Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Topics covered: Absolute Pitch University, NLP, modeling, hot seats, music hacks, life hacks, much more…
Sometimes, all it takes is a little hands-on mentoring to take you over the top…
APU is an Absolute Pitch Master Mind (a coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose) PLUS a whole lot more. But deeper than that, it is [...]
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This is what happened to me today. I was listening to a piece of music and the first chord was the same as another song I’ve listened to many times. The voicing, the instrument, everything was the same. I had never made that connection before. To be sure I was remembering the other song correctly, [...]
Simply put, absolute pitch is more subtle and accurate.
With relative pitch, there are twelve major chords. With absolute pitch, there is only one C major chord. The distinctions you can make with absolute pitch are finer and smaller. And each note has its own sound. Transpose a Beethoven symphony into another key and it doesn’t [...]
I thought it would be appropriate to use a waveform as a metaphor for your pursuit of musical goals, or pursuit of anything for that matter.
This will be some of the more esoteric knowledge pertaining to absolute pitch. But nonetheless important. Keep an open mind.
Silence
Absolute pitch is so well disguised that almost everybody misses it completely. If you know how to listen, you’ll hear it. A portal opens up through silence.
Do you hear any sounds now? Can you feel the [...]
From Boing Boing:
BrilliantDreams — a site for lucid dreaming — hosts a page of famous discoveries and inventions inspired by dreams, like the dream in which Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz discovered the Benzene molecule:
This site is so cool. “Yesterday” came to Paul McCartney in a dream. While nowhere near the quality and popularity of [...]
People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention [...]
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Ear Training Hack #4. Use your cell phone ringtone as a pitch trigger.
These days everyone has custom ringtones on their cell phones. My current ringtone is All Blues by Miles Davis. Well, one of the fastest ways to prove to yourself that you can have perfect pitch is with pitch triggers. So learn the notes [...]
The following absolute pitch distinctions will help you determine where you currently are–if you possess any type of absolute pitch–and also help you identify your growth along the path of absolute pitch development.
Active Absolute Pitch is the ability to sing or hum a pitch without hearing it first.
Passive Absolute Pitch is the ability to identify [...]
BBC Learning: Fragments Of Genius. This is a remarkable show on autistic savants. I’ve included the link to the BitTorrent file of the show. Here are some of the highlights.
Derek Paravicini is completely blind and autistic. Numbers are difficult and he doesn’t know right from left. Yet he can reproduce anything he hears on the [...]
A nasty war has been flaming around Dave Winer. It’s sad to watch. I have to admit that since I’ve been reading Dave’s blog for a long time now, I find he has a neurotic attachment to being the victim from time to time. He is only human. It’s nothing a little 3–2–1 couldn’t fix. [...]
Kevin: Since beginning your course, friends of mine have gotten iPods, claiming that everyone needs them. I’ll point to my head and say “I’ve already got one”. This is true, as songs have become much more vivid in my imagination, so much that I can satiate my craving for a song by just thinking about [...]
Kevin: I play bass in an orchestra (which is notorious for being a difficult instrument to play in tune), as well as sing in a chorus where my fellow tenors could be as much as, but not limited to, a half step flat on an given note. Will these factors hamper my ability to gain [...]
From: How to be an expert
The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that’s what the brain guys are saying. Best of all–it’s almost never too late.
MusicHack #2:
Talent = [...]
Ear Training Hack #1. To get an accurate account of absolute pitch, it is important to measure the results of a pitch recognition test.
Accuracy is necessary to demonstrate absolute pitch. But before you demonstrate absolute pitch, relative improvements of pitch recognition can be demonstrated–but only if they are measured.
If you test at 10% pitch recognition, [...]
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Howdy…
Before you sink your teeth into the latest ear training hack, I want to let you in on something humiliating for me.
Last year I gave my first–and so far, only–“Advanced Absolute Pitch Mastery” teleclinic. It was killer. People called in from all over the [...]
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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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