Ordinary, relative pitch helps a lot learning new songs, and it is much more learnable. If you know what key you are in, and you can hear the intervals in a mel

Ordinary, relative pitch helps a lot learning new songs, and it is much more learnable. If you know what key you are in, and you can hear the intervals in a melody, you can play it back without needing absolute pitch to do it. > (And actually, even more time than that; it'd be more fun so I'd probably practice more.) That’s the circular dependency there—if you practice enough, you develop the skills to make it easier to learn songs, which makes it more fun to practice, so you practice more. I really think there are just two things you gotta do—“push through” and get the practice work done anyway, and make sure that you are practicing effectively.