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I don't think having absolute pitch makes you a better composer. OTOH, composing music as a child will likely lead to absolute pitch. My anecdote is that I gai

by skulk 3y ago

I don't think having absolute pitch makes you a better composer. OTOH, composing music as a child will likely lead to absolute pitch. My anecdote is that I gained absolute pitch by playing on a Yamaha keyboard as a young child. Seeing the notes on the screen while playing and hearing them is almost certainly what made it click for me. I strongly believe that AP can be acquired at a rate that is an order of magnitude higher than what we observe today.

criddell 3y ago
> My anecdote is that I gained absolute pitch by playing on a Yamaha keyboard as a young child. I have a similar anecdote. I had a small Casio keyboard that I gave to my daughter to play with when she was 3 or 4. There was no training or any kind of instruction beyond that. It was just another toy that was in her pile of toys and it wasn't something she played with very often. Many years later, we are in a music store and I hit a key on a piano and she tells me it's wrong. I didn't really understand what she was saying and then we found out the keyboard had some pitch shift mode enabled and she was right. That's the day we found out she had perfect pitch.