266: Comparison and Contribution (with Tero Potila)

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:   - Zac shares the power of making BAD sounds   - Andy gives an amazing tip for handling days when you don't have much practice time   - Camilo explains how you can keep working on your musicality even when you're away from your instrument   - Andrew flips the script on "warhorse" pieces you've been struggling on for ages.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 281   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: WHY Every Musician Must Sing (Inside The Book) • Musicality Now: The Power Of Finding Your Voice (with Michaela Bartoskova) • Musicality Now: Becoming Aware Of The Breath (with Michaela Bartoskova) • Musicality Now: 3 Ways To Use Singing In Your Daily Music Practice • Musicality Now: Musicality and Connection (Meet the Team with Charm Cajurao)     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

From Choirs to K-Pop, and juggling everything from member support to customer service and keeping all we do running smoothly at Musical U - meet our Operations Assistant extraordinaire Charm Cajurao, in this episode of "Meet The Team"!   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 280   Links and Resources • "Discover Your Musical Core" training   Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Want to know how you can use your singing voice as a kind of "universal powertool" to accelerate ALL your musical development?   I'm going to share three ways you can easily weave singing into your everyday music practice to let you become more musical, faster.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 279   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: Is This The Missing Piece For Your Musicality? (Inside The Book) • Musicality Now: WHY Every Musician Must Sing (Inside The Book) • Musicality Now: The Power Of Finding Your Voice (with Michaela Bartoskova) • Musicality Now: Becoming Aware Of The Breath (with Michaela Bartoskova) • Musicality Now: How to Play Expressively (Inside The Book) • Free Your Creative Voice • Colors Of Your Voice     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

If there's one thing that'll strike the most fear into the heart of the average musician...   It's not scales...   It's not being asked to play something you haven't prepared...   It's not even being asked to improvise...   Those can all be scary!   But for many musicians, one thing is scarier than all of them: SINGING!   What if there was an easy and natural route into starting to sing, that didn't even begin with you singing a single note?   In today's episode, I'll be sharing a clip from a recent masterclass which reveals exactly that.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 278   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: The Power Of Finding Your Voice (with Michaela Bartoskova) • MichaelaSound.com • Musicality Now: Learning to Sing in Tune, with George Bevan     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Can you sing? If not... can you breathe?!   Funny question, I know! But we had a recent masterclass which joined up those two questions so beautifully. It's with Michaela Bartoskova, who's a voice, singing and yoga coach, and her masterclass at Musical U was on the topic of “When Breath Becomes Voice”.   Michaela is a specialist in the voice beyond just singing - into breath, into speaking, into movement. She has such a beautiful, holistic perspective and it made her masterclass really special. And kind of provided a new way into singing for a lot of our members.   In this mini-interview, you'll learn a bit about Michaela's background, how she came to focus on the breath, and particularly with singers who came to her and were nervous to even begin singing, or had a lot of resistance when they tried to sing.   She also shares her answer to “what does musicality mean to you?” and it's a really lovely and unique one that I think you're going to enjoy.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 277   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: WHY Every Musician Must Sing • MichaelaSound.com       Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

We rarely use the word "should" or "must" at Musical U... but singing might just be an exception!   If you don't currently use singing as a tool on a daily basis in your music practice, you're missing out. Here's why.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 276   Links and Resources   • Musicality Now: Is THIS The Missing Piece For Your Musicality?   • MusicalityBook.com   • Why Every Musician Should Be A Singer Too   • How To Learn To Sing In Tune     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...   • Zac shares the power of performance - and a big mindset shift that can make performing more easy and joyful, even if you make a mistake or two!   • Andy gives a way to instantly see how far you've really come, any time you're getting down about your musical progress.   • Camilo explains choosing the right "sweet spot" level of repertoire for fast and satisfying progress.   • And Andrew discusses leveraging your childhood music for playing by ear - and trusting your own ears over look-up-the-chord websites.   All that and more, in this episode of 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: Episode 275   Links and Resources   • Musicality Now: Someone Should Have Told Me This When I Was A Kid! With Dr. Molly Gebrian   • Musicality Now: Learn Music Faster… By Doing LESS?! (with Dr. Molly Gebrian)   • Musicality Now: 5 BIG Mistakes Adult Music Learners Make – And How To Fix Them   • Musicality Now: Is This The Missing Piece For Your Musicality? (Inside The Book)   • Musicality Now: Surprising Musicality (Meet The Team, with Andy Portas)   • Next Level Coaching   • HookTheory.com   • Meet The Team: Andrew Bishko   • Meet The Team: Zac Bailey   • Meet The Team: Camilo Suárez   • Meet The Team: Andy Portas   Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

From Blues Brothers tributes to successfully "abandoning" art, this wide-ranging interview with Musical U team member and Next Level coach Andy Portas reveals his own musical backstory, and how he helps members inside Musical U discover their surprising musicality.     Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 274   Links and Resources • MusicalityBook.com • Coaches Corner   Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

Did you know, there's ONE foundational skill which makes everything in musicality easier?   I'm talking about everything from ear training to playing by ear, improvising, writing music, improving your rhythm, jamming with others.   Everything that makes you feel truly musical, inside and out - benefits from this one foundational skill.   And yet... the vast majority of musicians would say they cannot do it - and are afraid to even try.   Today I want to share with you what that skill is, and why you absolutely must start learning to make use of it in your musical development.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 273   Links and Resources • Musicality Now: How to Play Expressively (Inside The Book) • MusicalityBook.com - pre-register now for exclusive bonuses! • ToneDeafTest.com - find out in 5 minutes whether you truly are "tone deaf" or not • 16 Keys to a Good Singing Voice     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review

There are 5 BIG mistakes adult music learners make...   And if you're an adult learning music, I can pretty much guarantee you're making one of these - if not ALL FIVE.   Today I'm gonna share with you what these 5 mistakes are - AND how to fix them.   Subscribe For Future Episodes! Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher | RSS | YouTube   Full Show Notes and Transcript: Episode 272   Links and Resources • Reviews page for examples of adult music-learning success • Albert Frantz of Key-Notes.com • YourMusicalCore.com recent training • Musicality Now: What’s Your “North Star” In Music? • Coaches Corner • Norman Vincent Peale quote (not W. Clement Stone!): "Shoot for the Moon. Even if you miss, you'll lang among the stars"     Enjoying the show? Please consider rating and reviewing it! Click here to rate and review