Hi! Uhh.. I guess I hear the maj7 quality and the notes at the same time. Yeah, I'm sure people without pp can recognize chord qualities just as well. Hmm alth

Hi! Uhh.. I guess I hear the maj7 quality and the notes at the same time. Yeah, I'm sure people without pp can recognize chord qualities just as well. Hmm although if it's an extremely weird chord/collection of notes, I doubt they'd know what it is. The area I imagine[0] they'd have huge problems is in improvising free music, where often there's not familiar chords, and no predetermined harmonies. Playing in a group doing that, people are playing notes around you, and without perfect pitch, I don't think you'd have very precise an idea of whether what you are about to play will fit that or not. It seems they have to play a couple of notes first to 'test the waters'.. [0] They don't seem to. But it's gotta be like flying blind. Or at least, driving in a very very heavy rain!