What is Relative Pitch?

Relative Pitch is your clear understanding of the musical language.

When you play any two tones, a RELATIONSHIP occurs between them -- you'll hear it as a simple sound pattern, or INTERVAL:

There are 21 basic intervals in music, each with its own name and distinct sound.

As you learn intervals BY EAR, you are NOT required to read any music. Instead, David Lucas will guide you step by step -- until you can recognize ALL intervals BY EAR at Lightning Speed. David Lucas will show you the easy way with his own secrets that are both super-effective -- and fun!

Q. Why do I need to learn the sounds of musical intervals?

Well, intervals are the RAW BUILDING BLOCKS of all MELODIES:

Intervals are also the building blocks of ALL CHORDS:

In fact, intervals are actually the building blocks of ALL MUSIC.

Intervals BY EAR -- this is your starting point of your Relative Pitch ear training experience. From here you will learn how to compose every possible kind of CHORD -- and you'll learn to RECOGNIZE all chords BY EAR at Lightning Speed . . .

Plus you'll learn countless other essentials -- like cadences, inversions, compound intervals, scales, etc. -- all to build up your virtuoso ear for music.

Q. Why do I need Relative Pitch?

Think of it this way: Without Relative Pitch, music can seem like a jumble of hazy tones and chords -- like watching a fuzzy TV screen:

Your experience of music
WITHOUT Relative Pitch:

With a poorly tuned ear, you receive only a blurred impression of the music; the details are lost. Though you can certainly enjoy the music to a greater or lesser degree, you don't really understand what's going on.

On the other hand, Relative Pitch gives you the CLEAR musical picture.

Your experience of music
WITH Relative Pitch:

With Relative Pitch, your hearing becomes laser-sharp.

Relative Pitch enables your ear to FOCUS the tones -- to give you the sharp detail of what's happening. Now you can comprehend the music from a whole new, clear perspective.

Example: Relative Pitch allows you to RECOGNIZE any kind of chord you hear -- instantly -- like a Dominant Seventh Sharp Five. You can UNDERSTAND the sounds you hear, similar to understanding a language like Spanish or French.

 

You can also COMMUNICATE your ideas to another musician who has Relative Pitch.

Example: Whenever you mention a Dominant Seventh Sharp Five chord, someone with Relative Pitch will know exactly what sound you are talking about.

This is your ability to SPEAK the language of music. And with Burge's Relative Pitch Lessons, you'll soon speak like a pro.

Learn the Language of Music -- BY EAR

The language of music is PITCH.

Just as a child first begins to learn his or her native language by ear, every musician must learn the language of music -- pitch -- BY EAR.

Your EAR is the key to all your talents. Why? Because music is a HEARING art. The more FLUENTLY you master the language of music -- BY EAR -- the more your talents will unfold from within you.

Relative Pitch is your PERSONAL COMMAND of the musical language -- your ability to understand what you hear, including all the various chords and pitch relationships that are used to create music.

Relative Pitch enlivens the artistic intelligence within you. You gain practical skills that enable you to:

• Play by ear and improvise
• Write what you hear
• Sing with perfect intonation
• Compose artfully
• Transpose freely
• Perform with confidence
• Tune with precision
• Memorize easily
• Deepen your sense of music appreciation
• A simple Relative Pitch tune-up empowers all your talents to rise to their highest potential

Relative Pitch gives you the right tools for the job -- to create music that goes straight to the heart of your listener.

41 Power Lessons to Build Your Ear