Perfect Pitch Supercourse [Audio Cassette]

David L. Burge (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0942542940 | ISBN-13: 978-0942542943 | Publication Date: August 1, 1983 | Edition: Pap/Cas

The Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse by David Lucas Burge Learn to recognize EXACT tones and chords -- BY EAR!

The #1 world best-selling ear training method for 20 years

Course includes 24 Master Classes on 8 Audio cassettes plus easy handbook. TWO FREE bonus tapes included with this 20th Anniversary celebration! For ALL musicians of ALL instruments, beginning and advanced. No music reading skills required. Dear Musician / Music Lover:

Welcome to an amazing discovery into your own personal talent!

Did you know that you have a natural, inborn ability for Perfect Pitch? You may not think so if you haven't yet discovered it.

Try this: Close your eyes and listen to any musical tone at random. Now, WHAT IS THE TONE YOU HEAR?

No clue?

Play your favorite music CD and listen to any chord at random. Listen again very carefully. Is it E major ... A minor ... F

Still stumped? Don't worry! Many musicians are shocked to discover how little pitch recognition they actually possess. Yet after just a few ear-opening instructions, we bet YOU will begin to recognize tones and chords -- ALL BY EAR -- regardless of your current ability.

How? With the easy step-by-step lessons you'll enjoy in the Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse by David Lucas Burge -- as seen in major music magazines for over 20 years.

Here on eight (8) ear-opening audio cassettes you will learn the fascinating secrets to this legendary ability of Perfect Pitch. You'll gain the master keys that will finally unlock your natural ear for music -- and enable you to:

* NAME exact tones and chords -- BY EAR

* SING desired tones anytime from memory -- without a starting pitch

* HEAR when a tone is sharp or flat -- without a reference tone

* PLAY songs -- by ear -- after listening to them

* COMPOSE music in your head

* CLARIFY your powers of memory, PERFORM with confidence

* SIGHT-READ and SIGHT-SING with precision

* ENJOY richer perception, finer music appreciation

The proof? On the very first tape, you'll actually start to hear it for yourself -- IMMEDIATELY -- with YOUR OWN EARS!

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: PerfectPitch.com; Pap/Cas edition (August 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942542940
• ISBN-13: 978-0942542943
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,627,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Time, April 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Perfect Pitch Supercourse (Audio Cassette)

I've been trying David L. Burges' course now for several weeks.
The course comes with about 10 or 12 cassettes which contain about twenty something master classes. If your looking for answers on how to acquire perfect pitch, it's not here. Burges' philosophy is basically this: Let the pitches come to you....
Many of the exercises require a partner and as such your partner will play a tone on the piano, say any tone from C to F, and you must name it. Well, If I could do that, I'd have perfect pitch. As far as information, the whole course on perfect pitch can be reduced to one cassette. The rest of the cassettes waste alot of time with David recounting stories of his youth and perfect pitch stories. He even devotes a whole side of a cassette, explaining why drugs are not good to use. For the amount of money one pays for this course, he could have given more concise methods in attaining perfect pitch and less time with childhood stories and drug lectures. At no point is any magical answer or method given to create perfect pitch.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unncessarily Time Consuming, December 17, 2005

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Truth "amazon14397" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Perfect Pitch Supercourse (Audio Cassette)

To summarize:

Start:
He talks about how wonderful perfect pitch is. It's so easy to get. It's very simple. Its magic. Its color, but not real color, its hearing color, also described as texture, and flavor. Each note has these.

Listener:
Uh ok. What am I supposed to be listening for?

Explanation:
You should absorb the note. Spend time with the note. Look for the notes flavor and color. Like, to me, the F note sounds twangy. When I was a kid I remember my piano sounding twangy. I wont give you anymore clues than that. You'll have to describe the characteristics of each note yourself. Each note has a unique characteristic.

Listener:
I knew that. If each note didnt have a characteristic it wouldnt be possible to differenciate notes. What should I do to increase my ability to find characteristics?

((several hours of listening later))

Explanation: Go with a partner have them play notes and try to identify them.

Listener: Mmm you didnt give any techniques besides playing non melodically and I was already training that before buying this thing. Guess and check isnt 100$ advice.

Explanation: Drugs(subtances, alcohol too) are bad. (says that for like an hour) If you can get 20 notes in a row with perfect pitch continue playing this tape.




David Burge has a wonderful way of using parallels and comparisons to waste your time. He gets to the point yes, but he continues saying the same thing for an hour without providing any more than guess and check technique looking for characteristics of the note.

He cites his past numerous times at random during the lecture talking about he can recognize peoples voices by pitch, how he used to brag about it in high school, how people would ask him to sing notes for him, etc.


You may gain perfect pitch from the tapes. I assume those who rated this high just got the motivation to do guess and check and are still zealously trying to convince themselves their $100 was well spent. This is more of a general self help tape than a standardized educational method of teaching. There's more motivating and rambling than educating.



Guess notes throughout the day and check yourself. Try to find various ways to describe the notes. Use a friend and compare with them. This advice is way better than Burge's I-dont-know-its-a-feeling generalities.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This will surprize the hell out of you!, July 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Perfect Pitch Supercourse (Audio Cassette)

I grew up listening to people say that perfect pitch was only something you could be born with, and when I bought this course, I was really unsure about it, but the money back guarentee made me give it a shot. The scary thing was, unlike most things in the world, David Burge's ad actually DID what it said it would, and now my ear is PERMINANTLY BETTER. I dont even practice anymore, and I still can recognize any note by ear. The only reason this course works is because it is so SIMPLE. I highly recommend this to anyone in the world.