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Introducing: Brad T. Bush

Brad T. Bush — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:00:29 +0000

Hey folks. My name’s Brad, and I’m a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. I started singing in bands when I was in high school, and have been playing guitar since my early 20s. I’ve also been involved in a few different hip-hop projects for the last decade, with the current one being Sticks Downey, [...]

Ear Training Link Roundup

Christopher Sutton — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:00:21 +0000

Here are a few great ear training resources on the web which you might not have come across: Arranging Music for A Cappella “This guide should get you started arranging music for your a cappella group if you have musical ideas but don’t know how to put them down on paper. It’s no substitute for [...]

Link: 10 Hallmarks of Amateur Recordings

Introducing: Matthew Abdallah

Matthew Abdallah — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:00:16 +0000

Hello. My name is Matthew and I am a writer and guitarist from the United States. I started delving seriously into music during college. I did start to play guitar in high school, but not to any serious point. I started to get serious training in the performance aspects of lead and rhythm guitar with [...]

Absolute Pitch Meditation

Christopher Sutton — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:15:40 +0000

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’s an interesting approach. He’s using a recording of a pure tone of middle C (261.6Hz for you Frequency Fundamentals students!) to ‘meditate’ on. Several of the follow-up posts pick up [...]

Surviving Ear Training 101: The Reference Pitch

Want to play it? Hear it first!

Christopher Sutton — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:00:45 +0000

You might like to check out the guest post I just wrote over at MusicLessons4YouOnline.com, entitled “Want to play it? Hear it first!” It’s about how you need to hear music in your head to be able to really bring life to your playing, and create new compositions or improvisations. I outline the steps to [...]

Introducing: Nick Long

Nick Long — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:41:59 +0000

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’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 [...]

Link: 10 Hallmarks of Amateur Recordings

Christopher Sutton — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:16:00 +0000

Here’s an excellent post from the home-recording site, Hometracked, on how to avoid that ‘amateur sound’ when recording music: 10 Hallmarks of Amateur Recordings Anyone who’s tried recording music themselves will know the frustration – you spend hours working away and getting your mix right, and then come back to it the next day or [...]

Launch Party Recap – Part 2

Christopher Sutton — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:03:58 +0000

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 [...]

Launch Party Recap – Part 1

Christopher Sutton — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:41:11 +0000

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 – a beautiful old church with fantastic acoustics – so there couldn’t be a better place to launch a new site dedicated to helping [...]

Recap: Launch Week

Recap: Launch Week

Christopher Sutton — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:54:24 +0000

It’s been a busy first week here at EasyEarTraining.com! Here are some things you might have missed: First things first – What is ear training? Find out here, (and if you’re still not sure let us know in the comments below!) We introduced our team of authors for the site – Sabrina showed us how [...]