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Our special guest for today is Christopher Sutton, owner and director of UK-based Easy Ear Training Ltd. a London-based music education technology company. Their leading product is Musical U, a membership site providing comprehensive and fully-supported training for the “inner skills” of musicianship.

Originally trained as a computer scientist, he specialized in developing music-related software for desktop and mobile with the goal of creating cutting-edge training tools to help musicians develop their ears for music.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Christopher Sutton emphasized that anything we associate with talent, including music, is learnable. He also talked about the traps musicians sometimes fall into and how imposter syndrome can kick in really strong and quite quickly make people shy away from what could be an incredibly successful path for them.

Things We Discussed

Ear training for recognizing frequency bands

How music education system leave musicians so lopsided

Musical U, a new and innovative online musical training system

Relative Pitch, a best-selling iOS app featured as “New and Noteworthy” by Apple and downloaded over 300,000 times

Musicalitynow.com - a mix of short-teaching episodes podcast

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