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  • -When did you realize that you have perfect pitch?

  • -Right. -Do you know this?

  • Do you know what that is? Perfect pitch?

  • Less than 1% of us have this talent, but basically --

  • -I think you might have it.

  • The Roots told me you might low-key have it.

  • -Oh, I don't think I have it.

  • -It means you can like, hear, like, any note.

  • Like, if I were to tell you to play an F sharp, it would be --

  • [ Vocalizes note ]

  • -Wow.

  • -Or a G. [ Vocalizes note ]

  • Or C sharp. [ Vocalizes note ]

  • -What if I gave you, like, B flat?

  • -[ Vocalizes note ]

  • -Is that right?

  • -So, it's almost like I memorized the notes in my head,

  • and I could do it from when I was like four years old.

  • It's like a weird -- It's a very odd thing.

  • -That's unbelievable. -Yeah.

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • -Yeah, it definitely affects me socially sometimes

  • because I was in a hotel room the other night,

  • and usually when you hear car horns and fire alarms,

  • they're at minor second intervals, like...

  • [ Vocalizes notes ]

  • Like, "Jaws" is like, "Get out of the water," Jaws.

  • [ Vocalizes "Jaws" theme ]

  • And that's what a fire alarm is sometimes,

  • and it's two notes rubbing against each other,

  • and it tells you to get the hell out the building,

  • and I was on the 11th floor,

  • and I wasn't getting out of the building.

  • I was, like, rearranging notes in my my mind,

  • and I was like, "What if it was like..."

  • [ Vocalizes notes ]

  • Like, there was one time --

  • -You're harmonizing with the alarm?

  • -I'm harmonizing with the alarm.

  • I let my entire school out early one time

  • because there was a digital bell that went like this.

  • Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School.

  • I got suspended for this.

  • It went... [ Mimics bell ]

  • So, I was -- I wanted -- It was almost summer break,

  • and I went into the middle of the hall and went into

  • a very reverberant part of the school and just went...

  • [ Mimics bell ]

  • I let the entire school out early.

  • -No way!

  • That's awesome!

  • -I got suspended for that. That was not good.

-When did you realize that you have perfect pitch?

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Charlie Puth's Perfect Pitch Got Him Suspended from School

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    Obi posted on 2023/09/19
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