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Things You Should Be Doing - #2 (Learning Music By Ear) (Patreon)

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Very simply, you should be learning music by ear. Actually, let me rephrase it, you MUST learn music by ear. No questions, no excuses, it is literally the most valuable thing you can do as a musician.

You don't have to watch all of this, but here's a 40 min video where I discuss why you should be prioritizing your ear, using some examples I've experienced in my actual life. Feel free to navigate with the YouTube chapters. Feel free to ask me any questions you have about building your ear, I could easily talk for another hour about it.

My "Playing By Ear" series (scroll down to series 3):
https://linktr.ee/LoGsGuitarExtravaganza



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Things You Should Be Doing - #2 (Learning Music By Ear)

Very simply, you should be learning music by ear. If I could say it more accurately, you MUST learn music by ear. No questions, no excuses, it is literally the most valuable thing you can do as a musician. Here's a 40 min video where I discuss why this is a fact, using some topics I've experienced such as: Building Technique Being Self Sufficient Performing Creating Teaching You Have To Learn Music By Ear (0:00) Noticing Mistakes (2:23) Being Self Sufficient (8:01) As A Performer - Ear Gig (14:45) As A Performer - Reading Gig (19:38) As A Creator - (23:25) As a Teacher - (29:00) How To Strengthen Your Ear (32:15) My "Playing By Ear" Series (38:46)

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radia ElHamdouni

My strategy to develop my non existing musical ear ( that can pick up a maj 6 whenever it’s played to be fair) is to repeat saxophone lines. So no tabs and no visual. It forces you to figure it out.

Peter P

I haven't had good results with ear training and learning songs by ear in the past. I hope I can change that.

Tagliatella

Stop smacking me, papa ):

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>99615309

Gotcha. I'm not familiar with that course or most ear training apps, but what I can say is what I mention in the video. If the ear training examples those programs are using do not sound like actual songs (as in they have guitar/bass/drums etc.) they are in my opinion worthless. Half the battle of strengthening your ear is being able to pinpoint these sounds in an actual arrangement. Like I say in the video, just because you can hear a major third, doesn't mean you'll be able to hear that same major third buried in a mix with five other instruments. This is why in my opinion, the best thing you can do is just learn extremely simple songs, or even parts of songs. Learn vocal melodies, as they're usually really simple. Learn punk rock or pop punk, as it's almost entirely power chords and will train you to hear root movements. Learn the bassline of songs with really thin arrangements, etc. You just have to keep your ear open for things that sound simple, and then try them out. This is what I did growing up, and it got me to where I am pretty quickly. Of course if you want, you can check out my ear training examples on the Patreon (The series is called Playing by Ear, you can find it in the link tree in the description of this video). It's organized in the way that I describe, every example sounds like an actual song and the parts get progressively difficult as you go through them.

Peter P
>>99615309

Sounds good. Will do. Its good to find an instructor who tells people what they need to hear instead of catering to what they want to hear. Thanks.

Torm Ovst

This is so ON POINT! For some months ago i was that student you talked about that relied on tabs/ someone else to show how to play certain things. Now with over 2 months of your method, 2-3 hours + aday, i can play stuff by ear much quicker, much cleaner and with much more understanding than when i used tabs. Its actually sick. I can also take a jog with music on my ear, listen to a song, figure out the chord progression (if its not that advanced), come home, pick up my guitar and play the song. INSTANTLY. And the most important thing when learning a song by ear is that you UNDERSTAND what you are playing so that you can adapt it to your own playing. Once again, thanks for a great video!

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>99656784

And it will only get easier! The more you do it the more you build your database of sounds, allowing you to learn more difficult things by ear at a faster rate. Like you said, you will also quickly understand what is happening musically if you can hear it. This is hugely important as it will allow you to decipher songs that seem very complex, but are actually very simple musically. Very common with a lot of popular guitar music these days, very complex to execute and play but simple in regards to the actual musical material.

Simone Stefanini

Hey Christian, when you play what you hear in your mind (inner ear) how do you hear it/imagine it? Do you hear it with the sound of your voice or guitar or else?

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>99757152

Usually I hear whatever the part will be played on. So if I'm trying to come up with a vocal part I'll hear voice, and a guitar part will be guitar, I think!

Simone Stefanini
>>99757152

Thanks. Don't know if you took the time to watch the Hal Galper video linked in the first comment, I watched it many years ago and watched again yesterday. Curious to know your thought about it and about the intensity/vividness of our aural imagination...