Direct Instruction (DI) is a method of education that has historically been applied to improve academic behaviors. Though DI has a modest history of teaching musical literacy skills, its application in teaching music performance skills has been limited. This article presents two methods derived from DI principles to teach the advanced musical skill of absolute pitch using the theremin as a unique musical instrument and experimental apparatus. The two methods are optimized for either fast learning of the new skill or assessment of the skill in a general sample of participants, and both are shown to significantly improve posttraining performance. Instructors recruited 53 college aged participants with a variety of music education histories across two studies (16 participants in Study 1; 37 participants in Study 2) for participation in either of the novel DI protocols for teaching absolute pitch using prompt fading. All participants showed significantly improved absolute pitch accuracy above baseline following 1 hr or less of DI with either method. Implications and suggestions for educators and researchers are discussed.

直接教学 (DI) 是一种教育方法，历史上一直用于改善学术行为。尽管 DI 在教授音乐素养技能方面的历史并不长，但它在教授音乐表演技能方面的应用却很有限。本文介绍了两种源自 DI 原理的方法，以使用特雷门作为独特的乐器和实验装置来教授绝对音高的高级音乐技能。这两种方法针对新技能的快速学习或在一般参与者样本中的技能评估进行了优化，并且都显示出显着提高了训练后的表现。教师在两项研究中招募了 53 名具有各种音乐教育历史的大学年龄参与者（研究 1 中的 16 名参与者；研究 2) 中的 37 名参与者参与了任何一种新颖的 DI 协议，用于使用快速衰落来教授绝对音高。使用任一方法进行 1 小时或更少的 DI 后，所有参与者的绝对音调准确度均显着提高，高于基线。讨论了对教育者和研究人员的影响和建议。