An idea related to perfect pitch? [Bob asks]

[Bob]

Has anyone ever had this experience or something similar?


A long time ago, I learned a piece that ends on a certain g minor chord.  Once in a while, I am able to tell instantly and exactly that a chord, either out of the blue or in a totally separate piece, is g minor.  I recognize this because I knew a specific g minor chord in a piece I learned a long time ago.

Wierd, huh?  It's sort of like "perfect g minor chord."

[ayahav]

i have perfect pitch, but when i'm really really tired it just doesn't work. It probably hs to do with being able to concentrate... At times like that I rely on relative. I have a memory of a single f# that I recorded once, and I still remember it very well to this day....

[DarkWind]

A long time ago, I learned a piece that ends on a certain g minor chord.  Once in a while, I am able to tell instantly and exactly that a chord, either out of the blue or in a totally separate piece, is g minor.  I recognize this because I knew a specific g minor chord in a piece I learned a long time ago.

Woah, that was like some sort of paragraph palindrome? Anyway, isn't this basically a form of relative pitch? Well, it sometimes happens to me, but it goes away after a while and I have to play the chord or whatever it was again.

[Motrax]

I guess this is fairly common for people who don't natural have perfect pitch (like me...  ). I can usually tell F and C instantly for whatever reason, so I use relative pitch to guage what other notes are being played. It's not perfect, but whatever.

[ayahav]

I find it so nice to have perfect pitch, because it helps me a lot with audiation. I can look at most scores (even orchestral) and listen to them in my head. People think I'm nuts, but I sometimes read music like people read books....