Is having "absolute pitch" really as rare or big of a deal as people make it out to be? I'd have thought most people who listen to music often would be able to imagine and reproduce their favorite music at its correct pitch but the claims about absolute pitch state that this a rare ability. Is there any reality to those claims or is it something music nerds say to feel more important?

>>127022163 (OP)
i only have relative pitch but i imagine being able to hear a song and play it immediately would not only require perfect/true pitch but also a savant level of memory and the required skill on your instrument. just knowing the pitch of a note doesn't really help much but it's good for not getting lost when trying to find the key blindly when jamming.

It is rare but it's not very helpful other than someone being able to play music by ear a lot easier.

Most people can sing a song from memory just fine and might even sound good, but if you record it and put it against the original song the pitch is always off at least a little bit. The former is what we call relative pitch and the latter absolute pitch
In practice it's not that important for a musician to have absolute pitch, having good relative pitch is more than enough almost 100% of the time

>>127022163 (OP)
Michael Jackson had perfect pitch. Tchaikovsky did not. Therefore Michael Jackson was a better musician than Tchaikovsky. Give me a fucking break, listen to any Jackson trash and listen to Pathetique. Perfect pitch is a party trick.

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