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I started developing perfect pitch when I was 12 and the hardest note to recognize for me was Ab for some reason and my favorite note it Eb

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It's really hard for me to learn anything by ear... I'm taking the course thanks to this video and I don't care if in the end I actually get PP or not. The concept of pitch colors is incredible to me and I'm sure no matter what it's going to make playing and listening to music even more enjoyable.

Prove that you have perfect pitch.

thank you

The big question to follow up on is what level is your perfect pitch from going through the burge courses. Are you able to hear single note melody lines, name chords from bottom to top, hear to what cents notes are out of tune, be able to hum or sing notes from pitch memory etc. would be great to see what level of perfect pitch can be attained from the courses. Thanks!

the song at 12:31 sounds to me like it's in C minor, not F minor. I guess this is a section of the song where it has modulated? The second version sounds like B minor.

You are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this video. Keep up the great work. Blessings to you.

Hey actually serious question, are they stopping you from revealing the contents of the dvds completely or something? There must be something you can give us as a baseline to start learning absolute pitch. On David Burge’s website it says you will hear a change immediately. I definitely believe that if there was something this valuable to musicians it should not be behind a pay wall. There are videos of how to learn pretty much everything involving music on youtube and a real tutorial on how to learn absolute pitch should be one of them. I genuinely want a reply to see what you think about this.

Interesting 🤔 unusual chord. Thanks.

Your assessments are right on. I wish there was some kind of program (as an add on to the course?) Where random pitches, chords ,etc for the master classes could be generated to match the drills, and subsequent verification rounds. A partner is the best way to go, but a real luxury for most. This I believe would be great help. Thank you for all your expert advice. Bill Kahl

I took the Burgess course decades ago when I was first thinking about being an actual musician. I was more curious than anything else since I've kind of always been able to play what I heard even without early lessons, etc. I think he started on F# and Bb and something happened about week 3 and then it has been pretty strong ever since. I love hearing this way, hearing into the note, into the sound. Yes, I went on in music even without much of a background as a kid, and have a doctorate in conducting. I am now teaching at university level in Community Music in Canada and much of my research is in the larger area of Listening, which is great. I think people have all kinds of weird superpowers and being able to learn exceptional listening opens us to the most amazing world. There really are no limits. This is an awesome video and I love your narration. OMG I see C as white too! F as brown. G as green. But that is another story. Thanks for this.

What goes through your head when you hear a pitch that's around halfway between two pitches?

Any benefits having PP?

Have you notice any other components to AP other than the chroma of the tones? Like my teacher has universal AP and he doesn’t listen to the chroma, but rather maps the notes to a virtual piano in his head. I’m wondering if you’ve experienced notes tied to this 12 tone pitch row in your mind.

i want to develop it...

Tldr: no adults can't

I can always tell C# because it is the key of Moonlight Sonata.

To my mind, congenital perfect pitch is merely an accident of birth -- that is, nature patterning neurones in certain ways to and from your ear ... possibly layed down in-utero. So because we now know the brain has neuroplasticity and can re-route interconnections where they once weren't, it makes perfect sense that one can MAKE THOSE links happen. I believe, the best situation to help this is through autogenic relaxation, when the brain is subconsciously and unconsciously more open to reprogramming.

This topic has interested me a lot lately from a cognitive science perspective I think you hit a lot of the same thoughts I had about how other people approach the subject. I've always thought that given the correct incentives, your body and brain are really good at adapting and learning new things, it's just figuring out how to train correctly is the hard part because your first instinct is to always fall back to the skills you already have.

Thanks a lot for this good news. I have good relative pitch but not perfect pitch. After your video, I will give it a try. Was always told you were either born with it or not, from Hschool to university. This is the first time I hear someone with credibility claim the opposite.

I find an immense sadness present in this piece, with a touch of hope. Great stuff man!

This guy does have perfect pitch....that's why he is talking in the most boring monotone voice ever. Sounds like a robot from an old sci-fi movie from the 1950's. BORING as HELL!

