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	<title>Easy Ear Training</title>
	<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com</link>
	<description>This is a place for people who are interested or involved in ear training to come and find out more, get hints and tips, and learn ways to improve more rapidly.  If you love music, come learn how you could hear so much more!</description>
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		<title>Introduction to the Drum Kit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great drum groove is the foundation of popular music, but a surprising number of music lovers can&#8217;t tell a snare from a hi-hat. There are a number of articles coming up here on EasyEarTraining.com featuring drums so now seems as good a time as any to take a quick tour around the kit.
Being able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/09/introduction-to-the-drum-kit/</link>
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		<title>Introducing: Nick Long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings Ear Trainers! My name is Nick and I am a musician and broadcast engineer.
My personal musical odyssey began at 14 when I started playing the guitar. It wasn&#8217;t long before a hobby became an obsession and I joined the first of a succession of bands. For me collaborating with other musicians and playing for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/08/introducing-nick-long/</link>
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		<title>Become a Rhythm Guru with GarageBand in 5 Easy Steps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t remember the bass riff from your favorite tune or just want to write down a sweet drum beat playing in your head? Figure out complex rhythms in a snap with Apple&#8217;s Garageband. A user-friendly music software program included with every Mac, Garageband allows any music enthusiast to mix beats, record, and produce original music. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/04/become-a-rhythm-guru-with-garageband-in-5-easy-steps/</link>
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		<title>Link: 10 Hallmarks of Amateur Recordings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an excellent post from the home-recording site, Hometracked, on how to avoid that &#8216;amateur sound&#8217; when recording music:
10 Hallmarks of Amateur Recordings
Anyone who&#8217;s tried recording music themselves will know the frustration &#8211; you spend hours working away and getting your mix right, and then come back to it the next day or next week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/03/link-10-hallmarks-of-amateur-recordings/</link>
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		<title>Learning to Recognize Intervals</title>
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Missed the start of the series? Click here to start at the beginning.
Now that we can sing and identify different scales, and have developed some familiarity with solfege, we can start to study intervals.  Remember that a musical interval measures the distance between any two pitches, identifying  both its size and quality.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/02/learning-to-recognize-intervals/</link>
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		<title>How to Approach Ear Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My ear training classes in college were far from perfect, to say the least.
Everyone sat at their own computer/keyboard station in the piano lab. We put our ear training CD into the computer, took out the complimentary workbook, and proceeded to work out various exercises in melodic and harmonic dictation. This was all fine and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/02/26/how-to-approach-ear-training/</link>
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		<title>Introduction To Frequency Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Can you identify the frequency of a kick drum? How about a snare drum? A woman’s voice? A man&#8217;s? How about an F#2 played on a piano? As an audio professional (audio recording/mixing engineer, music producer, mastering engineer, etc.) you should be able to identify these frequencies.
Why? We’ll get to that shortly. First, there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/02/23/introduction-to-frequency-training/</link>
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		<title>An Approach to Ear Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Missed the first article in the series? Click here to start at the beginning.
In the following articles, we will explore individual topics in ear training in a little more depth.  We will develop our study with what I hope is a clear system where each topic builds on the previous one.
With ear training, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/02/18/an-approach-to-ear-training/</link>
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		<title>Launch Party Recap &#8211; Part 2</title>
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Last week we held the launch party for EasyEarTraining.com at the Union Chapel in London. It was a great opportunity to gather a great mix of music lovers from all kinds of backgrounds, each with their own take on developing their ears, to discuss and try out different approaches to ear training.
This is the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/02/16/launch-party-recap-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Launch Party Recap &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around this time last week we held the EasyEarTraining.com launch party, upstairs at the Union Chapel in London. The Union Chapel is one of the most incredible music venues in London &#8211; a beautiful old church with fantastic acoustics &#8211; so there couldn&#8217;t be a better place to launch a new site dedicated to helping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/02/15/launch-party-recap-part-1/</link>
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