Find Gigs, Circle of Fifths, Better Practice, Minor Progressions
Move your music forward: better practice, minor progressions, surprising gigs, and the Circle of Fifths bring us to a deeper place in the music we love.
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
The Ultimate Guide to the Circle of Fifths
Follow along with our all-in-one guide to learn how this master tool can help you play music, understand theory, and even write a masterpiece.
Learn Together, Write Songs Together, Cover Together, and What is Audiation?
This week Musical U explores collaboration – between your own brain, voice, and instrument; learning music Kodály-style; songwriting; or making covers.
Audiation and Singing: Resource Pack Preview
Combine audiation – the music in your head – and singing with your instrument and you’ll be amazed at the results. Learn how from Musical U’s Resident Pros.
Effective Practice, Meet Adam, Dorian Mode, and Latin Pop
Exceed your own expectations, meet a heavy metal guitarist who jumped from airplanes playing the bugle, demystify the Dorian mode, and when Latin goes “pop”.
Kodály Learning, Pentatonic Practice, Big Picture Creation, and “The Show Must Go On”
Our musical lives – from desire, learning and practicing to creating – have a rhythm of their own. Learn Kodály, practice pentatonic, and compose big music.
The Major Pentatonic: Resource Pack Preview
The major pentatonic is a powerful and versatile skill which is easier to learn and use than the regular major scale. Master it with these tutorials.
What is the Kodály Method?
Discover the Kodály method, a dynamic and collaborative approach to music education that combines body movements, singing, and ear training exercises.
Musicality Gets Real, Sight-Read Music, Collaborate Online, and Do-Re-You
Celebrate the nitty-gritty skills that build our free musical expression! Apply musicality to your instrument, sight-read, collaborate, and learn solfege.
Free Jazz Lessons, Freestyle Guitar, The Dorian Mode, and Human Kind
Free yourself and your music with free jazz lessons, freestyle guitar, new Dorian modal freedom, and harmonizing a free world of music with Human Kind.
The Ultimate Guide to the Dorian Mode
The Dorian Mode ranges from rock to jazz, and funk to folk. Learn what Dorian is, the theory behind it, how to play it, and how to hear it.
Improv Head-Game, Latin Rhythm, Solfege, and Learn to Learn
Moving forward in your music can require a shift in how you think. Learn how this works with improvisation, practicing, solfege, and embracing new genres.
