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		<title>Hearing Effects: Dynamics, Part 1 &#8211; Compressors</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/28/hearing-effects-dynamics-part-1-compressors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fotios Koulakos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missed the start of the series? Catch up here.
Compressors, limiters, single band, multi band, soft knee, hard knee, ratios, attack, release&#8230; on and on and on.These terms sound more like medical tools/procedures used in gastrointestinal bypass surgeries!
Despite some of their more gruesome sounding names, these are all terms related to, and describing dynamics &#8211; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing Effects: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/22/hearing-effects-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fotios Koulakos</dc:creator>
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Welcome back to the ongoing series that began with Frequency Fundamentals. I trust and hope it has been as helpful for you as it was fun for me to write.
Moving along, this is the start of a new series that will dovetail with the frequency series. Consider it the second suite of a broader work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired For Sound Part 3: All The Gear, But No Idea?</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/20/wired-for-sound-part-3-all-the-gear-but-no-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missed the previous posts in the series? Catch up with Part One and Part Two.
So you&#8217;re planning on buying some new toys, or shifting your set up around, but how will you know if you have actually made things better?
First things first, you need some test material. Several hi-fi manufacturers make CDs of test tracks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Quiz! Frequency Bands and Harmonics</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/16/new-quiz-frequency-bands-and-harmonics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
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Following on from the previous quiz on Percussion Frequencies, we&#8217;re opening up a new quiz today: covering Frequency Bands and Harmonics.
Once you&#8217;ve got to grips with the starting material in the Frequency Fundamentals course, you should find you&#8217;re getting a good sense of where different frequencies lie in your hearing range. The second half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired For Sound Part 2: Amps and Speakers</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/13/wired-for-sound-part-2-amps-and-speakers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/13/wired-for-sound-part-2-amps-and-speakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Long</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amplifiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cables]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hi-fi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missed part one? Catch up here.
Welcome to part two of my series helping you gain new enjoyment from ear training by showing you how to get the best sound quality. This week we are going to be talking about amps and speakers.
This is a huge subject and you could easily fill books on such esoteric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step and a Half: Melody Training &#8211; Out Now!</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/08/step-and-a-half-melody-training-out-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/08/step-and-a-half-melody-training-out-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[improvise]]></category>
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At Easy Ear Training, we&#8217;re hugely excited about the potential for technology to revolutionise ear training, and we think training apps on smartphones are leading the way. Our newest app release, Step and a Half, is a game which teaches you to understand melodies so that you can play them by ear, write them down, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing our new iPhone app: Step and a Half!</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/06/announcing-our-new-iphone-app-step-and-a-half/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/06/announcing-our-new-iphone-app-step-and-a-half/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/?p=1707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce our new ear training app for iPhone and iPod Touch:

Step and a Half will be released on the App Store this Thursday, 8th July, and we wanted to give EasyEarTraining.com readers a sneak peak of the new app in advance!
What&#8217;s it for?
One of the most common requests we&#8217;ve heard from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to write better songs (&#8230;by developing your ears!)</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/02/how-to-write-better-songs-by-developing-your-ears/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/07/02/how-to-write-better-songs-by-developing-your-ears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Abdallah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[absolute pitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[composing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dynamics]]></category>
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Songwriting and ear training are two concepts that are strongly linked together, which is often overlooked. The goal of songwriting is to create music for an audience to hear. The goal of ear training is to develop a sense of hearing better able to listen to musical ideas.
A musician with better ear training is going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Quiz! Percussion Frequencies</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/06/29/new-quiz-percussion-frequencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;ve been working on the Frequency Fundamentals series here at EasyEarTraining.com, you may be looking for a way to practice the skills it teaches. Fotios has created a special quiz for the first half of the series, covering drums and cymbals.
The Frequency Fundamentals course takes you from the most basic concepts, through to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired for Sound Part 1: Playback</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/06/24/wired-for-sound-part-1-playback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Long</dc:creator>
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You don&#8217;t need a fancy Hi-Fi system to have fun ear training, but good sound reproduction can inspire your creativity, reveal unheard detail in a familiar recording and is less tiring for extended listening sessions. In this series of articles I will be providing some hints and tips on how to get the best listening [...]]]></description>
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