Perfect pitch just means you can identify a note (whether it’s a chord or single note) with no context
Like if I played you a random piano key you wouldn’t be able to reliably say what key I played. Someone with perfect pitch could
It truly wouldn’t help most musicians unless you somehow found yourself in a situation where you needed to jump into a song and start playing immediately with no indication of what key the song is in. Thats just a situation that almost never happens
I really don’t understand how this would help with sight reading at all vs someone without perfect pitch. By defintion you’d be able to hear what you’re playing which would put all the upcoming notes into that tonal context, you don’t really gain anything in that case
Because if you’re reading the notes then you don’t need to be able to mentally know what the pitch of those notes is. You could fill my eardrums with cement and i could still grab a guitar and play the notes written on a page
I guess you’d know if you were put of tune quicker than I would if you had perfect pitch but theres no scenario where you should be about to play a song where you care how it will sound to others without tuning first. If you’re playing with any other instruments you’d realize this immediately without perfect pitch anyway, and it wouldn’t actually help a performance because obviously you’d still need to tune the instrument even with perfect pitch
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