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> Perfect pitch is very much not required to be a professional musician, and seems to help only in a few areas, and only by accelerating your musical education a bit.

It's certainly hard to see how it's useful in musical performance.

Hand - eye coordination, hand dexterity and to a lesser degree span, which btw up to an extent are as genetic as AP is -no matter how many grifters occasionally come up with Get AP as an adult with only 10 courses! scams, are going to be much valuable traits to possess when it comes to playing the piano.



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