MusicaL Listening

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By: Clay McKinney

MusicaL Listening. What does that mean exactly? Musicality is Technical and Technique is MusicaL. This is what we must accept if we won't to improve as performers and musicians. This podcast explores the different ways in which we hear and why we sometimes get it wrong and what we can do about it, how we can use our emotions and the power of music to overcome our listening deficits. Musical Listening is about changing the way we hear ourselves to be more powerful and more aware. It is not enough to just listen you must musically listen. This is what...

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20 Years of musicaListening: A Journey to Balance and Decision
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20 years of musicaL Listening. This episode is a celebration and look back and what that first journal entry gave birth to. It is a reflection on what has changed and what is different about what I believe musicaListening to be and where I think it can take us. 

If you are struggling to get where you want to be, if you are feeling block about being a musician and achieving that next level of achievement then I invite you to try this on. I invite you to consider it and try it out. Why? After 20 years there a...


Music and Technique Always Coexist Like DNA, Never Layered - An Interview with Amit Peled
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06/18/2026

🎶Is there a good time, a better time to start being musical? When are we "off" the hook from learning the "technique"? Is it always the same balance that is balancing that scale or does it ebb and flow depending on where we are in the journey? I sit down with Amit Peled international Soloist and teacher at Peabody conservatory to tackle this and other questions when it comes to listening as professionals. 
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Find out more about Amit at https://www.amitpeled.com/ and order his book he speaks about at https://www.ctmclassics.com/store/the-firs...


A Sound Has Many Parts
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06/05/2026

🎶 This episode dives into the idea that a sound contains many parts, that there are different aspects to a musical note and certain parts attract certain listeners. We all hear differently and one of the chief reasons for that is that there are so many different things to hear in just one single note, a single sound. Why don't we know more about this and more importantly why don't we do more to incorporate what we do know into our pedagogical practices in music programs. 

🎧 Play The Piano Puzzler! - https://www.yourclassical.org/podcast/piano-puzzler

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Moving Toward Sound
#2
05/21/2026

How do your fingers actually make it to the notes? Is it muscle memory? Is it connection to just the repetition? Or is your brain remembering where and how sounds happen and moving towards them directly, no middle man no filter. 

This episode explores this idea that a movement toward producing a musical sound is a unique physical motion. 

www.youtube.com@musicalistening

www.youtube.com@thecelloonline


What is MusicaListening?
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05/06/2026

In this inaugural episode I talked about what musical listening is and what I hope to bring to the musician community with this podcast.  

www.youtube.com@musicalistening

www.youtube.com@thecelloonline