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Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast 09-29-06

September 29, 2006 By Graham English

Topics covered: Songwriting for busy people, capturing song ideas, GTD (Getting Things Done), organization, productivity, iTunes, GarageBand, Logic Pro, inspiration, motivation, tagging, mood markings, songwriting techniques, review, Hit Song Cheat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, Music Education Tagged With: GarageBand, GTD, hit song cheat sheet, Hit Songwriting Tips Podcast, inspiration, iTunes, Logic Pro, mood markings, motivation, organization, productivity, song ideas, Songwriting, songwriting techniques, songwriting tips, tagging, tags

Musicians With Day Jobs: Get More Energy…

September 26, 2006 By Graham English

Lori has some useful tips if "you're perpetually trying to squeeze more hours into the day to get more time to work on your music or other projects." Check her out: Useful energizer software for musicians who still have time-consuming day jobs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blogs, energy, GTD, musicians, sleep, time-management

Turbocharge Your Practicing

July 13, 2006 By Graham English

A practice schedule is an important part of your musical development. My sax teacher, Nathan Davis, used to tell me, "Go without practicing one day, and you know. Go without practicing two days, your friends will know. Go without three days, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: arpeggios, breathing, confidence, deliberate practice, goals, GTD, harmonics, LifeHacks, musical development, MusicHacks, Nathan Davis, overtones, Practice, practice schedule, Practicing, saxophone, technique

Your Goals As Waveform

May 31, 2006 By Graham English

Your Goals As Waveform

An audio waveform makes a really cool metaphor for your pursuit of all your goals. A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space, often transferring energy. That's a fascinating sentence. A wave is a disturbance. It is an interruption … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, amplitude, ASDR, commitment, energy, envelope, frequency, goals, GTD, intention, LifeHacks, waveform, wavelength, waves

Productivity And The Present Moment

April 7, 2006 By Graham English

It's cool to see 43 folders writing about Mindfulness. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: GTD, mindfulness, productivity

How To Write For Busy People

March 27, 2006 By Graham English

Seeing that I'm deep into optimizing my [tag]GTD[/tag] system at the moment, this seems appropriate: How to Write for Busy People It's important to remember that my readers are busy people too Bodhisattvas. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: GTD

Kinkless GTD 0.83 Released

March 27, 2006 By Graham English

YES! Kinkless GTD 0.83 has just been released. I've been refreshing the site all weekend. Go get it: Kinkless GTD 0.83 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Prose, Technology Tagged With: GTD

Songwriting For Busy People

February 10, 2006 By Graham English

Mind Hacks posted how choice is demotivating when there are too many options. "Offer students a choice of 6 essays, rather than 30 essays, for extra-credit and more will take up the opportunity if there is less choice of essay titles - and, what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: GarageBand, GTD, harmony, iPod, iTunes, Logic Pro, lyrics, melody, MindHacks, mood markings, music notation, recorded audio, rhythm, song titles, Songwriting, tags, tempo, writing lyrics, Writing Music

Is There A Quick And Easy Way Of Acquiring Absolute Pitch?

February 7, 2006 By Graham English

Shaan: I work during the day and have little time in evening. I really really want absolute pitch is there a quick and easy way of acquiring this skill? Graham: Shaan, can you commit 15 minutes a day 5 days a week? In my experience, that's all you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, APP FAQ, David Allen, del.icio.us, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, FAQ, GTD, listening skills, listing, practice schedule, tagging, tags

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