EPISODE · May 12, 2026 · 12 MIN
Perfect Pitch - Nature or Nurture?
from Love Music More (with Scoobert Doobert) · host Scoobert Doobert
Perfect Pitch is when you know what a note is without checking your tuner or your instrument. It's helpful but is also a burden? And why did one study find that 30% of Japanese music students had perfect pitch versus 7% of Polish music students? This wasn't light work either. They had to get 95%+ right to count as "perfect." And can you train up and become perfect? If so, why would you?For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Watch guest episodes on YouTube 📺Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛A predisposition. A whole bunch of different factors. A gradient from note to note. Kind of cool. Classification. Microtonal. Certain types of pitch syntax. Communicate really quickly. Almost like there’s subtitles. Relative. Train for different things. What is being measured. It can be very helpful. Familial aggregation. The way that you ears are connected to your brain. What is tuning anyway. Very interesting. Tonal which is part of it, semitonal. What is the note actually doing, it’s the action. The thing that makes the song the song. Enough with enough training. A lot of rub in between these frequencies. Another category system. Is a fluid spectrum. Quick exposure. Recognize music or notes. An interesting subject. A detuned experience. Grab a note or two. Like named categories. The same language learning pipeline. The whole song starts to fall down with the guitar. Being connected to frequency. It is useful. Removing that friction. Learn these speech sounds. A cool naming skill. It actually accumulated. All of these incredible things. Big connections in the auditory cortex. Absolute. Very fascinating. Grab a note or two. Run these studies. Even that useful. At that deep level. A named thing, a note. 🍮Podcast Produced by Beformer
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Perfect Pitch is when you know what a note is without checking your tuner or your instrument. It's helpful but is also a burden? And why did one study find that 30% of Japanese music students had perfect pitch versus 7% of Polish music students? This wasn't light work either. They had to get 95%+ right to count as "perfect." And can you train up and become perfect? If so, why would you?For 30% off your first year with DistroKid to share your music with the world click DistroKid.com/vip/lovemusicmore 🌎Watch guest episodes on YouTube 📺Want to hear my music? For all things links visit ScoobertDoobert.pizza 🍕Subscribe to this pod's blog on Substack to receive deeper dives on the regular 🏊♂️Pick up my new LP "I" on vinyl in its full spinning colorfulness while they last 🎨Score pod merch 🥥A word salad poem cut from episode excerpts by the podcast producer 🫛A predisposition. A whole bunch of different factors. A gradient from note to note. Kind of cool. Classification. Microtonal. Certain types of pitch syntax. Communicate really quickly. Almost like there’s subtitles. Relative. Train for different things. What is being measured. It can be very helpful. Familial aggregation. The way that you ears are connected to your brain. What is tuning anyway. Very interesting. Tonal which is part of it, semitonal. What is the note actually doing, it’s the action. The thing that makes the song the song. Enough with enough training. A lot of rub in between these frequencies. Another category system. Is a fluid spectrum. Quick exposure. Recognize music or notes. An interesting subject. A detuned experience. Grab a note or two. Like named categories. The same language learning pipeline. The whole song starts to fall down with the guitar. Being connected to frequency. It is useful. Removing that friction. Learn these speech sounds. A cool naming skill. It actually accumulated. All of these incredible things. Big connections in the auditory cortex. Absolute. Very fascinating. Grab a note or two. Run these studies. Even that useful. At that deep level. A named thing, a note. 🍮Podcast Produced by Beformer
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