Why Music is Power and How to Use It to Boost your Daily Creativity

Have you ever listened to a song and the next thing that you want to do is “Let me play this song over and over again in my head; this is awesome!”

You know, you get that catchy beat and you wanna just play over something like “I always feel like, somebody’s watching me” and for many days and days and days, you can’t seem to get rid of it?!

It becomes your immediate obsession!

What if I told you that this new crazy obsession of a song can transmute into your work and get the most out of it?

In other words, the best work that you can produce at your job, school, business, etc.?

Well, in this blog post, you will learn how to do just that and you will learn why music is power for your personal and company productivity and how to use it to accomplish some amazing results starting today.

Let’s dive right into things here with how this works.

1. What is a Happy Memory?

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One thing that I have that most people don’t is something called perfect pitch. In fact, only about 1 in 10,000 musicians have this ability.

It allows me to detect every single musical note that can be played from not just traditional instruments and vocals, but from every day sounds like a car honk, the friction that the chair makes with the floor when you drag it, people talking, or rather, basically anything that you can think of that produces sound. It also allows me to automatically identify the key signature of any piece of music that is played.

So what I do with this is that I associate it with a memory or a place that I like to think about. And when I’m working, I basically combine my happy place or happy memory and mix it in with a song in a particular key signature. And it allows me to stay focused and get the most out of my day.

So let me take for instance working on this blog post. In my mind, when I write this blog post, I like to think of E flat major, which when you listen to it, it’s a very heroic and positive key. And when I think of the memory or place when I am working, I like to use the analogy of me in the future walking in the woods in the rain with people that I feel happy around like I am going on a trip or something of that nature.

The result is that it makes me work faster and it makes the work more enjoyable.

A good example of E flat major can be heard right here.

And by the way, I’m not an affiliate for Ruth Soukup’s course Elite Blog Academy in case you were wondering.

I’m using the music in this particular video as a good example of E flat major.

For another task, say working on a problem for Engineering Dynamics, I would use a more forceful key and a more action driven memory.

The key that I would use would be D Minor, which if you listen to it, especially this, you will find that it sounds like you are on an adventure fighting for your life, but you will win at the end of the day.

If you have ever taken this class before, you can definitely attest and that this song is extremely appropriate.

Try dealing with Instantaneous Center of Zero Velocity and you will see what I mean 🙂

The memory for me in this scenario would actually be this, the scene where Anakin Skywalker (now Darth Vader) was fighting Obi Wan Kenobi on Mustafar and Obi Wan cuts Anakin’s legs off, just like I would destroy this class on the test, one of confidence, domination, one of “I just got me loot from ye olde treasure chest of Cortes.”

Now as for the results that I get from this, I can knock out these blog posts using my happy place and happy memory within 2 hours, at least the first draft because it’s usually really messy the first go around. And that averages around 1200-1500 words, sometimes even 2000 words can be knocked out with this.

As far as learning material as an engineering student, this method has allowed me to get A’s in a lot of rather difficult subjects like Calculus 2, which I elaborate on exactly how I did it here, Differential Equations, Mechanics of Materials, and a lot of other classes that are notoriously difficult for most students, at least where I go to school.

So now that I’ve introduced what the method and the results that I’ve gotten out of it, here’s a laydown of how to do this exactly so that you could achieve any positive results in any aspect of your life!

2. How to Do Perfect Pitch

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The first thing that you’ll learn today is actually how to acquire perfect pitch (believe me, it’s not hard).

Here’s how to do it:

A) Go to the closest piano to you or download a piano app so you can have it with you instantly. If not those options, I’ll attach videos explaining the notes. Also, refer to this chart here to know where the notes are on the piano.

The notes are labeled here and their corresponding sounds with the videos are attached when you click on them:

C/B#

C#/Db

D

D#/Eb

E/Fb

F/E#

G#/Fb

G

G#/Ab

A

A#/Bb

B/Cb

What you’ll do with this is that you will listen to them over and over again and engrain them in your head as to what they sound like. Repetition will solve all of your problems regarding this, believe me! We become perfect over time!

I don’t know how exactly you would reember this information, but I do know one thing. Flashcards will help ALOT!

So go get yourself some flashcards right now and come back!

You’re Back

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You’re back, terrific!

“That’s the power of love!”​

You might notice that that sound reminds you of something. It can be a place, a person, you spilling your coffee one morning, or you walking into an important interview.

You will also write down the one adjective that most closely describes the reminder and the note itself.

Here’s what you’ll do with what you notice.

B) You will write down on the flashcard the name of the note and what that sound reminded you of.

This will create an easy association in your mind so that when you encounter any situation, be it a business meeting, a test, you driving to work, etc., when you are in the scenario that you are in at a particular moment, you should be reminded of that thing that you associated with the particular note that you wrote down. Hence, it will be the foundation of constructing the music that you could use to power through your big event and drive those big results that you are seeking.

