I remember a piano player who was auditioning for our country music band. he was about 19. He had never heard the song "Crazy" by Patsy Cline (we had a woman lead singer at the time). So we played him the song once and he played it perfectly the first time with the band. I remember playing a weird guitar chord for him and asking him if he could identify it. He named all 6 notes and then gave me the name, something I didn't know. I remember thinking, "Damn, I guess they really do teach you something in music theory"

I can see how with training anyone could probably learn to identify chords. It is easy to recognize a major triad, minor, a 7th, major 7th and even easier to recognize a suspended chord; so I guess if you just practiced, in a few decades, it might come around.

I definately don't have perfect pitch but when I was a lead singer and I started a song 'cold' I was always on pitch and every time it happened I would say to myself, "Man, how did I get away with that?" If I had stopped to thing about it, I would never have been so stupid. And yet I cannot think of a single time that I got burned. "When ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein