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🎤What can you do if you can’t sing in tune?

Singing is a core skill for any musician – whether or not you have any intention of stepping up on stage with microphone in hand.

Singing is the best tool you have for training your ears and it’s a great way to communicate your ideas to other musicians.

Check out this handy infographic from the Musical U team and learn how to sing in tune.

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🎸There are a number of options for a guitarist to play a chord that can have a significant impact on how the listener is affected by the song.

Learn some fun ways to play chords in this free lesson.

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Want to hack your music practice and boost your results? 🎶🚀

In this episode we share a golden nugget from Marc Gelfo’s masterclass about accelerating your music learning.

Enjoy these practical tips.

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😔Have you ever had negative thoughts about yourself and your musical growth while practicing or performing?

Lisa McCormick discusses the concept of the “self” in music, and the need for a holistic approach to practicing that encourages constant dialogue between mind, body, and music.

Enjoy this episode and learn the importance of nurturing a positive and constructive mindset.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/about-your-self/

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🎹A chord progression is quite the powerful musical tool; the way in which a musician wields a series of chords can make multiple songs with the same progression sound radically different from one another.

One of the most loved chord progression is the ii-V-I or ii-V7-I progression.

Let’s learn the mechanics of this progression, hear it in action, and look at how to use it in songwriting.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/listening-for-ii-v-i-chord-progressions/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/entertainment-and-education-with-mr-q-u-e/
🎤🎓What could be cooler than an educational rap song!?

We had a lot of fun speaking with LaMar Queen, also known as Mr. Q-U-E. LaMar is the rapper behind Music Notes, a company that’s been having great success providing educational rap songs to schools across the U.S.A. Dive in to this full interview and learn why music is so powerful for learning.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/entertainment-and-education-with-mr-q-u-e/

W/Music Notes

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Maybe you’re thinking that retirement is much too late in life to learn an instrument.

In fact, retirement may be the best time to study a new instrument.

Check out our top 5 reasons why you should learn to play an instrument in your golden years:

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https://www.musical-u.com/learn/learn-music-like-you-learn-a-language-naturally-victor-wooten/
🎶Did you know that passive ear training through exposure to music can develop aural skills in the same natural way as language?

In this fantastic short video, Victor Wooten explains his philosophy on music as a language, and how organic learning music can be.

Enjoy this inspiring outlook and approach to music.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/learn-music-like-you-learn-a-language-naturally-victor-wooten/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/creativity-composing-confidence-sabrina-pena-young/
🎶What does it take to be successful with music?

We had the pleasure of speaking with Sabrina Peña Young, an award-winning composer who created the first ever original fully-animated opera, Libertaria.

Sabrina is certainly someone who people would be quick to call “talented” or “gifted”, yet we knew from working with her that she had as little belief in the importance of natural talent as we do – so we were utterly curious to know: if it’s not talent, how does she do it all?

Find out in this inspiring episode.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/creativity-composing-confidence-sabrina-pena-young/

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What is the key to get that perfect mix?

Click through to learn the proper steps to train your ears for percussion frequencies.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/how-do-you-train-your-ear-for-percussion-frequencies/