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
Ear Training Link Roundup
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...
Play Rock Band 3… with a real Fender guitar!
The Squier Stratocaster Pro controller was just announced at the E3 conference in Los Angeles, and it has an extra trick up its sleeve. Is this a guitar which doubles as a controller, or a controller which has been extended into an instrument? It’s a genuine Fender, full-size, six-string, guitar complete with quarter-inch jack.
If it ain't got that swing…
What if Axl and Slash had hung out with Fats Domino? Or Metallica met Miles Davis? A new music processor called The Swinger is looking to find out, by adding a swing to any song you throw at it. Get ready to hear those classics in a whole new way – and as the...
Open Your Ears: Musical Bridge to Burma
I recently heard about an very interesting musical event – a concert in aid of Link Emergency Aid & Development of Burma, which brings young Western composers and classical musicians together to play traditional music, and music inspired by Burma. Burma...
Perfect Pitch Is Not Magic
Perfect pitch is an impressive musical ability which comes naturally to some musicians – so many people think it is a magic “gift”. Learn the truth here.
21st Century Ear Training
My last post featured a forum thread about training absolute pitch by meditating on single tones. Thinking some more about learning absolute pitch and this particular ‘experiment’, I realised there were three reasons it appealed to me: The do-it-yourself...
Absolute Pitch Meditation
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...
Open Your Ears: Creation Multimedia Oratorio
This Friday marks the premier of Sabrina Peña Young’s new work, ‘Creation’, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Decatur, Illinois. Open Your Ears This is the first post in a new series, “Open Your Ears”, which will highlight interesting...Ear Training All The Time!
It’s important to find time for ear training – regular practice is essential to develop and maintain your skills. Setting aside time for focused training is vital, but there are a lot of other ways to keep your training progressing… Whatever area of...Want to play it? Hear it first! (excerpt)
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...
