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Music Makes Your Brain Happy

August 23, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: brain, music, neuroscience, Wired

Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-22-06

August 22, 2006 By Graham English

Topics covered: Chord progressions, I-IV-V, The blues, classical music, mashups, melody, modal progressions, music software, rhythm... Download: Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 08-22-06 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: blues, chord changes, chord progressions, classical music, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, mashups, melody, modal, modes, music software, podcasts, rhythm, Songwriting, SongwritingHacks

Trance – It’s All About Feeling High!

August 22, 2006 By Graham English

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. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: altered states, anchoring, behavior, communication, consciousness, embedded commands, HowTo, hypnosis, Hypnotic Influence, influence, Language, leading, NLP, pacing, pattern interrupts, persuasion, prospecting, relationships, sales, states, tools, trance, unconscious

The Sound of Stars (Audio)

August 21, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio Tagged With: Audio, sound

Hearing and Consciousness

August 21, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch ear training, absolute sound, brain, consciousness, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, hearing, listening, listening practice, MindHacks, myelination, neurons, perfect pitch, pitch, senses, silence, sound, tuning fork, unconditional listening

The Greatest Hypnotic Influence Secret Ever Revealed!

August 21, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: anchoring, Ari Galper, behavior, communication, emotions, HowTo, hypnosis, Hypnotic Influence, influence, Language, motivation, NLP, persuasion, prospecting, relationships, sales, states, tools, Unlock The Game

The Little Girl Giant

August 20, 2006 By Graham English

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 Little Girl Giant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Art, London, videos, YouTube

Ultimate-Guitar.com: The Last Stand

August 19, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: copyright, guitar, guitar tablature, guitar tabs, Law, tablature, tabs

Top Ten Rock Movies

August 18, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: movies, Top 10

The Rules and Principles of Counterpoint

August 18, 2006 By Graham English

The Rules and Principles of Counterpoint

These rules of counterpoint are simple and easy to memorize. Use them during the arranging phase of your music producing. Counterpoint: a composition which is written strictly according to technical rules. In earlier times, instead of our modern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: arranging, chord progressions, composing, composition, consonance, counterpoint, dissonance, fundamentals, harmony, modes, motion, Music Theory, rules, Writing Music

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