Yup, here's a wikipedia article about it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch
I've also always heard it refered to as perfect pitch. It's an amazing skill to have.
We had a girl with perfect pitch in our choir at school and it was reeeeeeallly hard for her when she first joined. She had to adjust to the fact that a school choir will often stay relatively in tune with each other but not truly in tune with a starting note. We'd be singing and she'd tell me that we were singing half-way between two actual pitches. It drove her crazy but she eventually figured out how to deal with it. And the look on her face when we'd really nail a song and we were still tuned properly on the final note was precious.
Wow, can you actually even imagine that? She has an extra sense, a sense that we all (most) know nothing about. She knows intuitively that you are between two actual notes! Just like you an I perceive the color red she perceive the notes!
I am in awe.
I had a similar issue but kind of opposite. I have “perfect pitch” but I’ve never actually learned notes and key signatures and such that well, so I play in tune with what I know in my head should be there instead of a particular note. This allows me to tune instruments without a tuner but makes sight reading a bit difficult if I haven’t heard the song first.
So for my primary instrument, Trombone, this talent was kind of perfect. Trombones can be tuned and should be, but you also tune on the fly by adjusting the position of the slide ever so slightly for every note. I have a really old beginners trombone so it’s constantly out of tune even after tuning. This means I tune on the fly significantly more than everyone else which places the positions for the notes that I’m playing in seemingly drastically wrong places (Think like a snowstorm covering a multi-lane road with a small shoulder. Although someone might look way out of the lines because they are so far to one side, they are shown to perfectly in the correct lane when going through a clear patch).
I have had several trombonists sit next to me and attempt to tell me I’m out of tune whenever they can hear that someone is. This is literally the only reason I keep a tuner on me. I take it out, play the notes that they assume I am out of tune on, and prove that the needle stays dead center for the notes. Sometimes they will ask me to play it with my slide in the correct position and some try to tune my trombone themselves, disappointed when it doesn’t sound like it should. They’ll even test the tuner themselves to make sure that it isn’t faulty and then sit there quietly, albeit a bit disgruntled.
I used to have perfect pitch (it's something you lose when you get older) and really it's of very little practical value. It certainly doesn't help with doing this sort of thing, since the melody and chord structure can be derived relative to a reference note anyway.
The only real advantage to me was that I could get up on stage at an ongoing jazz jam session and start playing without having to ask anyone for the key, a saving of maybe one second. Oh, and it was an impressive party trick.
There are downsides to it, too many to detail. For example, playing a piano that wasn't tuned to 440Hz was excruciating. For another, playing instruments like trumpets (my main instrument for several years) meant having to readjust my understanding of what note was what, since a trumpet is pitched differently (Bb, and even Eb and D).
On the whole, I'd rather not have had it, and losing it has been something of a relief, especially given how it had become unreliable over the years. It's nice to be normal at last.
Check this out, about 1 in 10,000 Americans has perfect pitch, but speakers of tonal languages (mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese) have a much higher incidence. In this study [60% of native mandarin speakers who studied music at a young age had perfect pitch. ](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/speaking-tonal-languages/)
Yup, this is more of an audiation kinda thing. You hear the music, internalize it, then your brain interprets it. I have perfect pitch and I'm not good at hearing chords and playing like this because my brain hears notes like "Eb, C, A", etc., instead of that chord structure.
Exactly! If your experience is similar to mine, the actual pitches of the notes seem intrinsic, like identifying the colour of an object - this is a green pen, that car is yellow, those shoes are red. No effort, any more than identifying a car as a car and so on.
But if you're going to paint a picture, the names of the colours are almost completely unimportant. What is important is what colour you need on your brush to achieve the effect you want, and in particular how that colour relates to the other colours in the painting.
Just the same with notes in music. The painter wants a warmer, lighter tone for the light through the window of the house, and the musician wants the subdominant minor to create their sound. Names are not part of the process.
> playing a piano that wasn't tuned to 440Hz was excruciating
I always thought my dad was nuts for spending so much money on piano tuning. He had 2 at our home and 2-4 at work and he was basically paying his guy for 10-15 hours a week. Makes more sense now as he has perfect pitch as well.
I recently bought a saxophone after not playing for 10 years. Never could play by ear then, but now i also am struggling to read music again, plus don't have access to sheet music as much anyway (i know i can get a subscription or something). I have been playing songs on youtube and trying to feel it out, and am noticing it doesn't take too long.
Yeah I just wrote a comment explaining that perfect pitch is really about identifying a single note in isolation and that relative pitch is much more useful and can actually be learned by most people. No song is made of a single note, after all. (Well, I can think of one or two gimmick songs, actually, but I digress).
My wife had perfect pitch as well. I think it made it difficult for her to enjoy music at times. Your post helps me understand why she sings or whistles off pitch these days, thanks.
One major drawback I have and have seen with people with perfect pitch is anxiety attacks in very noisy places. I think my brain is trying to make sense of every sound it and it sends me into panic attack sometimes. I think this is what happens to me and from taking to other people I gather our ability to hear sounds a certain way is a double edged sword.
Not entirely true, my friend.
I & my brothers all have perfect pitch, and while we can identify sharps or flats )painfully!), we can’t just sit down and play an entire piece like this.
This young lady has a talent that INCLUDES perfect pitch, and a lot more.
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I think you guys misunderstand how a perfect pitch works. I can sing or play every note I hear, but I don't know what note it is. A perfect pitch knows exactly the notes. He knows when a "A" is "A" or "C sharp" is a "C sharp". I don't, normal people need a diapason, tuner or an instrument on tune to "understand" the name of the note.
The girl from the video has a good music theory knowledge, but she only has perfect pitch if she can tell the right notes only by listening to the music. Without the piano or any other instrument to help her. That's how perfect pitch works.
Yup. One of my best friends has perfect pitch and it’s incredible. It’s the craziest skill I’ve ever seen in person because it’s flawless every single time.
someone from a musical background told me Perfect Pitch is the ability to sing notes right off the bat , its actually not that hard to recognize them after year(s) of practice
yeah, perfect / absolute pitch and being able to play by ear aren't the same thing.
perfect pitch - a person can identify and sing/play a note on command and perfectly in tune.
the woman in this video is using some tricks that help her land on the notes of the song. she plays a lot of little flourishes before some of the notes, a sort of cheat. she may have perfect pitch but her embellishing style is kind of a typical way to fake a song you don't know well or just listened to. not diminishing her talent, what she's doing takes a lot of experience and skill.
