Sometimes, all it takes is a little hands-on mentoring to take you over the top...

"There Are 3 Simple Steps To Getting Really Good, Really Fast:

First, Gather As Much Info As You Can Get Your Hands On...

Second, Get Firsthand Experience In The Real World... And

Third, When You're Finally Ready... Do Whatever You Can

To Score Some Focused, Intense One-On-One Time With An

Honest Pro Who Knows How To Teach."

And the truth is, there aren't more than a handful of pro's out there who have the chops to pull it off. It takes a lot to create the right kind of teacher: Decades of front line hard-core experience in the real world... a pile of proven successes (as well as that all-important smaller pile of failures that provided the critical lessons for later success)... and a front-row seat at the red-hot center of the music world.

If you're ready, this is the opportunity for that hands-on "music-hacking" that will change everything for you...

From: Graham English

Monday, 1 a.m.

Howdy...

It's late as I write this. I can't sleep, because the excitement of my new "Absolute Pitch University" that I've just devised has slammed my brain into overdrive. The ideas and words for this letter are pouring out almost too fast to catch as I type.

This is a very rare "school" and there are a lot of people who desperately want one of the few seats available.

So you need to read this now, while it's in front of you. And you need to decide right away... because once all the spaces are filled, that's it. There's a severe limit, because of the personal attention by me required for each attendee. I cannot do this with a crowd.

For most of you, this will be like nothing you've ever experienced. It will be small, intimate... and passionately aimed at helping energize your playing, overnight. The results of attending will shock you.

Here's the story: Long ago, during the peak of the Human Potential Movement, the mind technology "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" was created by some very colorful and controversial characters in California.

The eccentric Richard Bandler (known for his unconventional and provocative therapy) and the former military Captain John Grinder (who specialized in the transformational grammar of Noam Chomsky) first developed Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Through "word of mouth", NLP grew to the point where coaches like Tony Robbins were charging between $5,000 and $20,000 for a single weekend of coaching.

Just before I hooked up with NLP developers David Gordon (who specialized in therapeutic metaphors and, for the past 20 years, modeling) and Charles Faulkner (who has worked closely with futures traders worldwide and helped them make millions!), I produced my first absolute pitch ear training course.

Soon after, I became an NLP Master Practitioner -- a massive 28-day affair in Winter Park Colorado, complete with major NLP developers (Steve Andreas, author of "Transforming Your Self", finished the event)... NLP coaches (from all over the world--even as far as IRAQ!)... and a jaw-dropping stable of the best NLP trainers.

That wildly-successful training seminar taught me the "model" for almost everything I've done since... because at its core is killer information and a powerful "tool box" to build your life exactly the way you want!

I enjoy NLP. I've been using it for over 15 years. I've written about it extensively. (Most recent: Hacking Your Self Concept) I have even been paid as a life coach -- to help people achieve their life goals in everything from relationships to finances.

However...

...Where I have found NLP to be most useful is in using the core of NLP to capture and acquire the skills and abilities of the world's greatest musicians.

It is the one thing that made NLP so powerful.

Specifically: Modeling.

You see, back then during my NLP training, David Gordon showed me how experience has structure. Skills as diverse as being able to effectively negotiate, tell a joke, manage a large group, write a book, promptly pay bills, plan the future, learn from the past, or compose music, all have a structure. Every human being is a vault of abilities in which they are an expert, or in modeling terms, an "exemplar." All you need to open the vault is the correct combination.

But... that's just the beginning. Because if an experience or behavior is possible for one person, it is possible for anyone.

I went crazy when I thought about that. But I went completely insane when I actually experienced it...

Let me tell you, the "real" training didn't start... until we began with the "Hot Seats". We all got our chance to be in the spot light and become the "exemplar." We modeled each other. I mean, everybody's an expert at something. Wanna hear the great part? I wasn't at this training alone. I was there with some of my closest friends... who just happened to be musicians!

Every night, after hours, we would retreat into our mountain hideaway and hack into each other's minds just like pale, sunlight-starved computer geeks (think of "Neo" in The Matrix). We modeled jazz improvisation, songwriting, engineering, music production, we took orchestration manuals and turned them into detailed models, we dug into biographies of great composers like Beethoven to find models for creativity, and the most important model of all... Stretching the limits of hearing.

