You realize you were just in a nuclear blast. Tired, out of energy, and out of hope, you fall into comatose listening to “Busy Bards Ear Training Podcast” again…and again…and again…

You wake up three years later in a survivor’s camp full of bored, slightly stupid camp-mates. Will you be be able to cure the boredom? Are you qualified to teach music in a society that has collapsed? The faint memory of the podcast seeps into your mind….

You’ll never get ANYWHERE with ear training if you can’t find, hear, and stay connected with the central beat of the song. In this episode, you’ll learn to do this so quickly and easily…that you’d be able to teach it to a bunch of idiots.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) You wake up from the Nuclear Blast

(00:01:30) You fall into a coma listening to Busy Bards

(00:03:40) You wish you stayed in your tent.

(00:05:23) The Busy Bard Gives a public speaking tip.

(00:08:00) You turn your thumping heartbeat into a music lesson

(00:09:50) Call and Response: Assigning different counts to the heartbeat.

(00:12:00) Introduction to Tempo (changing speeds of the beat)

(00:13:52) Introduction to the “measure”: Defining your canvas for music.

(00:15:20) You’ve already been practicing this for every year you’re alive.

(00:16:44) Breathing Exercises to connect to the central beat.

(00:17:31) Half Time Breathing Exercise

(00:18:00) Double Time Breathing Exercise

(00:19:22) Finding the central beat alongside real music

(00:22:30) Closure

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