Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Topics covered: The art and craft of absolute pitch hearing.
Topics covered: Shaolin Ear Training.
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 [...]
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 [...]
DICK GROVE (1927-1998) had a distinguished career as a professional writer and composer in Los Angeles and as a unique innovator in the field of contemporary music education.
In 1973 he founded the world-renowned Grove School of Music in Los Angeles and guided this highly regarded institution into the top rank of leading contemporary music schools, [...]
Have you ever watched a lion or tiger on television, stalking and then bursting upon its prey? It leads the attack with its eyes. All the rest of its magnificent body follows its eyes as it watches sharply, calculating speed and distance, supremely focused, and then explodes across the distance between it and its goal. [...]
From: TONE-DEAFNESS
Tone deafness does not refer to a problem with the ears, but to a lack of training. Tone deafness is easy to fix by training the ears and the vocal muscles.
I’ve taught many people that thought they were tone deaf how to match pitches. You should see their faces when they do. It’s sheer [...]
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, [...]
Topics covered: Distinctions exercise, certainty and uncertainty.
Loading ...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 [...]
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 [...]
Topics covered: Absolute Pitch University, NLP, modeling, hot seats, music hacks, life hacks, much more…
From Noise can make you smarter:
Wired Magazine interviews Bart Kosko, author of Noise, a book that argues that adding noise to our signals can actually make them clearer.
Can background music make you smarter?
The more you can concentrate with background noise, the more it strengthens the brain. Isaac Asimov used to set his typewriter up [...]
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 [...]
Check out the new and improved Absolute Pitch Power 2.5.
Current customers can login to the site and download all the updates.
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, [...]
Ear Training Freeware For Mac
Aquallegro
Eartraining X – 2.7.1
Pitch Coach
Follow Me
Ear Training Freeware For Windows
Herken
Cross Platform and Opensource
Tete Ear Trainer
EarToner
InPitch
RPitch
hEar
Montessori Bells
Ear Trainer v2.0
My favorite: Practica Musica ($100-125 and cross platform)
BTW, I found these just like I normally do, by doing a search over at VersionTracker and SourceForge.net.
If you have found any of these to be useful, [...]
A time honored tradition for learning the ins and outs of a specific discipline is by transcription. Monks transcribe sacred texts in order to internalize the teachings. Writers copy their favorite authors’ books in order to assimilate their style. And musicians will transcribe their favorite artists solos as a study in ear training and to [...]
…is for tomorrow’s ears.
As you learn new skills or behaviors, neurons connect into new groups of cognitrons, where the connecting synapses are reinforced with repeated use. In other words, these new ideas need to “shake hands” a number of times before they can become good friends. So practice, practice, and practice some more!
Traditionally, learning new skills concentrates on rote repetition, reiterating the skill a large number of times until it is consistently performed correctly. But recent developments in learning theory, which have been applied with particular success in sports-training methodology, indicate that the rote repetition concept tends more to reinforce incorrect performance as opposed to developing the [...]
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.
If Heroes needed a new superhero, it would be Montage Man. He can speed things up and add a catchy tune. 21 hrs ago
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