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Approaches to Listening

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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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Episodes

  1. Episode 12: Choice and Listening

    Stephen Taylor and Patrick Summers join me to discuss how choice can be utilized in listening.

  2. Episode 6: The Big Picture

    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://www.youtube.com/@williamtaylormusic Thank you for listening!

  3. Episode 11: Combining Feeling and Thinking

    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 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@williamtaylormusic Thank you for listening!

  4. Episode 10: Mechanisms of Flexible Listening

    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: https://www.youtube.com/@williamtaylormusic Thank you for listening!

  5. Episode 9 : Combining Listening and Performance

    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.com/ Listen to my music on YouTube…

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  6. Episode 8: Optimizing the Four Filters | Dr. Jim Douglass

    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.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my music on YouTube:...

  7. Episode 7: Challenges to University Listening | Patrick Summers

    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 music on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@williamtaylormusic Thank you for...

  8. Episode 5: Refining the Thinking Filters

    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.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my music on YouTube:...

  9. Episode 4: Applying Listening

    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 music on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@williamtaylormusic Thank you for...

  10. Episode 3: How We Listen to Music Matters

    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 previous episodes. Sign up for my newsletter or join an online course at my...

  11. Episode 2: Listening in Practice and Performance

    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: https://www.approachestolistening.com/ Listen to my music on YouTube:...

  12. Episode 1: Four Filters of Listening

    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 newsletter or join an online course at my website:...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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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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...

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