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Originally Posted by jacksonplayer
The scariest "perfect pitch story" of mine is a college buddy who was the first-chair cellist in the university symphony. I could play, at random, the most complicated chord I could dream up, and he could name it back to me immediately. He's one of those guys who associates certain pitches with colors.
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The scariest guy I knew was a lot worse than that (in how amazing he was). He was a master at guitar, bass, violin, piano, mandolin, drums, vocals, and had just begun to learn saxophone. Other people I knew, I'd say, "Could you help me figure this out?" and they'd take several minutes just figuring out little riffs. For him, I could play him any music, whether it was on the guitar or any other instrument and he could play it back note-for-note on his guitar after just one listen. The dude had the most amazing memory and ear. Kinda like Mozart's ability. If it was a really really complicated super fast 30 second solo, then he might have only gotten 90-95% of the notes right, but the dude was frickin' amazing.
I wish I could do that, but I doubt that level of skill is something you can just sit down and figure out.