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Posts Tagged ‘Absolute Pitch’

Labor Day Links

Just a couple of links for you to peruse over Labor Day.

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 08-20-07

Topics covered: The pleasure of finding things out, Richard Feynman, Dr. Kurt Fischer, dynamic skill theory, developmental levels, adult learning, ear training, and much more…

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 04-27-07

Topics covered: Learning absolute pitch, your motives, absolute pitch disinformation, motivation to learn absolute pitch, and more.

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 04-09-07

Topics covered: Singing what you hear, the body/mind connection in music, exercises to improve your musicianship, and more.

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

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 music that is out of tune. I believe this [...]

iTheory: Music Theory And Ear Training With Your iPod

iTheory is a free ear training tool for your iPod. It took me a couple of tries to get it installed correctly, but it works great. The interface isn’t as clean as I would like. You have to scroll past hundreds of notes before you get to the iTheory main menu. But once I got [...]

The Best of The Graham English Blog 2006

Here’s the final entry to my 2006 Celebrations and Reflections series. According to my stats, these are the top 20 most popular posts of 2006. Have a happy New Year!

How To Be An Expert
Your Goals As Waveform
What is RSS and Why Do I Care?
The World’s Most Important 6-Sec Drum Loop
Absolute Pitch Power Blogathon
Can Hit Songs [...]

Top Ear Training Articles for 2006

I hope your ear improved in 2006. I know mine did. Just in case you haven’t been reading my blog all year, here’s my favorite ear training articles for 2006.

Is Your Ear Suspect?
Why Singing What You Hear Is Important To Your Ear Training
Understanding The Art And Craft Of Absolute Pitch Hearing
Shaolin Ear Training
Hearing and Consciousness
Absolute [...]

Everytime I hear a B, I reach for my cell phone…

It’s pretty funny actually. I’ll be watching TV or a movie and whenever I hear the note B in the soundtrack, I reach for my phone. All because I have Miles Davis’ All Blues as my ringtone.
In case you missed it, I’ve talked about ear training with your cell phone ringtone before.

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 12-04-06

Topics covered:
The art of sound, aural distinctions, absolute sound, loudness, location, and more.
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Why Singing What You Hear Is Important To Your Ear Training

Singing what you hear is an important part of improving your perception. Let’s look at it from a body/mind perspective.
Recognizing that C and F is a perfect fourth is a cognitive exercise. You have to think about it. Maybe only for a split-second, but you still have to translate your physical experience, a verb, into [...]

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 10-06-06

Topics covered: The art and craft of absolute pitch hearing.

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 09-26-06

Topics covered: Shaolin Ear Training.

Understanding The Art And Craft Of Absolute Pitch Hearing

Learning to hear with absolute pitch requires both talent and tenacity. Little talent? Tenacity can help get you there. But if you lack tenacity, then you won’t even have the desire to learn. But focus on the reasons why you want to hear with absolute pitch and you will develop the muscles of tenacity and [...]

Absolute Pitch Power Lesson 2 Update/Improvement

I’ve espoused the virtues of accelerated learning techniques and I’m on record as saying that every other absolute pitch ear training course out there could be drastically improved if they only “got it.”
And while I don’t like to go “off topic” in my blog too much, I felt I had to, given the significance this [...]

Hearing and Consciousness

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, [...]

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 08-14-06

Topics covered: Distinctions exercise, certainty and uncertainty.

For those of you who want personal assistance…

On Monday, August 7, I have a password-protected phone line reserved just for you. If you can’t make it to the live call, you’ll have a recording to listen to later. We’ll continue these calls every other week for 3 months.
If you sign up in time — before all the slots are taken — you [...]

The term “Music Hack” deserves some explanation…

Lately, I’ve been excited about a new type of musical mini-model that I call a “Music Hack.” But first, I need to explain what modeling is.
Long ago, during the peak of the Human Potential Movement, the mind technology “Neuro-Linguistic Programming” was created by some very colorful and controversial characters in California.
The eccentric Richard Bandler (known [...]

Absolute Pitch University is where the rubber meets the road

Here’s the deal:
Absolute Pitch University is 12 weeks of personal coaching through bi-weekly teleseminars. Every teleseminar is recorded for you to listen to again and again… and in case you have to miss one. We’ll cover Absolute Pitch Power (and even those other AP methods out there), Music Hacks, Modeling, Hot Seats, and much, much [...]