Yeah, I'm surprised people without it manage so well! not having it really seems to me like seeing a colour and having no idea what colour it is, very strange.

Yeah, I'm surprised people without it manage so well! not having it really seems to me like seeing a colour and having no idea what colour it is, very strange. > Having absolute pitch means you don’t have work quite as hard to translate those ideas onto your instrument (it’s still work though). I'm puzzled by this though. I play piano (mainly). I don't have 'ideas' then 'translate' them onto my instrument. I hear something (in my head) and play it, as one. It's like breathing. Nothing like 'work', let alone hard work. Also, for me, to hear music, notes and chords, I just know what the notes and chords are as I hear them (most of the time, unless they're super-super-weird chords, or it's very fast or something), like I dont hear a chord and work out that its say C7#11, I just hear a C7#11 chord. And see it being played on a keyboard in my mind's eye.