Teaching, Listening, and Learning, with Violin Teacher Eloise Hellyer
Hear what you play, and play what you hear: crucial skills for any musician. Violinist Eloise Hellyer teaches teachers how to teach, and learn, listening.
Listen and Sing: Your Way to Great Musicianship, with Donna Schwartz
Music reading is often taught first. But when we learn first by ear, our musicality emerges much more easily. Singing connects listening with music-making.
Hearing Harmonies with Active Listening
Music is rich with harmonies. Learning to hear harmonies deepens your appreciation of music and helps you as a singer, composer, or any kind of musician.
Open Your Ears to Free Rhythm
Most western music relies on a steady measured pulse. See what happens when the metrical safety net disappears in these passionate examples of free rhythm.
Open Your Ears to Amazing Tango
Surprise your ears with the wide range of tango, celebrating more than 150 years of innovation with all its moody, playful, and emotional rhythmic energy.
Open Your Ears to Villa-Lobos
Discover 5 astonishingly beautiful tracks by Heitor Villa-Lobos, who infuses classical forms with Brazilian spirit to create a musical language all his own.
Open Your Ears to Chant Music
Join us to explore the timeless genre of chant music. Open your ears to these five chant songs and chant’s integration into modern day music.
Bassline or Melody? Four ways to hear the difference
Melody and the bassline are similar in some ways and sometimes easy to confuse. Fortunately there are some differences too. Learn 4 ways to tell them apart.
Hearing Tone, Timbre, and Texture
Tone, timbre and texture are three powerful and universal concepts in music but often misunderstood. Learn the definitions and how to hear them.
Open Your Ears to The Elders
Listen to The Elders, from the American Midwest, to find out why the Irish Rock genre is so popular, and how they will inspire your own musical creation.
How to Recognize Different Types of Synthesis
Explore the different types of synthesis, how to generate them and include them in your musical creations. With demo samples and real tracks as examples.
Open Your Ears to Emerging Genres
Actively listen to these five tracks from various new genres of music that are being developed by splicing together existing genres in innovative ways.
