Ear training

[grondak]

A journey of sound and imagination starts with one remembered note. When did you get good enough with ear training to turn what you heard into what you played? Or what you imagined into what you played?

Some started there… a natural match from hand to guitar to ear to imagination. I had to gain mine the hard way. I had to learn to listen.

(Maybe in the end we’ll have a survey thing: play by ear: innate or learned)
Tony

Metal Method is helping me across the board!

[superblonde]

When? Hmm all I can say is the songwriting challenge earlier this year for me was much much easier than it had been before because I could imagine notes before i played them when writing chords or solos etc. I mentioned a few times elsewhere that playing the full scale in revisiting weeks 26-30 really helped a lot as a big step up. I think a huge muscular-ear-hearing atrophy is created by playing pentatonics only, or mainly, without doing a lot of continual hours of full scale in parallel or doing the full scale first. Just because playing the full scale is the only way to train the ear to the sounds.

if you want a survey..with real comparative results.. search for that thread where I posted links to the musictheory.net quizzes and my scores. some others posted theirs too.

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And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[grondak]

Awesome! thanks! 🙂

Metal Method is helping me across the board!

[grondak]

It’s not just a survey with results of who can do what– it’s who started with guitar “by ear” and who used other means to learn to play. The survey is useful for one component of the answer (who actually can play by ear).

Metal Method is helping me across the board!

[superblonde]

did you do Doug’s lickomatic?
I was able to complete it at 60 bpm except the last two. Havent revisited it at faster bpm yet.

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[MotleyCrue81]

I just usually figure out what key a song is in first, then there’s really only 7 chords to use from there. Trial and error will lead the way heh.

Bring hair metal back!

[Anonymous]

I was lucky… I had very good relative pitch right off the bat and got a lot of my early education just playing along with records.

[crazyrach97]

I learned early. We had a piano in the living room when I was little and I used to try and play along with the music in TV commercials and stuff like that. Then I took piano lessons and I kept getting in trouble for listening to the CD that came with my lesson book and learning from that instead of the sheet music. I’m still a terrible reader.

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