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    Music

    Musicality Now

    Ever wondered why some people seem to have a gift for music? Have you wished that you could play by ear, sing in tune, improvise and jam? You are in the right place.

    Musicality Now is a mix of interviews and teaching, featuring some of the most inspiring and insightful musicians and music educators, talking about how to learn the core inner skills you need to feel like a “natural” in music and enjoy freedom, creativity and confidence.

    Topics include: Playing by ear, Singing in tune, Jamming with other musicians, Having a good sense of rhythm, Writing your own music, Writing notation, Improvising a solo, Talking intelligently about music, Understanding Music Theory, Clapping in time, Knowing your instrument inside and out, Tuning your instrument by ear, Reading notation, Sight-reading music, Playing from a lead sheet, Performing live, and Playing multiple instruments.

    Musicality Now is brought to you by Musical U (musical-u.com), the leading provider of musicality training online. Learn more and get shownotes at musicalitynow.com.

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    Copyright: © Copyright 2017 Musical U (Easy Ear Training Ltd.)

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    Latest Episodes:
    167: Welcome To Beatles Month Apr 02, 2019
    Show notes

    Hello, and welcome to Beatles Month! Today we're kicking off a very special series of episodes where we'll be celebrating all things Fab Four - and particularly diving into all the musicality questions we're so interested in here at Musical U - like what makes a song tick, how to understand what you hear in music, and what are the concrete, practical skills that underlie apparent musical "talent".

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 167

    Links and Resources

    • About Active Listening

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    166: When to stick with it - and when to move on Mar 28, 2019
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    Learning music can sometimes be frustrating. It can feel like you're putting in a ton of effort with very little results to show for it.

    But at the same time we all know that persistence is the key to success.

    So how do you know when you're being virtuous for persisting - and when you're just bashing your head against a brick wall?

    How do you know whether to give up or stick with it?

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 166

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    • Is it time to "break up" with music? - episode includes the "Should I Stick With It?" cheat sheet

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    165: Is it time to break up with music? Mar 21, 2019
    Show notes

    Hey - do you feel like giving up? Is your musical life driving you a bit crazy and you're wondering if you should just throw in the towel?

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 165

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    • Should I stick with it? - cheat sheet

    • Hey! Where are you going?

    • Forget Being Realistic - Do This Instead

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    164: Rewind: Practicing Mar 19, 2019
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    Hey, Christopher here, director of Musical U, and normally your host for the show. But today we have something a bit different for you. Now, I'll apologize in advance if you hear marching band music in the background. It's because I'm in Valencia in Spain at the moment, and they're celebrating this weekend, the Fallas festival and there's literally a marching band proceeding along outside my window. They've been playing all morning. It's a lot of fun - but not ideal when you're trying to record some video. So if you can hear a little trumpets and horns in the background, I apologize.

    What we have for you today is something a bit different and in a minute I'm going to disappear, and I will not be involved in the episode at all, because what we have is a team episode of the show. We've got the Musical U team together, and what we're doing is it kind of came out of happenstance where we had a few weeks in a row where on our team call, one of the members of the Musical U team randomly mentioned they listened to an old episode of the musicality podcast and learn something really cool, or they particularly enjoyed something. After that happened a few weeks in a row I was like "this is kind of cool we should do something with this".

    So what I did was I corralled Adam Liette, our Communications Manager, to get the team together for kind of a "show and tell" episode where each of them would bring along an old episode of the Musicality Podcast, an old interview we did with a musicality expert, and share a little bit about what resonated with them or what they learned, or their own opinions and insights on that topic.

    So that's what they did. The team got together, that's Stewart Hilton, Andrew Bishko, Adam Liette and Anastasia Voitinskaia, joined with our latest recruit Zac Bailey. They all got together, each bringing an episode to the table to share what they enjoyed about that episode. It turned out fantastic. They themed it all around practicing, and a little bit of performing stuff crept in there too.

    I thoroughly enjoyed listening back to the recording afterwards, and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did. It certainly inspired me to go back and listen again to some of those past interviews.

    So, that's it from me I'm going to leave you in Adam's capable hands in just a moment. Last thing to say it's just, if you do enjoy this episode, please hit us up on social media and let the team know. You can go to Facebook or Twitter or Instagram you'll find us under Musical U, and I would love for you to just show the team some love, show them some support. Tell them what you enjoyed about this episode, and hopefully we can tempt them back to do this again another time. That's it for me - enjoy the episode.

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 164

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    • What Your Voice Can Do, with Jeremy Fisher

    • About Hacking Habituation

    • Emotion and Efficiency, with Marc Gelfo

    • Learning to Rock the Stage, with Kevin Richards

    • Top Musicality Tools and Tech, with Katie Wardrobe

    • Making Music Learning a Picnic, with Ruth Power

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    163: Forget Being Realistic - Do This Instead Mar 14, 2019
    Show notes

    If you're pursuing a music dream of any kind, the chances are that there's one big thing standing in your way.

    At Musical U we talk a lot about your Big Picture Vision and getting clear on the things you're most excited about achieving in your musical life if everything went perfectly. Your ideal musical future.

    This is a powerful idea - but there's a big barrier that often holds people back. In this episode you'll learn what that barrier is and how you can stop it from holding you back from your true musical potential.

