Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
There are ways of giving commands to people without their conscious awareness of ever having received a command. The trick is to embed the command within a sentence that’s specifically designed to bypass the conscious mind. Let’s take a look at the following sentence:
From Mind Hacks:
All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it.
Brain scanning of musicians has shown that they have larger cortical representations of the body parts they use to play their instruments in their sensory areas — more neurons devoted to finger movements among guitarists, more neurons devoted to [...]
So now we’ve got the thought police in the music industry. Now, more than ever, is it crucial that you maintain control over your musical destiny. Long Tail marketing give you the power and freedom to create your own path. read more.
BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, has banned a twelve year-old singer songwriter [...]
The Mythbusters do it again! But please, oh please, don’t let them test the brown note! read more.
See what Google Talk users are listening to: Google Music Trends
Suspect says Ramsey death an accident:
BANGKOK (Reuters) – An American primary school teacher accused of the grisly Christmas murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey in 1996 said on Thursday he loved the child beauty queen and her death was an accident.
I moved to Boulder, Colorado on January 1st, 1995, almost two years before JonBenet Ramsey was [...]
We resist people we don’t trust. Gaining an unconscious connection with people will powerfully influence the speed towards your intended interpersonal outcomes.
You can create hypnotic rapport through imitating someone’s current behavior. This is commonly referred to as mirroring or pacing — and it happens quite naturally. You can mirror someone’s behavior on many different [...]
Clinton said that the London terror plot had raised two questions about the Republicans’ political strategy.
“They seem to be anxious to tie it to al Qaeda. … If that’s true, how come we got seven times as many troops in Iraq as in Afghanistan?” he said. “Why have we imperiled President [Hamid] Karzai’s rule and [...]
Have you ever created the perfect melody or song in a dream? Or maybe you composed a complete symphony or an amazing solo?
Imagine that you could create those “perfect dream moments” anytime you want. Imagine there is a process so powerful that you can literally program your mind to create anything you want.
Read these examples:
Nicholas [...]
A. The most crucial part of effective communication is:
Proper grammar
Asking questions
Having charisma
Establishing an outcome
B. Hypnosis is:
New Age mumbo-jumbo
Bypassing the critical mind
The Beta state
A Pill
C. Hypnotic Influence:
Relates to your listener’s subjective experience
Alters the listener’s state of mind
Reaches the listener’s unconscious mind
All of the above
D. Submodalities are:
Going deeper into the mind
States of mind
The building blocks of sensory [...]
This is an amazing collection of photographs put into a slide show with audio explaining the meaning of music to New Orleans natives and how musicians are still trying to keep the city’s cultural heart beating. It’s such a shame what happened to our most precious musical resource! read more.
First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered.
I forsee all of this ending in a pretty ugly revolt. The fat cats are getting fatter which means they’re getting too [...]
You need to read this BoingBoing article because it’s important as a musician to understand the values of the RIAA. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you share these values… or not.
Topics covered: Distinctions exercise, certainty and uncertainty.
So you might have an idea of what Hypnotic Influence could look like. You might realize that effective influence is a very attainable skill. But are you willing to do what it takes?
Begin by asking yourself the most motivation question of all: “What’s in it for me?”
Stop for a moment and imagine how good your [...]
Most of the music coaching and teaching I do involves information gathering. It’s important for me to clearly identify what musical challenges my students are having so that I don’t fix something that ain’t broke and so I impact the problem in a way that is truly useful.
Are You Unconsciously Hitting Delete?
With all of my [...]
The progression from V to I has the name “authentic cadence” and from IV to I, “plagal cadence.” A “deceptive cadence” is understood to mean the substitution for the expected progression, V-I, of the progressions V-VI or V-IV.
The effect is strong because the deceptive cadence creates the possibility of preparing the actual close again and, [...]
Recently, a friend asked me if I ever go into that state between being in a dream and being awake. He mentioned how in that state you begin to visualize amazing things, and how you can really feel the intense excitement of your dreams. He said that the interesting thing about being able to enter [...]
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank
Duke Jordan, a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz canon, died on Tuesday in Valby, Denmark, a suburb of Copenhagen. He was 84, and he had lived in self-imposed exile from the United States since 1978, continuing to perform in the musical tradition he helped create.
His death was confirmed [...]
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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