Play music your way
Find Your Unique Style in 6 Weeks
A 6-week live cohort where you learn to recognize what you're hearing — in real time, in music you love — so playing, learning, and creating finally feel natural.
Join the Cohort - Starts September 7
Cohort starts 9/7 • Early bird $300 (8/15–8/21) • Then $350
Josie L., Singer-Songwriter
The Blur
Have you ever felt like...
...everyone else at the jam understands something that's lost on you?
...everyone else at the jam understands something that's lost on you?
...songs you've listened to a hundred times go out of focus the moment you try to play them by ear?
...notation and theory terms describe a world you can't actually hear?
It shows up everywhere:
When you memorize a song, it feels like an abstract exercise instead of an extension of your musical voice.
When you improvise over changes, you're playing connect-the-dots instead of following your own line.
Neither of these means you lack talent. It's the blur — and the blur is a skill problem, not a talent problem.
Clarity
You hear a song and think, cool song. You listen a little deeper. You catch the tune, notice the chords. You go about your day.
Then you sit down at your instrument that evening, and the song is there. You play it.
Or you're at a session and someone counts off a tune you've never played. You listen through the first pass. By the second, you're in.
Why the blur happens
Three things are going on underneath it.
Recognition isn't fluent yet.
There's no way to steer your attention.
What you've practiced may not be what you love.
Drills aren't the problem. Isolation is.
That's not a flaw in you. It's a flaw in how ear training gets taught.
Drills, intervals, chord progressions — every program has them, and they matter. (We use them too.) But drilled in the abstract, disconnected from music you actually love, they build patterns that never attach to anything. They don't fire when the real thing goes by.
Drills, intervals, chord progressions — every program has them, and they matter. (We use them too.) But drilled in the abstract, disconnected from music you actually love, they build patterns that never attach to anything. They don't fire when the real thing goes by.
The other half of the equation is the music itself.
Holistic Ear Training: a repeatable process, not a pile of exercises.
In this cohort you'll learn a six-step loop you can run on any song, at any level, for the rest of your musical life:
Savor.
Listen.
Deepen.
Practice.
Extend.
Share.
And one more thing this approach nurtures: your creative spark.
The songs you love aren't random. They're a map of your musical identity — your deep repertoire.
When your ear training starts from that music, you're not just learning to hear. You're discovering what you sound like. Every song you internalize becomes raw material for your own voice.
That's why this cohort is called Listening and Personal Style. The two were never separate.
Proof + approach
Students feel the shift
He was never critical of anything I wrote. If I asked for his opinion, he'd reverse it and help me find mine instead.
Hans encourages such a holistic approach — to feel that connection not only in your brain with theory, but in your body too. Sitting by a piano, listening, feeling that change in space when I sing an interval.
Hans encourages such a holistic approach — to feel that connection not only in your brain with theory, but in your body too. Sitting by a piano, listening, feeling that change in space when I sing an interval.
Josie L., Singer-Songwriter
The hardest part about writing music is starting. If you can get yourself to start, you're halfway there.
Whether it was a Brahms string quintet, my own folk music, electronic music, jazz tunes — whatever I was interested in, Hans would be right there with me.
His ears are open, and he'll help you open yours.
Whether it was a Brahms string quintet, my own folk music, electronic music, jazz tunes — whatever I was interested in, Hans would be right there with me.
His ears are open, and he'll help you open yours.
Asa M-W., Bassist & Composer
"I remember talking about hardcore punk, which felt very disparate from the jazz and classical practice I'd developed. And Hans's attitude was: why don't we just blend them all together?
Jake L., pianist & educator
We've all had experiences with teachers where you're a little afraid of them, where if you didn't work hard enough that week, someone's going to come down on you. That is not his style at all.
Tatum G., songwriter & producer
The Schedule
Course Materials Go Live
Weekly Live Group Lessons
Weekly Q & A and Problem Solving
Individual Practice Time
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Listening and Personal Style
6-week cohort.
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