267: What's Your "North Star" In Music?

In this mini-interview with konnakol and body percussion expert Alex Ostapenko, you'll discover his views on musicality, his own rhythmic awakening, and how both konnakol and body percussion can be valuable additions to any musician's toolkit!   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/301   Links and Resources • Alex's YouTube channel • Alex's rhythm courses     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Join Christopher and David Reed from Improvise for Real for part two of a fascinating conversation where they unpack what's going on when we learn to improvise - and when we actually do it.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/300   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: Be Yourself And Discover Your Own Music (with David Reed, Improvise For Real) • Improvise For Real • IFR on Instagram • IFR on Facebook       Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Join Christopher and the Next Level coaching team to discover the latest tips, tricks and techniques you can use to advance in your own musical life.   In this episode:   - Andrew shares an illustration of the power of musicality to fix even seemingly-unrelated problems with technique   - Zac gives a beautiful example of how active listening can dramatically simplify your learning tasks in music   - Andy explains how to get out of the "I should" and "I'll never" head trash and focus on what's really true in practice and performance   - And Camilo shares the power of self-recording to demonstrate with certainty the progress you've really made!   All that and more in this week's Coaches Corner!   Tip: find just ONE idea from everything that's shared, and take it to your next music practice session or apply it in YOUR musical life.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/299   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: Can You Learn Perfect Pitch? Should You? (Inside The Book) • The Musicality Book • Musicality Now: Creating, Listening, Understanding (with Tony Parlapiano of popMATICS) • Musicality Now: Classical vs. Rock/Pop vs. Jazz Harmony (with Tony Parlapiano) • Musicality Now: Unlocking Harmony • Musicality Now: Be Yourself And Discover Your Own Music (with David Reed, Improvise For Real) • Improvise For Real • How To Write Songs • Next Level Coaching     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Join Christopher and David Reed from Improvise For Real for part one of a fascinating conversation where they go deep on musicality, creativity, and what it means to be a musician.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/298   Links and Resources • Improvise For Real • IFR on Instagram • IFR on Facebook   Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Do you sometimes feel a bit baffled, overwhelmed by harmony and chord progressions in music?   Today I want to share with you two big epiphanies I had over the years which DRAMATICALLY simplified things for me and unlocked playing chords by ear faster than had ever seemed possible.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/297   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: Classical vs. Rock/Pop vs. Jazz Harmony (with Tony Parlapiano) • The Musicality Book • Dave Conservatoire • Four Chords And The Truth • Exploring Common Chord Progressions     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

What's the difference between Classical music, Rock and Pop, and Jazz?   Well, that's probably a question with an endless answer! But one of the most significant differences is in the harmony: what chords are used, and how do the progressions work.   In this clip from Tony Parlapiano's Musical U masterclass, he explains and demonstrates each, in a simple and memorable way.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/296   Links and Resources • popMATICS • Musicality Now: Creating, Listening, Understanding (with Tony Parlapiano of popMATICS)     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

One of our favourite things to see at Musical U is a member exclaiming "Why did nobody ever tell me this?!"   Because we're all about simplifying the complex, and filling in the pieces that can otherwise be totally missing from music learning.   Today I want to introduce you to someone else who thrives on simplifying powerful musical ideas, to deliver those kinds of "aha" moments for passionate music-learners: Tony Parlapiano of popMATICS.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/295   Links and Resources • popMATICS     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Have you ever wished you had "perfect pitch"? To hear a note, and just name it instantly - it can seem like the "Holy Grail" of musicality. But... is it really? And if you weren't born with it, is it even possible to learn it yourself? We'll be diving into those questions and more, in this episode.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/294   Links and Resources • The Musicality Book • Book: The Evolving Animal Orchestra, by Henkjan Honing • Musicality Now: The Biology Of Musicality, with Prof. Henkjan Honing     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

We need your help! We're down to four finalist designs for the cover of the new musicality book, and need YOUR help to pick the best one!   Go to musicalitybook.com/vote to vote now!   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/293   Links and Resources • The Musicality Book • VOTE NOW! • Musicality Now: I Am Not Your Guru   Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

In this interview you'll meet Almut Spaeth from the Musical U Team, and find out a bit about her own musical journey, through Musical U and Next Level, into becoming a member of the MU team herself!   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube     Full Show Notes and Transcript: http://musicalitynow.com/292   Links and Resources • Almut's Website • Foundations of a Musical Mind • Musical U Membership • Next Level Coaching     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review