▶ Listen to the full 10-hour track for free here: https://youtu.be/Axr-_z6FTqE
▶ Free download (Perfect Fifth, 1:58 hours): https://www.uremusic.com/sleep-free
▶ Flawless Ear Training, the complete course: https://www.uremusic.com/flawless-ear-training-audio-video
▶ Start the free audiation course: https://www.uremusic.com/audiation-inner-ear-training-for-musicians
▶ Read My Recommendations for Beginners: https://www.uremusic.com/blog/audiation-for-beginners-how-to-start-ear-training-from-scratch
I sell a sleep track for ear training. I put my own product under a microscope, and I found three things wrong with it — one bad enough that I rebuilt the whole thing and I'm giving the new one away free, no email, no gate.
This is dense and it runs about twenty minutes, so I'd rather you watched it properly than had it on in another tab. Everything I found is in here, including the two things that make me look bad: a file that quietly ran out forty-seven minutes early, and a synthetic drone I almost shipped underneath an ear-training track.
Along the way you'll get the actual research behind why sleep tracks work at all — Walker 2002, Antony 2012, the Göldi reversal that shows a cue that wakes you doesn't just fail, it damages the memory it was reactivating — and the four rules I now follow after years of breaking two of them.
One risk I didn't cover in the video, and should have: if you sleep with any continuous sound — mine or anyone else's — it raises the level at which you wake up to everything, not just the track. That's the mechanism, not a side effect. Don't use it if you're the person who needs to hear a smoke alarm or a child at night, and if you want the single best fix for that risk, look up a 520 Hz low-frequency smoke alarm. In the research, it wakes sleeping adults four to twelve times more reliably than the standard high-pitched kind, regardless of what's playing in the room. That's true whether or not you ever touch my track, and it costs you nothing to check tonight.
The 1:58 version is a free download — Perfect Fifth first, in a louder and a quieter mix. The full ten-hour version is free to listen to on the channel, or available to buy if you want the file. Major Third goes up next week, Major Sixth the week after.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:10 Three things wrong with my own sleep track
0:42 Quick favor before I start
1:10 Finding one — 47 minutes of silence
1:56 What a sleep track is actually supposed to do
2:12 Walker 2002 — sleep finishes the learning
3:34 Antony 2012 — the whispered cue
4:46 The big one — my track vs. deep sleep
6:07 The confession — I guessed right
7:06 Why not ride the sleep cycles
8:20 Finding two — what was hiding inside the rain
10:27 Finding three, and the claim I won't make
12:18 The reversal — when a cue wakes you
13:18 The one almost nobody in music knows
14:32 Four rules for any sleep track
15:48 How the rebuild satisfies them
16:52 The offer — free download
18:21 How to use it safely
19:15 Close — the five minutes that matter most
▶ From the album Sleep Sounds for Musicians: https://www.uremusic.com/intervals-for-sleep-meditation-and-study
▶ Flawless Ear Training, the complete course: https://www.uremusic.com/flawless-ear-training-audio-video
