Just listen

As a musician, whenever I’m listening to music I have a tendency to analyze every piece of the music and figure out exactly what’s going on.

Recently I’ve been trying to just listen. Just take in everything. No analyzing. Just listening.

It’s made listening to music much more enjoyable. It’s also made analyzing music by ear easier. My guess is that I have a larger repository of music to compare songs to.

If you only know what one song sounds like then you only have that frame of reference.

If you know how 50 songs sound and can recall them fairly well then you have a larger frame of reference.

Give it a try. Just listen.

ISJ