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How Children Develop Perfect Pitch

Rick Beato

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Brain and nervesMemory and learningNeuroscience

Rick Beato discusses the theory that early exposure to complex music allows young children to develop and retain perfect pitch.

I this episode I discuss a theory on why some children develop Perfect Pitch. Follow me on: YouTube - youtube.com/c/RickBeato

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What people say. Recommended for its fascinating insights into early childhood auditory development and training absolute pitch.

mantessoin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Playlists for teaching perfect pitch to toddlers?”

Rick Beato has some videos about how he trained his kids: link to this video I never tried anything similar nor have a music background but found it fascniting to watch it
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lylejantzi3rdin Hacker News • Recommends

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 to this video Perfect Pitch vs Relative Pitch: Which Is More Important? - link Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch - link
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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 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 to this video
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