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		<title>Capitalising on aural inspiration (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2012/01/25/capitalising-on-aural-inspiration-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t read Part One of this article, here’s a quick summation: in ear training, as in most musical pursuits, some of the most productive moments don’t come from dedicated practice time or specific exercises. In fact, they come from those fleeting moments of inspiration that strike you powerfully when hearing a surprisingly great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Double Your Progress With Ear Training</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2011/12/29/how-to-double-your-progress-with-ear-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2011/12/29/how-to-double-your-progress-with-ear-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ethan Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Relative Pitch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a lot of experience with theory classes or with playing in an organized ensemble, you’re probably familiar with two different but equally important types of ear training method. When we sit down to practice though, we tend to focus only on one of them: the basic, practice-the-interval-until-you-could-recognize-it-asleep memorization method (or derivatives of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Recognize Intervals for Guitarists</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2011/07/27/learning-to-recognize-intervals-for-guitarists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2011/07/27/learning-to-recognize-intervals-for-guitarists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Evdokimoff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Intervals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to recognize intervals is an important part of any musician&#8217;s development. Guitarists who play by ear should be especially interested in developing their aural skills so that they can recognize musical elements such as intervals in harmonies and melodies. For players of improvised forms like jazz a good ear is critical for improvising as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free MP3 Download: Note-Finding Practice Tracks</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2011/05/12/free-mp3-download-note-finding-practice-tracks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2011/05/12/free-mp3-download-note-finding-practice-tracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guitar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playing By Ear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guitar teacher and EasyEarTraining.com forum regular Bradley Mavin got in touch with us lately to share a great teaching exercise he&#8217;s found useful for developing his student&#8217;s ears &#8211; and his own! Being the generous soul he is, he&#8217;s given us a downloadable pack of tracks to put up here on the site. Read on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Pitch Is Not Magic</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/26/perfect-pitch-is-not-magic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/26/perfect-pitch-is-not-magic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perfect Pitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absolute pitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/?p=1227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I touched on in the first post on this subject, there are a wide variety of ideas about how absolute pitch works. Why do some people &#8216;just have it&#8217;? If you&#8217;re not born with it, how can you develop it? Why do some people hear real differences in a C and a D, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Ear Training</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/22/21st-century-ear-training/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/22/21st-century-ear-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perfect Pitch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/?p=1132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post featured a forum thread about training absolute pitch by meditating on single tones. Thinking some more about learning absolute pitch and this particular &#8216;experiment&#8217;, I realised there were three reasons it appealed to me: The do-it-yourself mentality. The desire to work with and learn from other people. The &#8216;purity&#8217; of the training. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absolute Pitch Meditation</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/16/absolute-pitch-meditation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/16/absolute-pitch-meditation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Ultimate-Guitar.com, a neuroscience student is inviting people to try an informal experiment with him, to test a method of developing absolute pitch. It&#8217;s an interesting approach. He&#8217;s using a recording of a pure tone of middle C (261.6Hz for you Frequency Fundamentals students!) to &#8216;meditate&#8217; on. Several of the follow-up posts pick up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words of Encouragement</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/15/a-few-words-of-encouragement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/15/a-few-words-of-encouragement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph DuBose</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, we’ve covered quite a bit of ground in the last three articles and by now you might feel a little overwhelmed by the enormity of ear training. So, let’s go back over the highlights of what has been covered so far. Ear training requires a focused attention Training the ear to distinguish between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ear Training All The Time!</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/06/ear-training-all-the-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/04/06/ear-training-all-the-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sutton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[absolute pitch]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.iphoneeartraining.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s important to find time for ear training &#8211; regular practice is essential to develop and maintain your skills. Setting aside time for focused training is vital, but there are a lot of other ways to keep your training progressing&#8230; Whatever area of ear training you&#8217;re focused on, you&#8217;ll find there are recommended exercises and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ear Training Fun With Your iPhone, PS3, and Satellite Radio</title>
		<link>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/17/ear-training-fun-with-your-iphone-ps3-and-satellite-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/2010/03/17/ear-training-fun-with-your-iphone-ps3-and-satellite-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sabrina Peña Young</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.EasyEarTraining.com/?p=664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to sit in a tedious aural theory classroom to improve your ear training. Everyday technology like the internet, your cell phone, video games, or even your car radio can help you train your ears to discern pitches, rhythm, and harmony. You can work on your music listening skills and have a ton [...]]]></description>
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