Absolute pitch

Mm-hmm.

And you have perfect pitch.

Jacob Collier, eat your heart out.

Jacob Collier, how about you get your own mouth, you throw your head down at where your heart is and eat through your own chest cavity to where your heart is.

That's what I'm saying.

She's got perfect pitch.

And you know, the, the choir director at the school wouldn't believe it, and I always would go, you know, it would be me and her that would go to the conferences, and the choir were, were having a conference with him, and I go, "You know, she's got perfect pitch, you know?" And he goes, "Oh, yeah? Sing an A." And she goes or whatever, you know.

And he pulls out from his top pocket a, a, a tuning fork.

It was perfectly right on.

Yeah.

It was funny.

Well, I suppose a lot of people think they have perfect pitch, but they don't.

It is.

One of our producers was surprised to read that you've got perfect pitch.

Oh, yeah.

And I said to him, well, prove it.

It feels it.

Well, it's – I mean, I'm a bit jet-lagged, so I'll probably won't be doing it.

But the theory of perfect pitch, and it's a thing, and that is that you can – pick a note, a pitch of a note without recourse to an instrument.

That's the kind of, that's what it means.

That might be a fin, dude.

All right, so you said you had perfect pitch, correct?

Yeah.

C.

Okay,

so

perfect pitch.

C.

A question for Dr. Smith.

How does perfect pitch work? According to my understanding, it's lifelong.

But I had it.

I discovered it at university.

Thank you.

Well, actually, it's a funny little tradition the way it's emerged, actually, because the very first time that I did anything online where my wife was just shouting TV theme tunes and I would then just kind of play them because I have a good musical ear and I've got perfect pitch and I did piano lessons for 14 years.

So I've kind of picked it up by really working at it along the way.

Yeah.

It's the brilliant Gavin Riley.

Virgin Media's political correspondent, Gavin Riley, is joining me for a chat.

Gavin, you mentioned you got perfect pitch.

and I often wonder with that no no I'm not going to do one of those challenges where I go what note is this no I'm not going to do that because like I don't have a perfect pitch at all I have decent relative pitch I think from years of being a musician and if you played me a note and then played me another I could probably tell you the interval between them but I often wonder with perfect pitch does it affect you in a way that if you hear a very out of tune piano or singer or a guitar where the G string is like does that kind of grate on you in a way it wouldn't grate on me or is it exactly the same

And now he, he fucking sung the national anthem at the Super Bowl last year.

Yeah, he's got perfect pitch.

He goes on Fallon all the time and stuff, and-

Yeah, right.

... it's not a combat skill, but it is a skill.

Did you guys see that, see that viral moment-

Perfect pitch Puth.

[laughs]

Yeah.

I have, I have perfect pitch.

You fuck you up.

That's the one thing I have going for me.

Wow.

Mr.

Perfect Pitch.

G would be like-