Christopher Sutton
Founder and Director of Musical U, Christopher Sutton is a lifelong passionate musician, dedicated to the mission of helping people to achieve their true, full musical potential.
Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA) and Queen Mary, University of London (MSc) Christopher founded Musical U (then, Easy Ear Training) in 2009 to pioneer new ways to make musicality training easy, fun and effective.
He is the creator of best-selling iOS apps Relative Pitch and SingTrue and the viral sensation ToneDeafTest.com. He has authored hundreds of articles and tutorials on Musical-U.com as well as countless other websites and publications, including Making Music Magazine and Total Guitar Magazine.
He is the host of Musicality Now the popular audio/video podcast focusing exclusively on musicality, where he's had the chance to interview over 100 world-leading experts, as well as sharing his own insights and guidance based on the methodology and frameworks created inside Musical U membership.
Learn more about Christopher:
Posts by Christopher Sutton
Top Online Courses for Playing By Ear
Want better musical ears? Get the latest methods, information and techniques for training your musical ear with these top online ear training courses.
Top Tech Tools for Playing By Ear
Want better ears for music? You should use the latest modern ear training tools so you get better much faster. Learn what they are and start using them today.
What can you already play by ear? Harmony & Rhythm?
This article follows on from part one, on melody. If you haven’t read it yet, please start there for the explanation and background. If you’ve already started your self-assessment – let’s continue on! Today it’s harmony and rhythm to...
What can you already play by ear? Let’s talk Melody.
Now that we’ve looked at what playing by ear is and how to learn to play by ear it’s time for us to stop and really work out where we each stand now in the journey to playing by ear. We’ll go on to look at some great ways to speed up the journey, but...
Want to play by ear? Well, do then!
In last week’s post I asked “Can you play by ear?” and explored what we actually mean by “playing by ear” and why you might care about this skill, sometimes assumed to be an all-or-nothing (almost magical) ability. Despite the common...
What is "playing by ear"?
Can you play by ear? That’s a common question in musician’s circles, a phrase that’s often used. “He’s a great musician, he can play by ear” “I’ve been learning my pieces… but I wish I could play by ear instead!...
Listen Close: The Sound of Sport
Note: Unfortunately Coca Cola have now taken down their web pages for the 2012 Olympics, so we have had to remove many of the links from this article. The London 2012 Olympic Games are sadly coming towards their close, but there’s still time to check out one of...Ear Training News Vol. 9
Ear training news! We look at some new ear training apps, learn more about the state of musicianship training and music video games and announce our new eBook – available now on Amazon! Contents: Apps and more on Evolver.fm “Modern Ear Training”...
UPDATE: DLP launches their new Jazz Course!
If you enjoyed the previous two posts in this series, on the DLP online music learning program and JazzAdvice.com, then this update will really get you excited: Today, DLP have launched their Jazz course, complementing their “Kore” introductory course with...
Ear Training Site Profile: DLP Music Program
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… We’ve covered the Dallas School of Music’s innovative “Discover, Learn and Play” online training program here on the site before, including a recent guest post by Eugene Cantara from...
Learn Perfect Fourths and Fifths: Free Ear Training Download
Perfect fourths and fifths are highly important intervals but hard to recognise. Learn perfect fourths and perfect fifths: free ear training download.
