Next Level Perfect Pitch (8 Year Old)

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sowbug · 2026-06 · Reference

Rick Beato has at least one child with absolute pitch with stunning ability to name chords and the discrete notes in them. Here's the short video: [VIDEO] I'm not a musician, but I'm told the kid's way of naming the chords is particularly adept from a musician's point of view, and that's because the dad (a very accomplished musician) helped teach the kid. I am sure Rick has made more videos about what he did.

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stackedinserter · 2025-02 · Reference

> The perception of perfect pitch as this magical, unattainable thing always seemed odd to me Because it is really magical and unattainable [VIDEO] Show me an adult that trained to this level.

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vajrabum · 2023-04 · Reference

Rick Beato's channel on Youtube was pretty much launched from the viral video where his son Dylan demonstrates his apparently unerring ability to identify individual pitches in note clusters with very high accuracy. [VIDEO] For some musical jobs having perfect pitch can really make a difference. For example singers, musicians playing bowed stringed instruments or a trombone benefit from perfect pitch. Also, conductors frequently have perfect pitch, probably because a strong musical memory and being able to sight sing on pitch from a score are valuable and depend to a certain extent on perfect pitch. See here for a lot more. [LINK] Perfect pitch is also apparently more common in people who speak tonal languages like Mandarin.

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