@clowncollege@pathfinder@actuallyautistic to add further context to non-musicians here, "absolute" pitch is what is commonly referred to as "perfect" pitch, where someone is tuned into the 440A equal temperament notes we use in a lot of music that they can hear one note out of context and tell whether it's in-tune or not compared to that set of frequencies, as well as identify which note it is :zerotwo_shrug: (kind of like people can tell what the temperature is just by feel, or the colour of something by sight)
relative pitch is where someone has the ability to tell whether a note is in-tune or out of tune (within a system like 12 tone equal temperament) relative to a starting pitch, whether that's a 440Hz A, 430, 415, 442, etc, but can't name those notes by themselves, nor even with other notes unless they're given the name of one of those notes to compare to the rest :bugcat_nod: