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Perfect Pitch: Unlocking Jacob Collier’s musical brilliance

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Absolute Pitch - A Lens Through Which I Can View Things

Jacob comes from a musical family. His mother is a violinist and conductor, so his gift of absolute pitch was identified early on. Jacob's parents taught him to trust his feelings when it came to music. In this track Hideaway, Jacob plays two ukuleles, two acoustic guitars, a bass guitar, an auto harp, a calimba, a gatam, a mandolin, an udu, and an as a by-gyney tar. He laid down each track individually, then looped them together into an extremely impressive one-man band.

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