Links for 2006-10-08

Have you ever created the perfect melody or song in a dream? Or maybe you composed a complete symphony or an amazing solo? Imagine that you could create those “perfect dream moments” anytime you want.

Mind Hacks: All abilities are skills; practice something and your brain will devote more resources to it.

In earlier times, instead of our modern notes, dots or points were used. Thus one used to call a composition in which point was set against or counter to point, counterpoint; this usage is still followed today, even though the form of the notes has been c

Hearing is the last sense to go as we lose consciousness (when you’re dropping off to sleep, your other senses drop away and sounds seem to swell up) and the first to return when we make it back to consciousness.

Topics covered: Chord progressions, I-IV-V, The blues, classical music, mashups, melody, modal progressions, music software, rhythm…

Image streaming is the exact technique used by geniuses such as Einstein, Edison and Tesla. Not only will image streaming enhance your creativity, it will actually increase your IQ!

Have you ever watched a lion or tiger on television, stalking and then bursting upon its prey? It leads the attack with its eyes. All the rest of its magnificent body follows its eyes as it watches sharply, calculating speed and distance, supremely focuse

Inside you’ll learn… The proper way to hold a guitar — you could be causing serious injury! Tips for buying a new guitar — You really need to arm yourself well before you try haggling with your local guitar salesman. Light speed guitar tuning techniqu

DICK GROVE (1927-1998) had a distinguished career as a professional writer and composer in Los Angeles and as a unique innovator in the field of contemporary music education. Read Dick Grove’s credits…

The good news is that people who weren’t fortunate enough to have learned absolute pitch at a very early age can learn to hear with absolute pitch through learning the craft of absolute pitch hearing.

Text Etc deals with the craft and theory of poetry: composition, analysis and improvement of literary work, including translation and the creation of good copies of well-known poems.