The SuperMegaUltraGroovy Newsletter is Back!
The recent loss of access to my Campaign Monitor account was quite the fire-under-my-ass wake-up call that I needed to revisit the SuperMegaUltraGroovy Newsletter.
Blog Archive
Capo 4.6, reworked for macOS Tahoe
Boy howdy was this a busy summer for me, and I'm really excited about today's update
I guess I let it go a bit too long…
So here's a not-at-all-funny story for you, unless you're really into schadenfreude, to which I'll say in advance: 'you're welcome.'
Leveraging Earworms
Earworms can be annoying, especially when you don't like the song that's playing in your head. But what if I told you that a well-crafted earworm could help you learn the melody of a new song, or a tricky solo?
Learning By Memory
Tonal working memory is a short-term buffer in your mind that lets you answer the fundamental, repeated question of ear learning: 'did I play the note I just heard?' Unfortunately, this part of your mind is rather delicate, and it doesn't hold very many notes.
The Familiarity Factor
When I'm learning certain songs by ear, it seems to go fairly quickly. With others, it's more of a struggle. Now I have a good idea why that might be.
An Ear Learning Primer
I recently added a new top-level section to the Capo product website focused entirely on ear learning—a dedicated space for all my future writing on how to get the most out of Capo when learning songs by ear.
Developer to Researcher: The Capo Features I Didn't Know Were Important
After 13 years of building ear learning software, I thought I understood how musicians learn from recordings. [...] But when I tried to justify why these [new] features would actually help musicians, my foundation started to reveal its cracks.