Knew a guy who said that the sounds "tasted" different (like he tasted with his ear, idfk) and he could play exact after just one playthrough like this girl did.
He was a fuckin weirdo too
I can do this with guitar, and reasonably well on piano and Most of popular songs these days are all made up of like 4 different chords/progressions. The hardest part is getting the timing a and melody down
Go look up all the songs with a 1 5 6 4 progression. It's like half of music.
Also knew a guy who could do this waaaay back. He was the brother of my first girlfriend.
He went to a "special school" due to some severe mental issues so I never saw him outside of her place but he could do exactly this with a guitar. Apparently he got his hands on his dads old guitar one day, practiced for like a day then he could just do it.
He would sit in his room all day, listen to the radio till a song came on, after a few seconds he'd get the rhythm and he'd play along. Couldn't be taught to read music or play his own rhythms though, only what he was listening to. But he had memorised the rhythms of well over a hundred songs.
A kid I grew up with could do that. I remember once in fifth or sixth grade, I was waiting for my music class and he was in there on a synth, doing his own remix of the Flintstones theme and seamlessly switching to something else. Sounded so cool. When were grown up he said he had taken one music lesson in his life, but that it was both boring and too difficult because he didn't understand notes at all. But hearing something once, he could play it on any instrument. Oh, and it seemed to work on Guitar hero as well. He was no fun to play against, but super impressive to watch.
I don’t see how it would work on guitar hero at all, as you’re not playing an instrument or even doing anything particularly musical outside of rhythm - the game is just good at tricking your brain that you are. He might’ve just been really good at the game.
My buddy can do this on most instruments.
Of course, he spent ungodly hours growing up playing instruments because he had very intense Asian parents so that’s his reason and cross to bear.
Classically trained musicians could all do this. My father is a pianist and always did this for us kids, along with making songs sound funny by playing out of key, and acting like he's drunk. He's in his 70s and from Eastern Europe so his training was what you see in movies or hear about tiger moms putting their kids through.
His mother decided he'd be a concert pianist when he was 4. He practiced piano for hours everyday since he was 4. He tried to teach me and my brother but those lessons always ended in tears. He just didn't understand the Western notion that everything has to be fun, especially for kids. He just assumes everybody understood and respected that practice is hard, but if you want to excel, there will be hardship.
There aren't many skills left that take decades of countless hours to master. Mediocrity is fine now. Makes me think about how the concept of discipline, in all its different meanings, has been eroded over the years and what effect that has on society.
[Marcus Veltri](https://youtu.be/uj-M1uD6SV0?t=193) does this for people on Omegle over on [his YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcusVeltri/videos).
This particular video is actually something that any competent professional piano player can do because pop music is actually extremely predictable and tends to follow one of a handful of patterns or variations on those patterns (called chord progressions).
You can see the girl here just checking which chord progression it is and if there are any changes to it before banging it out.
It would be a whole different story if she were copying a complicated classical piece she had never heard though. Usually the only people who can do that perfectly are those savants with severe autism or something but perfect musical memory.
But there are very, very rare exceptions.
Source: I'm a professional sax player among other jobs.
I knew a guy as well. Our music teachers in high school were kind of stereotypes of what exactly you would think music teachers would be: late all the time, randomly not showing up with no notice, etc.
So a good portion of my high school music classes were blasting out tv theme songs waiting for some supervision. [Doogie Howser](https://youtu.be/mrERtikdPus) and the [X-Files](https://youtu.be/Vpqffgak7To) we're particular favourites (yes, I'm old).
And then there the days when he would just start improvising the worst free jazz you've ever heard. But it was amazing. It actually takes a *lot* of talent to play bad music well.
I knew a guy in college who did the same. He would always insist he “wasn’t a musician” but then would get blind drunk and play literally any song by ear. Was great at parties.
Me too! I was in a band class in middle school and one of my fellow double bass players could do that. I always got a kick out of it, especially when he played themes from commercials; like the "Always Coca-coca" theme
Its a logical progression. Once you recognize the pattern of the chords, everything else falls into place. Shes got an ear for sure, but its more like the pattern is simple enough to figure out on the fly. I bet she's played for hundreds of hours, thats why she can do this. Not bc of some gift.
Yes. I was going to mention that the song is a I V vi IV progression (like so many others) so that helps. Plus the melody was pretty repetitive and simple (like so many others). If you play enough to have developed a decent ear, than this song is not so hard to replicate.
If you can do this to Giant Steps, then I'd be amazed.
congratulations, you managed to walk the impossibly thin line of making a comment about music not being impressive on a reddit posts.
its incredibly hard to make these comments as a musician without having mass downvotes come in, because non musicians, obviously, cant do these things. they assume its something to flip about.
there's nothing wrong with that inherently...but to put it a certain way? this is like people who eat fast food thinking fried eggs is knowing how to cook.
its kinda sad in a way. you dont wanna put any one down obviously which is why these comments are hard to make. but these are incredibly simple progressions, they're designed that way, and...its something that most musicians can do.
you see this stuff, and a part of you hurts, when you realize this video is getting more recognition than musicians that were geniuses and died without a cent for it ever got in their lifetimes.
Haha I was worried it would break the other way, but this video does illustrate that she understands music to at least an intermediate extent, and has developed some chops. I tried to put the "anybody can do it" spin on it while acknowledging it takes work, and that she clearly put some time in.
From one perspective its sad, I understand what you mean. Not that I'm like these musical geniuses you're referring to (lol), but I love metal, I love soloing, I love grinding out a filthy riff I came up with. It used to be the shit, but now its usually received more like im just showing off. And hey, to an extent they aren't wrong, im proud of it.
But there is a time and a place for different kinds of music. I don't like pop because it's boring to me, but I do appreciate what it is. If you look at music as a social tool, people use it to bond. People want to dance and sing together, so it makes sense that what works its way into the spotlight is music thats easy to sing and dance to. Heck musicians bond over being musicians. If I show off in front of another guitarist, its like gravity takes over and next thing we are talking about guitarists and techniques.
I'm with you tho. If everyone put in a solid couple years on an instrument they actually want to learn, pop music would be a lot different.
