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Wish you could transcribe that crazy guitar lick?

Or spout out pages of music like a modern day Mozart?

Learn how to transcribe music and develop your mind’s ear through ear training and audiation.

Don’t know how? Musical U will get you started!

Click to discover the why and how of ear trainging!

What you’re about to hear in this episode is the recording of a Facebook live session we did this week. We explained a bit more in yesterday’s episode of the podcast. If you didn’t hear that one yet, we do recommend listening to that one first, and we’re talking all about ease and joy in music learning.

So without further ado, please enjoy the recording of the second live session from this week. It is informal. It is unscripted. We’re just hanging out and talking about this topic with some Musical U members, with Foundation students, with our email audience, and with you, the podcast listener. Enjoy.

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Links and Resources

• Foundations Of A Musical Mind
• Musicality Now – Ease and Joy in Music Learning
• Free cheat sheet on enjoying practice
• Musicality Now – The Roots of Greatness, with Scott Devine

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Why sing in English?

From Mexico to Japan, the amount of international performing artists that are singing in English might surprise you.

Although time and regular practice can allow ESL singers to become proficient in a non-native language, learning how to sing without an accent can be incredibly challenging and even costly.

In this article we share some benefits of singing in English as well as some tips to make it much more accessible!

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/listen-to-les-part-1-the-gibson-les-paul/
What do you know about Les Paul?

Ask a guitarist to name five famous Les Paul players and you’ll probably get Slash, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend and Joe Perry… and maybe Ace Frehley, or the late great Gary Moore.

There’s plenty of players to choose from: a quick look at the Gibson website reveals that just amongst the models currently on sale there are 23 signature edition Les Pauls!

In this series we’re going to explore the life of Les Paul: the only man to be in both the Inventors and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and hopefully demonstrate why he is the greatest example in history of musicianship and innovation acting in perfect (multitracked!) harmony.

We’ll start with a look at the classic Gibson “Les Paul” guitar, and Les’ role in its creation.

That’s what we’re talking about this week and what you’re going to be hearing in a minute is the recording of the first of these three sessions. Now, if you’re listening to this episode as it comes out, you can join us for parts two and three. I would love to see you there. You’ll find all the details in the show notes for this episode at musicalitynow.com or head to facebook.com/musicalu and you’ll find them there.

A couple of things to mention about the recording of part one that you’re about to hear. The first is that this was taken from the live stream, so unfortunately the audio is not quite as high quality as you’re hopefully used to on this show, but it’s still utterly listenable, we hope. And the second thing to mention is this is a bit long. It’s quite different in style to what you’re probably used to on this show. This is not a punchy 10-minute summary of the topic. This is me hanging out live for an hour with a bunch of MusicalU members and foundations course students and people from our email list talking about this topic of ease and joy, finding ways to relate it to your musical life and setting you up for transforming your experience of learning music with more ease and joy. So I hope you’ll enjoy it, this very different kind of an episode. And if you’re listening to this as it comes out, please do join us for parts two and three this week. We’d love to see you there.

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Links and Resources

• Foundations Of A Musical Mind
• Musicality Now – Unlocking Your Musicality: Part One w/Brent Vaarstra
• Free cheat sheet on enjoying practice
• Musicality Now – Hey! Where Are You Going?
• Musical U on Facebook

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https://www.musical-u.com/learn/musicality-means-playing-from-a-lead-sheet/
Sometimes you’ll see musicians take out a big book containing literally hundreds of songs – or pass around a single sheet containing a whole song.

How is that possible when traditional sheet music can span several pages just for one piece?

The answer is they’re using lead sheets.

Being able to play a song just from a lead sheet or “fake book” is an important skill of musicality.

Check out this article and learn what a lead sheet is, and why and how to use them.

https://www.musical-u.com/learn/jazz-chords-made-easy/
Playing jazz seems from afar as daunting as it is amazing.

Have you ever wondered how you could ever get in on something that… complex? Difficult!

Do you feel like you don’t have the time or the talent to ever get to do that?

Jeffrey Agrell joins us to say, “It Doesn’t Have to be as Hard as it Sounds!”

In this post Jefferey makes jazz piano chords easy!