Approaches to Listening

Approaches to Listening

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Approaches to Listening episodes

  • Episode 6: The Big Picture

    This episode details how to optimize the exploratory and experiential filters.

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    26 min
  • Episode 11: Combining Feeling and Thinking

    Stephen Taylor and I discuss how feeling and thinking can be balanced through active listening.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 10: Mechanisms of Flexible Listening

    Patrick Summers and I discuss mechanisms that invite flexibility in your listening.


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    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 9 : Combining Listening and Performance

    This audio is taken from a recent livestream concert that highlights how listening can be applied to live performance.


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    46 min
  • Episode 8: Optimizing the Four Filters | Dr. Jim Douglass

    Dr. Jim Douglass and I discuss how to optimally use the four filters, as well as common pitfalls when engaging in active listening.

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    1 hr 35 min
  • Episode 5: Refining the Thinking Filters

    This episode discusses new aspects of the thinking filters, including the naming process in analysis, and the proper way to critique.

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    22 min
  • Episode 4: Applying Listening

    In this episode I explain the foundational ideas from episodes 1-3 through stories and experiences.

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    36 min
  • Episode 3: How We Listen to Music Matters

    In this episode I explore the practice of passive listening, and its effect on connection to both music, ideas, and other people. I also address counterarguments to active listening by drawing on the information from previous episodes.

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    25 min

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How you listen determines what you hear. What you hear determines what you feel and think. Listening is the most important tool a musician has to connect with their music, but far too few are ever…