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Choosing quality over quantity has ruled the day again!

Thank you for your patience and for allowing me the extra time to ponder on the subject of technical listening. I am very excited to share the ideas that I have come up with based off of past experiences from guests on the show and from my own creative experience. Here is the cheat sheet for this episode of the ponder series:

Technical Listening Definition:

A way of analyzing your inspirator's (influence's) music to allow you to identify emotional and physical similarities in their playing or singing style to help improve your musical abilities.

Purpose of Technical Listening:

* Self improvement

* Inspiration

Different Purposes for Listening to Music:

* Emotional

* To confirm a feeling you might be having at a given time.

* To make you feel nostalgic about a certain time period.

* To help make you feel a desired emotion.

* Physical

* To get people to dance together or with themselves.

* To encourage exercise by listening to motivational or upbeat music.

* Social

* To help form a sense of identity.

* To create a culture or a feeling of belonging.

* Technical

* To improve understanding of what is possible in music creation.

* Helps find similarities in your own musical abilities through comparison.

* To become inspired.

Origin of Inspiration:

Episode 073 with Saxophone Player Joshua Coleman

All pre and post production was done by Host Nick Johnson. 

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