I had been introduced to a lot of great music at the time by friends and their older siblings. "It was a rule in my family to learn and play an instrument for at least two years. Learning to hear the root note and decipher the song's key is a good way to train your ear.Matt Brown began playing the guitar at the age of 11. Repetition and recognition are the way to to it. Then, find song is other keys (D is also a good rock key for guitar) and do the same thing. If you listen to other songs in the key of E (hint: most blues songs and lots of songs written for guitar) you can begin to recognize the note when you hear it. "Whole lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin is in E and the main riff pretty much slams that note home. Another method is learning to recognize songs that are in a specific key. ![]() It helps very much in terms of ear training. Now, I can tell what key a song is in by hearing it and singing that note. From there, I could sing the low G and see how far away it was from the song's root. I found the lowest note I could sing which in my case is G (maybe F# on a good day.) I started listening to songs and trying to hear the root note. You just have to keep doing it, and ALWAYS be actively learning.Īnother thing that helps is to sing the notes as you play, and then try singing a riff and then playing it. You'll probably stumble on a few hundred riffs that have been used in other songs within the first month of doing that three times a week ) Just start playing some chords at whatever rhythm you like, figure out what scale to play over them, and start experimenting. Start with just two songs that use the same scale, say one is in G Major, the other is in C major, and start transposing riffs from the song in G Major to the one in C major and vice versa.Īlso start making your own jams. I don't know what scale you learned, but check out the major scale, minor scale, pentatonic minor and the blues scale. I would say learn a few more scales first. Once you play a combo of notes enough times, it'll be internalized and once you internalize enough riffs/patterns, you'll have an immense bank of things to work from and you'll begin to hear those riffs/patterns in other people's music and eventually be able to know exactly how something is played just by hearing it. If you learn a riff, find it in more than one spot on the fret board (if possible) and find where it is in relation to the scale you're playing out of. What I learned after about 3 years of playing (and I wish I would have realized sooner) was that you shouldn't just learn by tabs and fret numbers. I learned by playing, playing, and more playing. ![]() At first things will be blurry, but with practice you'll start hearing alot more clearly without actually hearing which is. ![]() ![]() Then go to the paper and write whatever you can HEAR IN YOUR HEAD. Fiddle around with it for a couple of hours and try to reproduce the notes in your head. So, grab your guitar and play the C scale. After that the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 7th wiill be easy peasy to get.Īnother thing that has done wonders to my ear is to write melodies without the guitar and without singing. How?įirst listen to the thing like 1000 times, then write the whole rythm down, then identify the root, then where the root repeats.write. <- awesome program.Īfter you finish the whole thing and feel more confident with the intervals, start transcribing REALLY easy melodies by ear, without the guitar and without singing (To further develop the inner-ear).
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