Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Tomorrow I leave for my new home in Somerville, MA. I’ve lived in Boulder, CO for 11 years, 8 months, and 26 days.
Katie and I had a beautiful send-off with our friends tonight and we got to say goodbye to Ken earlier today. I feel complete — and I feel new.
Blogging and email will probably [...]
I’ll be on the road from August 27-30. I move into my new home in Somerville, MA on September 1. Blogging and email will be light if any during that time.
It’s a new era for me. Expect changes.
Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson, known for his soaring high notes and for his hit recording of “Gonna Fly Now,” which lent the musical muscle to the “Rocky” movies, has died. He was 78.
Ferguson, who lived in Ojai, Calif., died last night (Aug. 23) at Community Memorial Hospital of kidney and liver failure due to an [...]
A. Gaining someone’s trust is done by:
Creating rapport
Babysitting
Hiding your true intentions
Taking them to dinner
B. Hypnotic language patterns include:
Embedded commands
Command verbs
States, Processes, or Experiences
All of the above
C. Anchoring involves:
Bringing your prospects down
Eliciting a specific response
Shock treatment
A foot massage
D. Trance is:
A naturally occurring state
An altered state of mind
Bringing the unconscious into consciousness
All of the above
E. Values are:
The [...]
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From: TONE-DEAFNESS
Tone deafness does not refer to a problem with the ears, but to a lack of training. Tone deafness is easy to fix by training the ears and the vocal muscles.
I’ve taught many people that thought they were tone deaf how to match pitches. You should see their faces when they do. It’s sheer [...]
What if there was a way to distort a prospective customer’s sense of time and make it seem like they’ve already bought your product and have, in fact, enjoyed using it for a long time already. Would you look back at reading this paragraph, say a week from now, and realize that your entire life was a series of events that brought you to this very moment of understanding?
Officials at the CIA and scientists around the world have pondered the “cocktail party problem” for decades. How could they separate one sound - perhaps a voice - from a group of other recorded sounds, perhaps a multitude of voices at a cocktail party? Now, two researchers have found a mathematical solution the problem.
Cocktail [...]
You may be thinking that we’ve covered some serious covert persuasion strategies so far. But this next Hypnotic Influence technique is truly a mind controlling strategy.
Just think for a moment, what was it that got you reading the words on this page? What was it that drew you to this information? More wealth, more power, [...]
The iconic rocker says the music industry has no right to bitch about piracy when its modern recording technology only screws up good music anyway.
Dylan’s pretty tough on the current state of recording. He’s got good points too. We’ve lost almost all dynamic range in modern recordings. But there’s still good stuff out there so [...]
A neuroscientist explains why women want rock stars to father their children, and how melodies can work like Prozac.
This looks like a good book: This Is Your Brain On Music. I always get nervous, though, when scientists try to reduce everything to “The Brain.” There’s obviously a lot more going on in the universe than [...]
Topics covered: Chord progressions, I-IV-V, The blues, classical music, mashups, melody, modal progressions, music software, rhythm…
The word “trance” conjurs up all sorts of images. Snake charmers, zombies, spaced out dreamers. But trance is really a naturally occuring state. We go in and out of trance many times throughout the day.
But trance is not our “normal” state of mind. Trance is an altered state of consciousness. The method by which we [...]
Like musical instruments, stars can produce notes through their vibrations. Here you can listen to some of the ghostly whistling, drumming, humming, and rumbling sounds that stars make.
Have a listen to the hypnotic drone of HR3831 or the celestial drumming of Xi-hydrae. It will blow your mind! read more.
From Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain
Hearing is the first sense we develop in the womb. The regions of the brain that deal with hearing are the first to finish the developmental process called myelination, in which the connecting “wires” of neurons are finished off with fatty sheaths that insulate the neurons, [...]
What if you could install a button in your prospect that whenever you pressed it, it would trigger any behavior or emotion you want?
Then you’ll want to master the art of anchoring!
Let’s say you have a meeting with a prospect. During this meeting you build states of excitement and motivation in the prospect. Then the [...]
On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London, took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered off to play in the park.
The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days. What does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website.
Let’s give our support to Ultimate Guitar! It’s not ethical to exercise [...]
Seeing as how this week marks the 29th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, as well as Madonna’s 48th birthday, IGN decided to spotlight the Top Ten Rock Movies. The movies selected for this list are not concert films or documentaries but rather narrative films about rock and roll.
Purple Rain would be my number [...]
Counterpoint: a composition which is written strictly according to technical rules. In earlier times, instead of our modern notes, dots or points were used. Thus one used to call a composition in which point was set against or counter to point, counterpoint; this usage is still followed today, even though the form of the notes [...]
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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