
Episode 12: Choice and Listening
Stephen Taylor and Patrick Summers join me to discuss how choice can be utilized in listening.


Hosted by Approaches to Listening · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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How you listen determines what you hear. What you hear determines what you feel and think. Listening is the most important tool a musician has to connect with their music, but far too few are ever taught the art of listening. Join us as we take a deep dive into listening, including our 4 filters framework that reimagines and defines exactly how to connect with music in a more meaningful and powerful way.
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Stephen Taylor and Patrick Summers join me to discuss how choice can be utilized in listening.

This episode details how to optimize the exploratory and experiential filters. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my music on YouTube: https

Stephen Taylor and I discuss how feeling and thinking can be balanced through active listening. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my music

Patrick Summers and I discuss mechanisms that invite flexibility in your listening. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my music on YouTube:

This audio is taken from a recent livestream concert that highlights how listening can be applied to live performance. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.c

Dr. Jim Douglass and I discuss how to optimally use the four filters, as well as common pitfalls when engaging in active listening. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approaches

Patrick Summers joins me to discuss the challenges of listening to music in a university setting. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my musi

This episode discusses new aspects of the thinking filters, including the naming process in analysis, and the proper way to critique. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approach

In this episode I explain the foundational ideas from episodes 1-3 through stories and experiences. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my mu

In this episode I explore the practice of passive listening, and its effect on connection to both music, ideas, and other people. I also address counterarguments to active listening by drawing on the information from pre

This episode discusses the need for trained musicians to balance the future and the present through active listening in musical practice and performance. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website:

In this episode I introduce four different approaches to listening. I also explore how trained musicians tend to stagnate in their listening styles and skills, and how the four filters can combat that. Sign up for my new
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