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“What secret practice skill can significantly increase your progress?
This process of audiation can considerably strengthen your skills as a musician.
In the 1957 musical The Music Man, a con-artist posing as a music teacher taught his eager students the “think method” for learning music.
“Professor” Harold Hill claimed that if you thought your way through a song, you would magically be able to play it.
While this method has some obvious flaws (such as not teaching fingerings for even a single note to an entire marching band) there is something to Professor Hill’s claim…
Thinking your way through music may not be enough to really learn it, but it can be a highly effective tool for accelerating your progress and improving your musical ear.
Read more to discover the powerful world of audiation.