Musical U Team

The Musical U team features a range of world-class music education experts, specialising in musicality and the accelerated learning techniques referred to as "superlearning".

Current and past team members include:

Christopher Sutton: Founder and Director
Andrew Bishko: Head Educator
Stewart Hilton: Community Conductor
Zac Bailey: Head of Member Success
Camilo Suárez: Next Level Coach
Andy Portas: Next Level Coach
Marisa Balistreri: Communications Manager
Sabrina Peña Young:Contributing Author
Nick Long: Contributing Author
Thomas Evdokimoff: Contributing Author
Charlotte Farley: Contributing Author
Alexander Poe: Contributing Author

Posts by Musical U Team

What's the point of scale ear training?

by Musical U Team | Aug 9, 2013 | Scales | 0 comments

Scales are a highly unpopular topic with most instrument learners, and this tends to have a knock-on impact on ear training, so that scale ear training is neglected. This is highly unfortunate, as scale degree ear training is one of the best ways to develop your...

What is audio effects ear training?

by Musical U Team | Aug 9, 2013 | Audio Effects | 0 comments

Audio effects transform sound. Sometimes in subtle, natural ways, and sometimes in wild and wacky ways. Audio effects crop up all over the place. For example: Almost every modern music recording will have some processing applied to improve or fix the sound recording,...

Are there any good apps for ear training?

by Musical U Team | Aug 3, 2013 | Ear Training | 0 comments

Many musicians want to improve their musical ear on the move, using mobile apps. Whether you prefer an iOS (iPhone, IPod, iPad) or Android phone or tablet, there will be many music learning apps which can help you train your ear. As always with ear training, step one...

What is pitch ear training?

by Musical U Team | Aug 3, 2013 | Pitch | 0 comments

Pitch is one of the most fundamental aspects of music, and developing your ear for pitch is an excellent starting point and area of focus for musical ear training. Before you work on more advanced skills like relative pitch (interval recognition etc.) spend some time...

How do guitarists memorize songs to play? Is this part of ear training?

by Musical U Team | Aug 3, 2013 | Guitar | 1 comment

Many guitar players (and indeed other musicians) struggle to memorise songs because they do it the wrong way. Memorising songs can be easy, but you need to know the best approach: which is to understand the music! The wrong way to memorise songs If you try to simply...

How do you hear the difference between bass drum and bass guitar?

by Musical U Team | Jul 26, 2013 | Bass | 0 comments

This is an understandable confusion, as both instruments occupy the same frequency band—i.e. they both have low-down sounds. They also tend to work together to create the rhythm part, so their notes often overlap and they make a similar musical contribution in the...

How do you hear the difference between bass line and melody?

by Musical U Team | Jul 24, 2013 | Melodies, Bass | 0 comments

This is the kind of question which might seem trivial but can actually be quite challenging. So if you’re not sure if you can do it: don’t be embarrassed! Both the bass line and the main melody are essentially “tunes”, normally played one note...

What ear training helps you recognise broken chords and arpeggios?

by Musical U Team | Jul 17, 2013 | Chords | 0 comments

Many guitar players will simply strum through chords without giving much thought to the individual notes of the chords, but if you want to play advanced, sophisticated, pleasing arrangements of songs on solo guitar, spice up your rhythm playing, or work on...

How do you recognise triad chords and inversions on guitar?

by Musical U Team | Jul 17, 2013 | Guitar | 0 comments

If you want to learn to recognise triad chords on guitar, you’ll need to use a combination of standard triad chord ear training and specific guitar ear training exercises. Triad chord ear training There are four main types of triad chord: major, minor, augmented...

How do you train your ear for percussion frequencies?

by Musical U Team | Jul 17, 2013 | Audio Frequencies | 0 comments

For many music producers and audio engineers, audio frequency ear training is key to helping them tune that perfect mix. Percussion (drums, cymbals, etc.) is generally the basis of a good mix, and getting just the right punchy sound from your percussion audio...

How should you approach guitar ear training?

by Musical U Team | Jul 6, 2013 | Guitar | 0 comments

Ear training is a hot topic for guitar players, because so many want to play guitar by ear and ear training is the key to learning to play by ear. There are two ways to answer the question of what ear training a guitarist should do. Core listening skills for...

How do you do ear training for singing?

by Musical U Team | Jul 6, 2013 | Singing | 0 comments

Many singers want to improve their ear for music so they can sing better, and they’re right that ear training is the key. But what kind of singing ear training can you do? The short answer is: Focus on pitch. Specifically, singers should use ear training to...

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