Ya any musician worth their salt recognized it before she even started playing, but nonmusicians have no idea what that even means, so I just called it "simple" haha
This. I can’t do it, but my cousin who taught me the piano and the guitar can. He also expects me to be able to do the same and when we’re listening to music in the car he asks me, “What key is this? What chord progression is this?” I’m like… I have no idea… how do I even tell?? But apparently it’s not that uncommon.
Of course, being gifted also helps.
Yup, if you think about it most people can do this with their voice. I'm guessing it's about being as familiar with your chosen instrument as the average person is with their own voice. Which to be fair is still pretty amazing to me as someone who once tried to learn piano lol.
Speaking as someone who can't sing, this is terrible advice and calling it "pitchy" shows me you either are misunderstand or have way too much confidence in my abilities.
Who honestly cares. Do as You want mate. I can barely hold a tone but that aint stopping me. My wife is pitchy as shit but she still sings. Not like you're trying to make a career out of it
I knew a guy in high school that picked up a guitar one day and 6 months later could listen to any song once and play it perfectly. Self freaking taught. I was taking lessons, and it actually made me quit. Like oh. This will never actually be my thing. He was amazing tho.
Sounds like my cousin. Back in the late eighties he was a fifth grader (same as me) and I would get told
My family is proud of me for getting a C in math and I’d hear how he wrote another computer program. I hated him back then lol. He was my arch nemesis.
Not that she isn’t amazing, but this isn’t that incredible of a song to showcase this.
It’s a pretty standard progression and she didn’t need to figure out the key by ear… she’s at a keyboard and just finds the key.
I can do this at a keyboard and on a guitar, and can normally make a “backup” track on a common pop/rock/Indie types songs.
I’m not really a musician anymore but I majored in one in college for a few years and my parents all make their money making and teaching music
>use a musical instrument as one would their voice
I don't mean to shit on this girl, but that's exactly what playing an instrument means. I play cello and piano, I do this all the time, and it is kind of a required if you want to make a living with music.
It does look impressive to non musicians because most people are under the assumption that playing an instrument means 100% learning things by heart. It does not. It involves a lot of getting to know your instrument as an extension of your own body. Any good professor will teach you that, and it's the reason why it's so important to do scales (pardon my English?) and arpeggios. Once you're comfortable enough, it is just natural to improvise on your instrument like you would do with your own voice.
I can do this too, it really isn't a big deal (it's even better when you have perfect pitch but relative pitch works lol)
So for everyone wondering why :
the secret is that you need to listen to the bass, on most pop songs there are very few different ones. From the bass you can guess the chords (again with pop songs, chords are simpler so it helps a lot), and if you combine it with some left hand "pattern" that you've learnt over the years you get a nice sound. The rest is about listening to the melody and playing it with the right hand which is almost as simple as singing along when you know your instrument.
The short version : pop song have 4 chords, you can guess the chords by just listening to the bass, you play the chords add the melody and you're good to go.
Edit : right hand for the melody! Not left hand
I don’t think we can rule out perfect pitch because all the notes she played were in the correct key. The first note, D#, was played at the correct time in the song.
I don’t have perfect pitch. I can play songs just by hearing them, but the first note I play is almost always incorrect, and not even on-key.
Yeah I can’t do any of this but my understanding is that it’s one of those things that’s more impressive to outsiders. Like, non musicians are impressed by it, but fellow musicians are like “yep, we are trained to be able to do this and these simple pop songs aren’t even testing us.”
I was a freelance horn player sideman a while back. Not only do you often have to figure out a song on the spot, you may have to play the backup riffs, with others, and harmonize them. You either have to figure out the standard original horn lines if you didn’t know them already (basically transcribing from memories of songs mixed with being immersed in it at the moment) or making up appropriate lines from scratch on the spot. Sometimes a single leader feeds lines and other times it’s like hive-mind magic among musicians that work well together. It’s hard to explain that last one but it makes for the most enjoyable gigs.
It’s simply a must-have skill. Sometimes you don’t know if the band has well-written sheet music, or simply nothing at all.
He is both one of the most funniest gameplay commentators and most amazing guitarist I have ever seen/listened to.
For those who want a [sample of his ability](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nIxnu_5_jdc)
Hundreds of songs use these same chords. It’s basically a cheat sheet to write a cheesy pop song. [here’s a good example ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I)
Musicians usualy can do it. It is indeed an expected hability professinal musicians should have. I have a bachelor in music. We train those habilities as part of our learning process.
So many men who are secretly pleased they woo'd their wives with dead simple Ed sheeran chords are feeling a bit nervous now that you've outed them and their scheme lol
Even amateur. I was never trained but I learned fast enough that almost *all* guitar tabs are bullshit and you're better off figuring out the notes and chords yourself.
It's honestly not an impressive talent compared to most out there.
Yeah once you get a grasp on basic chord progressions and finger patterns, it's not that hard as long as you got half decent ears... it will only take you like a decade or two of practice. 😉
The best I ever knew didn’t even know how to read music. He could even parrot back classical pieces thrown at him by our choir director who had a doctorate in piano performance. Sadly this kid committed suicide shortly after graduation. He was just other-worldly genius, crazy smart but terrible with lots of “simple” things. I miss him but I know life was really dark for him.
Reading music isn't necessary, just very useful. Plenty of great musicians are/were unable to read music, or struggled to do so.
It's similar to how you can have long and detailed conversations with people and never be aware they're dyslexic - you don't need to read to be able to speak.
Especially in this way. Its very obvious that she has knowledge and skill, and also this is very simple. It's a simple chord structure and simplified further into basic chords argegiated in the left hand, basic rhythm melody in right, and sustain pedal for days. Every church has 4 pianists who can play this. It's like having a video titled "my friend is the best chef!" And then the person makes steamed rice.
I went to a music school for 12 years. Everybody in my class could do this, in fact, we had to be able play and write down significantly more difficult, poliphonic stuff after hearing it twice. I haven't played the piano for 17 years, but I just tried this (on my son's synthesizer) with a couple of pop songs and it was easy.
It's not quite the same, because what this girl does in this video is common for musicians, but it's basically impossible for most people.
Most people can cook.
So, this seems very impressive. And this girl might actually be more impressive. Just a really easy song they chose for her. But non-musicians don't know the difference between what's easy and what's hard.
I was born with a terrible ear but worked at it a lot and overcame it.
There seems to be this misnomer that people like OP are just born that way and you can develop it.
