How to Transcribe a Song by Ear In The Musical Ear course I show you the 3 step process I use to transcribe a song by ear: ‘Listen – Think More

The fastest way to train your ear is to transcribe all music in the same key… And to ignore the key of the original song. Why? Well the biggest obstacle More

Here’s some of my most popular PDF downloads. Click on the one you want (or all of them) and you’ll receive the PDF sheet music by email. 7 Sweet Chord More

I wasn’t a child prodigy at music. In fact my first 10 years of music lessons were very unproductive. Only at age 17 did I start changing my practice habits, and that’s More

The ‘Holy Grail’ Of All Music Exercises: Accompanying download for this lesson: Interval Trainer MP3 tracks. As a musician, the one thing you’ll be doing on a daily basis, more than anything More

You’ve probably heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘10,000 hours principle’ – that to reach mastery in most things, it takes about 10,000 hours of practice. Does this apply to music? I would More

While I was an undergraduate music student at college, I did a lot of ear training. We had 3 ear training lessons a week (60 minutes each) and there would be an exam More

“Music Is 90% In The Mind” It’s not all about finger dexterity, speed and technique – but much more about how you think. I can honestly say that 90% (or more) of my music More

WHAT IS A KEY SIGNATURE? To minimize the number of sharp / flat signs in the music, a composer starts the piece with a ‘key signature’ – which is a More

Learning a new scale means memorizing its interval pattern – its unique series of half-steps and whole-steps. However it always surprises me when a student recites the set of 7 More

In music, ‘spelling’ refers to how you label notes – ‘F#’ or ‘Gb’? ‘C natural’ or ‘B#‘ or even ‘D double flat’? Correct note spelling is a common area of More