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i think i should teach myself all the absolute note pitches because i'm starting to wonder if i might have something resembling absolute pitch, and i can't really know otherwise

i keep incorrectly remembering the pitches of songs though. but when i do i'm off by a semitone… hmm

i am not really interested in whether i have some special talent, so much as, i think the fact i'm trying to do everything with intervals is holding me back

though the whole notion that recognition of pitches could be purely relative for someone is actually rather strange to me. i feel like i'm being tricked. that implies that normal people can't remember what key the music they've heard is in? surely that's not true?

‪oh also the average error is probably less than a semitone, the problem is that i then have to find the closest piano key, and that effectively quantizes the data‬

‪are you telling me that normal people would be singing a familiar song in a completely different key until they hear the backing track??? i just tested this and i wasn't wrong, i'm pretty sure i always sing “only my railgun” at the same pitch more less‬

‪and to be clear i CANNOT tell you what note that is on a piano without looking, but i can sing it‬

‪also specific notes on a piano regularly remind me of particular songs. not intervals. notes‬

‪are you telling me this isn't normal. i don't believe it‬

‪the thing is i am so bad at keyboard that it can't be me remembering specific keys being pressed on a keyboard because i don't actually know what they are for most of the music in my brain ^^;‬

‪have you ever tried to sing a song from a movie and realised that you're singing it at the NTSC speed and therefore it sounds wrong to you, but you can't quite find the memory of the PAL speed european language dub version. this is not a joke this literally just happened to me‬

@hikari did it get pitch shifted too?