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 163

    Links and Resources

    • Big Picture Vision episode: "Hey! Where Are You Going?"

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    162: How to Stop Doubting and Start Performing, with Brent Vaartstra (Passive Income Musician) Mar 12, 2019
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    Have you ever wanted to get out there and start performing? Maybe solo at an open mic night, maybe getting involved in the local blues jam, maybe starting or joining a band - or even going out and getting paying gigs as a live performer.

    If so, you might have found yourself in the situation many of us do: our skills are up to scratch but we're still not ready. Emotionally, mentally, psychologically, we just have some kind of barrier that stops us from taking the plunge.

    Today on the show we have a returning guest, our friend Brent Vaartstra from the Learn Jazz Standards podcast, and his new show, Passive Income Musician.

    When Brent was with us before, we talked mostly about jazz and improvisation, but today we wanted to dig into something different with him: what it's like to be a gigging musician. From the practicalities to the juicy mindset stuff that can make the difference between sitting alone at home practicing by yourself for the rest of your life - and getting out there and sharing your music with the world confidently in a variety of musical situations.

    Brent shares some really valuable insights and actionable tips, including:

    • The number one most important thing to do in advance of a session or gig

    • How to handle a new and intimidating performance situation, especially as an introvert

    • And we talk about "Imposter Syndrome" - that psychological phenomenon where you continually worry you'll be found out as a fraud - even when you are actually good enough for what you're doing - and Brent shares his six tips for overcoming it.

    We loved having this opportunity to draw on Brent's expertise and wisdom beyond the world of jazz, and we know you're going to find a ton of valuable stuff here, especially if performing is part of your musical life - or you wish it would be!

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 162

    Links and Resources

    • Learn Jazz Standards

    • Learn Jazz Standards podcast

    • Passive Income Musician podcast

    • Getting Over "Imposter Syndrome" as an Online Music Educator - podcast episode

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    161: How to Improve AND Enjoy Your Musical Life Mar 07, 2019
    Show notes

    You can enjoy the process of learning music. You *should*, in fact!

    Believing that enjoyment and achievement are mutually exclusive is holding you back from your true musical potential.

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 161

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    • Forrest Kinney and Brent Vaartstra on improving your musical life

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    160: Fundamentals Over Flash, with John Hatcher (Blues Guitar Institute) Mar 05, 2019
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    Today we're joined on the show by John Hatcher, the founder of Blues Guitar Institute, a website and YouTube channel devoted to teaching acoustic blues guitar with a simple straight-forward approach.

    John was the winner of TrueFire's Next Top Guitar Instructor contest and over the last several years has been steadily growing a devoted following of keen blues guitarists. We have been struck by how John incorporates theory and ear training into his teaching and makes a genre that's often seen as very specialised and exclusive into something welcoming and accessible - so we were keen to invite him on the show to share more about learning an instrument in a balanced way, and how to explore the blues.

    In this conversation we talk about:

    • Why chasing flashy instrument technique can harm your development as a musician

    • What the earliest blues musicians would have to say about the idea that you need to be "born with the blues" to play it

    • His innovative "Microlicks" approach to breaking free from formulaic solos and being more creative when you improvise

    Naturally this episode will be of particular interest to guitarists and blues fans but there are lots of interesting ideas here for any musician, so we hope you'll enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 160

    Links and Resources

    • Blues Guitar Institute

    • Blues Guitar Institute - YouTube channel

    • Microlicks tutorials

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    159: How To Start Improvising Today Feb 28, 2019
    Show notes

    Have you wished you could improvise, but found the whole thing intimidating, overwhelming, or just a complete mystery?

    There's one thing I can tell you, in just a few minutes, that will let you begin improvising today and set you up for continued success.

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 159

    Links and Resources

    • Patterns and Playgrounds: 4 Ways to Approach Improvisation

    • About Improvisation - podcast episode

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    158: How To Truly Listen, with Evelyn Glennie Feb 26, 2019
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    Evelyn Glennie is the world's first full time solo percussionist, whose mission in life is to teach the world to listen. Her TED talk entitled "How to truly listen" has been viewed almost five million times. And if that wasn't remarkable enough, take a peek at the description or presenter bio for that TED talk and you'll discover that Evelyn actually lost almost all her hearing at the age of twelve.

    One might assume that a deaf musician must just be playing from memory or from instructions - which would make it a strong example of the kind of "robotic playing" we often talk about getting away from on this show. But Evelyn actually represents the polar opposite - her deep focus on listening and feeling each and every note makes her a prime example of just the kind of truly intentional, expressive playing that we celebrate and seek to encourage here at Musical U.

    Evelyn has given deep and careful thought to the topic of listening - and sound, and music, and how our relationship with each of these can transform our lives and the lives of those around us.

    From her TED talk to provocative sound art installations to YouTube teaching videos and of course her professional performing career, Evelyn's work just sparks of passion, creativity and wisdom - and so to say we were eager to pick her brains about musicality and the listening skills of music would be a huge understatement!

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    Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 158

    Links and Resources

    • Evelyn's website

    • Evelyn Glennie: How To Truly Listen - TED Talk

    • Evelyn Glennie: Interview from Playing from the Heart DVD

    • Listening to The Tempest, a tale to cure deafness

    • What Makes Us Human?

    • Questions Answered: Can Musicality Be Taught?

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