I have it, but only when humidity is very low.

Once learned a piano version of "What a Wonderful World" in F. Played the piece on an out-of-tune piano in a store so sounded like the song is in E. People who has perfect pitch claim they are used to listening to a song in 1 key they can't play it in any other key except that specific key.

interesting 😊 so what is the right way to learn perfect pitch? i really feel i can but don't know where to begin, ty🙏

That was beautiful, I have several friends Ill recommend to your channel. Thanks Stay

If learning perfect pitch was possible, you would already know about it, much like magic penis enlarging pills. I don't buy this stuff for a minute. I'm just working on my relative pitch, which I DO believe I can achieve. It's VERY telling that after an entire year since this was posted, there is no top comment about it working. And please, don't tell me to watch the whole video. No one makes a 27-minute to explain how something CAN'T be done. And if it COULD be done, as I've said, we all would've heard about it by now.

Thank you,Britt. Interesting discussion.⭐🌹🔥🌹⭐ Very balanced.

Lol, a lot of cuts on the video and full of bullshit, good luck for all of you trying to "learn" perfect pitch 😂😂😂

I learned i had perfect pitch at 14. Its something ur born with, but it remains dormant if you aren't taught how to use it. Thats why not every kid who played piano when they were like 5 has it. Its a rare ability, and it's also a skill. People have different levels of pitch recognition, and some people have higher skill ceilings that others.

BS LOL, and Stevie Wonder can be trained to see

I thought the video and voice were made by AI, but it’s not the case

Seems pretty closely related to Scriabin's Prometheus Chord, except he would've normally omitted the 5th.

This might be a different chord, but if not then C418 uses this beautifully in the song Work Life Imbalance at 1:24

But did it please The Lord?

Very good advice.

B° triad 1st inversion over C6 1st inversion

What a lovely piece!

Its a bit complicated because its been proven that even fully "perfect pitch posessors" have pitch perception fatigue and even start failing with sufficient trials in a sequence. So obviously its not a fully entirely qualitative difference between a strong ear and perfect pitch. Just speed and endurance At this point in time tho science does not know if adults can actually develop perfect pitch, or just improve pitch recognition significantly. It say the diffference is pretty pointless and minor tho. It can be trained but id much MUCH rather focus on chord inversions and chord quality recognition, transcription of lines in different instruments etc etc etc. One of the major hurdles in development of this "aural skill" is that genuine childhood perfect pitch could very well be generalizable to more timbres and this skill developed later in life could be restricted to fewer timbres thar the musician is more comfortable witj

If you add an A note to make it a chord that's made of an entire Ab half step-whole step scale, how would you notate that? Is it possible to have a flat 9th and a sharp 9th on the same chord, naming wise? Maybe as a flat 16th, I guess?

When I was in college I used to try and attain perfect pitch. Without any reference notes (on piano) I was either able to 'nail it' or narrow it down to 'within a half step' but never 'perfect.' My professor, who had perfect pitch, found this notable. Since then I have not really applied myself to it but I tend to agree with you and not the naysayers. There are also more recent studies on this that align with your take. There is a young lady on YT (I think her name is 'Cindy Zou') who says that all of the pianists in her country had it and when she came to America she was surprised to learn that some people didn't. She tries to diminish the role of it in a successful musical career and even says she failed some transcription test because of her perfect pitch. Are you recommending Burge's course?

No sound of the actual humidifier ? Come on

Swap the B with a Bb and you get a pretty common/standard voicing of an Ab13(#11) used in Jazz.

Good video, and I like the storytelling element. Keep it up!

I’m using this chord in an octatonic song my band is playing!

suprisingly sweet chord for something full of so many dissonances i assume it's because the conflicts are always nearly an octave apart

Thnx

Interesting 🤔 It sounds discordant and yet stable at the same time, weird!

I totally agree with you. After 30 years having this course on my shelf, I'm finally going to go and finish the course. As a professional musician for 40 years. You can still improve on your music. Thanks for your post!!