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Ear Training or Listening Practice?

March 15, 2007 By Graham English

You can make ear training something you do once in a while or you can make it part of who you are. That's the difference between ear training and a listening practice. Ear training has often been half-jokingly, half-seriously referred to as "ear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: deliberate practice, Ear Training, ear training exercises, EarTrainingHacks, exercises, listening, listening practice, listening skills, musical vocabulary, Practice, Practicing, unconditional listening

Top Ear Training Articles for 2006

December 17, 2006 By Graham English

I hope your ear improved in 2006. I know mine did. Just in case you haven't been reading my blog all year, here's my favorite ear training articles for 2006. Is Your Ear Suspect? Why Singing What You Hear Is Important To Your Ear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, Ear Training, ear training freeware, ear training software, EarTrainingHacks, perfect pitch, relative pitch

Everytime I hear a B, I reach for my cell phone…

December 5, 2006 By Graham English

It's pretty funny actually. I'll be watching TV or a movie and whenever I hear the note B in the soundtrack, I reach for my phone. All because I have Miles Davis' All Blues as my ringtone. :) In case you missed it, I've talked about ear training … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, EarTrainingHacks, perfect pitch, pitch triggers

Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 09-26-06

September 26, 2006 By Graham English

Topics covered: Shaolin Ear Training. Download: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 09-26-06 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast, Audio, Music Education Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch ear training, Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast, absolute pitch podcast, Ear Training, ear training exercises, ear-focus, EarTrainingHacks, exercises, eye-focus, Kung Fu, learn absolute pitch, perfect pitch, perfect pitch podcast, podcasts, Shaolin

Shaolin Ear Training

September 18, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Ear Training, ear-focus, EarTrainingHacks, exercises, eye-focus, HowTo, Kung Fu, Shaolin

Hearing and Consciousness

August 21, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute pitch ear training, absolute sound, brain, consciousness, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, hearing, listening, listening practice, MindHacks, myelination, neurons, perfect pitch, pitch, senses, silence, sound, tuning fork, unconditional listening

Absolute Pitch University Launched

July 25, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, Absolute Pitch University, coaching, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, learning, Master Mind, mentoring, MusicHacks, peak performance, perfect pitch

The Ear Training You Do Today…

June 4, 2006 By Graham English

...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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, cognitrons, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, neurons, Practice, synapses

Quit On A High Point

May 30, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: APP FAQ, Ear Training, EarTrainingHacks, learning theory

Portals Into Absolute Pitch: Silence

May 23, 2006 By Graham English

This will be some of the more esoteric knowledge pertaining to absolute pitch. But nonetheless important. Keep an open mind. Silence Absolute pitch is so well disguised that almost everybody misses it completely. If you know how to listen, you'll … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, absolute sound, breathing, EarTrainingHacks, esoteric, perfect pitch, silence

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