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I think that I lack a precise sense of relative pitch over time - as in I can only easily compare tones that are simultaneous or directly one after the other. Give me three tones where pitch first, say, raises and then lowers again, unless they are either identical or a good octave apart I have a hard time telling if the first or third is higher in pitch.
There is a word for the opposite of that (perfect relative pitch), so you're probably in the majority here.
Not so sure about that... here, example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEwOfL21Uo
I can't tell if the first or third chime is higher pitched. I can tell it goes up and down but even separated by two seconds I can't leap over the middle one. At least compared to several of my friends from college onwards, this seems unusual.
If you can, try testing your ability to determine whether the chimes are being played in the normal order or backwards.
No. I don't have perfect pitch, but I can perfectly well tell apart...
Hm.
Looking at Wikipedia, maybe I do have perfect pitch. Huh. This bears looking into.
There are a couple varieties of perfect pitch; "true" perfect pitch (perfect absolute pitch) is rare, but perfect relative pitch, which is being able to recognize precise intervals, is fairly common among musical people. IIRC, my intro music theory class at a not-musically-distinguished liberal arts college had the professor and ~5 students in a class of 40 who had perfect relative pitch.
Seems I have perfect relative pitch. I never knew!