(You can't becomes a Mozart overnight.) But it was obvious that people could hear for themselves how Perfect Pitch works. Of course, this doesn't mean that musicians had full-fledged Perfect Pitch abilities when they left the workshop. (People who could not hear at the workshop often had success when they listened a little more closely at home.) Usually he could get 97% or more of his audience to experience their 'first taste' of real Perfect Pitch, within minutes. But Burge would work with these people for a few minutes until they got it. Out of the whole group, there were sometimes a handful that could not. And this is precisely why Burge made a rapid rise to success in ear training, which has earned him his place in music history and education.īut not everyone in the group could always hear what Burge was talking about at first. People who thought before they could never hear such things were ecstatic.
Most people experienced Perfect Pitch as if a light bulb had suddenly clicked on in their ears.