Modeling is exciting, isn't it?

Flash forward a couple years... Lately, I've been excited about a new type of musical mini-model. I call them "Music Hacks."

What's a Music Hack? In February 2004, British technology journalist Danny O'Brien coined the term lifehack, which refers to productivity tricks that programmers and other geeks devise and employ to cut through information overload and organize their data. Since that time, websites devoted to lifehacks have proliferated the web. (An article I wrote comparing goals to musical waves was highly regarded at lifehack.org on May 31st, 2006)

The "hacker ethic" is based upon the computer geeks at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is similar to the values existing in the open scientific community: information-sharing is powerful and positive, "cracking codes" is acceptable as long as it is virtuous and ethical, and hacking develops individual character. These values are closely related to the virtue ethics found in the writings of Plato and Aristotle.

I came up with the term "Music Hack" to reference these little mini-models that I was using to create slick solutions for my students' and colleagues' creative and musical challenges. The idea was to help you learn to hack your music and creativity intentionally, so you never get stuck and experience more joy out of playing.

I started using my Music Hack concept publicly during my first big advanced absolute pitch coaching teleseminar... when I discovered that I had more time than I'd planned for at the ends of these calls. So I randomly picked someone... put them down in the "Hot Seat"... and proceeded to grill them on the specifics of their "problems."

And then, as casually as if we were discussing the weather...

I Solved Every Problem

They Had.

I did it to fill up time. Almost as an afterthought.

Yet, those first few Music Hacks immediately became the talk of the attendees. People in the teleseminar were stunned at how quickly we were able to solve what seemed like truly impossible challenges and unsolvable problems.

The folks in the Hot Seats actually seemed dazed. These were problems that had consumed their waking hours, exhausted their emotional resources, and frustrated every other music teacher they contacted... and we took maybe 15 minutes to uncover the root problems, redirect the energy, SOLVE the biggest problems... and even lay out a quick plan, complete with simple and specific assignments.

It happened so fast, some people thought it was a trick.

It wasn't. In the beginning, I just needed to calm the Hot Seat hackee down enough to clearly tell me what the problem was. (That took a little skill -- and it's a critical lesson (use today: Your first step to fixing anything is to clearly identify the problem... in one or two short sentences, without any jargon.)

It wasn't a trick, and it wasn't magic.

It was just experience and modeling. Plus decades of hard-core, "stay at it until it works" effort, with my butt on the line...

Combined with the ability to TEACH -- to understand how to communicate, and "translate" all that experience in a way that was easily absorbed... and learned.

And what about those problems that each Hot Seat participant was so sure was unique to him alone, and so challenging they were nearly impossible to solve?

Child's play. I learned long ago that there aren't all that many things that can go wrong in playing music. The blunders made by the concert pianist or singer-songwriter aren't all that different from the mistakes made by the jazz cat or the guitar shredder.

And the solutions don't always have to be made up fresh and new for each problem. Still... getting to each solution -- even the simple ones -- nevertheless...

Requires Hard-Core Expertise That ONLY Comes

From Years Of DOING It.

That... plus the advanced knowledge of modeling and music psychology that ONLY a veteran musician and NLP Master Practitioner ever acquires.

The heart of successful musicianship is all about understanding humans. Your listeners are humans, and that means they share ALL the same unconscious listening patterns as everyone else. (If you're playing music to zebras or insects, you're excused.)

And you, as the performing musician or songwriter or whatever, are also human... and you share most or all of the same "mind screw ups" that other folks suffer whenever they encounter the thought-provoking, emotional and often confusing "real world" of music.

A good Music Hack, really, is like...

A Vicious "Intervention" In Your Life And Music...

By Someone Who Knows The Right Path.

It can be startling, having everything you're doing ripped apart and reassembled in front of your eyes. But it works.

I do not enjoy crushing anyone's naive ideas of how things get done in the music world.

