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What order to work through reading, audiation, ear training, and composition. Two minutes to read, and it saves you a lot of wandering.

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Five threads run through everything here. Pick the one you are working on.

Ear Training

The practical work. Intervals, chords, dictation, and how to keep at it.

Audiation

Hearing music in your mind before you play it. What it is and how to build it.

Composition

Writing music. Getting started, getting unstuck, and finding your own sound.

Music Theory

Key signatures, notation, and the parts of theory that actually help your ear.

Counterpoint

Two or more lines at once. How they stay independent and still belong together.
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  • Oct 9

How Do You Teach Audiation? Start With One Note and a Pause

Audiation and ear training are two separate tracks that never move at the same speed. How to start both, when to stagger them, and how to grade them.
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  • Sep 12

Does Studying Music Ruin It? Ear Training Without Losing the Joy

Will analyzing everything make you love music less? When study drains the music, when it feeds it, and why the hard stretch is not what it looks like.
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  • Sep 5

How to Train Your Ear for Music: The Listen, Sing, Play Method

The musicians who make the biggest leaps in ear training are not the most talented. They train differently. Three habits and a week you can copy.
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  • Aug 29

How to Practice Music Effectively: Why Repetition Alone Doesn't Work

Running a passage twenty times while your mind drifts trains almost nothing. A four-step structure that makes five focused minutes beat thirty.
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  • Aug 22

What Is Audiation? How to Hear Music in Your Mind

Audiation is hearing music in your mind when no sound is present. What it is, why it trains like technique does, and three habits to start today.
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  • Aug 15

Audiation for Beginners: How to Start Ear Training From Scratch

A beginner guide to audiation and ear training. Four first steps in order, starting from one held note, with no prerequisites and no prior theory.
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  • Jul 26

The Order I Recommend: A Training Sequence for Musicians

People ask what order to do things in. Here is the honest answer, including the one part that surprises everyone.
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  • Jun 28

Finding Your Own Sound as a Composer

A voice is not something you find by looking for it. It comes out of what you listen to and what you keep coming back to.
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Music and the Brain

  • May 31

Why Music Moves Us, and What We Actually Know

Popular writing about music and the brain is mostly summaries of summaries. Here is what you can verify with your own ears in a single listening.
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  • May 3

The Sharps and Flats at the Front of the Staff

How to read a key signature in one second, the mnemonic for the order of sharps and flats, and the two mistakes that make a piece sound wrong.
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  • Apr 19

The Composer's Secret Weapon: Using Audiation to Develop Your Musical Ear

Discover how audiation transforms your musical ear and enhances composition skills. Unlock your creative potential with our comprehensive guide.
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  • Apr 7

The Difference Between Procedural Ear Training and Conceptual Audiation

One kind of ear training tells you it is working. The other does not. Confusing them is why musicians quit the half that was building musicianship.
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  • $547 or 6 monthly payments of $96

Flawless Ear Training: The Complete Audiation-Based Ear Training Course

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  • 368 Lessons
  • Includes 2 private spaces

The complete audiation-based ear training course for hobbyists and musicians alike. 16 audio units, from intervals to advanced harmony. One focused lesson a day. Stream or download.
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Podcast

UreMusic Mentor: Music Theory and Aural Training

Short episodes on hearing, theory, and writing music.

The same subjects as the courses, in a form you can take on a walk. Composition, theory, and ear training.

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