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How Children Develop Perfect Pitch

How Children Develop Perfect Pitch on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2019–2025.

Rick Beato

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Rick Beato discusses a theory of why some children develop perfect pitch, based on early exposure to music. He draws on his experience with his own children.

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Pointed to in threads on training absolute pitch in children as a practitioner's account.

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“Rick Beato has some videos about how he trained his kids”
— mantesso, Dec 2019, in “Ask HN: Playlists for teaching perfect pitch to toddlers?”

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3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

lylejantzi3rdMay 2025Recommends

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

in “Infants and Babies can become pitch-perfect with early exposure to certain music” · View on HN

mantessoDec 2019Recommends

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

in “Ask HN: Playlists for teaching perfect pitch to toddlers?” · View on HN

avodonosovApr 2023Cites it

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). ▶ this video

in “Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch” · View on HN

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Music theory, synthesis & productionNeuroscience & the brainEducation & learningabsolute pitchear trainingmusic educationchild development