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I knew the artist on the very first drumbeat, just couldn’t remember which song it was, so I got it in 3.

Yeah, it's pretty rewarding when your brain knows a 1 second drum sound. haha

Interestingly, that is how normal people can end up with "perfect" relative pitch. Many people can almost instantly remember the notes of their favorite songs and so using those as anchors give people without perfect pitch the ability to determine chord/key/etc via relative pitch.

A second or two of a song is shockingly good at triggering your memory of songs you know well.

I didn't realize that's how perfect relative pitch works. That's super cool.

There's probably other ways, i'm far from knowledgeable. But the way i described is quite approachable for normal people

I only know one song by that artist, so my choice was obvious.

Funny enough, my first guess was "Bleachers" but they weren't a choice, so I went with "fun." Until today I had no idea Jack Antonoff led both bands.

spoilers! ;)

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