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.
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Posts by Christopher Sutton
Bass Tone Podcast 3: Playing Techniques
In this podcast, learn about the special playing techniques bassists use to adjust tone, including finger-style vs plectrum, slap bass, slurs and tapping.
Free MP3 Download: Note-Finding Practice Tracks
As a guitarist this exercise is the most important part of my practice, excellent for connecting your ears to your fingers. These tracks will help you do it.
Ear Training News Vol. 2
Here are a few recent developments in the world of music and sound which might help inspire or guide you in your ear training! Jump to: Big Update for Theta Music Trainer A possible end to the “Loudness War” Piano Carnival CD: Classical Music and Stories...
Bass Tone Podcast 2: The Electric Bass and Tone Control
In episode 2 of the Bass Tone podcast, Nick Long introduces Leo Fender’s revolutionary electric bass guitar and talks through the core choices which affect the tone of the bass, including:
• Electric vs. Upright bass
• Pickups: Single-coil and Humbucker
• Blending between pickups
• Active bass guitars and bass/treble boosts and cuts
• The effect of string choice on tone
Introducing our new app, Chordelia: Triad Tutor!
The top-rated chord tutor app for iOS, teaching the core types of chord: major, minor, augmented and diminished triads.
Bass Tone Podcast 1: Introduction and the Upright Bass
Listen to this podcast episode to learn all about the importance of the bass guitar in music, and get to know the sound of the upright bass a.k.a. “double bass”
Music & Life: Music Matters Blog (interview)
Last time around we spoke with Joanne van de Heuvel-Berkers, founder of the Play On Education Music School in the UK, which is using aspects of play and singing to make early music education fun for children. This week we’re speaking with another expert in the...
Ear Training News Vol. 1
Here are a few recent developments in the world of music and sound which might help inspire or guide you in your ear training! Jump to: What the iPad 2 and GarageBand app mean for music The many benefits of music in schools A chance to support a new (truly modern!)...
Music & Life: Play On Education (interview)
One of the topics we’ve been looking at in Music & Life is early music learning and how you can introduce music into a child’s life in a fun and educational way. Today we’re speaking with Joanne van de Heuvel-Berkers, founder of the Play On...Celebrating our first year at EasyEarTraining.com!
Well, it’s hard to believe it, but it’s now one year since we launched EasyEarTraining.com! With the goal of becoming the online hub for all things ear training and aural skills development, we’ve been busy over the last year publishing free articles...
Music & Life: Two New Children’s Ear Training Songs
Here are two songs to help children learn vital musical listening skills: Froggy Interval Hop and Monkey Rhythm Dance. Download the free MP3s and sheet music.
