Perfect Pitch vs Relative Pitch: Which Is More Important?

Dylan = Perfect Pitch Lennon = Relative Pitch Me= Sounds like a keyboard, but i can't be sure...

I've had relative pitch my entire life and really just thought it was a half-ass version of perfect pitch until today. I didn't even know it had a name, lol.

Relative pitch + Memorize the notes = perfect pitch in 144p version XD

Perfect pitch is a nice party trick, but real magic lies within the melodies and chord progressions~ For that, you need relative pitch.

I can do one thing here.... Minor = Sad Major = Happy I can identify the chordal tones.

I've always had perfect pitch....and would be able to do exactly what Dylan did. I would identify complex chords----but I'd hear them as a collection of individual notes. But some people do lose perfect pitch with age. Oliver Sacks described that in one of his books....where one of his subjects found that their pitch shifted 1 1/4 tones. I'm in my 70's now....and that's what happened to me as of 10 years ago. I will mistake a G and call it an A or a Bb. I was very dependent on my perfect pitch....and haven't developed great relative pitch. Now I need to develop that....and its a challenge. I wish I had developed it as a kid. The two types of pitches----perfect and relative---are totally independent. If you have perfect pitch, you still need to develop relative pitch.

Can you have perfect pitch and not know it because you have no idea what the names of the notes are?

I may not have perfect pitch but I have Pitch Perfect on DVD :-)

This kid has a very big and a bright future ahead of him. So talented.

You have pretty amazing pitch memory for someone who doesn't have perfect pitch

Oh wow! I just found myself singing out the chord tones as you played. I'm so pleased, my ears were so bad but I've been doing your "7 days to better ears" training everyday for 3 months and folks it really works!

Hi Rick, Sibelius apparently had a perfect pitch as he described seeing tones in colors from the child. He self trained with an out of the 'perfect tune' piano at home as a child. At some point the piano was tuned to a perfect pitch, which shocked his foundations and he changed to violin. As he describes the color landscape was destroyed and he could not touch the piano after the tune was changed.

I just noticed the word “note” is an anagram of the word “tone”. How have I never noticed that?

my concert choir in high school was able to blow people away at festivals because we could start a capella songs without a reference note from a pitch pipe or piano. our bass section leader had perfect pitch and could just quietly hum the bass starting note and the entire 80 voice choir could build the opening chord from it. it was awesome, and in 20 years of a music career, i've never met anyone else who had true absolute pitch.

I love that you included Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Oscar Peterson in “The greatest composers/musicians that ever lived” ❤️

The legend says that Charlie Parker practiced between 10 and 15 h / day when he was a kid. He had relative pitch though.

It's wonderful to see your talented children! By the way, a friend of mine with perfect pitch lost it - actually it was "misplaced" by a semitone lower at the age of 70. In the begininng she thought that her piano went out of tune but then she listened to the radio and she heard music of which she knew the tonality a semitone lower. So what she does now? She listens to a tone and say she recognizes as C#. Knowing her problem she makes the correction and she answers D. Wonderful job you do Rick! Thank you so much!

Rich, you are blessed! Two adorable kids! Great to see that you named them after great names in music history. I guess you know that Brian Wilson also named a son Dylan!

Damn Rick, you not only have two of the cutest kids on earth, but sharp and very talented. Dylan's abilities are staggering. And Lennon being able to instantly identify an interval without knowing the notes...I hope they stay with it and allow music to carry them forward.

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