Why you DON'T want Perfect Pitch

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  @syntext · 5 years ago

  As a musician with perfect pitch, I can confidently say that the only super power we have is the ability to hear how off we are all the time.

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  @stefanodomeni · 5 years ago

  If you say "perfect pitch" three times in the dark, Rick Beato appears in your room while you're sleeping.

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• OM

  @OmegaFalcon · 10 months ago

  If my color vision got hue shifted i would be so distraught

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• AN

  @andreaarnott8194 · 10 months ago

  Color analogy works great for relative pitch as a painter! My painting teacher always said ‘I don’t know what color that is. I just know it’s darker than this, warmer than this, redder than that’ and I learned to paint ‘color relationships’ and NOT absolute color. So I could use a limited palette to reproduce the relationships I see in front of me in a way that ‘vibrates’ the same as the reference, while not being a perfect replica

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• RM

  @rmeows5087 · 5 years ago

  I don’t have perfect pitch but I know that the third step in my house squeaks the first note of the wii theme song

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• SI

  @Simon-is2xd · 5 years ago (edited)

  &quot;Perfect pitch is being able to walk past a car crash and be like &apos;that crash was in c minor&apos;&quot;<br>- some dude

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• KI

  @kirstenverhaegen1272 · 4 years ago

  Absolute pitch can definitely feel like a &quot;disease&quot; when you&apos;re singing in a choir that suffers from pitch drift and you are looking at your sheet music. Feels very disorienting... You might end up having to mentally calculate each note as you sing. But on the flip side, when you are out with your choir friends, you can give them the starting pitch and be nicknamed the Tuning Fork.

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• PH

  @phantom3841 · 1 year ago

  Hey perfect pitch guy here… the truck at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRaACa1Mrd4&amp;t=410">6:50</a> is an F 🤣

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• SS

  @ssrushforth · 5 years ago

  Thousands of people suffer from perfect pitch every year. Together we can stop this.

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• HO

  @howimettheopera · 5 years ago

  &quot;the noted epidemiologist Jimmy Fallon&quot; <b>consider me deceased</b>

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  @russrobinette3175 · 5 years ago

  I once had a Ford Festiva with a broken speedometer. I’d put any AC/DC song in the key of A on and match the pitch of the motor with the song, thus knowing that I was traveling at 55 mph.

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  @nishika6213 · 3 years ago

  As someone with sound-colour synesthesia which drives my perfect pitch, I am very curious to see if it is still likely I lose mine when I get older. Also I sing in an a cappella group and perfect pitch is so handy (except when entire group tends sharp and you gotta adjust yourself in your brain to match the group that takes some effort haha).<br>The interesting thing about my sound-colour synesthesia that I want to share is that one day I just decided to map out what the colours look like for each note just for fun. I initially arranged them in chromatic scale however later decided to arrange it circle of fifths. Apparently, the colours for my synesthesia make a rainbow when in the circle of fifths and that was absolutely mind blowing for me at that moment. I don&apos;t really know how or when my brain formed those connections but I remember having it pretty early on (like at least grade 2) even though I didn&apos;t know what it was back then. It&apos;s just a very fascinating thing to me and I feel like it&apos;s a big part of my identity. That&apos;s all, thanks for reading :))

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