You don't need one, but it would be nice to know. My complaint is that I think he should tell you up front about the partner thing. I can say without a shadow of a doubt my color hearing has grown, how far it will grow remains to be seen.Įach person is different and the time it takes for results will vary. I am planning to get back into the exercises. I am close to level 1 of pitch color awareness and have a way to go before attaining the highest level. I still can play the open notes of my guitar and tune them close to pitch without a reference most of the time. Burge says that this is to be expected however, I screwed up and stopped doing the exercises soon after. I got 100% of them right for 15 minutes of drilling and it was so clear to me that I couldn't believe I couldn't hear it before.Īlas, the next night I couldn't hear them as well. Suddenly one night, I was able to hear all the pitches on the guitar as clearĪs recognizing the difference between peoples voices. I did not have a partner and followed his instructions I was able to comprehend and hear what color hearing is right off the bat. His explanations at the site are better than what I am posting here. He has plenty of testimony and cites research done at universities at his website. This is why he is able to teach it to others. Unlike my professors, Burge went through the transition conciously and was able to teach a friend what to listen for and she figured it out as well. He began to teach himself Perfect Pitch when he suddenly realized that he already had it, he just didn't know what to listen for. Most say that you have to be born with perfect pitch and dismiss you if you don't possess it.ĭavid Burge had an interesting experience.
That is why some instructors do not know how to teach ear training. The answer was always the same, "I don't know, I just hear it". He explains what to listen for and exercises for training your ear.Įvery time I asked a musician including teachers how they hear an interval or if they have perfect pitch how they hear the tones, He explains what perfect pitch is, why it is useful, dispels many myths concerning the skill, and the various levels of perfect pitch.įor example, level one is the ability to identify pitches on your native instrument, level 2 is the ability to identify pitchs on any instrument, level 3 is the ability to sing any pitch off your head. Note: his earlier version of this course did not have much in the way of option #2 - beware if you are buying it used, you may need a partner. He provides two methodologies for learning perfect pitch:ġ) with a partner - he says you will gain results faster this wayĢ) by yourself - may take longer but it will work. You are not to spend more than 15 minutes a day on the exercises. The course is largely a lot of lectures at the end of which he gives you exercises. I think he tells you that you should notice a difference within a shorter time frame if you follow his instructions. You do not have to be able to read standard musical notation to take the course.
The Perfect Pitch Supercourse has 8 CD's plus there are 2 bonus cd's for a total of 10.
You will also be able to identify chords, notes within chords and keys of pieces more readily without referring to anything but your head.īurge is very logical, excellent at explaining things and the course is laid-out to maximize your learning. The perfect pitch course is geared for anyone who wants to learn to identify by hearing and sing any named pitch without referring to an instrument.
This post reviews the perfect pitch course, my review of the relative pitch course is here: You can purchase them separately or together, I paid $200 for both. Burge offers two courses, relative pitch and perfect pitch.