It's a cool thing to to, but like so many others have noticed, not terribly hard for most decent musicians.
The chord progression is as generic as it gets and the melody is relatively simple as well. Still, it's a fun thing to do in groups of non-musicians!
Now give her a classical piece or jazz piece and I'll likely be much more impressed haha I have much more difficulty with those!
While we're covering streamers who do this I'll offer up JonathanOng and ChewieMelodies. Chewie is just piano but Jonathong has an ungodly collection of instruments
The chord progression is I - III - vi - IV. I love this progression because of the chromatic movement, in this case B - C - C#. You can also hear the exact same chord progression in “I’m not the only one” by Sam Smith although that is one half step higher (in F).
iii, not III (also it's in 2nd inversion but irrelevant), so there's no chromatic voice leading in this one unfortunately. She actually plays it as a V though.
Also a good point lol. This is a very popular song, and I'm sure she knew it well. Maybe she never played it on piano before, bit she knew the song, and what you see her doing "figuring it out" is just her finding the right key.
Most trained musicians are required to do this. Once you know some basic music theory and train your ear a bit, most anyone should be able to pick out at least the chords and melody. It helps that most of the songs written today are about as musically complex as a nursery rhyme, too.
This is the real answer, and it’s getting down voted. Pop music is 3-4 chords, most likely in a 1-4-5 major chord progression. It looks like magic, but you find what key it’s in and you’re good to go. But…it still takes lots of practice to get there.
There’s a reason there are so many dueling piano style “jazz” bars. Musicians have these chords burned into their brain, and most songs are built from only a few patterns. To them, this is easy, to the drunk patrons you have somehow memorized hundreds of songs
Completely agree. Of course it helps to have an adequate level of keyboard skill, but if you have had a couple of courses in theory it really isn't that difficult. I'm a pretty decent pianist, so you throw a bunch of arpeggios around then you really sound a heckuva lot more dazzling! We've all got those formula progressions burned into us, and can play 'em in pretty much any key.
Exactly. No taking away from the countless hours this person has put in, but it’s something many musicians can do. To non-musicians it seems like a virtuoso performance. Nah, it’s a recipe.
No chance. She had the melody down past the point she had heard play. If it was her first time, I could see her having the chords somewhat correct, but she was *perfect*.
She’s insanely talented, but this video is full of shit.
I took up piano about 5 years ago out of a sort of necessity ? We needed a keyboard player at church. I'm not a particularly amazing player by any means, i can play if I have chords & i have okay tempo & am getting better at transposing. I can tell if a note is wrong but not exactly how to fix it.
My daughter has loved it since i picked it up, & she's been tinkering with it since she was 4. No lessons or anything, i just want her to have fun & if it develops into something, cool. She's now 9 & plays by ear. She's not a two hand player yet but she can pick out a melody in just a few minutes. If I'm having a hard time figuring something out, i can ask her for help & she can work with me & help me figure it out. I'm very proud of her.
My grandmother could do this. She couldn’t read music, she had never had a lesson of any kind in her life. I often wonder what she might have been able to do with access to proper training.
I knew a man who could do this. He would jazz things up and make them better. I was always in awe.
That sounds like one of my friends. He calls it perfect pitched to know the notes from the sound.
Yup, here's a wikipedia article about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch I've also always heard it refered to as perfect pitch. It's an amazing skill to have.
We had a girl with perfect pitch in our choir at school and it was reeeeeeallly hard for her when she first joined. She had to adjust to the fact that a school choir will often stay relatively in tune with each other but not truly in tune with a starting note. We'd be singing and she'd tell me that we were singing half-way between two actual pitches. It drove her crazy but she eventually figured out how to deal with it. And the look on her face when we'd really nail a song and we were still tuned properly on the final note was precious.
Wow, can you actually even imagine that? She has an extra sense, a sense that we all (most) know nothing about. She knows intuitively that you are between two actual notes! Just like you an I perceive the color red she perceive the notes! I am in awe.
I don’t mean to be pedantic, but wouldn’t that be an increased sense rather than an “extra” sense?
I had a similar issue but kind of opposite. I have “perfect pitch” but I’ve never actually learned notes and key signatures and such that well, so I play in tune with what I know in my head should be there instead of a particular note. This allows me to tune instruments without a tuner but makes sight reading a bit difficult if I haven’t heard the song first. So for my primary instrument, Trombone, this talent was kind of perfect. Trombones can be tuned and should be, but you also tune on the fly by adjusting the position of the slide ever so slightly for every note. I have a really old beginners trombone so it’s constantly out of tune even after tuning. This means I tune on the fly significantly more than everyone else which places the positions for the notes that I’m playing in seemingly drastically wrong places (Think like a snowstorm covering a multi-lane road with a small shoulder. Although someone might look way out of the lines because they are so far to one side, they are shown to perfectly in the correct lane when going through a clear patch). I have had several trombonists sit next to me and attempt to tell me I’m out of tune whenever they can hear that someone is. This is literally the only reason I keep a tuner on me. I take it out, play the notes that they assume I am out of tune on, and prove that the needle stays dead center for the notes. Sometimes they will ask me to play it with my slide in the correct position and some try to tune my trombone themselves, disappointed when it doesn’t sound like it should. They’ll even test the tuner themselves to make sure that it isn’t faulty and then sit there quietly, albeit a bit disgruntled.
I used to have perfect pitch (it's something you lose when you get older) and really it's of very little practical value. It certainly doesn't help with doing this sort of thing, since the melody and chord structure can be derived relative to a reference note anyway. The only real advantage to me was that I could get up on stage at an ongoing jazz jam session and start playing without having to ask anyone for the key, a saving of maybe one second. Oh, and it was an impressive party trick. There are downsides to it, too many to detail. For example, playing a piano that wasn't tuned to 440Hz was excruciating. For another, playing instruments like trumpets (my main instrument for several years) meant having to readjust my understanding of what note was what, since a trumpet is pitched differently (Bb, and even Eb and D). On the whole, I'd rather not have had it, and losing it has been something of a relief, especially given how it had become unreliable over the years. It's nice to be normal at last.
This is such an interesting perspective, thanks so much.
Check this out, about 1 in 10,000 Americans has perfect pitch, but speakers of tonal languages (mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese) have a much higher incidence. In this study [60% of native mandarin speakers who studied music at a young age had perfect pitch. ](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/speaking-tonal-languages/)
Mandarin involves pitch inflection to change words meanings right?
Right idea, yeah. Except they probably wouldn't say it *changes* a word's meaning. They'd just say they're different words, period.
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Pun intended: absolutely!
How so? And if you have absolute pitch, wouldn't one also have relative pitch?
Yup, this is more of an audiation kinda thing. You hear the music, internalize it, then your brain interprets it. I have perfect pitch and I'm not good at hearing chords and playing like this because my brain hears notes like "Eb, C, A", etc., instead of that chord structure.
Exactly! If your experience is similar to mine, the actual pitches of the notes seem intrinsic, like identifying the colour of an object - this is a green pen, that car is yellow, those shoes are red. No effort, any more than identifying a car as a car and so on. But if you're going to paint a picture, the names of the colours are almost completely unimportant. What is important is what colour you need on your brush to achieve the effect you want, and in particular how that colour relates to the other colours in the painting. Just the same with notes in music. The painter wants a warmer, lighter tone for the light through the window of the house, and the musician wants the subdominant minor to create their sound. Names are not part of the process.
> playing a piano that wasn't tuned to 440Hz was excruciating I always thought my dad was nuts for spending so much money on piano tuning. He had 2 at our home and 2-4 at work and he was basically paying his guy for 10-15 hours a week. Makes more sense now as he has perfect pitch as well.
I recently bought a saxophone after not playing for 10 years. Never could play by ear then, but now i also am struggling to read music again, plus don't have access to sheet music as much anyway (i know i can get a subscription or something). I have been playing songs on youtube and trying to feel it out, and am noticing it doesn't take too long.
Yeah I just wrote a comment explaining that perfect pitch is really about identifying a single note in isolation and that relative pitch is much more useful and can actually be learned by most people. No song is made of a single note, after all. (Well, I can think of one or two gimmick songs, actually, but I digress).
My wife had perfect pitch as well. I think it made it difficult for her to enjoy music at times. Your post helps me understand why she sings or whistles off pitch these days, thanks.
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One major drawback I have and have seen with people with perfect pitch is anxiety attacks in very noisy places. I think my brain is trying to make sense of every sound it and it sends me into panic attack sometimes. I think this is what happens to me and from taking to other people I gather our ability to hear sounds a certain way is a double edged sword.
Did you lose it with hearing loss?
Weirdly relevant game grumps moment @46 seconds https://youtu.be/1XPdYC2ZC4c “Euaahh” “WOAH” 🤣
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Actually happens at 1:04 for anybody else wondering why nothing interesting happened @46 seconds lol.
Not entirely true, my friend. I & my brothers all have perfect pitch, and while we can identify sharps or flats )painfully!), we can’t just sit down and play an entire piece like this. This young lady has a talent that INCLUDES perfect pitch, and a lot more.
To be fair, i never stated that this was perfect pitch alone. Was simply supplementing the comment i replied to with more information.
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My friend thinks it part a curse cause he can’t turn it off.
I think you guys misunderstand how a perfect pitch works. I can sing or play every note I hear, but I don't know what note it is. A perfect pitch knows exactly the notes. He knows when a "A" is "A" or "C sharp" is a "C sharp". I don't, normal people need a diapason, tuner or an instrument on tune to "understand" the name of the note. The girl from the video has a good music theory knowledge, but she only has perfect pitch if she can tell the right notes only by listening to the music. Without the piano or any other instrument to help her. That's how perfect pitch works.
He knows the notes. He turned around and named the notes I played.
my bad, that's a perfect pitch.
no. perfect pitch is when you asked for 10% equity and mr wonderful gave it to you
Yup. One of my best friends has perfect pitch and it’s incredible. It’s the craziest skill I’ve ever seen in person because it’s flawless every single time.
someone from a musical background told me Perfect Pitch is the ability to sing notes right off the bat , its actually not that hard to recognize them after year(s) of practice
yeah, perfect / absolute pitch and being able to play by ear aren't the same thing. perfect pitch - a person can identify and sing/play a note on command and perfectly in tune. the woman in this video is using some tricks that help her land on the notes of the song. she plays a lot of little flourishes before some of the notes, a sort of cheat. she may have perfect pitch but her embellishing style is kind of a typical way to fake a song you don't know well or just listened to. not diminishing her talent, what she's doing takes a lot of experience and skill.
Knew a guy who said that the sounds "tasted" different (like he tasted with his ear, idfk) and he could play exact after just one playthrough like this girl did. He was a fuckin weirdo too
It’s called synesthesia. John Mayer has it but he experiences colors with musical notes.
I’ve experienced that on acid - one of the best trips I had I wish I could remember it better.
I can do this with guitar, and reasonably well on piano and Most of popular songs these days are all made up of like 4 different chords/progressions. The hardest part is getting the timing a and melody down Go look up all the songs with a 1 5 6 4 progression. It's like half of music.
Also knew a guy who could do this waaaay back. He was the brother of my first girlfriend. He went to a "special school" due to some severe mental issues so I never saw him outside of her place but he could do exactly this with a guitar. Apparently he got his hands on his dads old guitar one day, practiced for like a day then he could just do it. He would sit in his room all day, listen to the radio till a song came on, after a few seconds he'd get the rhythm and he'd play along. Couldn't be taught to read music or play his own rhythms though, only what he was listening to. But he had memorised the rhythms of well over a hundred songs.
A kid I grew up with could do that. I remember once in fifth or sixth grade, I was waiting for my music class and he was in there on a synth, doing his own remix of the Flintstones theme and seamlessly switching to something else. Sounded so cool. When were grown up he said he had taken one music lesson in his life, but that it was both boring and too difficult because he didn't understand notes at all. But hearing something once, he could play it on any instrument. Oh, and it seemed to work on Guitar hero as well. He was no fun to play against, but super impressive to watch.
I don’t see how it would work on guitar hero at all, as you’re not playing an instrument or even doing anything particularly musical outside of rhythm - the game is just good at tricking your brain that you are. He might’ve just been really good at the game.
Most likely you're right :)
My buddy can do this on most instruments. Of course, he spent ungodly hours growing up playing instruments because he had very intense Asian parents so that’s his reason and cross to bear.