I’ll give you an example to illustrate this.

I walk into any environment, say a forceful environment (forceful is the adjective) like a networking event or a busioness meeting for example. I trace this forceful reminder to something that I view is also a forceful, authoritative environment, like an interview (interview is the reminder). When I think of an interview, I personally associate it with the musical note A and the key A minor (I’ll explain key signatures a little later; let’s just stack this up for now).

When I combine the correct note, key, and reminder, I immediate cook up in my mind a song and a mental movie that clearly fits the situation and allows me to eliminate the nerves completely and replace the real situation itself (even though I’m still in the situation) with this new virtual reality that I essentially live in as a result of the reminder and basically live in that reality instead of the current one while doing what I have to do in the current reality to get my desired result!

So while I’m at the networking event, I’m actually, in my head, doing an interview while playing this in my head!

And hence, since I play this virtual reality in my head, I am able to comfortably go through the event and get my desired outcome.

Basically, you are using perfect pitch to transform the reality into another reality that you play out and when you play it out, you will get your desired result (assuming that everything is under your control).

If you’re a math person, think of perfect pitch as a LaPlace Transform or a Jacobian transformation that is actually applicable to your every day life.

Is that mind blowing or what?

Guaranteed to work or a $100 Amazon Gift Card will be sent to your doorstep by me ASAP for ANY inconvenience that this may cause!

Now that we’ve elaborated on how to use the notes, I’ll now introduce the musical key signatures that will make this process complete for you.

Let me first start by saying this:

These key signatures are based off interpretation, but usually, when you hear them, major keys would remind you of happiness, minor keys would remind you of misery, augmented would remind you that something sudden has happened (like your shockingly high electric bill), and diminished would remind you of “Huh?”

For simplicity today, I’ll just introduce major and minor since they are the most common and applicable ones to your life (at least from my perspective).

Here’s what you should do now. Throw the old cards out and start from scratch again.

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That’s right, we are taking it to a whole notha level!

You will redo the same activity as before, but this time, you will write down on the cards each musical key and what it reminded you of.

The keys are as follows with an example song in the key of interest.

Major (You can listen to what the keys and the chords soud like in the hyperlinks):

C Major; Example song in C Major.

Db/C# Major; Example song in Db/C# Major.

D Major; Example Song in D Major.

Eb/D# major; Example Song in Eb/D# Major.

E Major; Example Song in E Major.

F Major; Example Song in F Major.

F#/Gb Major; Example Song in F#/Gb Major.

G Major; Example Song in G Major.

G#/Ab Major; Example Song in G#/Ab Major.

A Major; Example Song in A Major.

A#/Bb Major; Example Song in A#/Bb Major.

B Major; Example Song in B Major.

Minor:

C Minor; Example Song in C Minor.

C# Minor; Example Song in C# Minor.

D Minor; Example Song in D Minor.

D#/Eb Minor; Example Song in D#/Eb Minor.

E Minor; Example Song in E Minor.

F Minor; Example Song in F Minor.

F#/Gb Minor; Example Song in F#/Gb Minor.

G Minor; Example Song in G Minor.

G#/Ab Minor; Example Song in G#/Ab Minor.

A Minor; Example Song in A Minor.

A# Minor/Bb Minor; Example Song in A#/Bb Minor.

B Minor; Example Song in B Minor.

So after you are done listening to all of the keys and the example songs, you should get a good idea about how you could use each key to create an image of something that it reminds you of and the adjective corresponding to it.

So for instance, a card would look like this:

Front: Name of key signature = A Minor

Back: What this key reminds me of:

Adjective = Serious

Scenario that I think is serious = Interview

How I’ll use this: Whenever I feel that the scenario is serious, I will mentally make the event an interview while playing a relevant song (like the Deal or No Deal theme) in the corresponding key to execute it and get what I desire.

In other words, I’ll imagine that I am winning an interview and I will use that mental movie to network successfully with an executive.

That’s how it goes.

It does take time to learn and it is not common, but this method works.

Guaranteed.

You really have to practice it to get it.

Basically the only thing to do now is this:

What To Do Now

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You will go and read this blog post again. You will print it out and mark notes on the points that you feel are important.

You will then create the flashcard starting with the notes and then the musical key signatures and do the activity until it completely sinks into your head.

In the next major or stressful event that you are in, you will describe what it is in one word, know what event that adjective corresponds to and then the key signature that this event corresponds to.

You will pick your favorite song in the appropriate key signature that most closely reflects the event and you will play that event with the song in your head while you set out to accomplish your goal for the real event.

That is it.

I know that this might be confusing for the first time hearing this, so if you have any questions about this whatsoever, please do not hesitate to comment any of your questions below and I will be more than happy to help you out further.

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Until next time,

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