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Ear Training for Builders: How Musicians Learn to Hear What Most People Miss
Excerpt
Senior builders often differ from juniors less by raw intelligence than by perception. Musicians call this ear training. Builders can train the same skill in code, systems, and product work.
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Nat Currier. "Ear Training for Builders: How Musicians Learn to Hear What Most People Miss." nat.io, 2026-02-25. https://nat.io/blog/ear-training-builders-how-musicians-hear-what-most-people-miss
A cross-disciplinary framework showing how musical ear training maps to software engineering and product building through perception calibration, error vocabulary, and deliberate comparison.
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