Perfect pitch is often treated as a rare musical superpower. But what if pitch perception is far more natural than we think?
In this video I explore why perfect pitch is considered important, why musical memories seem tied to the "right" key, how I perform my own pitch-recognition party trick, and whether "perfect" pitch is really as perfect as the name suggests.
Along the way we'll look at tonality, musical memory, and the possibility that our ears may already be sensing much more than we realise.
