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What Is a Perfect Fourth?
Branford Marcellus is a saxophone player who's played on heaps of famous records. Like most musicians, Branford has relative pitch, not absolute pitch. A perfect fourth is a series of two notes, four steps apart on the 12-note scale. If you had absolute pitch, you'd name those two notes. I don't have it, so I need a piano to check what notes Daniel is singing. For the record, it's a B and an E. Bam, bam!