First I saw a dateline on a ability I dont remember what it was called but it was enate. THese people with this genetic mutation had the ability to see sound in vivid rainbow like forms. It was catastrophic to some and the show went on and on about how it hindered their lives, in the end they were asked if they would give up this bizzare ability if given the chance and they all said no!!! Interesting huh.
Well like I said I bought perfect pitch by David Lucas Berge. He also teaches relative pitch which someone explained quite accurately. Perfect pitch is essentially the ability to differentiate different pitches from one another and not necessarily by sight. Burge goes through a series of methods and techniques in which we can all improve our ability to recognize pitches. By the end of the training you are suppose to develop aural recall. This is the highest echelon of perfect pitch and is essentially waking up after sleeping all night and without hearing any sound at all being able to sing or hum any given pitch. TO achieve this feat you can utilize colors to help remember different keys.
For example beethoven was quoted as referring to Bm as the black or dark key. I am sure all of you can see why it would be considered dark.
I like to think of G or Gmajor as a bright key such as eithe orange or yellow, try to connect feelings as well as colors. The more detail you have to describe a key and the more your hear it the better your recall will be. Like G major can also be throught of as spring time, rejoice, rebirth, something in that line.
Burge refers to F# as the fierce or red chord b/c of its fiery energy. This may seen very abstract however with either some strong LSD, Mescaline, or simple Peyote you too can be on your way to seeing the colors of the rainbow(im just kiddin). Yes it seems crazy DOES IT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU ASK
He (burge) suggests you can develop perfect pitch from anytime b/t 6 months and a year, and offer a 30 day money back guarentee well in 30 days you will without a doubt see some improvemnet but you wont have perfect pitch. So most people liek me gave up after a month. He has like 12 cd's with 2 different lessons per cd. He babbles on and on additionally its not just for guitarist so you have to hear about ofther instrumentalist which I didnt care for. In the begining I thought it was great however I quickly grew tired of his babbling and eventually gave it up. I do plan to continue soon, I sold my stereo to get an acoustic guitar so I cant listen to the cd's right now.
As for relative pitch thats a differnet concept all together and is slightly less abstract. I have yet to invest more money in burge I was rather dissapointed in his "master classes" however I think relative pitch is much more useful (actually quite neccesary) and easier to build than perfect pitch. I would suggest buying that since intervals are the building blocks of music. I still do feel the concept of perfect pitch is intreiging and I will continue my training as soon as I get another stereo.
One more thing, I am a very compuslive person who is a hard worker and I didn't feel like the progres was worthwhile to continue the lessons so to anyone who thinks they can just half-a*s this is severvely wrong. If it is possible to achieve perfect pitch which I think it is however it would take probally a year or two or consistant pracitce that is mundane to say the best. It your going to learn relative or perfect pitch get lessons from an instructor they are pricy but much more beneficial than teaching yourslef.
Good luck,
sorry if I was cruel on your Burgenmeighster,
Thomyorke575