But if that's what I have to do to get you on the right track, I won't hesitate to get out the dynamite. That's the way I learned -- with some of the most intense (yet basically caring) mentors around. And that's the way most of my most successful students and colleagues have learned fastest.

Here's what you get during a Music Hack Hot Seat, as performed by yours truly:

1. You get most of the obvious nonsense whacked out of your head with an invigorating "Brain Cleanse".

I have had so many paying students, and so many Absolute Pitch Power customers come to me for critiques of their playing and songwriting... that, at this point in my life, I have a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of almost every problem now pulling you down.

What this means is... I am now able to cut through the clutter and distractions that cloud most musician's minds... and get straight to the TRUTH of their situation. I named this process a "Brain Cleanse", because that's what it is -- a quick washing away of the befuddlement about who you are and what you do.

It is during this stage of the Hot Seat that I force you to learn to define and explain your musical goals or challenges in two simple sentences (or less). This is critical for everything that follows.

If the gunk in your skull is shallow, this process can happen quick -- literally in a a couple of minutes.

However, if you're one of those stubborn types who insist on resisting anything simple... the "anti-Keep It Simple, Stupid" crowd, who always search for the most complex answer to any question... then it can take a bit longer.

But I always break through, eventually. Because, if you're a musician, there IS a simple "bottom line" way to explain what your music is... and understanding this, all on its lonesome, can actually ignite a frenzy of clear thinking about what you're communicating with your music...

...and who you need to be playing it TO.

This is where we uncover the basics, like:

✓ How to uncover your customized and crucial UMG -- unique musical gift -- (which nails down the most powerful musical qualities you'll ever hone)...

✓ What you're really up against, development-wise (and how you can innovate your own Music Hacks on the spot to get the fastest results possible)...

✓ And where you will find your most outrageously unique musical statements for killer playing.

When you cooperate, and allow me to do the "Brain Cleanse" effectively... you will suddenly be armed with an amazingly advanced understanding of the path you must take.

It's startling how many otherwise smart musicians are just oblivious of the music they're after... who they need to be playing to... and what unseen challenges might be lurking in the dark to block them.

When I do a "Brain Cleanse" on you, I'm throwing the weight of years of successful coaching (across the entire spectrum of peak performance psychology) smack at the heart of your musical identity. (There's no crazy hypnosis or anything weird going on... just a mind-set shift.)

And I do it fast... cuz we've got other fish to fry. Like...

2. You get a real-world, "listener's ear" critique of your playing or writing.

Often, people watching me do critiques accuse me of spending "hidden" time studying the music beforehand. Believe that if you must... but I'm telling you I don't need any prior listen.

Dude, I've taught nearly a thousand successful musicians in my career. I've been teaching music for almost 15 years, playing live for 20 years, and I've been lurking around the cutting edge of everything since I earned my place at the "Big Guys" table. I didn't earn my international reputation by having good "theories."

This is what I do.

Anyone who's undergone the "musical scalpel" during one of my critiques (either by email, on the phone, or in person) knows that I get results, always.

I treat your music the way I treat my own. With deep compassion... because there's hearts on the line. This is art, not the stock market trading pit.

During your Music Hack Hot Seat, I will dive into...

✓Your ear (the most critical part of your playing, where you hear what your listener hears and feel what your listener feels)...

✓Your opening (where you must lay out your musical message in a way that sucks the listener in deep, putting them into a type of "hypnotic trance", or LOSE their attention forever)...

✓Your overall "voice" (very important for differentiating yourself from everybody else, especially if you're trying to "make it" in a specific musical style, your musical "niche")...

✓Your artistic personality (the essence of who you are -- often, your music is resting on the strength of someone else's personality. This is where we find your SILVER BULLET and kill any oppressive ogres hiding in the shadows)...

✓And your close (where you either get the applause and move along on your path to artistic actualization.. or go home forgotten).

Most rookies believe every note they've played or song they've written is their "baby"... and they are so loathe to jettison a single note, they get short attention spans from their listeners (and little respect).

