The Easy Key, Sound Baths & Where This Journey Is Heading
- 2 days ago
- 5 min read
A quiet update on viral videos, new musical tools, consciousness, creativity, and the strange road unfolding ahead.
Music Is Medicine is a podcast and reflection series exploring music, creativity, sound, meditation, and deep listening.
A Quick Update From My World
A couple of weeks back, I had a video unexpectedly go viral on Instagram… which then created a bit of an avalanche over on Facebook around my music method called The Easy Key.
Since then, I’ve been deep in the backend of things — answering questions, sending download links, setting up lessons, and building out the new Mat Creedon School of Music over on Skool.
Alongside all of that, I’ve still been doing my usual teaching rounds… and squeezing in the occasional bit of 3AM composing whenever the universe allows it.
As you can probably imagine, there hasn’t been much time left for much else.
So for now, I’ve had to let a few things temporarily slide — including the podcast — which I fully intend to revisit once I get a better handle on this new direction things seem to be taking.
Honestly though… it’s a nice problem to have.
No complaints from me.
So this little article is really about helping everyone find the right doorway depending on what you’re interested in.
At the moment, the main questions seem to be:
“What is The Easy Key?”
“How can it help me?”
“Where do I download it?”
“How do I use it?”
If you’d like to learn how to actually use The Easy Key, I’ve now started posting free lessons inside the Mat Creedon School of Music on Skool.
You’re very welcome to join the community and start exploring the lessons.
It’s become my main place for helping music students, answering questions, and sharing ideas around music, creativity, theory, songwriting, improvisation, and all the strange and beautiful things that live around music.
Join here:Mat Creedon School of Music
If you’d prefer private lessons, I’m also available for one-on-one music lessons both online and in person here in Melbourne.
You can reach out via:
Or email me directly: mat@matcreedon.net
For those looking for Sound Bath material or something peaceful to listen to, you can find my Afterbath playlist on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi5UXAEasOfAL10jnlbS1_qy8akYh9H11
And if you use Insight Timer, simply search for “Mat Creedon” and you’ll find a collection of meditations and sound journeys over there as well.
If you’d like to book a private or group Sound Bath, you can do so here: https://www.matcreedon.com/book-online
I also currently run an in-person group Sound Bath every Sunday evening at 7pm Melbourne time.
At the moment these are only available in person — but if you’re from another part of the world and would genuinely like to join online, please reach out. If enough people are interested, I’ll happily make it happen.
Now… back to The Easy Key.
A few people have reached out saying that making their own Easy Key is a little beyond them, so I’ve been busy developing a proper physical product.
At the moment there are three versions planned, all designed as part of a modular system.
The first release will be the Easy Key Mini.
The idea is to create a very small device that can sit neatly on your piano or keyboard while taking up minimal space. Something simple, tactile, and useful — a musical reference tool you can slip into your pocket and carry around with you.
And when you’re not using it, it doubles as a bookmark or fridge magnet.
Honestly… I’m ridiculously excited about this little thing.
Fingers crossed, I should have it ready within the next couple of weeks.
The second release will be a larger sliding key system that deepens the connection between standard music theory, the piano keyboard, and the Easy Key Mini itself.
This version is designed to help people understand the relationships between intervals, note names, scales, chord progressions, extended harmony, and key changes in a far more intuitive way.
For those who’ve struggled with music theory in the past, I genuinely believe this could be a bit of a game changer.
It helps crack open the mysterious code of music theory and turns it into something visual, physical, and much easier to feel.
The third version introduces a piano stave system designed to help with sight reading and composition.
If you’ve ever struggled with reading music, this becomes an incredibly practical teaching tool.
It will also include a compositional dice game that makes songwriting playful, engaging, and surprisingly rewarding.
The idea is to help people begin writing their own music — even if they currently believe that’s beyond them.
So really, the system is being designed for music teachers, students, composers, producers, and curious hobbyists alike.
And somewhere far off into the future…
I have dreams of turning all of this into a MIDI sequencing system that connects acoustic instruments, music notation, and modern technology together in one fluid experience.
Something almost like a physical musical DAW.
A bridge between the piano…the music stave…the human body…and technology itself.
A system where music theory becomes something you can physically touch, move, hear, and intuitively understand.
But that’s a dream for another chapter.
For now, I’m simply taking one step at a time.
And so some people might wonder…
How do the Sound Baths fit into all of this?
How does deep relaxation connect to music performance, composing, and creativity?
For me, the answer is actually very simple.
Music has to come from somewhere.
And that “somewhere” is consciousness.
The challenge is that consciousness has to move through the physical world — through habits, conditioning, muscle memory, fear, and repetition.
In order to create something genuinely new, you often need to leap beyond what you currently believe to be true.
Like a frog jumping from one lily pad to the next.
And when you’ve spent a long time standing on the same lily pad, it can take a surprising amount of courage to jump somewhere new.
That’s where the Sound Baths come in.
They create a deep relaxation of the nervous system that allows the imagination to loosen its grip on limitation.
To soften.
To wander.
To explore.
And from that space, new ideas can emerge.
New music.
New perspectives.
New possibilities.
So I suppose my role in all of this has slowly become that of a guide… or maybe even a scout.
Someone wandering slightly ahead into the unknown, stepping into strange creative territory, falling into potholes, chasing dead ends, occasionally finding something useful… and then bringing those discoveries back to share with the wider music community.
And honestly, I feel very privileged that you’ve decided to join me on the journey.
So if you’re reading this…
Thank you for the trust.
I’m doing my best to come back with the goods.
– Mat
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Kindest,Mat
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