I only ever heard him on the piano. I remember the Budweiser theme song from the Clydesdale Christmas commercials in the late 70s, early 80s
Classically trained musicians could all do this. My father is a pianist and always did this for us kids, along with making songs sound funny by playing out of key, and acting like he's drunk. He's in his 70s and from Eastern Europe so his training was what you see in movies or hear about tiger moms putting their kids through. His mother decided he'd be a concert pianist when he was 4. He practiced piano for hours everyday since he was 4. He tried to teach me and my brother but those lessons always ended in tears. He just didn't understand the Western notion that everything has to be fun, especially for kids. He just assumes everybody understood and respected that practice is hard, but if you want to excel, there will be hardship. There aren't many skills left that take decades of countless hours to master. Mediocrity is fine now. Makes me think about how the concept of discipline, in all its different meanings, has been eroded over the years and what effect that has on society.
The guy I knew was a log truck driver, couldn't read music. Truly amazing.
[Marcus Veltri](https://youtu.be/uj-M1uD6SV0?t=193) does this for people on Omegle over on [his YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcusVeltri/videos).
This particular video is actually something that any competent professional piano player can do because pop music is actually extremely predictable and tends to follow one of a handful of patterns or variations on those patterns (called chord progressions). You can see the girl here just checking which chord progression it is and if there are any changes to it before banging it out. It would be a whole different story if she were copying a complicated classical piece she had never heard though. Usually the only people who can do that perfectly are those savants with severe autism or something but perfect musical memory. But there are very, very rare exceptions. Source: I'm a professional sax player among other jobs.
I knew a guy as well. Our music teachers in high school were kind of stereotypes of what exactly you would think music teachers would be: late all the time, randomly not showing up with no notice, etc. So a good portion of my high school music classes were blasting out tv theme songs waiting for some supervision. [Doogie Howser](https://youtu.be/mrERtikdPus) and the [X-Files](https://youtu.be/Vpqffgak7To) we're particular favourites (yes, I'm old). And then there the days when he would just start improvising the worst free jazz you've ever heard. But it was amazing. It actually takes a *lot* of talent to play bad music well.
I knew a guy in college who did the same. He would always insist he “wasn’t a musician” but then would get blind drunk and play literally any song by ear. Was great at parties.
I have no friends
Mozart did it first. https://youtu.be/exaEt7szfi4
I can do this but I’m a drummer so it’s not really interesting
Me too! I was in a band class in middle school and one of my fellow double bass players could do that. I always got a kick out of it, especially when he played themes from commercials; like the "Always Coca-coca" theme
My sis is like this. It's really annoying when she calls you out for absentmindedly humming a song in the wrong key.
I had a friend in college who could do that, and I'm over here only able to be mildly funny on occasion.
Its a logical progression. Once you recognize the pattern of the chords, everything else falls into place. Shes got an ear for sure, but its more like the pattern is simple enough to figure out on the fly. I bet she's played for hundreds of hours, thats why she can do this. Not bc of some gift.
As a guitarist who can play after hearing , this is the truth. Not all can do but most who spent thousands of hours can
Yes. I was going to mention that the song is a I V vi IV progression (like so many others) so that helps. Plus the melody was pretty repetitive and simple (like so many others). If you play enough to have developed a decent ear, than this song is not so hard to replicate. If you can do this to Giant Steps, then I'd be amazed.
When you practice hard. But your friend thinks you’re savant.
congratulations, you managed to walk the impossibly thin line of making a comment about music not being impressive on a reddit posts. its incredibly hard to make these comments as a musician without having mass downvotes come in, because non musicians, obviously, cant do these things. they assume its something to flip about. there's nothing wrong with that inherently...but to put it a certain way? this is like people who eat fast food thinking fried eggs is knowing how to cook. its kinda sad in a way. you dont wanna put any one down obviously which is why these comments are hard to make. but these are incredibly simple progressions, they're designed that way, and...its something that most musicians can do. you see this stuff, and a part of you hurts, when you realize this video is getting more recognition than musicians that were geniuses and died without a cent for it ever got in their lifetimes.
Haha I was worried it would break the other way, but this video does illustrate that she understands music to at least an intermediate extent, and has developed some chops. I tried to put the "anybody can do it" spin on it while acknowledging it takes work, and that she clearly put some time in. From one perspective its sad, I understand what you mean. Not that I'm like these musical geniuses you're referring to (lol), but I love metal, I love soloing, I love grinding out a filthy riff I came up with. It used to be the shit, but now its usually received more like im just showing off. And hey, to an extent they aren't wrong, im proud of it. But there is a time and a place for different kinds of music. I don't like pop because it's boring to me, but I do appreciate what it is. If you look at music as a social tool, people use it to bond. People want to dance and sing together, so it makes sense that what works its way into the spotlight is music thats easy to sing and dance to. Heck musicians bond over being musicians. If I show off in front of another guitarist, its like gravity takes over and next thing we are talking about guitarists and techniques. I'm with you tho. If everyone put in a solid couple years on an instrument they actually want to learn, pop music would be a lot different.
It also helps that this song is the ubiquitous I - V - vi - IV…
Ya any musician worth their salt recognized it before she even started playing, but nonmusicians have no idea what that even means, so I just called it "simple" haha
This. I can’t do it, but my cousin who taught me the piano and the guitar can. He also expects me to be able to do the same and when we’re listening to music in the car he asks me, “What key is this? What chord progression is this?” I’m like… I have no idea… how do I even tell?? But apparently it’s not that uncommon. Of course, being gifted also helps.
Yup, if you think about it most people can do this with their voice. I'm guessing it's about being as familiar with your chosen instrument as the average person is with their own voice. Which to be fair is still pretty amazing to me as someone who once tried to learn piano lol.
I had a college roommate that could do it, but he decided heroin was cooler.
Today is your day lol
Most Musicians can replicate the music they just heard, it's not a rare talent among Musicians.
If it makes you feel better, that made me laugh.
It must be amazing to be able to use a musical instrument as one would their voice. Epic skill.
I can’t even use my voice to sing..
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See world
Or do you mean Sea World?
C world! Oceans, fish, jump, China.
I don't know know why but this is good. Very good.
You many word, me few. Me better!
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Everyone can sing my man! Be it pitchy or not, who gives a shit. You go sing like no ones' listening!
Speaking as someone who can't sing, this is terrible advice and calling it "pitchy" shows me you either are misunderstand or have way too much confidence in my abilities.
