Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Ear Training Hack #1. To get an accurate account of absolute pitch, it is important to measure the results of a pitch recognition test.
Accuracy is necessary to demonstrate absolute pitch. But before you demonstrate absolute pitch, relative improvements of pitch recognition can be demonstrated–but only if they are measured.
If you test at 10% pitch recognition, [...]
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Before you sink your teeth into the latest ear training hack, I want to let you in on something humiliating for me.
Last year I gave my first–and so far, only–“Advanced Absolute Pitch Mastery” teleclinic. It was killer. People called in from all over the [...]
This is a pretty amazing video of Ethan Winer playing 37 separate cello parts to create one song. He even plays the percussion parts on his cello. It was recorded on 23 tracks using 37 plug-in effects. He spent hundreds of hours on this project so its worth a listen.
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Preston Reed is now a blogging musician and people are talking:
preston reed is blogging.
Dead Cool or Who is Preston Reed?
Watching Preston Reed
Blog Measurement – Sunday’s Random Thought
This return to the theme need not always be literal. It can be conceptual, i.e. not included in the composition but still finished in the mind the listener.
That’s a [...]
Michael: Does your course require an instrument? or does it include all the sounds need to train (could I do it while traveling in my car?)
Graham: Michael, my course doesn’t require an instrument. I wanted to make it available to anybody and that’s why I made it so you wouldn’t need an instrument. It does [...]
Be the one song your fans listen to today that gets their adrenaline pumping.
Before you commit to a single note of your next song, you want to do some serious sleuthing behind the scenes.
I call it being a hook detective. What you’re looking for is the “hook” of your song–that unique part of the song [...]
I tightened up the song I wrote yesterday and recorded this piano track. I’m going to commit to a melody and start putting some lyrics to the form.
This final thing for the day is an F7 shuffle on the hammond organ. Wanna hear a badas5 solo? Listen to this, biatch!
This is an edit of the track before. It’s a pop rock ballad (u2, coldplay); EbMAJ7, BbMAJ7. You can hear the verse and chorus shaping up with a melody, form and changes. I’m going to write the lyrics and FINISH this one.
This is the work in progress of the next song. No need to listen to this unless you want to hear me composing. Around 12:00 I start to find what I’m looking for.
A 90bpm funk Gmin7 groove (Dorian). No vocals in this but it’s got a nasty groove played by a moth3rfuck3r. Maybe it’s the K2600 to my left. 
This is an 80bpm funk Bbm7 groove. Not much to listen to except 8 minutes of groove. I was setting up the mic to record on this one.
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I set up my clav above the hammond and the wurly to the right. The hammond has two mics on it and the wurly is direct. The clav is direct and running through a Line 6 Pod. The sample is an Apple Loop. Don’t remember the name. Abmin13 120bpm.
I got excited about my previous creativity hacks and busted out a number of ideas for a hacks series. So stay tuned for songwriting hacks and ear training hacks and stay connected to my MusicHacks del.icio.us bookmarks. Because you’re going to help me write them…you’ll see why soon
Did you know that you can [...]
I’m a lifehacker. I believe that solutions to everyday problems can be solved easily and stress-free.
And I believe this even though my 34 years has shown me that, on occasion only, life can be extremely frustrating and stressful.
Today I hacked my creativity. I created six stress-free solutions for potential creative challenges. Maybe you [...]
Coolfer hipped me to the Billboard announcement that Rick Ruben was producing the new Metallica album.
I found a Pandora Metallica Radio Station and a Heavy Metal Playlist at Blogcritics.org to entertain you tonight.
Have you checked out Pandora and the Music Genome Project yet?
…we’ve created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we [...]
Dean Wegweiser sent me an email today. With his permission, I’m sharing it with you:
Subject: California test
I got a 1.00!
Which test? The california test? I can’t remember what their scoring system is. Is 1 good or bad
Graham
1.00 = “Congratulations, you have perfect pitch.” it means at least 75% in identifying random [...]
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
– Maya Angelou, poet
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about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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