Is it possible to have perfect pitch without relative pitch?

Without Perfect Pitch or Relative Pitch: With a completely untrained ear, there is little or no insight into what you hear. Basically: zero comprehension. Of course, everyone can ENJOY music without any training whatsoever. But an untrained ear doesn't give you any UNDERSTANDING of the music. read more

Most people don't have perfect pitch, which is the ability to recognize or sing particular pitches out of the blue without having heard them or a related pitch recently. People with relative pitch can hang on to a particular pitch by humming it physically or mentally, but if you distract them it's like hitting the reset button on their brain. read more

So if you could not do that, but if you could match a given note or sing a fifth above/below a given note (for example), you would not have absolute pitch, but relative pitch. So, no. You would have to be able to pick a specific note out of the air without having been given any reference tone. read more