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Originally Posted by Kamunt

This is true, yes. But, being able to hear the pitches in my head can't hurt meh! :3

Actually, depending on what you plan to do, it really, really, can.

If you go into a music field, you will have to go through ear training exercises, and you will be taught based on relative pitch (which is what I've had for the longest time). Basically, having relative pitch helps more on this test. Many people hear the first note of their sight-singing, and if they've developed relative pitch, they will hear the pitch and hear it as what they are used to (like, I hear a C as a D, because in the Bb transposition, concert C is a D scale) and go from there. They recognize the intervals from what they're used to, then they convert that back into the non-transposed version. This may seem confusing, yeah, but for those who have been trained, it's all happening as the piece is playing. But what if there is something you hear that you have to transpose? You hear the tonal center and are able to easily work from there if you have relative pitch, but with perfect pitch, transposing will become more difficult, because the way you hear it, you'll think the transposition is wrong. Not to mention that if something is not tuned to the standard tuning pitch (right on the dot of in tune on tuners), people with perfect pitch will have more trouble in said orchestra.

tl;dr: Relative pitch helps more. :3