Access a learning state fully. Remember a specific time when you were a virtual learning machine. What can you tell about your learning strategy? How do you know when it is time to learn something new? What internal steps do you take to ensure that … [Read more...]
Hacking Your Musical Strategies Day 2: Motivation Strategies
Elicit your motivational strategy for dong something that's not necessarily fun, like practicing scales. Next, elicit your motivational strategy for doing something you love, like jamming with your friends. Are these strategies the same or different? … [Read more...]
Hacking Your Musical Strategies Day 1: Decision Strategies
While practicing your instrument today, notice your decision strategy for choosing what you are going to practice. Slow the decision process way down and write down each step of your strategy. Identify the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic components … [Read more...]
Five Common Musicianship Problems – Which Ones Do You Want To Overcome?
Most of the music coaching and teaching I do involves information gathering. It's important for me to clearly identify what musical challenges my students are having so that I don't fix something that ain't broke and so I impact the problem in a way … [Read more...]
The term “Music Hack” deserves some explanation…
Lately, I've been excited about a new type of musical mini-model that I call a "Music Hack." But first, I need to explain what modeling is. Long ago, during the peak of the Human Potential Movement, the mind technology "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" … [Read more...]
Absolute Pitch University is where the rubber meets the road
Here's the deal: Absolute Pitch University is 12 weeks of personal coaching through bi-weekly teleseminars. Every teleseminar is recorded for you to listen to again and again... and in case you have to miss one. We'll cover Absolute Pitch Power (and … [Read more...]
Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 07-30-06
Topics covered: Absolute Pitch University, NLP, modeling, hot seats, music hacks, life hacks, much more... Download: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 07-30-06 … [Read more...]
Music Hacks Podcast 07-30-06
Topics covered: Absolute Pitch University, NLP, modeling, hot seats, music hacks, life hacks, much more. Download: Music Hacks Podcast 07-30-06 … [Read more...]
Absolute Pitch University Launched
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...]
Top Secret Patterns (shhh, they’re free!)
Patterns are a great way of putting scales to work. Not only do they get you out of any do-re-mi rut, they expand your musical vocabulary. They also expand your mind by forcing you to think about systems within systems—and sometimes within … [Read more...]