, like.... MAIN source. Love your channel, brother!
Dear Rick! Thank you for this fantastic video again. I found your channel a few months ago. A play tenor sax since my childhood, but i learned more about music in this short period, than the last ~20 years. My parents always helped me with everything by their best, and always said that music makes you a better person, and here is a great example with you. My wife is in the 2nd trimester. She watched your video too and wants me to get that playlist from you that you made for Dylan. Pls help. You know: pregnant ladys and hormones... :) (joking) We would like to give our baby the same opportunity as you gave your kids, and i had. Thanks and greetings from Hungary
Ear training as means to heal the world! What a concept... I can totally relate. Cheers man! My own ed-system-detected-gifted son don’t care much about music being a video game designer by passion, but he can play his ideas of music for his games on the family piano for me if he so desires and it really makes me a proud dad.
About a week ago, Robert Estrin did a video on the importance of ear training with the guest Scott Houston who hosted the PBS series "Piano in a Flash" & "Scott, the Piano Guy". Scott who teaches the popular style of playing music never got into scientific studies. Being brought up in a non-musical family, I never had the head start of being exposed to music in a controlled way as an infant. Although my parents did take some music lessons, they haven't progressed to even an intermediate level. When I was growing up many years ago, music training or even the studies on the "Mozart Effect" had not been published. Unless 1 of your parents is a professional musician, very few parents would think about playing a recording of a Mozart sonata or concerto during a pregnancy to improve a child's learning abilities. I was fortunate enough to get into music class and play with the school band. It was a fun experience but nobody would think all the work we put in for the year-end concert for the parents is also good for memory & brain development.
Fascinating video! I learn to hear sounds in another laguage over time, it's not instantaneous at all, the ability is still there to some extent, but probably greatly diminished.
I’ve read this is your brain on music by D Levitin. Reminds me of this stuff. Amazing. My son would request Beethoven’s 5th by humming it at age 3. He’s not perfect pitch but prenatal and baby being exposed to jazz, Beatles, & LOTS of classical pays off for sure😁
Well, i am self taught guitar player, and maybe for the first five years of me playing a guitar, i didn't care about any music theory, or development in hearing chords/tones. One day my friend from a musical family just asked me, if i really don't hear the chords in those simple songs we play together. That got me wondering, and i started to learn these things, and i feel i'm getting better. He says he never trained on guitar and piano at home, he was just taught by his father when he was young. He only know basic chords, but he is much better in these things.
This is amazing. The best I could do for my sons was play a lot of Mozart and Bach when they were babies and they’re both pretty musical now. I wish I had more knowledge to pass on to them but it was the best I could do.
This is truly inspiring. I really wish I was raised through music so much younger. I really want to retrain my ears to hear music better. I feel I started way too late!
This was a great video and I really enjoyed this. One of the best examples demonstrating the incredible capabilities of the human body, heart, mind, and soul when nearly fully using all that is possible for humans. Seeing how you trained your kid from very early on and how he is able to use the vast complexity, organization, storage of information, and precise recall humans are able to accomplish is truly awesome. Humans are such amazing unique beings able to achieve the most outstanding things in history.
WOW. This one blow my mind !!! Respect Rick. I have two children - boy (11) is a drummer - he work hard and he`s very good but girl (7) is even better. Now i think she has a perfect pitch because of brother`s exercises in music and also because me & my wife are also a musicians and we play a lot in a home. This is amazing. and its much deeper than music only.Thanks a lot for this video! :-)
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Would like to see you do an intensive adult ear training class.
Same, I would sign up for that without question
Rick has been promising one for a couple months now. I'm hoping this video is a precursor to its release.
Frank LeHouillier the ending makes that seem likely. Rick’s devotion to education is truly inspiring.
Count me in 😊
I’m in 100%
This is deeper than just music education. Thanks for your work Rick, we all learn more and more and it's due to you
You have done so much for your children. Their life paths are very different than what would have been had you not done all these wonderful things.
I hope more parents and future parents watch this video and learn how to equip their children's brain for growth. Fantastic!
Great video about a very significant topic. Something that can affect the next generations in so many ways. I love the clip near the end with Dylan - he's such a cool kid!
