Perfect Pitch Course

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I have posted on this before somewhere. I have experience with David L. Burge's Perfect Pitch course and it has been very positive for both me and my partner (you need a partner for the course.) Maybe you can do a search and find more on this.
 
I have perfect pitch (born with it, didn't learn it from a course), and I wouldn't give it up for anything. It's teriffically handy for composing, as I can think up a passage in my head and know what note to start it on. The only thing annoying about it is that hearing a song played in a different key than I first heard it in is sort of jarring. It can be good, or it can be bad. Each key has a character for me.
 
Whoopysnorp said:
I have perfect pitch (born with it, didn't learn it from a course), and I wouldn't give it up for anything. It's teriffically handy for composing, as I can think up a passage in my head and know what note to start it on.
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I can do that, too, without having perfect pitch. OK, i need one reference tone, but I can normally remember a'. You can learn this. And I can play with every kind of tuning (438? 445? no problem). And I don't have any problems transposing tunes by sight (at least not because of my ears...)
I don't see any real advantage of having perfect pitch. Good relative pitch works at least as well, if not better in real live situations. I knew a trombone player with perfect pitch. He was almost getting mad once because the grand was tuned in 444.

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Harald
 
It's funny that the topic of this course came up as I received a copy of it for my birthday. (I am still young enough to have one!)

I have gone through the first 3 CDs in the course and honestly, I thought that I had pretty good pitch, but I do believe that it has improved significantly. The exercises that he talks about on the courses are very similar to ones that my piano teacher started me on when I was a kid. However, he takes them a step beyond that by incorporating relative pitch.

Would I recommend these to anyone? Not really, these are not overnight cures for bad pitch. It even states in the lesson that it takes a lot of time and patience to actually realize a benefit. Since time is too tight for me to sail through the CDs, I am taking my time and every chance I get I do the exercises.

One of my favorites is playing intervals and trying to sing both notes. (See previous posts from Mark H. about the frequencies associated with playing two notes.) I was amazed at how hard this was in the beginning, but now is much easier. If I don't get perfect pitch, at least I am learning to listen a lot better and curing some weaknesses.
 
I'm glad that someone with some actual experience with the product in question has finally commented!!!!

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