The smart musicians, though, know that your playing is only as good as it is able to engage, hypnotize, and persuade the listener to LISTEN. If your ear sucks, it won't matter how brilliant your personality is. And if you confuse the listeners with a sloppy, timid opening, you will never move them to applaud.

I can't do the work for you -- that's your job.

I will, however, give you the best critique of your life... and fill your "Bag of Tricks" with enough fresh goodies to seduce your listeners like a skilled lover... literally overnight.

Don't have anything for me to listen to? Don't worry. After you learn what I'm talking about, you will be miles ahead of every American Idol with a demo.

3. I'll fill in the "blanks" of your musicianship model.

If your playing is just fine, then don't bother attending Absolute Pitch University. Stay home, and write your masterpiece. Good for you. You're one of the few already doing everything right.

But even if you've been playing for fifty years, you could still be limping along with a seriously-flawed method of practicing or knowing what to listen for. Where "playing" means constant struggle and the nagging notion that you're missing out on the celebrated solos you "should" be creating.

I call it "heartbreak hearing". The majority of musicians suffer from it -- for every great musical idea they come up with, they're missing five, ten, even a hundred or a thousand more in the fertile ground of their own minds.

Because Their Model

Sucks.

When we hack your creativity, look out. It's all in the modeling.

Now, you can go on Amazon.com right now and find five hundred books claiming to hold the secrets of creativity. Many of those books are by very bright people.

Listen carefully: Most of that advice is actually MEANINGLESS unless you have already clearly identified the SPECIFIC challenges that are unique to YOU.

There are a LOT of ways to skin a cat... but the BEST one won't come from a book. No. It wil only come from personalized, passionate one-on-one "deconstruction and reconstruction" of your fundamentals...

By A Proven Professional

Who Knows How To Teach.

Are you beginning to sense the power a personalized Music Hack Hot Seat offers you?

4. Last part: I will give you "Marching Orders".

I will give you at least 3 definite actions you must take the following week... to force the spigot of your "creative faucet" to start gushing brilliant ideas. Might be all about your ear, or your mind set, or the way you practice, or... well, the list is long.

On your own, you could struggle for YEARS to find the few simple things you need to do to move to the next level of musicianship. YEARS.

And I'm gonna hand it all to you on a silver platter, after one relatively short Music Hack Hot Seat. It really can happen that fast.

But wait -- there's MORE.

The great thing about small, intense teleseminars like this... is that you do NOT just learn from your own Hot Seat.

In fact... and I realize this is hard to believe... often you will receive your biggest "a-HA!" experience while listening to someone else's Hot Seat.

Being the center of attention, under the seemingly broiling lights of my interrogation, can sometimes DISTRACT you. That's why I'm gonna record everything -- to give you a copy you can study later on.

Still. and I've seen this happen hundreds of times... you will hear me tell someone else the very thing I was trying to get across to you... and you will hear it DIFFERENTLY. More clearly.

Blinding flash of insight.

And it all becomes crystal clear.

That's what makes the teleseminar setting so amazing. I could get you on the phone, do your Hot Seat, and be done... and you'd get a LOT out of it.

However... listening to all the other attendees go through the same process will kick open doors in your head you never knew existed. And you'll suddenly see how a small detail for someone else's playing... unlike yours in every way... is the perfect way for you to reach your goals as fast as humanly possible.

PLUS... there's another phenomenon that occurs during these Teleseminars I call:

"The Wisdom Of The Space".

You're going to be in your home, as comfy as you care to make yourself -- since this is totally casual, focused on results.

And on every phone line will be another musician... full of knowledge about all sorts of great stuff. Experience in all kinds of odd things. Obsessive fascination with details of making music that you haven't dreamed about yet.

If you've ever been in a real "Master Mind Group", you know what I'm talking about.

One smart man is just one smart man. Two smart men, however, are MORE than double the potential and power.

TEN smart-ass musicians, with experience and real-world savvy, are an ARMY of Artists. The POWER they can bring is staggering.

This isn't just a random group you'll be with. It's a self-selected group of people rabidly interested in becoming the best they can, as fast as possible.

And getting some "ear time" with a veteran like me is a HUGE part of their plan to reach their goals.