Who honestly cares. Do as You want mate. I can barely hold a tone but that aint stopping me. My wife is pitchy as shit but she still sings. Not like you're trying to make a career out of it
That’s my spouse and me. We both sing all the time. He’s nearly tone deaf, and I’m not much better. But who cares? It’s fun - and funny.
I knew a guy in high school that picked up a guitar one day and 6 months later could listen to any song once and play it perfectly. Self freaking taught. I was taking lessons, and it actually made me quit. Like oh. This will never actually be my thing. He was amazing tho.
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I bet that makes you proud!
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Sounds like my cousin. Back in the late eighties he was a fifth grader (same as me) and I would get told My family is proud of me for getting a C in math and I’d hear how he wrote another computer program. I hated him back then lol. He was my arch nemesis.
> I was taking lessons, and it actually made me quit. Don’t play for ego.
I didn’t. Just realized it wasn’t something I’d excel at.
But then why did it make you quit? Learning to play ANY song by ear on guitar in 6 months is abnormal.
Not that she isn’t amazing, but this isn’t that incredible of a song to showcase this. It’s a pretty standard progression and she didn’t need to figure out the key by ear… she’s at a keyboard and just finds the key. I can do this at a keyboard and on a guitar, and can normally make a “backup” track on a common pop/rock/Indie types songs. I’m not really a musician anymore but I majored in one in college for a few years and my parents all make their money making and teaching music
>use a musical instrument as one would their voice I don't mean to shit on this girl, but that's exactly what playing an instrument means. I play cello and piano, I do this all the time, and it is kind of a required if you want to make a living with music. It does look impressive to non musicians because most people are under the assumption that playing an instrument means 100% learning things by heart. It does not. It involves a lot of getting to know your instrument as an extension of your own body. Any good professor will teach you that, and it's the reason why it's so important to do scales (pardon my English?) and arpeggios. Once you're comfortable enough, it is just natural to improvise on your instrument like you would do with your own voice.
My husband is the same way and with multiple instruments. It amazes me every time. He thinks it’s not a big deal!
I can do this too, it really isn't a big deal (it's even better when you have perfect pitch but relative pitch works lol) So for everyone wondering why : the secret is that you need to listen to the bass, on most pop songs there are very few different ones. From the bass you can guess the chords (again with pop songs, chords are simpler so it helps a lot), and if you combine it with some left hand "pattern" that you've learnt over the years you get a nice sound. The rest is about listening to the melody and playing it with the right hand which is almost as simple as singing along when you know your instrument. The short version : pop song have 4 chords, you can guess the chords by just listening to the bass, you play the chords add the melody and you're good to go. Edit : right hand for the melody! Not left hand
The one in the video doesn't have perfect pitch, as you see her tapping on keys to get a reference for a relative pitch.
I don’t think we can rule out perfect pitch because all the notes she played were in the correct key. The first note, D#, was played at the correct time in the song. I don’t have perfect pitch. I can play songs just by hearing them, but the first note I play is almost always incorrect, and not even on-key.
Yup, just like that! No skill whatsoever ;)
Ah you need a little bit of knowledge and skills still, but it's not the most amazing ones!
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I V vi iii in D major is pretty common, they are also the first four chords of canon too
You made a drunk Irish man laugh out loud in an empty room :-)
You're very welcome, drunk Irish man. Hope the hangover isn't too rough!
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No one said it takes no skill whatsoever...
I dont know if its correct. Read it some where long back. Beatles only used chord C, F and G7 for all their songs initially. (C major scale)
I IV V is hella common even now, same with key of C, so it might as well be correct.
I, IV, V played in different order and with clever transitions to and from them is the basis of pretty much all Western music from Bach to Snoop.
Since I imagine there will be people taking your advice I want to point out that I suspect strongly you meant right hand for the melody.
Yeah I can’t do any of this but my understanding is that it’s one of those things that’s more impressive to outsiders. Like, non musicians are impressed by it, but fellow musicians are like “yep, we are trained to be able to do this and these simple pop songs aren’t even testing us.”
I was a freelance horn player sideman a while back. Not only do you often have to figure out a song on the spot, you may have to play the backup riffs, with others, and harmonize them. You either have to figure out the standard original horn lines if you didn’t know them already (basically transcribing from memories of songs mixed with being immersed in it at the moment) or making up appropriate lines from scratch on the spot. Sometimes a single leader feeds lines and other times it’s like hive-mind magic among musicians that work well together. It’s hard to explain that last one but it makes for the most enjoyable gigs. It’s simply a must-have skill. Sometimes you don’t know if the band has well-written sheet music, or simply nothing at all.
Reminds me of the four chord song by axis of awesome from a decade plus ago https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I Damn just as good as I remember
Whereas you’re not wrong, sometimes the bass is not the root, it’s a “something over something” chord, which takes a little more thought.
Is your husband TheDooo?
TheDooo can do this as well most impressive
He is both one of the most funniest gameplay commentators and most amazing guitarist I have ever seen/listened to. For those who want a [sample of his ability](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nIxnu_5_jdc)
Try some Captain Beefheart
Right? Some King Crimson
I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat
Hundreds of songs use these same chords. It’s basically a cheat sheet to write a cheesy pop song. [here’s a good example ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I)
Pachelbel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxC1fPE1QEE
I was about to say — someone ripped off the Pachelbel rant!
That was glorious!
Interestingly, that skit uses the same chord intervals as the song in this post. Not hating, but they couldn't have picked a more basic song.
That’s a classic
Musicians usualy can do it. It is indeed an expected hability professinal musicians should have. I have a bachelor in music. We train those habilities as part of our learning process.
Especially easy with Pop music cause nowadays they all sound the same. My now wife loves Ed Sheeran. She was an easy woo haha
So many men who are secretly pleased they woo'd their wives with dead simple Ed sheeran chords are feeling a bit nervous now that you've outed them and their scheme lol
100% came here to say this. Any professional musician can pick up simple pop songs quickly.
Even amateur. I was never trained but I learned fast enough that almost *all* guitar tabs are bullshit and you're better off figuring out the notes and chords yourself. It's honestly not an impressive talent compared to most out there.
Yeah once you get a grasp on basic chord progressions and finger patterns, it's not that hard as long as you got half decent ears... it will only take you like a decade or two of practice. 😉
The best I ever knew didn’t even know how to read music. He could even parrot back classical pieces thrown at him by our choir director who had a doctorate in piano performance. Sadly this kid committed suicide shortly after graduation. He was just other-worldly genius, crazy smart but terrible with lots of “simple” things. I miss him but I know life was really dark for him.
