Music for All Ages and Abilities: Discover TLP’s Four Core Programs

Music for Your Brain

Despite the many differences that exist among human beings across the globe, “we share a common bond, we can change for the better with this intangible thing called music.” – Alex Doman.

The Listening Program is a music listening program designed to maximize the natural benefits of listening by developing and strengthening neural networks for anyone looking for safe, natural ways to improve brain function. The benefits of TLP extend beyond just music and surpass other music listening therapy programs due to the unique design, methodology, and extensive research behind it.

Music for All Ages and Abilities

The brain can change at any age through neuroplasticity. This concept of neuroplasticity led to the creation of TLP as a way for people to target specific portions of the brain in safe, natural, enjoyable ways from the comfort of their own homes in as little as 15 minutes a day. Since 1999 more than a million people have used TLP and seen meaningful improvements in their lives.

The foundation of The Listening Program is its scientifically designed music. While it was originally intended to help children with developmental disabilities, its uses are far-reaching, spanning all abilities, diagnoses, and ages. People have used TLP to help improve the following diagnosis, as well as many others:

• Autism
• ADHD
• Learning disabilities
• Depression/anxiety
• Sensory and auditory processing disorder
• Typically developing brain
• TBI

The benefits seen in listeners of TLP all stem from four scientifically designed TLP programs. Each one stimulates the brain in different ways, allowing listeners to choose which program best fits their needs.

Four Core Programs

Psychoacoustic research helps set the stage for each TLP Core Program. The scientific field of psychoacoustics is the study of the human perception of sound, and it informs much of our understanding of the effects of music on our mind, body, brain, and emotions.

The Listening Program includes four TLP Core Programs, each intended to target specific areas of need with the right frequency, intensity, and duration to reorganize the brain and improve its performance, health, and functioning.

The three classical music programs contain original High Definition recordings of Mozart Symphonies, Vivaldi Concertos, Haydn quartets, and masterful pieces by Danzi and Bach with strings and woodwinds. The compositions by these great masters and the performances of ABT’s Archangelos Chamber Ensemble are energetic, vivid, and joyous. Each program provides different levels of training and targets different needs.

Listen to TLP Classical Music Sample

TLP inTime features original pieces by musician and composer Nacho Arimany, whose distinctive blending of world music styles includes diverse percussion, string, and wind instrumentation. High-definition sound recordings made in a carefully arranged acoustic environment have captured the sound and spirit of over 100 instruments.

Listen to TLP inTime World Music Sample

What Differentiates TLP from Other Music and Music Listening Programs?

The Listening Program is more than music. It’s an innovative personalized listening therapy that features the latest technological advancements and intentional music recordings with unmatched quality, enjoyment, and effectiveness.

To date, TLPs neuroacoustically modified music is singular in the field due to a few features, including:

• Home-based model
• Research
• ABC Modular Design
• Spatial Surround
• High Definition Recording

To understand the importance of these features, they are each explained in more detail as follows:

Home-based Model
Many therapeutic programs require active participation from the child or adult, which can sometimes be challenging to achieve. A person using TLP simply puts on headphones and relaxes or engages in a calming activity while listening for 15 minutes per day, five days a week. It truly is that simple.

Recommended Listening Activities Guide

Research
At Advanced Brain Technologies, we have been researching and developing neuroscience-based music programs since 1998. Before that, our founder, Alex Doman, and his family have more than 75 years of pioneering contributions to the field of human brain development and brain enhancement.

That work informed each step of creating TLP, with over 20 independent studies demonstrating its effectiveness.

One peer-reviewed journal article, “Use of Acoustically Modified Music to Reduce Auditory Hypersensitivity in Children,” was published in Music and Medicine. The report includes a review of the effect of TLP on listening, auditory processing, educational abilities, and reduction in auditory hypersensitivity. Many of those outcomes are possible due to modifications found only in TLP music, such as the ABC Modular Design, Color-coded Frequency training zones, Auditory tone bursts, Spatial Surround, and how those contribute to the benefits listeners experience with TLP.

ABC Design
All TLP Core Programs follow the ABC modular design because the brain requires more than carefully selected music and neuroacoustic modifications for effective music listening therapy.

TLP music is divided into 15-minute modules. There are three distinct phases within these modules, each with a specific purpose.
To achieve the best results during each module, the brain first needs to be prepared to receive information. This preparation, or “A phase,” is part of every listening module. Not only does the music in that phase prepare the brain to learn and grow, but it also helps a person feel more relaxed and grounded.

The more intensive stimulation of the “B” phase is when the modifications reach their peak. The “B” phase is where the brain receives the most intense but still gentle workout. Specific brain areas are stimulated through music, encouraging growth and change. As the music reaches the end of the module, in the “C” phase, all neuroacoustic modifications are gently removed to leave the listener in a focused/relaxed state.

Essentially, the ABC modular design is similar to a workout at the gym, a warmup, workout, and a cool down.

Zone Training
Zone training is unique to TLP. Images of the brains exposed to music show that the human brain responds differently to various frequencies. Using that knowledge, TLP has separated the frequencies into four color-coded training zones; blue, green, orange, and red. Each zone focuses on a different band of sound frequencies, which are then mapped to brain regions that respond to varying properties of sound according to vibratory frequency.

By separating frequencies into zones, listeners can look for and expect specific outcomes during a training program and choose a program that best fits their needs.

Learn more about Zone Training in this video:

Spatial Surround
Spatial Surround is a music recording and production process in which multi-channel sound is presented to provide music in five individual channels or locations. This results in a rich listening experience for listeners who often say they feel like they’re sitting in an orchestra pit, with various instruments all around them.

Not only is this feature enjoyable, but it also further helps synchronize the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which improves brain integration. Speaker-based listening experiences can’t bring the whole brain benefits to a person how spatial surround can. The spatial surround is best experienced with high-quality headphones without Bluetooth or noise-canceling abilities. Modern upgrades like these will diminish or take out the spatial surround features of TLP.

The Listening Program is unique in the field of music listening therapy with the extensive research behind it and more than a million stories from people of all ages and abilities who have seen profound effects in their lives by using it regularly.