Who Should Definitely

NOT Come...

Please don't attend if you're not familiar with my course "Absolute Pitch Power". There is simply no time to bring anyone up from zero to the basics.

Please don't attend if you have not yet attempted to play your instrument (or sing) yet. You can be a newbie, but you must be an active newbie. It's fine to have experienced abject failure, too -- all I ask is that you're in motion.

And, especially, please don't even think about attending if you are one of those negative, fear-based, "suck the energy from the room" skeptics who resist change... and can't stand anyone else changing, either.

Because "change" is what this is all about.

I've done hundreds of Hot Seats (and possibly as many as a thousand, but I've lost count). I do one for each new student I take on, because I cannot even begin to teach until the basic dysfunctional problems are resolved. (And often, the student gets his money's worth right then and there, before any instrument gets touched.)

Here's why I decided to offer Absolute Pitch University. There is just a screaming NEED in the world for a place where this kind of magic can happen.

It's a TON of work for me -- an exhausting amount of digging and fixing. You know I have nothing to prove, either... and that's what makes this event unique.

I'm doing this because I want to. I love the feeling of "breaking the code" of success for someone, and putting them on the fast-track to musical self-actualization.

If getting some serious "ear" time with me is on your priority list, you better jump on this.

Here's the deal: Absolute Pitch University is 12 weeks of personal coaching through bi-weekly teleseminars. Every teleseminar is recorded for you to listen to again and again... and in case you have to miss one. We'll cover Absolute Pitch Power (and even those other AP methods out there), Music Hacks, Modeling, Hot Seats, and much, much more. You'll have discussion areas to ask questions and communicate with other classmates (remember the wisdom of the room). It doesn't matter how old you are, what instrument or style you play, where you live (International students are welcome), or what skill level you are.

APU is personalized to YOU.

On Monday, October 15, I have a password-protected phone line reserved just for you. You will call in at the appropriate time and get your very first Music Hack experience. If you can't make it to the live call, you'll have a recording to listen to later.

If you sign up in time -- before all the slots are taken -- you will be guaranteed your own personal Hot Seat. I'll treat you like a king or queen, and help you as hard as I help myself.

How much? A bargain -- money you should consider an investment in your future.

Here's the price structure:

1. If you've already ordered "Absolute Pitch Power", the price is $197. That gets you a teleseminar slot for the current semester (90 days), and a Hot Seat focused on you.

2. If you have NOT taken the "Absolute Pitch Power" course to heart, the price is $294. You'll receive a copy of the course, and I expect you to devour it.

No one who has not bought Absolute Pitch Power will be allowed in.

I'll let you pay in three installments, if you want: Use your credit card, and we'll ding you one-third this month (October)... one-third next month (November), and the last third in December (With a small service charge of $4.95 each month). If you prefer to pay by check, and want the three installments, just write three checks, post-dated.

Once you sign up, you'll be sent the details.

Your Guarantee of Satisfaction: I am not going to get fancy with the guarantee here. People who know me, and who understand what this opportunity offers, would never dream of even considering asking for their money back.

I pour myself into everything I do... especially for people who come to me for advice and Hot Seats.

So I'll do my part. You will get the full force of everything I bring to the table during Absolute Pitch University.

Still, if you're not happy, for any reason, you can ask for your money back... but you must do it immediately after the first class. I'll refund your payment promptly, and we'll part friends.

But please -- don't attend if you're at all confused about the VALUE of what you're about to experience. This is a rare opportunity. I expect it to sell out fast, and I also expect each teleseminar slot to be filled with someone energized and excited about their life and their music.

I don't believe anyone, anywhere, has held a teleseminar series like this. There are only a handful of experts CAPABLE of pulling it off... and no on else has stepped up to the plate, as far as I can see.

If this is something you want, get moving on it.

Okay, I'm done. This is gonna be fun.

Here, in your Hot Seat, is where the rubber meets the road.

Please hurry.

Warmest regards,

Graham

IMPORTANT: I held my last semester of APU in 2007. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, time does not allow me to pursue APU any further. I wish I could, but I have more important priorities now. Best of luck to you.

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