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Destroying The Myth That Music Is Annoying If You Have Absolute Pitch

March 31, 2007 By Graham English

There's a perpetually propagated myth that if you have absolute pitch, then if you listen to music that is out of tune, you have a bad experience. If there is any truth to this myth, it's definitely not an absolute. Some people may be disturbed by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, APP FAQ, Kind Of Blue, Language, Miles Davis, Mozart, myth, perfect pitch, personality, pitch, relative pitch, temperament, tempered scale, tuning

Get Your Next Album Paid For With SellABand

March 30, 2007 By Graham English

TechCrunch reports that SellABand just might be working. But a few months later, wow. 2700 bands from all over the world have signed up, and four have already reached the $50,000 mark and have recorded albums (Nemesea, Cubworld, Second Person and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: Music Business, Music Promotion, Techcrunch

CMAJ 134bpm

March 30, 2007 By Graham English

| C Dmin | Eb | C Dmin | Eb AbMAJ7 C | Part of me never dies I know you... you recognize that we are Heart to heart in a miracle love Download: CMAJ 134bpm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 134bpm, acoustic guitar, C, CMAJ, electric piano, fast, MULTI TRACK, pop, prechorus, ToWrite, upbeat, verse

Fmin 82bpm

March 30, 2007 By Graham English

I'll stand by you to the end. I'll never desert you. I'll be the one you depend on. The one you can talk to. Download: Fmin 82bpm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Tagged With: 82bpm, dark, F#min, iPod, laid back, LIVE, melody, minor, piano, pop, R&B, slow, ToWrite, verse, Vocal

Keep Your Eyes Open For Google Pay-Per-Action Launch

March 30, 2007 By Graham English

Google AdWords Pay-Per-Action is in beta and they're answering your questions here. I'll be watching closely how they plan to handle advertising accounts that get very low conversion. If you only pay-per-action, what happens when nobody takes an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: AdSense, AdWords, Google, PPA, PPC

Filtering Experience Through Neuro-Logical Levels

March 29, 2007 By Graham English

How to make intimate connections with yourself and others. Neuro-Logical Levels are considered to be a Meta-Program in NLP. Specifically, these neuro-logical levels are categories of experience. In integral terms, I would consider them to be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: behavior, beliefs, capabilities, communication, Ecology, environment, experience, filters, hierarchy, holarchy, holons, HowTo, identity, influence, integral theory, Language, LifeHacks, lines, Meta-Programs, motivation, Neuro-Logical Levels, NLP, principles, types, typology, values

Confusing Music Theory Fundamentals And Cliche

March 28, 2007 By Graham English

Wanna hear something provocative? Check out this quote from an old issue of keyboard magazine. "On this experimental record, I've been trying to explore more jazz harmonies. The thing is -- and I'm gonna piss off a lot of people here -- the II-V-I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: chord changes, chord progressions, cliche, fundamentals, harmony, jazz harmony, limiting beliefs, Michael Jordan, music fundamentals, Music Theory

Samurai Songwriting Official Launch Is RIGHT NOW!

March 28, 2007 By Graham English

Samurai Songwriting, a simple and fun way to master the art of songwriting, is now live. And best of all are the bonuses for the first 150 subscribers. Don't miss out, check it out now... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Samurai Songwriting

Join Me On Twitter!

March 23, 2007 By Graham English

Are you on Twitter yet? Join me, won't you? If you don't know what Twitter is, it's basically a social micro-blog to update your friends on what you're doing right now. What makes it different from a blog you might already publish is the use of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose, Technology Tagged With: awareness, Blogging, communication, community, networking, relationships, RSS, social, Technology

Applying The 80-20 Rule To Your Songwriting

March 22, 2007 By Graham English

I'm finding more and more that what stops songwriters from finishing songs isn't a lack of good ideas but a misdirection of songwriting focus. Based on the comments I receive, musicians are spending more time on tasks that do little to move the song … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: 80/20 rule, copyright, deliberate practice, GTD, lyric writing, melody, Songwriting, songwriting process, songwriting tips, time-management, writing lyrics

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