Nahre Sol I couldn't agree more! Amazingly positive potential here. I want to devote my Neuroscience career to better understanding the mechanisms within this :)
Very intelligent and well adjusted.
absolutely. and ricks got the wisdom to forsee the problems that most kids get exploited and wrecked with. smarts doesn't always get wisdom. guess rick and now dylan are getting enough pressure testing from yt trolls to refine and build that wisdom. we owe them both more than we can ever repay.
@Nahre Sol I coincidentally encountered one of your great comments again Nahre! I think music is a big part of being human. And as in language acquisition, music is some sort of language as well in which your cultural exposure and environmental richness indicate your development.
As great Oliver Sacks emphasized in “Musicophilia”: “One does not need to have any formal knowledge of music -- nor, indeed, to be particularly "musical" -- to enjoy music and to respond to it at the deepest levels. Music is part of being human, and there is no human culture in which it is not highly developed and esteemed. Its very ubiquity may cause it to be trivialized in daily life; we switch on a radio, switch it off, hum a tune, tap our feet, find the words of an old song going through our minds, and think nothing of it. But to those who are born in dementia, the situation is different. Music is no luxury to them, but a necessity, and can have power beyond anything else to restore them to themselves, and to others, at least for a while.”
And as Darwin said in The Descent of Man: “As neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man…they must be ranked among the most mysterious with which he is endowed.”
Language and music seem to be the main factors that make us quintessentially human.
Greetings from Turkey! - Batı
Rick Beato is lowkey one of the most prolific neuro scientists out here 😂
Amazing stuff, really
What you said at 12:25 is extremely intriguing about adults being able to improve cerebral function via ear training. Definitely talk more about that.
Man...congrats. Its touching and beatifull to see you as a father doing this with your kid. Very good!
Dylon is amazing! I’ve been blessed with a good ear but he is in another zone . Such a bright talented young fellow!
watching this kid grow up has been one of the most humbling and inspiring aspects of my life. thank you rick. please keep on.
This is one of the reasons why I decided years ago not to become a teacher. After working in my local school for a number of years (as a sub. teacher) I noticed the disparity between the haves & have nots, the gifted & those who had to work harder to learn & the curriculum beginning taught to students. I came to the conclusion that our system just wasn't giving students enough to succeed & our society & educational system was not committed to making improvements. Unfortunately our society needs more examples like this to show society the promise & the importance of fine tuning our educational system. Society needs to understand, a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. Our educational system should be focused on giving each child the best possible chance to learn as much as possible & ultimately succeed. Great video Rick, keep up the good work.
Wait...so you seen a system that was unfair and broken and your solution was to just give up? Or were you hoping to change the world with TH-cam comments?
The parents need to be educated or at least motivated to prime their children for education.....many parents are not prepared for this, for a variety of reasons. Schools and teachers can only do so much....what the students come to school with matters a lot. But hey, if they watch a few Beato videos, they are well on their way to giving their kids good prep for success in life.
My education for my kids began long before school. All it cost was a stereo, music and me interacting with them. Kids can thrive given proper early music intervention.
@@RickBeato how many languages your son speaks and is he born left-handed
@@RickBeato I think it is a shame a lot of parents seem to have kids just for the sake of it, instead of being hands on and engaged with their children right from the start. Your kids are lucky to have an awesome dad.
Although us old guys can't develop perfect pitch we sure can learn and be inspired from your content
Rick, seeing you just grinning ear to ear while Dylan goes off, reciting back those notes to you is priceless. The look on your face is so warming to see you so proud of that little stinker!
You should make a TED talk yourself
ssSeLdeR Excellent suggestion
Yes!
You have to be asked or nominated
@@RickBeato I believe you'll be nominated soon. Are there any links to download the improvisation pieces you played for Dylan? Would be very interested to listen to them.
This would be fantastic information to share through Ted. And I think Rick is the coolest guy for the job.
Doesn’t Ted work through universities and other institutions? Who do I have to call? Haha.
Would you accept if Ted asked you, Rick?
Rick Beato and his TH-cam channel are a treasure trove of knowledge. Videos like this are more thought provoking than your average college class. We are so fortunate to be exposed to this. I just wish there were more Rick Beato’s in this world.
there will be now.
This is awesome -- my wife and I did this as well, but with other music. Saw the ted talk -- and we were hooked. Now he's literally running around replicating every sound he hears... it's awesome.
