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To Listen More is to understand better what’s missing from your music. To figure out how to improve it—finesse its details, make its rhythms move, its melodies conjure, its ambiances enchanting, its arrangements tight, its mixes cohesive—listen to how other musicians have approached these problems of tone, texture, time, impact, and form. Their music is a record of solutions in the form of best production and compositional practices. Listening is sound’s negative space that leads to figure-ground perceptions of what is and isn’t in the music. The more you listen the more you hear unrealized possibilities, phantom parts suggested but not there, vagueness that could be clearer, inertia that could energized. The more you listen the more you develop a sense of musical reckoning that helps you hear what you could do next time to achieve the sound you want.