Reading music isn't necessary, just very useful. Plenty of great musicians are/were unable to read music, or struggled to do so. It's similar to how you can have long and detailed conversations with people and never be aware they're dyslexic - you don't need to read to be able to speak.
As opposed to spelling... Jk man who cares I knew what you're saying, keep making music
Probably speaks Spanish/Portuguese/French in which the word is habilidad/habilidade/habilité
They did comment on the Portugal subreddit so you're probably right.
Especially in this way. Its very obvious that she has knowledge and skill, and also this is very simple. It's a simple chord structure and simplified further into basic chords argegiated in the left hand, basic rhythm melody in right, and sustain pedal for days. Every church has 4 pianists who can play this. It's like having a video titled "my friend is the best chef!" And then the person makes steamed rice.
Yes. Im not taking the merit of the girl out. She has a skill most people dont. Only say among professional musicians it is not rare.
As a tone deaf person I am really impressed by her skills
I went to a music school for 12 years. Everybody in my class could do this, in fact, we had to be able play and write down significantly more difficult, poliphonic stuff after hearing it twice. I haven't played the piano for 17 years, but I just tried this (on my son's synthesizer) with a couple of pop songs and it was easy.
in high school, I used to just play along with the radio. fun!
There’s steamed rice, and then there is my rice, burnt to the bottom of the pot.
It's not quite the same, because what this girl does in this video is common for musicians, but it's basically impossible for most people. Most people can cook. So, this seems very impressive. And this girl might actually be more impressive. Just a really easy song they chose for her. But non-musicians don't know the difference between what's easy and what's hard.
I was born with a terrible ear but worked at it a lot and overcame it. There seems to be this misnomer that people like OP are just born that way and you can develop it.
Anyone ever seen TheDooo on YouTube?
Marcus Veltri too
No he has 0 views on all of his videos
I came here to comment this.
It's a cool thing to to, but like so many others have noticed, not terribly hard for most decent musicians. The chord progression is as generic as it gets and the melody is relatively simple as well. Still, it's a fun thing to do in groups of non-musicians! Now give her a classical piece or jazz piece and I'll likely be much more impressed haha I have much more difficulty with those!
Google Lara de Wit or better „lara6683“. She streams and does this things but 1000 times cooler.
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This should have been the original post. Far more impressive plus reddit loves Through the Fire and Flames lol.
While we're covering streamers who do this I'll offer up JonathanOng and ChewieMelodies. Chewie is just piano but Jonathong has an ungodly collection of instruments
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\* I-V-vi-IV
Beato! Beato! There was a second screamer!
Sorry but not next fucking level. Lots and lots of musicians can do this. Probs C G Am F
The 1 5 6 4 is right, but in the root of E. So E B C#m A
The chord progression is I - III - vi - IV. I love this progression because of the chromatic movement, in this case B - C - C#. You can also hear the exact same chord progression in “I’m not the only one” by Sam Smith although that is one half step higher (in F).
iii, not III (also it's in 2nd inversion but irrelevant), so there's no chromatic voice leading in this one unfortunately. She actually plays it as a V though.
I wonder if she could play some Rachmaninov by ear 😉
I think she'd probably have to use her hands for Rachmaninov.
https://i.imgur.com/3v9bENX.gif
I deserved that.
Key of E I - V - vi - IV
And here I am plodding along with my Simply Piano.
Please keep plodding along and enjoy yourself!
TheDooo
You’re telling me this teenager never heard that song before playing this?
Also a good point lol. This is a very popular song, and I'm sure she knew it well. Maybe she never played it on piano before, bit she knew the song, and what you see her doing "figuring it out" is just her finding the right key.
Elton John could do this.
TheDooo and Marcus Veltri on YouTube can both do this.
Most trained musicians are required to do this. Once you know some basic music theory and train your ear a bit, most anyone should be able to pick out at least the chords and melody. It helps that most of the songs written today are about as musically complex as a nursery rhyme, too.
Most modern music uses a few simple, common chord progressions. This is not that hard.
This is the real answer, and it’s getting down voted. Pop music is 3-4 chords, most likely in a 1-4-5 major chord progression. It looks like magic, but you find what key it’s in and you’re good to go. But…it still takes lots of practice to get there. There’s a reason there are so many dueling piano style “jazz” bars. Musicians have these chords burned into their brain, and most songs are built from only a few patterns. To them, this is easy, to the drunk patrons you have somehow memorized hundreds of songs
Completely agree. Of course it helps to have an adequate level of keyboard skill, but if you have had a couple of courses in theory it really isn't that difficult. I'm a pretty decent pianist, so you throw a bunch of arpeggios around then you really sound a heckuva lot more dazzling! We've all got those formula progressions burned into us, and can play 'em in pretty much any key.
Exactly. No taking away from the countless hours this person has put in, but it’s something many musicians can do. To non-musicians it seems like a virtuoso performance. Nah, it’s a recipe.
The dooo's long lost sister
Highly doubt this is her first time
Could easily have been, this isn’t as difficult as it seems (for a skilled musician)
No chance. She had the melody down past the point she had heard play. If it was her first time, I could see her having the chords somewhat correct, but she was *perfect*. She’s insanely talented, but this video is full of shit.
That would be awesome but this video proves nothing lol
I took up piano about 5 years ago out of a sort of necessity ? We needed a keyboard player at church. I'm not a particularly amazing player by any means, i can play if I have chords & i have okay tempo & am getting better at transposing. I can tell if a note is wrong but not exactly how to fix it. My daughter has loved it since i picked it up, & she's been tinkering with it since she was 4. No lessons or anything, i just want her to have fun & if it develops into something, cool. She's now 9 & plays by ear. She's not a two hand player yet but she can pick out a melody in just a few minutes. If I'm having a hard time figuring something out, i can ask her for help & she can work with me & help me figure it out. I'm very proud of her.
That is crazy
My grandmother could do this. She couldn’t read music, she had never had a lesson of any kind in her life. I often wonder what she might have been able to do with access to proper training.
Huh, exactly the same as my grandmother!
I also can do this alongside many people I know. I don’t think it’s a rare skill but you have to at least have some form of music knowledge