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https://www.musical-u.com/learn/roadmap-to-rhythm/
Rhythm is a challenging area for many musicians.

It’s often assumed that your rhythm skills should be strong to begin with if you want to learn music, and that they’ll develop naturally from there.

In fact most musicians must dedicate regular effort to improve their sense of rhythm and what they need is a clear step-by-step process to get good rhythm. Learn about the roadmaps that we use inside Musical U!

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/roadmap-to-rhythm/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/ear-training-possible-impossible/
“Is ear training even possible for me?” Perhaps you’ve asked yourself this question. And I certainly know that feeling.

I can also tell you: Yes, you can do it.

Let’s specifically discuss the question of interval ear training – but most of what we’ll be talking about applies more broadly to all areas of musicality training.

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https://www.musical-u.com/learn/practise-music-busy/
Musicians often complain they don’t have enough time to practise. In many cases, the biggest obstacles you might hear them mention are time constraints.

This is especially true for new and budding musicians. They might have a certain idea of what they think learning music should be like and get discouraged before they even begin.

The good news is that these obstacles are mostly mental. Check out these hints to get the most out your hard work and dedication.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/practise-music-busy/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/applying-solfa-to-real-music/
Can you imagine listening to a piece of music and knowing exactly what notes you’re hearing?

And what that would do for your ability to play what you hear on your instrument?

Solfa is a magical key that unlocks the pitches and harmonies in all the music you hear.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/applying-solfa-to-real-music/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/training-ears-chords/
Isn’t it magical when someone sits down at the piano or picks up the guitar and seems to know how to play every song by ear?

It’s not magic – these musicians have spent some time learning the identify chords and chord progressions. Would like to learn how to do that, too?

With a little chord ear training, being able to play any song by ear is well within your grasp.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/training-ears-chords/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/songwriters-secrets-rocking-vocal-rhythms/
Developing good rhythms for your vocal parts is a key aspect of songwriting.

By learning how to write good vocal rhythm you will avoid pitfalls like trying to fit too many words in a single line and making lines which are almost impossible to enunciate.

There are a few ways to figure out rhythms for your melodic lines. Which we’ll explore in this article:

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/songwriters-secrets-rocking-vocal-rhythms/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/isnt-it-time-you-learned-to-sing/
Why would an accomplished musician take up singing when they were already succeeding as an instrumentalist?

What makes singing so important for musicians and so vital for good musicianship? And why would you take lessons rather than just trying to teach yourself to sing?

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/isnt-it-time-you-learned-to-sing/

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/discovering-pentatonic-solfa-from-pentatonic-to-diatonic/
Do you want to really hear music, and play what you hear on your instrument?

The magic syllables of solfa (aka solfége, solfeggio) tell us not only what the notes are, but also how they relate to each other.

One way to gain confidence and skill with solfa is to practice with the five-note pentatonic scale. Learn more here:

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/discovering-pentatonic-solfa-from-pentatonic-to-diatonic/

Happy new year! We’re excited to announce some changes that we’ll be making to the Musicality Podcast to continue bringing you the best content for helping you nurture your inner musicality. Here’s to your continued musical success in 2019!

Listen to the episode:

Links and Resources

• Musical U YouTube channel

Transcript

It is 2019! A very happy new year to you!

Today we’re breaking from the normal episode format because I wanted to jump on to give you a heads up on a few changes coming up on the podcast.

We’ve been publishing the Musicality Podcast for well over a year now and we’ve been firmly consistent with our pattern of each week having an interview, followed by a teaching episode of some kind.

But as you may have noticed, recently we’ve begun to switch things up a bit. We’ve had some episodes with the Musical U team doing a roundtable discussion, recently we had a few teaching episodes in a row. And today you’re getting to hear our shiny new intro music for the first time, with members of the team introducing the show, big thanks to Andrew, Adam, Anastasia and Stewart for helping with that!

But we have some bigger changes coming up…

The first to mention is that I’ve been working on a special set of episodes for the next couple of weeks to help you to kick off the new year strong in your musical life. We’re about to relaunch our crazily popular course “Foundations of a Musical Mind”, and I’ve been inspired to want to share some of the most impactful concepts from that course here with you on the show. I always love new year’s as a moment to set yourself up with what you need for success in the year ahead so I’m hoping these episodes are going to help you do that.

The second major thing is that we’re going to be switching to a video format! Don’t worry, our audio show will continue as normal, but if you would like to watch our interviews and new episodes in future you’re going to have that option. Just head to musicalitypodcast.com to find the link to our YouTube channel and get instructions for subscribing to the video feed. I’m really excited for this, I’ve already recorded the first several interviews in video and it really adds a lot, I think, so I’d encourage you to go check that out and consider watching the show in video in future.

So between those things for the next month or so our schedule might be a bit varied – so I just wanted to give you a heads up so that you’re not confused or concerned if there isn’t always a Tuesday/Thursday release pattern.

Some things definitely aren’t changing – we’re going to continue bringing you terrific fresh content every week to nurture your inner musicality, and I’ll be continuing to seek out and talk with the world’s leading experts to bring their insights to your earbuds. Just in our next few interviews we have an award-winning avant-garde composer, a Billboard chart-topping songwriter, as well as a master of writing educational rap tracks for use in schools – oh, and we’ve also been planning ahead for a very special series of episodes dedicated to one of the greatest musical groups of all time.

So 2019 is going to be a good one, I’m psyched! And as always we would love to hear your input on the show, get in touch at musicalitypodcast.com/hello

As ever I’m grateful and honoured for Musical U to be a part of your musical journey – and here’s to your musical success in the year ahead!

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https://www.musical-u.com/learn/3-keys-to-fast-ear-training-success-from-scott-edwards-ear-training-hq/
When you first start exploring the world of musical ear training, it’s easy to get lost in all the different approaches and conflicting advice out there.

There is no one perfect ear training solution – no “one size fits all” – but fortunately, with all the options available today, you have the opportunity to find the perfect ear training approach to suit you.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/3-keys-to-fast-ear-training-success-from-scott-edwards-ear-training-hq/