For me, its more that hearing any song for a few chord changes conjures up other songs in either the same key or with the same chord progression, independent of

For me, its more that hearing any song for a few chord changes conjures up other songs in either the same key or with the same chord progression, independent of key. I remember noticing in highschool that hitting a few different corrugated plastic gutter pipes in my backyard would allow playing the bass line to Crazy Train...in principle, i immediately recognize the notes to different beeps and alarms in daily life and think about it unconsciously.