Wow! Thanks Rick! I am in my third career, teaching HS math (first two were IT and Finance). What happens when a school district comes under financial difficulties?...they cut music and art. I have always noticed that students involved in music are better at extended periods of concentration than those that are not involved. This speaks volumes to the importance and long term benefits of having a well rounded education! I thoroughly enjoy your channel!
I'm so thankful for your Nuryl program and for all these videos you've made. At 6 weeks old you've already changed my daughter's life. My baby is the most calm and attentive (might I even say thoughtful) 6 week old I could possibly imagine. We've been doing your Nuryl program with her religiously since since she was the size of a sesame seed. I'm excited to bring her down to ATL in a couple years so she can jam with your kids while they speak Chinese AND English together :) thank you Rick!
nuryl program?
@@zendogbreath it's Rick's app for babies that helps them develop perfect pitch.
@@DavidDiMuzio wow. how much i've missed. thank you.
I'm looking forward to follow-up videos on this topic! Speculation: if complex and ordered information (like music) can shape the brain in beneficial ways, does this imply that simple chaotic information has a deleterious effect? Thinking social media, endless notifications on phones, etc. (Yes, I know that is a tired cliche, but....)
That's amazing. Dylan's a lucky kid to have a dad willing to put in that work.
Rick Beato building the ultimate Army of Perfect-Pitch Musicans to take over the Music Industry confirmed
This is a beautiful explanation, Rick (and Dylan). Looking forward to more videos about music and the brain!
I’ve recently became a father, and this video is really inspirational! Thanks Rick for sharing this, I will definetly try some of this tips with my little daughter. Will wait for next videos, you are making the future of this world a little bit brighter and a little more musical!)
You know you're an excellent father, right? This is a brilliant channel.
What a gifted child you have, Rick! And how fortunate he is to have a father who helps him to realise his potential.
The kids are amazing. Your dedication as a teacher/parent is even more so.
Thank you so much for your honest and quality contributions Rick.
Each video is so helpful....!
I wonder how many people are watching this channel and trying to emulate what you've done to give your kids a head start. It will be very interesting to see if more research in this area is done in the future and whether ear training will become common. You should try teaching some kids that aren't yours and see if you get similar results.
Looking forward to the next video!
This is so pertinent to me right now. Like you, I played music for my daughter while my wife was pregnant. I do not have perfect pitch, but in school I had to learn my intervals, however I did have a professor with perfect pitch. Anyway, she's almost 2 now. I got a keyboard for her, and would call out notes I played. Thanks to this video, I've been much more informed, and will use the info you shared. Like I said, I do know some theory (what I remember from school), but this video was incredible. It also explains why children that have parents that are musicians tend to be musically inclined. I hope you continue with these kinds of videos. Great stuff
Oh my god did you get a new video camera? The quality is godly :O
Andres Guzman-Ballen maybe. His lighting looks great in this one. Some of his older ones I think he may have been learning still.
Maybe Rett changed something last time he was there as he often says he does :))
I have a new camera that Rhett had nothing to do with thank you :)
Great, thanks. I was just joking, by the way
I love these vids because I am a music instructor with a child with perfect pitch. And training someone with perfect pitch is a different beast in and of itself. Thank you.
THE BEATO EFFECT. there, we have a name for this for generations to come.
One of the most profound experiences of my youth was listening to recordings of Bernstein's lecture series: The Unanswered Question, where he attempted to use Chomsky's theories as an analogue to analyse music. You have taken this so much further and your remarkable children are hopefully just some of the first to benefit from your work.
Dylan with the lowkey roast to his 5th grade band
Haha!! True :)
The Beato kids are going to take over the world.
I'll take that!
@ludwig amadeus Beato Jewish? I was hoping he was just Italian.
@ludwig amadeus 😂
too late. they already have.
And only Beato club members will be spared.
Human potential is far, far, far beyond what we experience within the world we live in. The points touched on and considered in this video are only the ethers of the possibilities of the human spirit. Thanks Rick, fabulous work!
I'm In awe of such a gift you are as an educator. Not only are you an exceptionally gifted musician but also an equivalently gifted educator. Mr Beato, here, take all my money. Where were you when I was paying all that money for University cost. Bravo Maestro..
