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 Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:36 pm
Does anyone have any tips or tricks? Or any place that there are lessons?
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:39 pm
Has anyone learned this way?
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:48 pm
I play by ear, not so much by tabs, only if I am having a problem with a certain part of a song i look up the tabs. I think it takes a lot of practice, once I learned the basic chord shapes then I just started figuring out songs. And then once you learn the basic scale shapes then you can start figuring out solos.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:54 pm
I've learned some stuff by ear on piano (i.e., Jellicle Ball, but it's kinda flawed sweatdrop ) and on guitar (i.e., Blackbird). I also learn by eye if I REALLY need help with a song, for example, I got a book of CATS sheet music because I want to play a song from CATS for a piano recital. Although I know the songs, I wanted to make them perfected. I guess that being able to play by ear is a born talent. Maybe, maybe not.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:15 pm
In the back of guitar world magazines theres always an ad for "perfect Pitch" its some cds and book I think, anyway I've been told that its HIGHLY recommended for that. I've never tried but there ya go..
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:46 pm
You can't develop perfect pitch, no mater what some adds say. You can develop relative pitch witch is making yourself familar with notes and their sounds. Best thing to do is to just sit down with you guitar in hand and just trying to find out what sounds right. it will take awhile but anything worth learning takes effort.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:50 am
Well according to reviews the way that the program works is it gives you a certain pitch repeatedly and identifies it until you are able to distinguish that note from the others. I assume it does that with all the notes and has some sort of added structure to the program.....or you can sit with your guitar in hand and dik around aimlessly like sugguested before. Good luck...
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:29 pm
Sometimes I just turn the radio on, and jam over whatever is playing, and make it sound pretty sweet. It's an old technique but I think has helped me with the playing and the song-writing over the years.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:58 pm
the most important thing to playing by ear is being born with an ear for music. you have to be able to hear something, then keep that sound in your head and find it on the instrument. there are some people who just cannot do it unfortunately. but hey that's why they created tabs and sheet music haha.
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:12 am
Jasop_Buttement Sometimes I just turn the radio on, and jam over whatever is playing, and make it sound pretty sweet. It's an old technique but I think has helped me with the playing and the song-writing over the years.
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:23 am
u just kind of have to guess and then go up a fret or down and you pretty much got it. Tabs online are from people who played by ear then wrote it down. Thats how I learned to play a part of Weezer's "Pork and Beans", The Raconteurs "Steady As She Goes" and part of the Iron Man thing (which is pretty easy using bar chords-Gm,Amx2,Bmx2,Cmx7 then back down to Bm then Am, then you slide from Am twice to Bm twice and there you have it.)
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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:21 am
I play by ear completely nowadays, unless a part is really too fast for me or I really can't decipher the notes/chords (for plenty of reasons like speed, the way the song's mixed, or uber distortion, or whatever).
Basically, if you're trying to figure our chords in particular (since they're harder to figure out than individual notes sometimes), try to listen for each individual note. Try humming the chord out and figure out which notes are making it what it is.
If you got the money for it, Tascam has a lil' CD player thing called the CD-GTMKII that lets you slow a song down so you can catch up hearing notes that may be too fast. It's a great tool I highly recommend, though it has its issues too.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:28 am
Playing by ear and Improv Technique practice: A brief summary
As forementioned, the oldest and one of the best tricks is to simple play along to something. Turning on the radio and playing along to whatevers on will increase your 'understanding' of the fret board / instrument.
Also, its good to always work out your own version of a song BEFORE you look up tabs whenever possible. 'The most valuable lessons learnt are those from mistakes and in pain'.
Should you do scale practice, sing along with the scales, and intergrate this part of the practice into your own. This allows you to build more of a 'connection' with the notes (for lack of a better term), meaning when you improvise or create your own parts, or indeed when working something out by ear, you'll find it easier to find your place and continue.
Just 'jam' on your instrument. I find so many guitarists are constantly trying to learn a piece, and omit the joy of jamming for the hell of it. Wether it's right or wrong, good or bad, just jam. And when you here a riff or melody line you recognise, no matter how uncool it is, play it till you know it's right. It's all about practice.
A few parts Iv'e figered out during a jam:
Cry me a river verse vocal line - Justin Timberlake
You drive me crazy chorus - Britney Spears
I won't back down - Johnny Cash
By the way - R.H.C.P
Black Adder Main theme
Red vs Blue Main theme
That song from 'Willy wonka' thats like 'can you see, in a wooooorld of pure imagination'
'Tell me it's not true' (the main theme from Blood brothers musical)
And so on
To sum up the summary though, there are no real 'fast track' tricks to this skill. It's ll about practice. Even when you learn by tab, so long as your listening to what your playing, this skill is being exersiced.
Good luck
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