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Graham At His Keys

December 17, 2005 By Graham English

This is a picture of me as Elton John at my Halloween Party. :) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: Graham English

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

December 15, 2005 By Graham English

Voyager Golden Record

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. Johnson was blinded at an early age. The story goes that his stepmother threw lye in his face in a fit of rage. His home burned down in '45 and having nowhere else to go, he lived in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: blues

Holiday Ear Training

December 15, 2005 By Graham English

If you're anything like me, then you're being pulled in a thousand different directions during the holiday season. Where does ear training fit into your list of priorities? For me, ear training is what I do first thing in the morning... well, that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: 80/20 rule, Absolute Pitch, Ear Training

Dante’s Denouement

December 12, 2005 By Graham English

On October 22, 2004, twenty-three volunteers came together to create this film in a 24-hour extreme filmmaking competition. Watch the movie: Dante's Denouement What a blast this was! I had less than a week to compose the score based on a story … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: competition, soundtrack

Ernst Terhardt Writes About Absolute pitch

December 9, 2005 By Graham English

Dr. Terhardt was kind enough to allow me to reprint his research on absolute pitch. The term absolute pitch (AP) denotes a person's ability to form an internal auditory image of any musical tone labeled by an appropriate symbol (note, letter) such … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch research, adult learning, research

Obstacles To Peak Performance

December 9, 2005 By Graham English

It is important to be stress-free and relaxed to "make sense" of all the input we receive from the senses. The middle brain, which is also called the Mammalian Brain, controls the emotions, sexuality and the immune and hormonal systems. It is the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: abstract, brain, LifeHacks, peak performance

MasterWriter Review

December 9, 2005 By Graham English

Here is my review of MasterWriter, a collection of writing tools for songwriters. First of all, I give MasterWriter two big thumbs up. It has been an invaluable songwriting tool for me since the day I bought just over a year ago. MasterWriter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: alliteration, creative process, dictionary, lyrics, pop culture, rhyme, songwriters, Songwriting, songwriting tools, SongwritingHacks, thesaurus

Rock and Roll is Here to Pay

December 9, 2005 By Graham English

The average consumer is not motivated by arguments about copyright infringement, nor should they be... Copyright has never been simply an exclusive contract to exploit the fruits of one's creativity, but rather a balancing act, weighing the legal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business, Prose Tagged With: copyright, intellectual property, major labels

The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 1

December 9, 2005 By Graham English

If you ride chaos all the way out to its edge, you find beauty and order... and the Blues Chaos: complete disorder and confusion; behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions; the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: blues, chaos theory, circle of fifths, fractals, fundamental, golden mean, golden section, harmonics, harmony, Music Theory, overtones, partials, phi, pythagoras, scales, sound, Western harmony

Research On Absolute Pitch

December 8, 2005 By Graham English

...these results indicate that, in principle, AP can be learned - or one should rather say, developed or activated. In 2000, Ernst Terhardt published research on absolute pitch that proves absolute pitch can be learned. ...the ability to recognize … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch research, perfect pitch, perfect pitch research

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