"Absolutely," says Hsu Bor-nien, who teaches percussion at a number of schools and is the man behind the Forum Music Ensemble. Hsu says that you can get an idea of a child's natural talent from his sense of pitch and rhythm, his sensitivity to music, his sight-reading ability and the speed at which he memorizes scores. There are also other things which are more mysterious, like natural perfect pitch.
「其實是可以的」，在多所學校教授打擊樂的「十方樂集」負責人徐伯年表示，孩子的天分可以從音感、節奏感、對音樂的敏感度，以及視譜（第一次拿到新譜就彈奏出來）、背譜速度等方面略窺一二；而且有些東西的確很神秘，譬如絕對音感等，有時純然是天生，老師教不出來的。