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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

New Music Hacks Podcast

July 7, 2006 By Graham English

Music hacks are slick solutions to common musical problems. This Music Hacks podcast is designed to help you learn to hack your music intentionally, so you never get stuck and experience more joy out of playing. Subscribe with iTunes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: MusicHacks, podcasts, subscribe, teleseminars

Music Hacks Podcast 07-06-06

July 6, 2006 By Graham English

Topics covered: Mental rehearsal, how to get your music heard, how to elicit good feedback about your music, outcome-based thinking and intentional music, effective lyric phrasing, songwriting hacks, "open loops", the 80/20 rule of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audio, Music Education Tagged With: LifeHacks, MusicHacks, podcast, Songwriting

Music Hacks Teleclinic 07-06-06

July 5, 2006 By Graham English

Music hacks are slick solutions to common musical problems. Like using a hack to create a brand new melody instantly when you're up against a deadline. Or tricks to make your improvised solos stand out from note one and make the listener feel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, Seminars Tagged With: MusicHacks, Teleclinic

MusicHack #5. Turn It Upside Down

June 20, 2006 By Graham English

In honor of my brother's birthday. He turns 30 today. Happy Birthday Brian! :) Here it is inverted: Here it is backwards: First person to guess the original melody gets a free standard edition of Absolute Pitch Power. Post your answer in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch Power, melody, MusicHacks

Music Hacks TeleClinic

June 19, 2006 By Graham English

The term hacker has been used to refer to someone who breaks into systems or wreaks havoc with computers as their weapon. But among the tech crowd, the term hack refers to a "quick-and-dirty" solution to a problem, or a clever way to get something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, Seminars Tagged With: MusicHacks, Teleclinic

Who Else Wants To Master the Diminished Scale?

June 15, 2006 By Graham English

The diminished scale is an extremely creative tool. Due to the diminished chord's symmetrical structure of stacked minor thirds, we have two options of diminished scales: half step-whole step and whole step-half step. A major benefit to this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, diminished scale, John Coltrane, lessons, music lessons, Music Theory, MusicHacks, patterns, scales, symmetry

Music To Replace Aspirin…

May 29, 2006 By Graham English

From Music 'can reduce chronic pain': US researchers tested the effect of music on 60 patients who had endured years of chronic pain. Those who listened to music reported a cut in pain levels of up to 21%, and in associated depression of up to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: music therapy, MusicHacks

MusicHack #4

May 7, 2006 By Graham English

Lost? Get some direction. Use Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies to tell you what to do next. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: creativity, MusicHacks, oblique strategies

How To Be An Expert

March 5, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, Absolute Pitch Power, brain, challenge, deliberate practice, expertise, flow, genius, MusicHacks, passion, peak performance, performance, Practice, Psychology

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