Learn perfect pitch in 15 years
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Learn perfect pitch in 15 years
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#3You've had musical training since you were 5? And you say
"Sometime when I was ~12 years old, I remember surprising my clarinet teacher by correctly repeating some random notes that he played. He told me I had perfect pitch, but I didn’t think so, because I couldn’t name notes for any instrument other than the clarinet."
Okay, so then this doesn't seem like an article written for the average musician (person).
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#4> I learned perfect pitch as an adult.
Better learn to play an instrument; I don't know what a perfect pitch would be good for.
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Your mileage may vary.
BTW, is 10,000 hours not considered pseudoscience?
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#6> By the end of freshman year, I had significantly expanded my musical tastes and unambiguously had perfect pitch… for piano only. I find it highly unlikely that this was due to identifying microtuning differences;
I think the more convincing theory for instrument-specific perfect pitch is that one learns to recognize the timbres of the individual notes, not any minute variations in pitch.
> Don’t learn a non-C instrument
I would recommend against this because it severely limits your options for instruments to play.
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#7I could write a similar article "lose perfect pitch in 15 years".
My sense of pitch was cast-iron in college and in the years after. It started to get a bit messed up after singing a bunch of stuff at 415 Hz and (worse) 430 Hz instead of the usual 440.
And then I went cold-turkey on music-making for over a decade. I think it was not playing violin regularly that really did it — tuning and playing an instrument really helps the memory aspect.
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Your mileage may vary. BTW, is 10,000 hours not considered pseudoscience?
It's absolutely pseudoscience.
10k hours doing what? And why would we expect to see an approximately equal amount of time to achieve expertise across so many different human endeavors?
Veritasium has a really good video on the subject [0], with a much more compelling explanation for what it takes to develop expertise. He comes up with 4 things, but the two that stood out the most to me are that the field needs to be deterministic—the more randomness is involved the less expertise is possible—and that the learner needs consistent and accurate feedback on what they get right and wrong. Absent those factors no number of hours will do you any good.
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#9Or you could just take depakote[0].