Episode #12
Episode 12: Choice and Listening
Feb 10, 20261h 4mS1
<p>Stephen Taylor and Patrick Summers join me to discuss how choice can be utilized in listening. </p>
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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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What is Approaches to Listening about?
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.
What has Approaches to Listening covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Episode 12: Choice and Listening" (10 February 2026, 64 minutes), "Episode 6: The Big Picture" (8 September 2025, 25 minutes), and "Episode 11: Combining Feeling and Thinking" (2 July 2025, 60 minutes).
How often does Approaches to Listening publish?
Approaches to Listening publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 12 episodes.
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The strongest fits for Approaches to Listening are Artists, Writers & Performers. Approaches to Listening has a music audience.
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Approaches to Listening is a music show with 12 episodes published.
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Episode #6
Episode 6: The Big Picture
Sep 8, 202525 minS1<p>This episode details how to optimize the exploratory and experiential filters.</p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website: https://www.approachestolistening.com/</p><p>Listen to my music...
Episode #11
Episode 11: Combining Feeling and Thinking
Jul 2, 20251 hourS1<p>Stephen Taylor and I discuss how feeling and thinking can be balanced through active listening. </p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
Episode #10
Episode 10: Mechanisms of Flexible Listening
Jun 18, 20251h 11mS1<p>Patrick Summers and I discuss mechanisms that invite flexibility in your listening.</p><p><br></p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
Episode #6
Episode 9 : Combining Listening and Performance
Jun 6, 202546 minS1<p>This audio is taken from a recent livestream concert that highlights how listening can be applied to live performance. </p><p><br></p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
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Episode #8
Episode 8: Optimizing the Four Filters | Dr. Jim Douglass
May 20, 20251h 35mS1<p>Dr. Jim Douglass and I discuss how to optimally use the four filters, as well as common pitfalls when engaging in active listening. </p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
Episode #7
Episode 7: Challenges to University Listening | Patrick Summers
Apr 28, 20251 hourS1<p>Patrick Summers joins me to discuss the challenges of listening to music in a university setting.</p><p><br></p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
Episode #5
Episode 5: Refining the Thinking Filters
Dec 21, 202421 minS1<p>This episode discusses new aspects of the thinking filters, including the naming process in analysis, and the proper way to critique. </p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
Episode #2
Episode 2: Listening in Practice and Performance
Dec 11, 202440 minS1<p>This episode discusses the need for trained musicians to balance the future and the present through active listening in musical practice and performance. </p><p><br></p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online...
Episode #3
Episode 3: How We Listen to Music Matters
Dec 11, 202425 minS1<p>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...
Episode #1
Episode 1: Four Filters of Listening
Dec 11, 202424 minS1<p>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.</p><p>Sign up...
Episode #4
Episode 4: Applying Listening
Dec 11, 202435 minS1<p>In this episode I explain the foundational ideas from episodes 1-3 through stories and experiences.</p><p>Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my website...
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