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Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch

Rick Beato

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For anyone, no background needed. Education, not medical advice.

1.7M views9 years ago4 recommendations

Brain and nervesNeuroscienceMemory and learning

Rick Beato explains the biological and neurological reasons why absolute pitch must be developed during early childhood brain plasticity.

I am responding to the hundreds of adult musicians that are mad at me for telling them the truth about Perfect Pitch. Unless you are a baby reading this, forget about it! Sorry, but it's not my fault. It's biology. Only children below the age of 6 can develop Perfect Pitch. This has to do the with brain plasticity of particularly the infant brain and language acquisition. THE BEATO CLUB → flatfiv.co/pages/become-a-beato-club-member THE BEATO EAR TRAINING PROGRAM: beatoeartraining.com/ BUY THE BEATO BOOK HERE → bit.ly/2uTQFlo Follow my Instagram - instagram.com/rickbeato1/ SUBSCRIBE HERE → bit.ly/2eEs9gX BEATO MUSIC FORUM → forum.rickbeato.com —————————————————————————————————————— My Links to Follow: YouTube - youtube.com/c/RickBeato Follow On Twitter - @rickbeato ——————————————————————————————

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What people say. Highly recommended for its clear explanation of brain plasticity and the critical window for developing perfect pitch.

lj3in Hacker News • Recommends

On “How I learned to write music in real time”

Perfect Pitch is 30% more likely in societies with tonal language. Kids who are exposed to complicated music at an early age also have a higher chance of having perfect pitch. Here's the best video0 on Perfect Pitch I've seen. It starts at 4:25 because he spends the first four minutes responding to indignant youtube commenters. Then he digs into the science. 0: link to this video
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hashmapin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch”

…c and told what the colors were can eventually associate the texture of the fabric with a given color and can learn to do this translating in their head, but they will not be able to train their eyes to see color no matter how much practice takes place. Rick Beato covers the subject rather well in his video "Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch" link to this video If it were the case that such a substantial number of amateur test subjects could develop absolute pitch from doing a few exercises, we would expect to see commensurate numbers of musicians who spend thousands of hours playing music to also develop this skill, but this is not and has never been the case.…
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rendallin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch”

This video convinced me that adults cannot develop or train perfect pitch. "Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch" by Rick Beato link to this video
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kerblangin Hacker News • Recommends

On “How My Children (N=2) Acquired Absolute Pitch”

Rick Beato made several videos about perfect pitch, also featuring his kid who has PP and can identify entire chords. Apparently his opinion is that the key was listening to atonal music at an early age, like you say. Here's one of the more interesting videos: link to this video
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mistersquidin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Acquiring absolute pitch in adulthood is difficult but possible”

(Disclosure/Disclaimer: I don't have perfect pitch nor do I aspire to acquire it. I am, however, fascinated that some people do have perfect pitch.) Rick Beato provides a lot of (too much) context before explaining "Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch". 0 (Timecode link to Beato's point.) Beato's video was featured on MetaFilter a couple of months ago. 1 0 link to this video 1 link
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swframe2in Hacker News • Mentions

On “Rachmaninoff – Little Red Riding Hood [video]”

Somewhat related. Maybe you can use these videos to teach your new baby prefect pitch. Check out Rick Beato's video: link to this video
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grizmaldiin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training”

Rick Beato's take on adults not being able to develop perfect pitch - link to this video I must say though, watching videos of his kid demonstrate perfect pitch is quite astounding!
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Dowwiein Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training”

Rick Beato explains on his YouTube that a child can learn pitch perfection but it must be trained before 10 years of age link to this video
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avodonosovin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch”

In another video Rick Beato said he facilitated development of his son's perfect pitch by exposing him to a lot of complex music in early age. link to this video His hypothesis, based on some studies, is that children in ealy age have ability for perfect pitch but later loose it, if it's not utilized. The same way as young children are able to percieve any phoneme of any language, but later loose this ability and only recognise phonemes of the language spoken in the family (that's a known scientific fact). link
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lylejantzi3rdin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Infants and Babies can become pitch-perfect with early exposure to certain music”

Rick Beato has done a lot of videos on perfect pitch. His son has perfect pitch, but he does not. How Children Develop Perfect Pitch - link Perfect Pitch vs Relative Pitch: Which Is More Important? - link Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch - link to this video
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