Is This (Some Form) of Perfect Pitch?
I'm a 16 year old who recently got interested in perfect pitch and how it works on a neurological and musical level. I wondered if I had it, and I quickly figured out that compared to the stories about Mozart being able to figure the note a clock makes when it chimes at 5 years old, I definitely don't. But, I'm still better than most at recognising notes and I'm pretty confused. What I mean is that, firstly, when I do one of those quizzes for perfect pitch and they ask the note, I don't use relative pitch. Instead, I kind of ask myself does this 'feel' like a C, G or whatever else I think it is. Sometimes this is right and sometimes this is wrong (but it's more right than most people, from what I hear), but importantly when I make a mistake it's usually the same mistake. For example, I almost always confuse my Fs and my Bs. I don't know why, they just sound similiar to me. I almost never confuse a few notes, like D with A (to me, they're almost like seperate universes). I tried this on both guitar and piano and, to my surprise, if I was off, I was usually only a tone or so out. The same thing happened the other day when I was humming the Simpson's theme song and I started thinking: ''I'm dead sure that's an E at the start of the theme'' when I later found it was actually a C - C and E are two I confuse consistently as well. Weirdly though, sometimes I have to remind myself what the notes 'feel' like and I have to sit at my piano and remember - like remembering what colours look like. Then it's just a moment of 'ooh, yeah - that's what A is again.' This then reminded me of this youtube channel called TwoSet Violin, where one of the guys on the channel said he only developed perfect pitch in high school, and the gap between the right note and the one he guessed got progressively smaller. I've been doing this for about two days now, these ear tests, and I think I'm getting progressively better. I hate asking people on this sub reddit, because I'm sure you get people like me every day asking if they have perfect pitch, but I'm pretty sure my case is somewhat unusual. I'm perfectly open to not having perfect pitch, and be as honest as you want with me; I'm just looking for an answer from people who probably know best. Some parts of it sound like perfect pitch, others don't, and its such a murky area of neuroscience I didn't really know where else to turn. Thanks in advance for any replies.