@Rick Beato I will make you proud
The results of Rick's totally beneficial experiment with his children is truly impressive. I wish I'd had the foreknowledge and tools to have provided this training to my own children as well. I think this begs the question about whether children are truly born with "gifts" vs. what Rick has provided his children unlocked a skill innate in all of us but largely remains untapped. Not everyone could even offer this to their children due to lack of resources or skills of their own to provide this out of the home, plus obviously Rick's and his wife's diligence and commitment to sustain this regiment for a long time is very unique - and not at all easy to do. Rick's children must get some of their ability genetically from Rick and their mother, but it's incredibly tantalizing to think of how much of what the kids can do can be taught to any infant. Kudos to you and your wife, Rick.
You have one of the best channels on TH-cam for any topic, and this is perhaps your most intriguing and inspiring video yet. Thank you very much!
Amazing video, both about how you have raised your children and the explanations of the results!!
Way to go!!
I just started trying to learn piano after 24 years of guitar playing. I can already hear a difference in how I write music.
I can’t wait to hear the next part of this
OMG!!! Thanks for sharing. I am really amazed at what you did with Dylan. I am thankful for the research you have presented. This information should be propagated everywhere.
Jammin' with Jambo Was
This video was one of the most uplifting ones I've ever seen on you tube. Lifted my spirits and then I went and read some comments that brought me back to reality. We can't fix stupid. Thank you, Rick, for helping this world out with good parenting. Stupid, or smart, begins at home.
As a psychiatrist I must say that Rick is very wise when he adresses neurobiologic topics, he’s not only well informed (seems to be, at the very least) but he also understands and exposes the information properly. Well done, man!
Thank you!
Rick your channel is even more brilliant every day. I truly believe I'm a better person everytime I learn something from you and your family. Thanks for sharing all of this!
doing nuryl with my daughter since 6 months prenatal, she is now 7 months old :) we love you Rick!!
Rick - this is absolutely amazing! You deserve an honorary PHd for that. I would like to have known that before my kids grown up (they are 9 and 14 now) but I'm leding them into music and they love it.
This is the most fantastic video I've ever watched. Thank you Rick for what you are doing for society.
Wow I’m amazed. You’re a genius Rick This has to be “the” best video I have ever seen in my entire life
Cant wait for part 2 so I can start training my ear to be better... Thanks so much Rick, so happy I found your channel when I did.
Great video, Rick! Felt like a throwback to some of the older content. Thx for all you do. Cheers!
Not only am I always impressed by you, I am thoroughly impressed by your son. What a great dad for exposing your son to such things at such an early age. I want to do this with my son. Great job!
Dylan shows how much a talented person can train his ear with proper training. Most first generation musicians start practicing this when it already is too late to get that perfectr pitch. He combines it with any combinaiton of tones. I hear when a piano note is false and I can tune a guitar by ear, I have the ability to recognize notes but this, I don't think it is possible to learn that at a later age. The brain just isn't sufficiently plastic any more.
i havnt watched your videos for a while, but now i see the quality is miles up, it is looking amazing!
Thanks, Rick! I'm a primary music teacher and I'm always trying to get my building colleagues to understand how important these early years are, musically...
In the 1970s, when I was a lead guitarist-vocalist playing six-nighters in bar bands and show-bands in Toronto,
I would practice during the day with keyboard players who had synthesizers. We'd take turns playing notes,
me with my heavy electronic effects, and the keyboardist with his synth sounds, trying to guess what it was.
We had to do that so we could tell not only what key the song was in, if we were jamming out a request,
but also be able to tell what chord was used, sometimes hard to tell the difference between major and minor.
When you are playing with pitch-bending effects, you can develop a stronger sense of pitch yourself.
Scientific tuning, using an oscilloscope to tune guitar intonation, is different from tempered tuning.
It would be interesting to see if you can produce more videos with this information in mind.
I recommend "This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin,
a Montreal, Canada, professor who also records as a guitarist. His next book was also a best-seller.
Rick, you never fail to inspire & give hope to even hack musicians. Thank you.
Great vision, Rick. Thanks for all that you do.
Ive been singing and playing music for my little guy since he was born 3 month premature. He had a stroke and a brain bleed when he was born, he has cerebral palsy - but he is showing that he is over coming it and developing with minimal issues. He is very alert and aware and I think its because of the music and singing and face to face time we have given him. In hospital we would do 3-5 hours of kangaroo care - physical skin to skin touch and babies ear over parent's heart, we also printed out high contrast b&w photos of our faces so he could look at them when he woke up and we weren't there.
