The next exercise he gives me is similar to the previous one. “Alright, you’re doing very well,” David Lucas Burge says on the tape. Optimistically, I move on to Masterclass 8. Still, the notes somehow managed to burrow themselves in my brain, or maybe I just got lucky. (I didn’t cheat, I promise.) C and D were usually easy to identify F and G were hard. After several attempts, I managed it, closing my eyes or looking out the window. At the end of episode 5, I was supposed to identify the notes in the C major scale, without looking, 20 times in a row. Listen to the audio version of this story. Like the main character in Beckett’s play “Krapp’s Last Tape,” I despair about my life alone in my room, with a recording running. I’ve started hurling insults at my microphone. My ear training practice sessions now end after five minutes. The last time I made any progress with David Lucas Burge’s Perfect Pitch Ear Training SuperCourse was June 12-almost a month ago.
