Open Your Ears to a Serving of Groove
Get ready to feel the rhythm with this “serving of groove”. Featuring five artists from around the world this set demonstrates the diversity of groove.
Open Your Ears to 5 Kind of Soft Songs
Close your eyes, relax and enjoy letting your thoughts wander away with these five kind of soft songs. Perfect for escaping the stress of everyday life.
Open Your Ears to 60×60
In the Open Your Ears series we cover a wide range of music: from opera to electronica, from Björk to Tuvan throat singing. (seriously, if you haven’t heard about throat singing, you’re missing out!) But if you want to have your mind blown away minute-by-minute...
Open Your Ears to the Music of Björk
Few artists are as creatively experimental as Björk, which makes her music the ideal exploration ground when stretching and improving your musical ears.
Open Your Ears to Tuvan Throat Singing!
Believe it or not, it is possible to sing more than one note at once! Discover the Tuvan throat singing method and train your ears to understand how it’s done.
Listen Close: "Turnin’ on the Screw" by Queens of the Stone Age
Recent talk of the possibility of a new Queens of the Stone Age album before the end of 2011 has me certifiably giddy. I’m a big fan of lead-Queen Josh Homme’s side project Them Crooked Vultures, and their 2009 self-titled LP spent some serious time on my...
Listen Close: "Pagan Poetry" by Björk
Find out what makes “Pagan Poetry” by Björk such a special track, and how you can use it to improve your musical listening skills through ear training.
New Series! Bass Tone teaches the sounds of the bass
It punches you in the chest, and flaps your trouser legs. It’s the thump that moves the rump. A bass player forms the connective tissue between the drummer and the rest of the instruments, standing with one foot in the rhythmic and the other in the melodic. The...
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”
Bass Tone: Fretless Electric
Now that you’re used to the tones of the upright, and electric basses, and the playing techniques used to achieve different sounds, it’s time to meet a variant on the electric bass: the fretless electric. The fretless electric bass is essentially an...What gives the fretless bass its sound?
The fretless bass has a very distinctive sound. Whether it’s a fretless electric bass or a traditional upright double bass, there’s something about its sound that marks it out clearly from a normal bass guitar. What is it? There is one big factor: the lack...What's the difference between tone, timbre and texture?
These three terms are often used loosely and interchangeably – but they do each have a specific meaning! All three refer to the quality of a sound: its overall characteristics. That’s why you might hear somebody talking about the tone of a violin, or...
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