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Posts Tagged ‘hearing’

Evelyn Glennie: How To Listen To Music With Your Whole Body

I’ve written about Evelyn Glennie before but wouldn’t you rather hear it come straight from the source?

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.

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.

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 [...]

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, [...]

Deafness Is Poorly Understood

“Hearing is basically a specialized form of touch. Sound is simply vibrating air which the ear picks up and converts to electrical signals, which are then interpreted by the brain.” -Evelyn Glennie