I went to the web site and I'm very intrigued by the claims made by David Lucas Burge. Do these courses really work? I find it hard to believe that anyone can learn to sing with perfect pitch. As a singer, I'm tempted to buy the perfect pitch course (or even the relative pitch course, which is even more expensive!) for $139, especially since it has a 40 day money back guarantee...
Thanks,
Howard
--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., "Yvonne Dechance" <ydechance@h...> wrote: > I believe the original question about perfect pitch asked about materials > and courseware for developing absolute pitch. The Perfect Pitch Supercourse > (6 Cassettes & Book) by David L. Burge may be of interest: > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0942542975/vocalistint00-20 > > As an undergraduate I was taught using some of these materials, and while I > considered it fairly tedious at the time, it came in handy in a > high-pressure performance where I had a small disaster and forgot the pitch > I'd been blown backstage to begin a big solo...for the choir's sake it was > *very* important that I start in the correct key, and only my pitch training > saved me that day. > > To answer some related questions, yes, learning pitch by this and similar > methods does imply according to modern tuning. A lot of it is concentration > on what pitches really sound like, including their vibration, overtone and > decay patterns. No-one in my class got so good at it that we were bothered > by someone singing a capella slightly off standard tuning, but I do know > people that are bothered by such things. For most singers, learning > excellent relative pitch (given one note, be able to sing any given interval > from it) is more important than absolute pitch, but especially if you want > to learn complex music (including 20th-21st century "new music" and many > ancient works) developing a better sense of absolute pitch may be worth the > time to study. > > -y > > _Dr. Yvonne Dechance > NATS Webmaster, http://www.nats.org/ > > Email: ydechance@s..., webmaster@n... > Homepage: http://www.scaredofthat.com/yworld/ > The Diction Domain: Free voice diction resources for singers > http://over.to/dictiondomain > > _________________________________________________________________
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