PEAK《刻意练习》| E01-1选篇精讲：天赋真的存在吗？

PEAK《刻意练习》| E01-1选篇精讲：天赋真的存在吗？

The true character of perfect pitch wasrevealed in 2014, thanks to a beautiful experiment carried out at the IchionkaiMusic School in Tokyo and reported in the scientific journal Psychology ofMusic. The Japanese psychologist Ayako Sakakibara recruited twenty-fourchildren between the ages of two and six and put them through a months-longtraining course designed to teach them to identify, simply by their sound,various chords played on the piano. The chords were all major chords with threenotes, such as a C-major chord with middle C and the E and G notes immediatelyabove middle C. The children were given four or five short training sessionsper day, each lasting just a few minutes, and each child continued traininguntil he or she could identify all fourteen of the target chords thatSakakibara had selected. Some of the children completed the training in lessthan a year, while others took as long as a year and a half. Then, once a childhad learned to identify the fourteen chords, Sakakibara tested that child tosee if he or she could correctly name individual notes. After completingtraining every one of the children in the study had developed perfect pitch andcould identify individual notes played on the piano.

This is an astonishing result. While in normalcircumstances only one in every ten thousand people develops perfect pitch,every single one of Sakakibara’s students did. The clear implication is thatperfect pitch, far from being a gift bestowed upon only a lucky few, is anability that pretty much anyone can develop with the right exposure andtraining. The study has completely rewritten our understanding of perfectpitch.

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