Im going (because of this video) step up and organise a listening program for him - he is 9 month corrected age - so im sure it will help.
very interesting video would love to see an intensive adult ear training class 2.
Excellent video! Congratulations Rick for all the work you do. I hope folks in charge of education programs for school watch it.
Every music teacher, every parent to be and those with young children should see this video!!!
Amazing episode Rick !! I'm really happy and motivated to make more music with your teachings and your book (of course I bought it). I can't wait for the next videos about ear training for adults !! Keep it up !!
Awesome stuff. Rick, you’re now my all-time favorite human being. Rock on dude.
Thanks for the inspiring video! My wife and I just welcomed our firstborn to the world 5 weeks ago, and you have me thinking more about the music exposure I can already offer her. All parents have something to pass down, but music education is an exceptionally powerful gift with wide-ranging cognitive benefits. I am a secondary English teacher, and it thrills me to know I can give my little girl an advantage in the literary realm because I have gained knowledge and skills that some do not possess. For me, my blue-collar dad taught me about shooting a basketball at a young age. Guess I missed out on perfect pitch, but I can hit three pointers like nobody’s business! Props to all the parents enriching the lives of their progeny. Thanks again! And thanks to neuroplasticity, I can watch Mr. Beato’s videos and learn about a topic, music theory, I learned nothing about as a child. Let’s keep studying, everyone. Set in a context of love, our expanded minds can work wonders on this world.
Hey Rick, I really appreciate your last few comments. As a musician and dad, I often watch your videos and feel very put out that I wasn't able to give my kids similar experiences. Lately I have been working on my own ear training, and have recently made a commitment to my kids that I will provide them a better music education than I had.
You're such a good dad. Look at his little hands moving with the piano at 3:20!!
Hey Rick this is an enormous contribution, imagine these kind of skills applied in anothe areas
Rick! The only thing more amazing than your sons talent is an old cat like you still having kids! Good on you man.
Dylan rocks. Love his attitude.
The one person in my life whom I know for sure had perfect pitch -- my mother, an orchestral musician and concert pianist -- was also not bothered by notes that were "out of tune." She used to laugh about that. In fact, she played in orchestras that had different concert "A"s (440 Hz is a somewhat recent standard), and in Baroque ensembles where in many cases, equal temperament was not used (and the concert "A" was considerably lower than what we use now, because of gut strings).
She was also a deep student of the microtonal music of Harry Partch, which boggles my mind for many reasons. It took me many years of careful listening to begin to hear harmonies in that stuff, but she claimed it always made sense to her.
She was never able to explain how she could, given some pitch framework, know what notes belonged and which did not, nor could she explain how she could identify or play/sing, with equal facility, a pitch "correct" in a given framework. Nor explain to why stretch-tuning a piano (no acoustic piano that sounds good is perfectly intonated in equal temperament across all octaves) didn't drive her crazy.
What *did* make her grit her teeth was when musicians were not "in tune" (for a given framework) with each other. And blues music, and a lot of jazz, disgusted her, because of all the bent notes, deliberate not-quite-on-pitch tricks, and the fact that certain instrumental parings like clarinet and piano don't quite line up with each other due to various vagaries of the physics of (say) aerophones versus struck strings, and the jazz and blues folks didn't seem to care, or know how to make it better.
The first time I watched one of your videos, I thought "uhhh who is THIS guy..."
Now you're my main source of music information, like.... MAIN source.
Love your channel, brother!
As always the information you provide is valuable. Thank you.
Wow! This is mind blowing! Thanks for the video!
Anything I could say would be an understatement to how music physically keeps me able to move.
Dear Rick! Thank you for this fantastic video again. I found your channel a few months ago. A play tenor sax since my childhood, but i learned more about music in this short period, than the last ~20 years. My parents always helped me with everything by their best, and always said that music makes you a better person, and here is a great example with you. My wife is in the 2nd trimester. She watched your video too and wants me to get that playlist from you that you made for Dylan. Pls help. You know: pregnant ladys and hormones... :) (joking)
We would like to give our baby the same opportunity as you gave your kids, and i had. Thanks and greetings from Hungary
Ear training as means to heal the world! What a concept... I can totally relate. Cheers man! My own ed-system-detected-gifted son don’t care much about music being a video game designer by passion, but he can play his ideas of music for his games on the family piano for me if he so desires and it really makes me a proud dad.
