Know what you hear.
Play better by ear.

DO YOU...

Feel like an outsider playing music with others, because...

...everyone else understands what they are hearing in a way that is way beyond you?

get frustrated playing a new piece, because...

...it feels like the music doesn't stick to your brain the right way?

feel like you're not musical, because...

 ...music notation and terminology make no sense to you?

Holistic Ear Training is the breakthrough approach to improving your ear WHILE nourishing your love of music

Overcome difficulties with ear training and learn proven techniques to identify chords and melodies in real time so you can relax and enjoy making music. Never abstract, the course stays grounded in actual music and joy.

Take a free, live, workshop and
find out how Holistic Ear Training can help you!

Sign up for a time and date that works for your schedule!

In 30 minutes, learn the basics of how to...

  • use music you know and love to improve your ear.
  • expand on simple melodies to create powerful exercises
  • improve listening skills while enjoying your favorite music.
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VIBE WITH YOUR TRIBE

When you hear what your people are playing and immediately create a harmony with them, your musical bonds deepen.

When you learn your friends' music right in front them, you're the one inspiring the band.
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EXPRESS YOURSELF

Music is a hearing art, with sonic imagination at its heart. As you strengthen your ability to understand what you hear, it will get easier and easier for you to bring the music that is in you out into the world. 
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LEARN MUSIC MORE EASILY

The more you use your ears to make music, the more music makes sense.  Reading music notation gets easier as you get better connecting the notation to actual sounds; not abstract ideas.  Remembering how to play music gets easier when your recall is focused on the sound itself; not muscle memory. Music sounds richer the better you listen.

Enroll in the course! The first chapter is FREE!

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Holistic Ear Training

  • Use music that you know and love
  • Minimize terminology: focus on perceiving
  • Exercises embedded in musical experiences
  • Leverages your brain's natural inclination to make connections
  • Deep listening practices that can be applied in all musical settings
  • Focus on listening and understanding
  • Focus on creating and playing your unique repertoire

Conventional Ear Training

  • All repertoire is decided by the course
  • Maximize terminology: focus on thinking
  • Exercises are dry, sterile drills, lacking an esthetic experience
  • Brute force memory and impractical mnemonics
  • Clutter the listening process with complex ideas and eye-focused thinking
  • Confuse music theory  with listening
  • Focus on passing tests and other academic assessments

Hans is Incredible!

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He can teach anything and still make it fun for the students.
Hans is an amazing teacher who sets out to find many different ways to challenge us
Even though I came into the class not feeling confident at all about the content or my skills, Hans made sure each and every student gets the help they need.
Hans is a wonderful teacher, super helpful and really paid attention to each individual student, making sure everybody got what they needed.
Meet your teacher:

Hans Indigo Spencer

The Boston Globe once tagged me a “Master Composer” for my work with my band The Indigo Invention Group. Since working with that group and Boston’s Jazz Composer’s Alliance, I have written music for choreographers, theater directors, and television producers. I thrive on collaboration, able to write in pretty much any style and sound palette you throw at me. My work composing scores for documentaries and animation can be heard on networks including Discovery, Nat Geo, History and PBS. My original scores for Portland Stage’s productions of “A Christmas Carol” and “The Snow Queen” live in their archives along with live production footage. I’ve also live-scored hundreds of short-form improvisation theater and educational performances. I love to compose, improvise, and collaborate. And I’ve done it a lot.

 I thrive on collaboration, able to write in pretty much any style and sound palette you throw at me. My work composing scores for documentaries and animation can be heard on networks like Discovery, Nat Geo, History and PBS. 

My original scores for Portland Stage’s productions of “A Christmas Carol” and “The Snow Queen” live in their archives along with live production footage. I’ve also live-scored hundreds of short-form improvisation theater and educational performances. I love to compose, improvise, and collaborate. And I’ve done it a lot.

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Who we are

My mission is to help musicians of all ages and abilities create music in a way that feels natural and true to them.  This means helping them connect both with their ability to understand what they hear as well as with their creative spirit.

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Get in touch

  • 147 Bolton Street, Portland, ME 04102
  • hans@tuneindigo.com
  • 207-776-9663
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