So interesting Rick. Makes sense that having an ear so attuned to notes and rhythm would directly correlate with speech and language. Awesome stuff.
I am living proof that even starting at age 60 an intense focus on active listening can change ones life.
Incredibly fascinating stuff Rick! Thank you for all of your awesome videos!
This video was full of excellent insights! Thank you sir!
Thank you for all of this research you’ve uncovered and done
This is a great video to show how humans will evolve in to much more intelligent beings. Thanks to time and smart people like you!
About a week ago, Robert Estrin did a video on the importance of ear training with the guest Scott Houston who hosted the PBS series "Piano in a Flash" & "Scott, the Piano Guy". Scott who teaches the popular style of playing music never got into scientific studies.
Being brought up in a non-musical family, I never had the head start of being exposed to music in a controlled way as an infant. Although my parents did take some music lessons, they haven't progressed to even an intermediate level. When I was growing up many years ago, music training or even the studies on the "Mozart Effect" had not been published. Unless 1 of your parents is a professional musician, very few parents would think about playing a recording of a Mozart sonata or concerto during a pregnancy to improve a child's learning abilities.
I was fortunate enough to get into music class and play with the school band. It was a fun experience but nobody would think all the work we put in for the year-end concert for the parents is also good for memory & brain development.
Fascinating video! I learn to hear sounds in another laguage over time, it's not instantaneous at all, the ability is still there to some extent, but probably greatly diminished.
Brilliant! Hey Rick, I can only buy so many copies of your book.
Thanks
Absolutely fascinating, Rick! I love the topic and what is possible here. Anxiously awaiting the next installment
Amazing video! Can wait see you expand on this topic more.
So when is the ear training course coming?
Outstanding video. Something that should be shared with all future parents!
This was a total surprise video. Amazing Rick!
Amazing video Rick. I just love watching your progress with Dylan, it's just fascinating.
I’ve read this is your brain on music by D Levitin. Reminds me of this stuff. Amazing. My son would request Beethoven’s 5th by humming it at age 3. He’s not perfect pitch but prenatal and baby being exposed to jazz, Beatles, & LOTS of classical pays off for sure😁
Well, i am self taught guitar player, and maybe for the first five years of me playing a guitar, i didn't care about any music theory, or development in hearing chords/tones. One day my friend from a musical family just asked me, if i really don't hear the chords in those simple songs we play together. That got me wondering, and i started to learn these things, and i feel i'm getting better. He says he never trained on guitar and piano at home, he was just taught by his father when he was young. He only know basic chords, but he is much better in these things.
outstanding...mind officially blown...that kid will do something great...something none of us can prolly ever comprehend...hopefully for the good!!
This is amazing. The best I could do for my sons was play a lot of Mozart and Bach when they were babies and they’re both pretty musical now. I wish I had more knowledge to pass on to them but it was the best I could do.
Mozart is not really "high information" tho. His compositions are extremely tonally simple. Bach is more "high information".
This is truly inspiring. I really wish I was raised through music so much younger. I really want to retrain my ears to hear music better. I feel I started way too late!
This was a great video and I really enjoyed this. One of the best examples demonstrating the incredible capabilities of the human body, heart, mind, and soul when nearly fully using all that is possible for humans. Seeing how you trained your kid from very early on and how he is able to use the vast complexity, organization, storage of information, and precise recall humans are able to accomplish is truly awesome. Humans are such amazing unique beings able to achieve the most outstanding things in history.
This is really really cool!!! Hope to see more content like it in the future
You fully rock! What you've done with your kids is great. Thanks for sharing!
Astonishing tutorial. Masterful musical education Rick...
WOW. This one blow my mind !!! Respect Rick. I have two children - boy (11) is a drummer - he work hard and he`s very good but girl (7) is even better. Now i think she has a perfect pitch because of brother`s exercises in music and also because me & my wife are also a musicians and we play a lot in a home. This is amazing. and its much deeper than music only.Thanks a lot for this video! :-)
This was great. Going to watch a few times. Can't wait for any follow ups!